Page 129 of The Alpha and His Childhood Sweetheart

Elise moved forward answering, “Yes, I’m here.” The sniper asked, “Will you go and save those girls? Or do people get sent in, which means… they get their identities blown…. probably… the probability is like ninety seven percent and…”

Elise interrupted, “We will go get them. Jase is just frustrated.” The sniper snorted, “Being behind can do that to a person I suppose… then again, he should be used to it by now… he’s been behind for a long time… if he thinks about it then he’d….” The phone call cut off.

Clearly someone with the sniper hung up before we could get more clues, but I didn’t have a single one that told me what they thought it would tell us. Other than someone was pissed off at Red Run, which we knew already.

Alexander looked pissed. I growled, “JASE, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!” Jason frowned, “I’ve got a massive headache going on. I was supposed to be talking to Melanie right now, and I missed it because of this. I’m not in the mood for the holier than thou sniper who hates our guts.”

I growled, “This is Theo’s mate’s life and our allies daughter’s! Next time I will cut you out of the conversation or have Micah mute you. We’ve been trying to get a meeting with this girl, who thinks we don’t like her, for years. You just proved to her that we have problems with her. After YEARS of trying, they FINALLY reached out for our help, and you fucked us over!”

My mom commented calmly, “And you missed something very important.” We all turned to her. I noted she looked sad. Her walls were up in the bond which pissed me off. I asked, “What did we miss, mom?”

My mom answered, “The sniper said you’d save six of the seven fighters tonight. She even had a specific time for you to go in. All that information tells us our sniper is the seventh fighter. She’s having us save them while she fucking fights as cover. The fight won’t be in Kentucky where we could find it. The goddamn undergrounds are too smart for that. We can’t pop to her and she’s literally fighting for their lives tonight.” Jason flushed scarlet and walked out of the room.

Dalton sighed, “He’s had a headache all day. He’s having nightmares about when he was taken. He wakes up screaming for Ladybug. He just really needed to see her to settle himself. Then he missed the skype call.”

I looked at my Beta and linked, “Did we know that?” He answered, “No. I’ll talk to T.” We could easily get Jason set up with help. Brutus grumbled, “If only we knew before he went OFF the rails.” No joke. Alexander frowned, “Will he be ok? I can pop to him.”

My mom cut in, “Exfuckingcuse me?! You all in Red Run are getting headaches too?” Dalton nodded, “Every so often. Drake gets them the worst, but the McAlister’s in general are hit hard by them. Our pack doctors think someone is growing something we are reacting to.”

My mom threw her hands in the air, “Does no one think, hey I know a fucking Fairy who could fix this for me!? Or maybe I could ask since well she helps us all the fucking time! What the fuck am I to you people?! USELESS!” She popped out.

My dad cringed, “We will all pay for that. Great.” Dalton frowned, “Headaches aren’t an emergency, Alpha Eric.” My dad snorted, “Like that’s going to matter to my wife. You have met her, right? You’ve all just given me an additional headache. Thank you all SO MUCH for that. I’ll call Nathan McDermont and let him know we are going to save his daughter and his Beta’s tonight.” Theo stood, “I’ll pop you to them dad.” He felt so much relief and hope it made me want to hug him. My dad and Theo popped out.

Tristan ran into the room. He asked, “Where’s Jase?” Alexander answered, “He’s upset with himself. He went off at the sniper and they went at each other.” Elise snorted, “Like siblings who are pissed at each other.” That made my head hurt.

I added, “She called him Beta Jason again too.” Alexander agreed, “She did.” Tristan sighed, “He’s been having a roughtime lately. He’s waking up sweating. Honestly, I’m worried. I think he needs to talk to someone about the trauma he endured with the Hunters. I think the stress of everything is catching up to him.” Alexander offered, “I’ll talk to him.” We spent the rest of the time planning.

By the time we were ready to go we were a half hour early from the sniper’s timeline. My brother’s had popped to our allies and brought them back to our pack lands. Uncle Aiden was here with Fairy Warriors. Uncle Bjourn was here with Cayden and some of their army. I nodded to Cayden as I put his hand on Theo’s back.

