Page 51 of Blood Pack Beginning

“Already on it,” Pierrot said in her earpiece.

Sasha swung herself into the driver's seat and gunned the engine. She glanced at Amir. “Buckle up, Puppy Chow.”

Because they had a traitor to catch.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Sasha drovelike a demon out of hell. Fast and without care. Amir might have been more scared if he wasn’t so worried about his dumbass brother and plagued by guilt.

Their last conversation hadn’t been a pleasant one.

“I can’t stand it here,” Amir complained, not for the first time.

“Gee, I hadn’t noticed,” Amir had sarcastically grunted as he lifted the barbell from a squat position.

“I’m serious. We’re in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do.”

“Not that much different from Moon Dew, if you ask me.” The town only had one main street with a few stores.

“Yeah, but it was only a thirty-minute drive to the city, and we used to go on long-haul runs. I haven’t been outside these walls since those fuckers kidnapped us.”

Amir dropped the weighted bar with a thud and sighed. “For the last time, if not for them, we’d most likely be in jail or hiding. Can you imagine the shitstorm we’d have been caught up in? The cops likely would have arrested us because, hello, being the only survivors would have made us look suspicious as hell. And even if they didn’t lock us up, we’d have been houndedby the media. We definitely would have been dragged through the social media mud and had our lives turned into a living hell.” Their innocence wouldn’t have mattered. Gossip and the need to blame would have proven stronger.

He didn’t even bother mentioning the more fatal probability: that Nathan would have convicted them without trial and they would have been killed. Pack laws didn’t tolerate rogues that drew attention.

“Whatever. I’m done with this place. I’m leaving.”

“Okay.”

“Not gonna argue?”

“You seem determined, so why would I bother?”

“Do we have enough cash to rent a place? How long until you can be packed to go?”

Amir arched a brow. “What’s with this ‘we’ shit? You want to go? Go. I’ve already told you I’m staying.”

“Because you want to bang that bloodsucker,” Omar hissed.

“No, because I want to help stop what happened to the people in Moon Dew from happening elsewhere. I am gonna make damned sure our sister doesn’t get taken by some monster who’s got a boner for dormants. Then there’s the fact I happen to like it here. It’s nice belonging to a pack and not having to worry about getting my ass shot as a rogue.”

“Please, this isn’t a pack,” Omar huffed with a sneer. “It’s a bunch of mongrels taking orders from a snooty vampire.”

“A vampire with the alpha command, who’s mated to two of our kind,” Amir reminded.

“I don’t care. He’s not Lycan.”

“Maybe not, but his new pack has been recognized by the Lycan Council. One of our leaders is even sending loners here to join. Seems pretty legit to me.”

Omar changed tactics. “You have to come.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re my brother. You said you’d always take care of me.”

Amir had made that promise, but he’d never expected it would be forever. “I have taken care of you, but you’re twenty-four years old now, Omar. You’re old enough to work, rent a place, and live a life without a babysitter.”

His brother recoiled. “I’m not a baby.”

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