Page 47 of The Breeding Cave
I wouldn’t let the Dragon Clan get away with this. As much as I didn’t want to partner with Alpha Theo, it seemed like that was our only solution right now. At least, it was a temporary solution, a temporary army.
If it protected Yeosin, then I would have to move forward with it. I had no choice.
“Hello? Brent speaking.”
“Meet me at the old packhouse,” I said. “Twenty minutes.”
“Luciano. Hey, what’s?—”
“Packhouse. Twenty minutes.”
He paused on the line. “Why? I’m kinda in the middle?—”
“Now!” I snarled through the phone. “This is war.”
CHAPTER
TWENTY-THREE
LUCIANO
“Where the fuck are you, Joseph?” I growled into the phone as it rang for the third time.
Brent and I walked through the woods toward Alpha Theo’s packhouse that had been partially burned to the ground during the last war. Some of it was still standing, and while he had taken a huge hit to his pack, none of his packmates lived there anymore.
They were with the others—the remaining few—several hundred miles away from here.
“Do you think the Dragon Clan caught him?” Brent asked.
“No,” I said. I thought it was worse than that.
Joseph wouldn’t allow himself to get caught, and if he did, then he wouldn’t let them take him. His phone could’ve been off, but that wasn’t like him. He had been due back at the cave an hour ago. If we weren’t there, he would’ve confirmed with me.
“He’s dead,” I said, pursing my lips. “He has to be dead.”
Brent sucked in a breath and shook his head. “No, he’s not dead.”
“He’s dead.”
There wasn’t a doubt in my fucking mind that he was dead. I didn’t know where they would’ve killed him or dumped his body, but if they wanted to send a message, then they would lay his body out for me to find.
Alpha Theo stood at the edge of his property, waiting for us. “Thought you’d show up.”
“We have to talk about the Dragon Clan,” I said, shoving my phone into my pocket.
“You want in on this war now?” he asked, leading us to the packhouse. “Why?”
I flared my nostrils and glared at the back of his head, not wanting to tell him that they had hurt Yeosin. He obviously knew that they had hurt someone close to me if I wanted in on this war and if I wanted to team up with him and the Colossals.
“Before you answer that,” Alpha Theo said, pushing open the door, “come in.”
The scents of the Colossals drifted through my nostrils before I entered, and I tensed. They were here. Of course. But I hadn’t expected to make this deal with them here. I wanted the upper hand with Theo.
Though … I didn’t have another choice.
So, I kept my mouth shut and walked into the packhouse, spotting two male warriors and two female warriors from the Colossals, one of the women harsh and the other so small and almost … soft.
Alpha Theo placed a hand on my shoulder and squeezed. “Luciano, I’d like to introduce you to Ruby. She’s a strong warrior in the Colossals and has been looking forward to meeting you. I think you two will really hit it off.”