We walked out to our lawn where our allies were waiting. I told them, “The sniper gave us intel on how to get Jane and Madeline back. We WILL save them and deal the first blow to the undergrounds tonight. Any and ALL information you find WILL be filed with the council.”

I added, “This is the first proof we’ve gotten we are right about them. We need more information to take them down. We were told today that they are bigger than we could imagine. There is another fighter in this group that won’t be there tonight. We WILL work to free that fighter too. Tonight, we will bring Jane and Madeline home.” They cheered.

Alpha Nathan’s brother, Nick, walked up to me. He held out his hand, “I thought for a long time I’d made a mistake not keeping my brother in our pack and joining as your family and the Daniels had. My brother lost his mate, and my niece was kidnapped. We will be joining back together after this.”

I pledged, “We will assist with anything you need.” I hesitated before adding, “How is Alpha Nathan?” Alpha Nick sighed, “My sister in law wasn’t supposed to be there. She’d come back to surprise him, but he didn't know that. He wasn’t there when the attack started, and she was dead before he got arrived.” I winced, “Well, we will help anyway we can.”

I walked off and noted that Cousin Emmaline was debating something. Then I heard her whisper to the man I’d just been talking about. “Your second chance is out there, Alpha Nathan.” He jerked back, “Huh?” She sighed, “I only tell you that because I just get the sense that might be sooner rather than later. Just be open to her.” Alpha Nathan sighed. He said, “I’ll think about that later, Luna Emmaline. Right now, I can’t.” She nodded and stepped away from him.

We all gathered together. I grabbed my Warriors and Alexander grabbed his. We didn’t know what kind of opposition we’d be facing. We didn’t exactly get all the information after the fight between the sniper and Jason.

We popped in together. Alexander walked over to where the underground facility was supposed to be. He jumped into the air three times. I linked him, “What on earth are you doing?” Alexander answered, “I got an email that Micah is working on trying to track down location or IP address for. It gave extra instructions.” My head itched because something about that seemed important.

Brutus agreed, “It is.” I replied, “It always comes back to Alexander and these things being for him. What is it?” No answer came to me. UGH! I pushed those thoughts out of my head. A panel with a pin code popped up. Micah quickly put in the codes we were given. A panel moved that looked just like grass.

I was somewhat offended that I had Fairy blood and I’d been fooled into thinking that was actually grass. I popped down with Alexander with Elise jumped down next. I grabbed her quickly and put her behind me. We began making our way through the facility.

I felt in the bond what was about to happen before I watched Theo start to run away from us. I grabbed him and pulled him back. I linked him, “Brother, we do not know what or who ishere.” He popped away from me. I linked my family, “FUCK! Someone get on his fucking six!”

I heard Theo sob and felt his utter heartbreak. Brutus howled in my head. Jane had to be ok. Theo screamed, “MOM!” My mom immediately popped to him. I heard her whisper, “She’ll be ok, Theo. I’ll heal her.” I sighed in relief.

I wasn’t all too worried that Theo’s scream had not just alerted our mom that he needed her but the opposition. They were a small force that were here guarding the prisoners. I threw my shield up when gunfire started. My dad yelled, “HALEY! THEO!”

Alpha Nathan McDermont yelled, “JANE! MADELINE!” Madeline yelled, “Nathan? Oh goddess, we are saved! NATHAN, PLEASE HELP US! Don’t leave us here!” I knew his heart had to break hearing her say that because it nearly broke mine. Her dad roared and she screamed, “DADDY, HELP ME!”

One of the Hackura men broke forward. I sighed, “Of course his mate is here too. Alexander, get on his six. Only you can heal her.” Alexander nodded and immediately moved forward with his men. They quickly killed those here that stood in our way.

I watched the Hackura kick the door off the hinges that was keeping him from Madeline. She growled, “MINE!” I looked in her room and saw her. Brutus snarled, “Barker saw his mate in this shape.” It would explain the call to mom.

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