Chapter 417
Chapter 417
Damien
Knocking on the office door, I’m surprised when there is no answer. I was expecting Dane to already be here. Especially when there is less than five minutes until the meeting with Ryken starts.
Making my way in, I position myself in the far right corner, behind the desk and next to the window. I needed a good view of everyone in the room.
Brax appears next and purposely spins in front of as he lifts his top just high enough to show me that he doesn’t have any weapons stashed in his belt.
“You actually listened then.” I mutter
“It may surprise you, but I do actually care about my daughter and I can follow some rules.”
I don’t respond as Dane enters yawning. “I need to catch up with both of you later.”
“About my baby girl?” Brax asks
“No…”
He was about to say more when Ryken appears. He checks his watch. “I’m not late am I?”
“Actually, you are right on time.” Dane tells him. “Have a seat.”
“What about my baby girl and his brat? Shouldn’t they be here too?” Brax challenges, “Considering this is about them.”
“DON’T refer to him as a brat.” Ryken growls with clenched teeth.
“I don’t want either of you to speak.” Dane’s crimson eyes move between the pair of them. “You both need to listen.”
He points to me. He had already asked me to explain how I had found Dottie. Believing that it would give Ryken a clearer picture. “Are you aware of how Dorothy lived her younger years?” I ask carefully.
“Yes, I know what Blair did.”
“I’m not talking about Blair, I’m talking about the Humans that Blair sold her too.”
“This has nothing to do with her attacking my son.”
“Maybe, maybe not. But I think it’s only fair for you to know and we might understand a little bit more why she pinned Kade down.”
Even Brax didn’t know the exact
truth of how found her. He had just heard small details. Though as long as she was safe, all was good, but I couldn’t help wondering if he saw cracks in her soul too, but just didn’t want to say anything.
His eyes flash up to me and I could already see how his anger bubbling up to the surface. He paces in the background. His hands balled into fists. He was like a grenade, ready to go off.
‘Tread carefully.’ Dane links me but he is looking at Brax.
‘He’s got no weapons’ But that didn’t mean Brax wouldn’t hit something.
“She was just a kid.” Ryken mutters with sorrow as I finish telling him how she ate food from a bowl like she was a dog the first night I saved her.
“She had to learn to survive on the bare minimum. She had nightmares for the best part of a year and they had finally settled down to the point they were happening maybe once a week.” look over at Brax who was staring into space, probably thinking about how he was going to make Blair suffer for making his child suffer. “Dottie has held everything in for so long that one day, I knew there was a damn good chance that she was going to blow. She didn’t attack him for a game. She attacked Kade for what he said to her.”
Ryken looks down.
“He hasn’t told you what he said, has he?” Dane asks
“He is sticking to the same story. The one he has given me is that he asked her for a pencil and she just lost it. But I know deep down it is not the whole story. While she has nightmares, he sleeps like a log, without a single worry.”
“He called her poison. Told her that someone will kill her while she is sleeping.” I mutter. Hearing Mallory tell me that made my blood boil. “He wouldn’t….”
“He did.”
His eyes narrow at me. “She told you that.”
“No, she confided in a friend and I believe her.”
“My son wouldn’t say something like that.” Ryken shakes his head dismissively.
“Then let’s bring him in here and I can find out if the little bastard is lying!” Brax growls.
Dane holds his hand up to silence everyone. “Ryken, how would Kade know about poison? It’s not something that is taught to children this young.”
He shakes his head. “He’s never
mentioned it before. Not even when he and his brother are fighting. I don’t even think Tara and I have discussed it. Maybe we have and we didn’t realise he was around, but if we did it’s not a conversation we have had recently. If you haven’t noticed Dane. It’s not like we are a family that goes out on hunts or wars or anything like that. We haven’t even participated in a pack run because we don’t feel we will be welcome by the Wolves.”