Chapter 56 CHAPTER 56
CHAPTER 56
DAMON
We all turned our heads to look in the direction of the voice just in time to see the Falcon walk in with her six bodyguards behind.
Something looks different about her. I exchanged looks with Mother while Cathy reached for my hands under the table. I was certain everyone could sense the aura around her.
“He knows” There was temporary silence as she sat on the floor with her legs crossed underneath her.
“Who? Know about what?” Mother asked, breaking the weird silence that had ensued.
“The collector…”
Catherine holds on to my hands and tightens.
“…He knows I am here and that I am a she” She looks around us with her opaque eyes. “And if I know the collector as much as I think I do, he’d come seeking blood”
“…why”
“…what?”
“…when?”
It was like a sword sliced through the silence that had spellbound us as everyone began speaking all at once.
“So what are we going to do?” Cathy’s calculated voice pierced through the commotion
“We?” the Falcon spat out, her anger so visible that for a moment there was a glint of light in her eyes
“It's an I problem now. He thought he killed everyone including the Falcon when he set my town and people ablaze.” the anger replaced by pain “…he had just realized he failed and he doesn't like to fail. So he would be back. For me.” she closed her eyes and gave a strange sound.
“We could help too, you know” I wasn't about taking my chances.
What if he comes for My mate again?
For Cathy??
The thought sent a wild rage within me, I would die before I let that happen.
“We are going to help!” It was an order. The finality in my tone reverberates through the room.
The Falcon opens her opaque eyes.
Faye and Ryder nodded in agreement. Mel raises her brows, a grin playing on her lips. Like me, she was always excited about war -just war.
We are truly our father’s children after all.
“But how?” mother asked with worry.
“I need to rest” Dismissing mother’s question, she stands and walks away with her bodyguard.
“But really? How are we going to help?” Mellisa asked after the room’s atmosphere was back to normal.
“We could plant….”
I stood up blocking Ryder’s suggestions and the rest of them from my thoughts. I began pacing.
Who mates someone without fighting their enemies?
“Don't be silly” my inner Wolf laughed “The least you could do is be grateful that she wasn't dead before you found her, Alphaaa” emphatically stressing the last word
“Are you mocking me?” I snarled
“Be it far from me” he apologized sarcastically and went to settle at the back of my head.
“You okay?” her voice laced with concern cut through my train of thought.
I look beside me to see Cathy standing close to me, a hand placed on my arm.
“You okay?” she repeated, looking up into my eyes
I slightly nodded as my heart fluttered.
This woman here would be my undoing.
“What was it Ryder was saying?” wrapping both hands around her waist and bringing her close to me. In all this chaos, I was happy I had a gift of sanity in person.
“Huh?” a look of disbelief crossed her face “You haven't been listening?”
“I tried to”
“You could have tried harder, but it's fine. It isn't what we can't go through again for you”
“I am sorry,” she apologized like an afterthought.
“For ?” I blinked in confusion.
“For everything” her voice low, barely above a whisper.
“Why?”
“If - if-” she cleared her throat and went mute.
I ran my eyes through this truckload of gorgeousness that I have been mated with and wondered what she was on about. With Cathy, I have learned to thread gently and take it slowly.
“Tell me, Cathy” I coarse softly Content is property © NôvelDrama.Org.
She clears her throat and began
“If I didn't come here, to your pack, all these wouldn't be happening” She sounded so helpless
Nonsense!
My inner Wolf snarled.
I took a few involuntary steps backward. My hand swiped off an unruly hair off my face.
“I wouldn't have found you.”
“That not the point Damon” she objected
Yeah! Right!
“What is then?” I snapped impatiently. I would rather be ripping the collector's heart with a stake than have this conversation.
“That I came here and brought so much trouble” She sounded like she was fighting back tears.
“What are you on about, Catherine” If she was having second thoughts about us being mates, about the legend, she should be ready to be locked up with me in my - our - room.
“ You didn't come. Mellisa found you and brought you here…”
Her brows creased in worry.
“It was meant to be, Cathy”
She blinked and a tear dropped.
Wiping it off, I wrap my hand around her again.
“I am grateful for you. For the gift of you”
She bit her lips nervously, her face crimsonly flushed
“Aren't you too?” a finger under her jaw, slightly raising her head “Tell me…”
She looks right back to her feet.
Good one, Moon goddess. Good one.
I was used to overbearing women but this, this… was so easy to love. I was certain the moon goddess that arranged Cathy in my stars had a good marriage when she was a werewolf before transiting.
“This isn't the right time to talk about this”
“Why is that?” I asked amused
“Cause of the collector?”
She looks up at me, her eyes mildly scolding.
“Sorry…” I stifled a laugh. That was intentional
“Because of Willy?”
She nodded.
“Well; I think it's the right time to tell me about what Ryder was talking about. In our bedroom”