Page 19 of Ivy and the Deathstalkers

I boot up my computer and pull up the cameras surrounding the club. I watch as the two guards who didn’t join the scuffle with Mountain Man rush him to a blacked-out car. One shoves him in the back seat and slams the door before jumping in the front seat. The car backs out of the parking space before his door is even closed and they peel out of there in seconds.

Switching cameras, I follow the car out of the city, only to lose him when I run out of cameras.Damn it.

I open the program I designed to help me stalk my targets and enter Stanley’s info. It may take a while, but I’ll find him.

I always find my mark.

Now that I know who he is, he won’t be able to escape me for long.

After countless hours at my desk, I finally decide to give it a break and get some rest. My program will continue running as I sleep. Hopefully, by the time I wake up, I’ll have a location. I switch my monitor off, leaving the computer on, and push my seat back.

I trudge up the stairs and slip off my robe before climbing between my sheets. I’m fucking exhausted!

Chapter 14

Neo

Cree gives me the address and I map out the best route to get to her.Fuck. I still can’t believe I have a mate.When King showed me her picture, my entire world stopped. I’ve never seen anyone more breath-taking in my life. I was already half in love with her just from Jax’s description. Now? It’s like Jax said, she's everything I never knew I wanted.

I ride in my position next to Prez as we fly down the highway. It takes an hour but feels like the blink of an eye as we pull to a stop at the end of her long driveway. We shut our bikes off and leave them to walk the rest of the way. We don’t want to alert her to our presence and risk spooking her again.

“Check the garage for her bike. Let’s make sure this is the right place before we go any further,” King instructs.

Jax leads the way and I follow before anyone else can say otherwise. We slip around the side of the garage and find a door. It’s dark as fuck but with our shifter sight, we have no problem seeing.

As soon as he steps in, Jax inhales deeply and grins the sinister smile he gets when he’s found his prey. “This is it. I can smell her.”

“She’s got a nice ride. That fucking Bugatti is a thing of beauty too. And you know I prefer my rides with two wheels,” I chuckle as we walk further into the dark space.

We walk by a room that has a soft glow of light filtering through the door. I turn to look at King, waiting for directions. We should definitely check it out. What if she’s in there? But as always, I defer to my prez. He gives me the up nod and I turn the knob.

Unlocked.

Again.

What does our mate have against locking doors?

There’s no sign of our mate, but since Jax pointed out her smell, I can tell she spends a lot of time in here. Her scent is strong.

“Ok, am I seeing what I think I am? Is this room loaded with almost every poisonous snake on earth? And holy hell, a shit ton of poisonous insects too!” I point out as I look around. “I think our mate has a death wish. She has some of the worst toxins on earth here.”

Jax growls but I ignore him as I check out the room. The setup is incredible. They’re not caged per se. Everyone is set up as a habitat specific to its inhabitants. As we are looking around, the hairs on my neck stand up.

I slowly turn and see why. A spitting cobra is on a shelf eye level with KC if he were to turn around. “King, don't move fast. But behind you is a spitter. He looks pissed andnotin a cage.”

Jax is farther away, turns, and sees it. “Damn, he's big, and pissed.” He chuckles. “Guess we know why the system wasn't armed. He is the system.”

KC doesn't move more than needed to turn to see it for himself. However, Jax does. He has the snake by the neck and hisses back at it when it spits on him. The snake must sense his scorpion because he relaxes into Jax. Thank god for DJ insisting we build a tolerance for every toxin and poison otherwise we’d be rushing Jax to the hospital right now.

I walk over to an enclosure that has to be his and open it. “Here Jax, we better not hurt him. She obviously likes them all and we don't want to piss her off by hurting her pets. If we did, we might never get laid again.”

We leave as quietly as we came without disturbing anything else. King leads the way back outside and DJ whips his head around, sensing our presence. Cree has his nose buried in his tablet when we walk up to them. And Beck doesn’t take his eyes off the house.

“Well? Is this it?” DJ asks.

“This is it. Our girl is all kinds of crazy and I can’t wait to meet her!” I answer before Jax or King can.

“What do you mean she’s crazy?” Beck glares at me.

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