Page 20 of Knot All Is Lost: Part 2

Could they be locked in?

No, that wouldn’t make sense. There were tons of windows they could have broken out of if it came to that. That is what made us fairly certain the guards weren’t there to keep them safe, but to make sure they stayed locked away. Why even have a pack if you didn’t want one? These were supposed to be people you wanted to build a family with. Then again, when I thought of Yoram, family man wasn’t at all what I considered him to be. What would it have been like if Cambrie had grown up in that home versus the one she ended up in?

That had me spiraling down a whole other rabbit trail of thought. Who was the person who got her out? The woman who she called mother? How would Cambrie take it when she learned that her biological father was evil and her mother was dead… both of them? How could someone so sweet and kind have been born from a man who was anything but?

“We got it!” Bodhi hollered, leaping up from his seat, hands in his hair. “Holy fucking shit we actually figured it out.”

The rest of us abandoned what we were doing and came over to see what the note said.

This is Savo. I was able to find a computer to send this note. I fucking hope you can figure it out because Cambrie needs you to get her the hell out of this place. Yoram took her. He’s her real father and wants to sell her off to Shearia. I’m here with her, they hired me as her bodyguard. I’ll keep her safe until you can come get her. Use the same code and get back to me ASAP.

1539 Sulter Lane

“You have got to be kidding me,” Spencer blurted. “This is the job that Savo was hired for but fell through all of a sudden. The job fell through because Cambrie ran away and ended up with us. Her bastard of a father was going to sell her to her real father. How fucked up is that?”

Marius nudged me aside so he could read the note Bodhi had written out on a pad of paper. “What the hell does he mean Yoram is going to sell her off to another country?! If that twisted fuck thinks he can use our Omega to gain more power and make some kind of deal with them, he’s more fucked in the head than I figured.”

“Excuse me, what?” Oscar signed after he’d gotten our attention. “Do we even have that kind of relationship with them to warrant this kind of agreement? They seem more the type to take us over than to make a marriage alliance.”

“We found out six months ago the old king died, and his son has now taken over the country. Yoram suggested we reach out and offer a gesture of friendship, this has to be what he meant. I thought he was going to offer some kind of trade deal, not a fucking Omega to be auctioned off, let aloneourOmega,” Magnus snarled. “If we can find any sort of proof that this deal is legit, then it is grounds for us to remove him from his position. This kind of act violates four or five different laws I can think of just off the top of my head.”

All of us looked at each other in stunned silence at that realization. We had our ammo with him poisoning Alton. Now we needed proof of the smoking gun of him trying to sell off Cambrie to broker a deal with another country. Trouble was, how the hell did we do that in two days? Could we risk going after Cambrie, bringing her home, and then facing down the devil himself?

I don’t know, but if I had faith in anyone being able to pull it off, it would be our pack. Since the day we’d joined forces we’d been waiting for our chance to change the world—that moment had arrived.

“So, what do we do first?” Bodhi asked. “Do we go with the Alton being poisoned angle first?”

“No,” Rafael cut in. “It took us half a day to get this message decoded so we need to answer him back. We have the inside man that we needed. If we can tell him our ideas, Savo can direct us to which would work the best. Then, when we have that figured out we should decide how to get Yoram off our backs.”

“Right, that whole coming to get her Monday thing,” I muttered. “Still can’t believe that bastard set this all up for us to take the fall.”

“Then what do we have to lose?” Spencer asked. “There’s no way in hell after we get her back we’re going to let them take her from us again. I say we take the risk to mark her. Stake our claim, that way when shit blows up in their faces they can’t say she isn’t ours when the dust settles.”

Spencer had a point, whatdidwe have to lose, other than Cambrie?

“What we need is some distraction to keep Yoram’s attention on things happening here while we get our Omega,” I responded.

Marius started to pace, running his hands through his hair, trying to put it all together. I’d seen him like this when the campaign began, and he had so much to go up against. No matter what the hurtle was though, he always found a way to get past it.

The sound of banging on the door to the secret office made us all jump. Oscar ventured over and looked through the peephole. Whatever he saw had him yanking back the door to reveal a stricken Phillip.

“They arrested Eric,” Phillip blurted. “The idiot called a press conference to the steps of our home, and he accused the CoF of trying to murder Alton. The police just came and arrested him for inciting a riot and speaking against the government.”

Bodhi, who was standing next to me, muttered under his breath. “Looks like we don’t need to come up with a distraction.”

He was right, but it also meant that Marius was likely going to get pulled back to the Capitol Building to help settle this. However this played out, we needed to be incredibly careful not to tip our hand too early.

“Phillip, it’s going to be alright,” Marius assured the Omega. “I will do everything I can to make sure Eric is fine, and these charges are dropped.”

Phillip’s eyes started to tear up but he held himself together. “Just when they were starting to mend things, he had to go and make a splash. It’s so like the bastard.”

“At least he was doing it for Alton. He could have been out there saying something about bringing the CoF to an end,” Marius countered.

“Oh, he absolutely did that, saying if they were going to kill off one of the only two honest members then why have it at all? I told you, a complete idiot that Alpha of mine,” Phillip muttered. “Now, I need you to stop Alton from falling on the sword to get Eric out of jail.”

“Shit,” Marius swore, and we all charged out of the room. “Where is he, Phillip?”

“Try the front hall. I'm sure Marla’s done a decent job of stalling him,” he called after us.

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