he hadn’t come to see me yet.
My older brother was all Alpha in that moment. I wasn’t sure I could explain the difference, how and when it worked. Sometimes, Rainer didn’t come across like we all needed to follow him, like he was always in charge. He’d been born for it and seemed on track to take the position for years. Then prison happened, and it changed him, broke him.
But like everything else our Omega did, she’d gotten him back to the place where I could see him again. And yeah…I wanted to follow him right now.
The room quieted. Everyone’s gazes moved from what they were doing to stare at Rainer. That was saying a lot, considering Miranda was here and she gave off the same look at me vibes. But right now, Rainer’s were stronger.
Interesting.
I got to my feet. “Brother.”
He put his arm on mine. “Thanks for keeping things under control here. I’m going to go see her in a second. Wanted to tell you Anton had a thought and I sent him to go collect notebooks from New Orleans.”
I nodded. There was a time I would have worried about Anton doing that alone, but these days, I understood that Anton might actually be the strongest out of all of us. He could do pretty much anything. “Jarret is proving to have some pretty incredible psychic wolf talents.”
“Not surprising. He’s always been untapped in his abilities.” Rainer rubbed his eyes. “This was smart thinking, trying to look at the reports. Good work with this.”
I shrugged. “Anton, too.”
“Rainer, can I see you please?” Miranda wanted his attention, and I stepped back to get onto my computer. There were a few more things to check, and if the Alpha wanted to talk, then I’d let them do it.
My brother’s eyes turned wolf for a second, and he took a long breath. “Later.”
He turned his back on Miranda and headed upstairs, leaving her standing there. What was that about? I went back to my seat. I didn’t need to be in the middle of that mess. Miranda waited a second before she took off toward the kitchen. I quickly glanced between them before I went back to ignoring what had happened. I had enough things to concern myself with without getting into some Alpha thing with them.
Who was going to talk to who on whose terms? It was going to turn out to be some shit like that.
I cracked my neck and looked over the computer again. What had I been doing?
All around me, the sounds of typing and clicking filled the air. When had we gotten so many chairs? With the amount of people we had around here, it had become a place I hardly recognized. Not like the swamp outside. Houses became homes in no time flat, they changed to fit the people in them. Packs were like that, too. Add a member, and the way it felt to be in them could be entirely different.
I understood the ins and outs of it. I just hated having to focus on the details. I lifted my hands from the keys. The details.
What did we know about Ross? He employed humans. There were paper trails for that. I employed small numbers, and it was endless paperwork. Morgan must be paying taxes. I growled at the humanness of it.
I was going to talk to my lawyer. He’d know how to find someone who didn’t want to be found. The trouble was that I didn’t have his number here. I had it locked in my work cell phone in my desk at the swamp tour office.
Great. It was a perfectly valid excuse to get out of the house and my would-be pack.
“Hey,” I spoke to the guy sitting next to me. What was his name? Tony…maybe? I needed to pay better attention to these things. Or fuck it. Maybe I didn’t. This was Rainer’s domain. I was the eccentric, reclusive brother. He could figure out names, give everyone a tag to wear if he wanted to. “If anyone needs a break, make sure they know it’s okay to take one.”
Were we going to have meetings with this forming pack? Hi, my name is Preston, and this week…
I shuddered. He’d better not make our pack like that. All I wanted was my mate and my brothers. Everyone else would be peripheral. Not that I wasn’t grateful all of these strangers were helping me get my mate free of this nightmare. Of course, she’d saved all