Chapter 184
MACKIE: After dinner, I help collect the dishes and get them into the kitchen, both Dutch and Trever help. I gather the leftovers that Sarah has set aside for me to take to the orphanage, and head out. Both Dutch and Trever accompany me. Halfway there I hear my name being called. I look around and I see Seth standing in the shadows of a building. “What do you want Seth, and you might as well step out of the shadows.” I say. And hear a low growl coming from Dutch. I put my hand on his arm to calm him. “Do you know where Kes is? She’s not answering my calls.” “Maybe because you got a new number and never gave it to her, and we got new phones for her birthday, so she got a new number. Might have something to do with it.” I say to him. “She’s blocking me, too.” “No, it’s because she got sent to Burning Ember Pack, thanks to Jessie, so she isn’t even on Pack territory right now.” “When will she be back? I really need to talk to her.” “Why? Are you missing the alpha connection? You should have thought of that when you left us stranded that night at the dojo, because you were too busy screwing Jessie, or when you got Betsy bullied by Jessie in the first place, or when you decided it was cool to spray gravel at me, and where were you when she got stabbed? You never came to the Pack house to see her. These were your choices Seth no one’s but yours. She had considered you a friend, but you back stabbed her and let her down, now you think you deserve another chance? How many do you think you should get?” I asked him as I crossed my arms in front of me. “I’m sorry, I really am, I just want to talk to her, I miss my friend, I miss her.” “I will tell her that when I talk to her tonight. But I am not going to promise you anything.” “When you talk to her tonight?” “Yes Seth, I call her at least twice a day, so I will be calling her tonight.” “Ok. Thanks.” He sounded so dejected, with his hands in his pockets and his head low as he walks away. “Who was that?” Dutch asked me. “I was about ready to tear him apart.” “You and me both buddy.” Trever said. “Just someone we thought was our friend, until he decided that screwing Jessie was more important than his friends.” I tell them. “Let’s go, we have food to deliver.” I say. And we continue to the orphanage.
LIAM: I miss Kes. I know she’s at the cabin, and I want to go so bad. I am going to go ask dad if I can go tonight, since everyone will be going toward the Lake no one will be the wiser if I went to the cabin. I link him. “Dad, can I go to the cabin tonight please?” “Don’t you want to see your brother and sister shift?” “Yes, but I can’t go on the run, so I want to go to the cabin, no one is going to miss me at the end of the run, all their attention will be on James and Jessie to even notice that I’m not there, I can say that I’m going back to bed, and let others pass it on.” “Fine, but don’t get caught.” “I will do my very best.” I close the link. I then open one to Mackie. “I just want to let you know that dad said that I can come to the cabin tonight, after James and Jessie shift, I will leave when the run starts.” “I will tell the guys, but you need to tell Kes, because I’m not going to get scolded because of you, you little twit.” “Hey, I’m not a twit, Jessie is but I’m not.” She just chuckles at me through the link. “Just tell Kes.” And she closes the link on me. I scowl at her, even though she’s not here to see it. I then open a link to Kes. “Hey, I asked dad to come stay with you for the night.” “Liam.” “What? I miss you, and I don’t like the fact that you
