An Alpha for the Demigod (7 page)

It doesn’t take long. The
Alpha and the enforcer walk in a few minutes later. The Alpha grabs
a chair from the corner, turns it around so the back faces my cell,
and sits down. He says “My name is Orion and you are?”

“
Liam.”

I don’t want to give him
my real name just yet.

He nods and says “So,
Liam. Want to tell me why a scout from the Paranormal Council is
watching my house?” I stare at him wide-eyed before laughing so
hard I nearly cry.

He stands and glares at
me. “What is so funny?”

I wipe my eyes and say “Is
that what you think I am? A scout?” He nods.

I flinch dramatically.
“Ooo…sorry to break it to you sweets, but I’m not a scout. I’m a
fixer.”

His face goes completely
pale and he drops back into the chair. “A fixer…watching my
house…but why? We haven’t done anything wrong.”

“
It’s personal. I’m not
here on orders. That’s all I’m willing to tell you.” He goes to say
something else but my phone starts to ring. I hold up a finger at
him signaling him to wait.

He hisses at his enforcer.
“You didn’t take his phone?! Are you insane?!”

I snicker and answer the
phone. “Hello?”

My mother says, “Hi honey.
How are you doing?” A huge smile makes its way across my face. “Hey
Ma. I’m doing as well as can be expected.”

She says, “Oh no, what
happened?”

I sigh. “Well, I decided
to surprise you with a visit but I think I went about it the wrong
way.”

She says, “Oh honey, I’m
so happy! I can’t wait to see you! Just wait until you meet the
family. I told them all about you and they’ve wanted to meet you
for so long but I wanted it to be your choice. Don’t worry though,
only Orion knows your real name, everyone else knows you by the
name Liam.”

My mouth drops open in
shock. “Really?”

“
Of course. You’re my
oldest boy. When I needed to keep my other boys in line I always
threatened to call you. They fell in line right quick too, let me
tell you.”

I laugh and say, “That’s
great mom but, I um kind of got myself into a little
trouble.”

She gives me the mom voice
when she says “What kind of trouble?”

I look the Alpha dead in
the eye when I say “The kind that has me locked in the pack cells
right now.”

She shouts loud enough for
everyone to hear. “LYKOS CASSIDY!! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU
THINKING?!!” I hold the phone away from my ear to protect it from
her shouting.

I say into the phone “I’m
sorry mom.”

“
SORRY MY FOOT!! I’m
coming down there right now!”

She hangs up and I stare
at the phone. “Oh shit.”

The Alpha…Orion stares at
me wide-eyed and says “You’re Vicki’s son?”

I run my fingers through
my hair and say “Yeah? Sorry we’re meeting like this. I wasn’t sure
if she’d said anything to you or the family about me or not so I
stayed away. I was trying to protect her. I’m here because I wanted
to see her that’s all.”

He looks over his shoulder
and shouts “Keith open this door! My stepson shouldn’t be in the
cells. If he’s in there when his mother gets here, she’ll kill all
of us.”

Keith says “It’s not
locked. He can walk out.”

We both look over at him
and say “You didn’t lock it?” Keith shrugs and walks off. I look at
Orion and say “Dude, you really need better help than that. He
didn’t even check me for weapons.” Orion shakes his head and we
walk up the stairs together. We reach the top and find my mother
standing there tapping her foot with her arms crossed.

Orion smiles, kisses her
cheek, and says “Hi honey.”

She glares at him, points
her finger, and says “You! You had my son locked in the cells!! I
am so not happy with you right now.” She punctuates every word with
a jab to his chest.

He raises his hands in
surrender. “For the record, the door wasn’t locked and he was only
in there while I asked him a few questions. I didn’t know who he
was!”

She raises an eyebrow at
him and says “Mhm…sure.”

His mouth drops open in
shock. “It’s true!”

She turns to me and smiles
“Lykos honey, it’s been too long. Look at you, you’re all grown up!
Come here.” She holds out her arms for a hug and I immediately step
into them. I can’t help it. I’ve missed my mother’s hugs. She uses
the opportunity to pull my ear and start in on her
lecture.

“
What were you thinking?!
You could have been injured or killed! If you wanted to see me all
you had to do was call.”

I wince. “Ow, ow, ow. I’m
sorry. I wasn’t thinking. I’ll call next time. Please, let go of my
ear.” She narrows her eyes but releases the hold on my ear. I rub
it gently to soothe the pain. “Devil woman.”

She looks at me with a
raised eyebrow “What was that sweetie?”

I smile. “Nothing. I
didn’t say a word.”

She nods, seemingly
satisfied with the answer. “Well, since you’re here now why don’t
you come over to the house for an early dinner with the family? You
can meet everyone.”

I nod and say “Okay.” She
loops her arm through mine and we walk out of the pack house
together. Orion follows close behind.

She’s smiling the entire
time. “I can’t believe it. Just look at you, so many tattoos, I’ve
never seen so many. Except maybe, on your younger brother Julian
but you definitely have more than he does. You’re still so tall
too. I didn’t think it was possible for you to get any taller since
I last saw you but I think you have.”

I laugh and say
“Probably.” We walk into the house and I’m immediately hit with the
amazing smell of food. My stomach growls and my mother
laughs.

“
Sounds like someone’s
ready to eat.”

I laugh and say “Yeah, I’m
starving.”

“
Come on everyone should
be in the dining room. Your sister was helping me finish up the
cooking when I decided to call you. Everything should be ready
now.” We walk into the dining room where six people are sitting
around the table chatting. The conversation suddenly stops when we
enter the room.

