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Tobi grabbed my phone and started reading. Her face slowly dropped. “I’m going to murder her,” she said softly, in a scary calm voice.
“Give me that,” Landon insisted. “No way, she was trying to help. She said she wanted to help you to heal faster.”
“Well she’s not healing faster. Look at it. Trembling. Have you not noticed how her hands have been shaking? Convulsions. She just had a bout of those last night, remember? Pupils dilated.” Tobi turned on the flashlight mode on my phone and shined it into my eyes. Landon, we have to do something.”
“I need proof,” he insisted. “It’s not that I don’t believe you, and you aren’t to touch anything Clover gives you from now on, but I need evidence before accusing her.”
“What do you want me to do?”
“Both of you, stay quiet about this. If you’re right, then she thinks she has the upper hand. I’ll send it in for a toxicology report.”
“You know how to do that?” Tobi asked.
“Yes, Tobi, I’m not a complete moron.”
I giggled.
“Why are you laughing right now?” Tobi demanded.
“It just cracks me up when you two go into sibling mode.”
“Sibling mode?”
“Yeah. You guys act just as I always imagined siblings would act.”
Tobi softened and nudged Landon affectionately. “Well, I guess in a way he has always been like a brother to me.”
“Anyway,” Landon interrupted. “Like I said, stay quiet about this until I have proof and don’t drink anything she offers again.”
“I won’t. You know, I was just thinking how sweet and meek Clover is. I couldn’t understand how she had planned to take me down in a challenge, but now, I guess I get it.”
“Sneaky bitch,” Tobi muttered.
“We can’t accuse her of anything for certain yet,” Landon reminded us, but there was no convincing me otherwise. Clover may not be as aggressive about it as River had been, but she was just as big a threat to me.
Landon
Chapter 24
It was harder than I had thought to get the drink into town to run the test on it and determine what exactly Clover was giving Kaitlyn. It wasn’t the actual steps to do it that were difficult, it was the part where I had to leave my mate behind to make it happen.
I couldn’t stand the thought of her being there without me to protect her. I hated thinking of what could happen if she was right and Clover really was out to get her.
Tobi and Dereck were there keeping a vigilant watch over her.
My new Beta had offered to make the trip himself, but I knew this was something I needed to do. The drive took about two hours, though most of that was just getting through my territory. En route I passed by the old hotel. I was considering Dereck’s suggestion about remodeling it and opening it to the humans.
The thought of having random humans in my territory didn’t sit well with me, but he was right in that it was really just on the edge, and far enough away from where we called home. The potential benefits to doing it were obvious, but I was still weighing the pros and cons of it all.
I had plenty of time to really think about it while I drove. It helped me not to fixate quite so much on Kaitlyn, my wolf on edge and making me crawl in my own skin being so far from her. The last time she was out of my sight for this long I’d nearly lost her.
I had to know if she was still in danger though. That was the real reason I was doing this myself. When I’d spoken with Terrence on the phone, he said it would take him about an hour and a half to come back with a preliminary report. I was going to wait. I needed to see the report myself and get an understanding of what everything meant.
I pulled up to the office and came to a stop. I grabbed the jar I’d stored the drink in, turned off the car and jumped out slamming the door behind me a little harder than I’d intended.
I took the stairs two at a time to the second floor and knocked on the door.
Terrence was an older man from one of the local tribes. He had been friends with my grandfather and watched me grow up and my father before me. While I didn’t think he knew exactly what we were, I had no doubt that there were old tribal legends passed down to at least realize we were different, but he’d never treated us as such. Most importantly, he knew much about the local region and flora here. He was also a medicine man for his tribe which, in this area, made him the foremost expert for what I needed.
