Page 71 of The Billionaire Alpha Surrogate

Micah pulled the paperwork out of his briefcase and pushed them to Peter.

The man rubbed his bald head and said, “I take it the reason for the price is that you’ve been sitting on the land for a while.”

“Yep. It’s priced to sell.”

“I could get at least forty to eighty houses on this land and still have room for a playground, pool, and tennis court,” Peter said. “I could make quite a bit.”

“Yes,” Micah said.

“Can I keep these reports?”

“Of course,” Micah said.

“Let me think it over. I don’t necessarily believe in curses and the like, but there has still been enough bad luck associated with the area to give me pause.”

“Take your time.”

Micah smiled as he drove back to the office. He was sure that Peter’s business sense and the potential to earn a lot of money from the land would override any fears he had about the curse.

Suddenly, the satisfaction of the pending sale was overshadowed by a feeling of dread.

Micah, please help me. Micah, I need you.

He could hear the words in his mind as clearly as if she had been sitting next to him in the truck. Micah pulled a quick U-turn and headed back to the mansion, ignoring the honking cars and middle fingers thrown his way.

Micah called Lucy’s phone.

“Hello. You’ve reached Lucy’s voice message box. I can’t come to the phone right now. Please leave your name and number, and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.”

Frustrated and terrified, Micah punched the button to end the call and dialed Michelle’s number.

“Hello,” Michelle said.

“There’s something wrong. Where’s Lucy? She didn’t answer her phone.”

“She went to the gazebo. Let me check.”

Micah heard Michelle’s footsteps as she ran toward the gazebo.

“All her stuff is here, but she’s gone,” Michelle said frantically. “It looks like there were several people here by the creek. A single drop of blood is on the ground. It’s fresh.”

“On my way,” Micah said.

Micah, please help me.

The haunting plea echoed in his mind again.

Micah called Conner. “There is something wrong. Lucy is missing from the house but all her stuff is there. Michelle says it looks like there were people there and she saw a spot of fresh blood. I can hear her calling for help telepathically.”

“I’m on my way. I’ll call Zac, Ian, who is the pack’s beta, and Sean. We’ll meet you at the house.”

Micah’s heart thundered and fear gripped his soul in an icy fist. He would be destroyed if anything happened to Lucy or the babies.

He and Michelle ran back to the area. There were actually a couple drops of blood on the ground. Conner, Zac, Ian, who was the pack’s beta, and Sean ran up a minute later.

“It smells like three of them,” Ian said.

“I think so, too,” Zac agreed. “One of these scents, I think, is Mason Richardson. He just got out of prison for manslaughter.”

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