Page 28 of Hunted Pack
“We’re not going. We’re staying here.” Caleb lets out a deep sigh, but it’s clear that he’s given up going against his Omegas and I wonder if he’s giving in so easily because it’s his ex they’re going to pick up, if he might still have lingering feelings for her.
“Jorge!” Riley pushes at my shoulder. “Stop being a kid.” It’s then that I notice the growl in my chest and the note of anger in my pheromones. “Seriously.”
Then she turns to Caleb. “I owe Erika a lot and she’s the one who sent me here in the first place. Plus, Nathan’s bringing some of my stuff over, it would only be right for me to at least help them carry some of it.”
Caleb looks at me. “So, we’ll be staying here with Luca and the others?”
“Like hell.” I shake my head. “If they’re going, I’m going too.” I’m not letting anyone from my pack meet her without me there. Even if Caleb isn’t going, I’m not letting any of the others meet her alone either.
“You’re acting like a kid, Jorge.” Mathew gives me a tired look.
“I don’t want to hear that from you. You’re younger than me.” It’s only a few weeks, but he is younger than me.
I know that me reacting like this to Caleb’s ex is childish, but I can’t help it. From the first time Caleb told me about her, this fiery and angry sensation has bubbled up in me and I can’t help it. It makes me act in ways that I’m not used to. In ways I don’t even recognise from myself.
And knowing that she’s going to stay here for a while is making that feeling even worse.
“Fine. I’ll talk to Derrick, but if we’re going, we’re not going into the airport. We’re going to wait in the car so that Derrick doesn’t have to take ten times the number of people he would otherwise have to take. Good?” He looks around to each of us and we all nod. “Okay. Stay here while I talk to Derrick. No going anywhere! If he says no, the whole plan is off.”
He stomps down the stairs as Luca appears in the doorway to the pack bedroom, wearing a mask and looking pretty good for being around Vera and Caleb’s pheromones.
“Do you want to come too?” I step closer to him, kind of not wanting to leave him behind if he’s the only one of our pack who’d be staying here, but if he’s not going then I might be convinced to stay too. “I know today has been really busy and all over the place, so I understand if you’d just want to go to bed and sleep.”
“You’re going to meet the person who’s going to help my family, right?” He looks at me and then at Riley, who nods. “Then I’d like to properly greet her and thank her.”
“Then it’s settled.” Mathew takes Vera’s hand and on his way out of the room he grabs Luca’s hand too, dragging the two after him as he races down the hallway. “Let’s gooo!”
I glance at Riley, who’s still giving me an annoyed look.
“If you do anything to embarrass or upset Erika, you will regret it. Understand?” Her pheromones turn spiky, an anger I don’t usually get directed at me.
“I understand.” All my pack members being so protective of someone who isn’t even part of our pack does bad things to me. I don’t like it.
But I guess I’ll have to learn to deal with it.
I’ll do it for my pack.
The airport is super quiet, which isn’t unexpected, it’s nearly midnight and there aren’t a lot of planes arriving or leaving at this time. The airport isn’t super big, so most of the larger planes use the airport four hours away.
The other people waiting for arrivals are all keeping their distance from us, which I don’t blame them for. We’ve got our pack, including Caleb and Riley, who are both pretty intimidating, and Derrick’s security team is basically two people for every one of us. Though, as I count again, actually, it’s two and a half people for each one of us.
If I wasn’t part of our pack, I would also keep my distance from us. We look fucking scary and imposing like this. I guess I now understand why Caleb didn’t want us to go. We attract a lot of attention, something we kind of shouldn’t do right now.
I guess I’ll have to make it up to him later. He was right that all of us being here would make Derrick’s job a lot harder.
Not that Caleb had much of a choice. By the time he was done talking to Derrick, we were all waiting in one of the vans, strapped in, Mathew behind the wheel. We were going to the airport, no matter what Derrick was going to say.
“Ohh!” Vera bounces up and down next to me. “Their baggage is now coming out, they’ll be here soon!” She’s so excited that I nearly forget who we’re here to meet. She rarely gets this excited over people who aren’t part of the pack.
I quickly suppress my growl, but not fast enough as Riley jabs her elbow in my side.
I know I’m acting like a jealous bastard. I never act like this normally. I’ve never acted this way around Mathew’s sex partners. I’ve never acted like this around some of the people Riley’s been intimate with. This isn’t normal for me either.
The doors open and we all hold our breath, but the two men in suits that come out keep walking to the exit, too deep in conversation to even notice us.
Well, that was anti-climactic.
The doors open again and a pack with young kids come out. The kids keep glancing behind them, their eyes wide, until they notice us and their eyes somehow go even bigger.