Everyone must’ve stopped
to scent the stranger with their mother but because of the cologne
they wouldn’t get much. My mom smiles and says “Everyone this is
Liam my oldest son. He surprised us with a visit. Isn’t that nice?”
Everyone’s mouths drop open in shock. One guy leans so far back in
his chair to see he hits the floor. He jumps up and laughs then
comes over to me. I’m taller than he is so he has to look up at
me.

The first words out of his
mouth are “Dude! You totally have way more tattoos than I do! See
Cheyanne! I told you there were some people out there with more
than me and that my amount wasn’t a lot!”

The girl he must’ve been
referring to sticks her tongue out at him and says, “Whatever
Julian, you just want an excuse to get more.”

He rolls his eyes and
says, “So? They’re cool.” He grabs my arm and says, “Come sit by
me.” He drags me over to the table and pushes me into a
chair.

Our mom sits at the end of
the table with Orion at the other end. She smiles and says “Let me
introduce everyone so that Liam doesn’t get confused.” She nods
toward the end of the table and continues “You’ve already met
Julian and Cheyanne. Next to Julian is Mikhail. Across from him is
his mate Darla. On your right is Fin and across from Fin is his
mate Andrew.”

I look over at Fin wide
eyed and say, “You’re gay?”

He glares at me and says,
“Yeah, got a problem with that?”

I laugh and say, “No, not
at all. I was just fascinated because you have a mate. Are you
guys’ fated mates?”

Fin nods and says, “We
are.”

I smile. “That’s
awesome.”

Fin blushes and says,
“Thanks, I guess.”

Andrew looks at me and
says ‘So, what about you Liam? Are you mated?”

I shake my head. “No, I’m
not. I’ve kind of given up hope honestly. When you’ve been around
for over 3000 years and still haven’t found the one for you it puts
a damper on things.”

Andrew spits out the soda
he just drank and says, “You’re over 3000 years old?”

I shrug and say, “Yeah, I
thought all of you knew that already.” They shake their heads and I
look over at mom.

She shrugs. “I didn’t want
to broadcast it.”

I laugh and say “I
understand.”

Mikhail says, “So, what do
you do for a living?” As we pass around the plates of food and
start serving ourselves I think about how to answer
that.

I sigh and say “I work for
the council.”

Mikhail says, “Oh, the
Shifter Council? Me too. I’m an enforcer but I have to say I
haven’t seen you around before. I would’ve remembered.” I grab the
pitcher of water in the center of the table and pour myself a
glass.

I take a generous sip,
clear my throat and say “Um no, not the Shifter
Council.”

Darla says “Then, which
one?”

I sigh and run my fingers
through my hair. Before I can say anything my phone rings. I thank
the fates for the reprieve while I answer the call.
“Hello?”

Valik says “Lykos, it’s
Valik.”

I sigh. “Yeah, Valik what
is it?”

He says, “I have an
assignment for you.”

“
What?! You can’t be
serious! I’m on vacation.”

He says, “Yeah and
vacation doesn’t mean anything to you unless you decide to be the
one taking it. You’re a workaholic. Krealik ordered it so, it
doesn’t count for you. I know you.”

I sigh. “Yeah, and I’m
having dinner with my family right now. I may have been ordered to
take the vacation and had my ass kicked by Krealik for that shit
the other night but I intended to take the vacation.”

Valik says, “I’m sorry but
this assignment needs your expertise.”

I sigh and run a hand down
my face. “What’s the assignment?”

“
Trolls. They’ve come
through a portal from the Fae realm and are terrorizing a wolf pack
in Oregon. You need to get out there and take care of it before
they reveal us all to humans.”

I groan and start pacing
the floor. “You’re fucking kidding me! Trolls?! You’re sending me
to deal with fucking Trolls! Are you insane Valik?! Do you have any
idea how big they are?! Jesus Christ!! I can’t believe this shit!
You fucking owe me!!” I hang up the phone and plop down in my
chair. Thinking to myself “Fucking Trolls. Seriously. I’m going to
need a long fucking vacation after this. Eight months of nothing
but rogue this rogue that, Hey Lykos take care of this for us.
Nonstop fucking shit. At least it wasn’t dragons this time. Man I
hate those guys. Uptight hoity toity assholes. Fucking Paranormal
Council owes me big time for this shit. Trolls,
really?!”

It’s when I hear the dead
silence in the room that I realize I just said all of that out
loud. I look around and find everyone staring at me. I just smile
and wave “Umm. Hi guys how much of that did you hear?” My mother
stares at me gaping like a fish.

My brother Mikhail says,
“All of it pretty much. So, you work for the Paranormal Council?” I
nod.

“
That’s cool what do you
do?”

I smile. “I’m a fixer.” I
stand up and walk to my mom. “Thanks for dinner. Sorry I didn’t get
to eat any of it but I have to go. There’s an emergency out in
Oregon.” I kiss her cheek. “I’ll call you.” I wave at them as I
walk out the door. Once I’m inside my SUV, I check my email for the
assignment then drive towards Oregon.

Chapter Seven

Declan

It’s been almost two weeks
since Mirajane moved in with me. Things are going really well
between us. I can really see myself with her permanently. At first,
I didn’t want to be involved with any of the planning for the
ceremony but she kind of talked me into it. Now, we’re working
together on it. She asks for my opinion whenever she has ideas and
I ask for hers. Her friends are planning a bachelorette party for
her on the same night as my bachelor party next week. Well,
technically it’s in a few days since we’re already into the
weekend.