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through the monitor.
“Thank you, The Haven, for making my spying so easy.” He
snorted as he continued to tap the monitor.
His mind wandered back a few days ago to the time he spent in
the warehouse. He had stayed hidden when the ambulances and police
came for Triala and the humans. He waited until the ambulances had
loaded their patients in and rolled on their way. Then he followed the
vehicles from a safe distance. That’s when he learned their true
destination and went back home to figure out what to do next.
This morning, he decided he’d sneak into The Haven and wait for
the opportune time to come finish them off.
But now, after hearing what Thorak had said about possible
Rogue spies in The Haven, plus his vision about something
destructive coming at the hands of the Rogues, he realized he was
wasting his time going after Triala and her lovers.
“Far bigger fish in the sea to look for now,” he said as he stared at
Triala and her lovers in the other room. His plans had now taken a full
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turn. He needed to forget about these three and search for more
imperative things. Thorak’s words had freaked him out. Rotan’s
instincts were right. They always have been. Something big was
coming.
There were deeply embedded secrets in the Rogue clan that he and
his fellow Rogue werewolves were ignorant to. Yes, many, many
secrets that might in the future indirectly cause him harm, or worse,
death.
The plague of not knowing haunted him. For a werewolf who
prided himself on always knowing exactly what was in the water
before he placed his foot in it, he didn’t like this one bit. The water
before him looked murkier than Loch Ness, and he’d be damned if
he’d sink his feet even deeper in it until he knew without a shadow of
a doubt that the Loch Ness Monster didn’t come after him ready to
chop off his extremities.
Making his way to the door, he slowly and quietly unlocked it and
exited. He had a big and difficult job ahead of him. One that involved
digging deep into the dirty, dark secrets of the new Rogue clan he was
a member of.
It would take time, but he’d get the answers he looked for.
* * * *
For the past few minutes, Triala’s worried mind wandered from
one thought to another. Thorak’s visit and troubling words were the
cause of her preoccupation.
“Things are a lot more serious than we first thought.” She looked
at Jake and Sam.
Jake nodded. “Yeah, and a whole lot more complicated. It’s not
going to be an easy job, especially now that our covers have been
compromised and we’ll have to work from the outside rather than the
inside.” Jake turned to Sam. “So what’s the plan?”
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Sam didn’t respond to Jake’s question. He had a faraway look in
his eyes, Triala perceived.
Jake raised his voice and snapped his fingers. “Earth calling Sam.
Can you hear us?”
Sam shook his head and focused on his partner. “Hmm, what?”
“I asked about the plan.”
“Plan?” Sam frowned, sounding confused.
“In all the years I’ve known you, Sam, you’ve always had a plan.”
“No, I don’t have one, not yet anyway.”
“Yeah, but that look on your face tells me the gears in your brain
are moving at full speed. So something is up.” Jake came to sit next to
him.
Curious and concerned, Triala followed Jake and sat beside him,
next to Sam. “What is it?”
Sam shook his head. “Nothing yet. It’s just something Thorak let
slip out when he came to visit me, asking me to take on this case, that
keeps creeping back into my head.”
“What was that?” Jake scratched his head.
“A comment about him thinking he would be asking for my help
much later than sooner.”
“Huh?” Jake sneered.
Sam nodded. “Yeah, exactly. I found it weird and asked him what
he meant by that. He brushed it off by saying he wanted to visit me in
a month or so to see how I was doing, but because of the volatile
situation with the Rogue werewolves, he came now asking for my
help.”
“That sounds plausible,” Jake commented.
“Yeah, but the look he had on his face when he first let the
comment slip out was the same look he had now when he let slip out
that we need to get answers soon on these Rogue werewolves before
it’s too late.”
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Sam stared at Triala with a serious expression. “You’ve known
him much longer than I have, Triala. Didn’t you find his behavior
before a little odd, like he was hiding something?”
After a short pause, she nodded. “Yes, it was odd. I thought the
reason for his weird behavior was because of what he had to tell us.
But now that I think about it, I, too, felt he wasn’t telling us the whole
story.”
Jake combed his fingers through his hair. “Well, that’s freaking
great! That means there is more shit we don’t know about other than a
doomsday scenario.”
Triala put her hand to Sam’s chest as her heart drummed with fear
and worry. “Then that also means you’ll be playing a bigger part in
this crazy Rogue situation and that uncontrollable thing Thorak hinted
about.”
Tenderness and love shone in Sam’s eyes. “No, baby, not only
me. You, Jake, and I are together now.”
Taking Jake’s hand, he merged their hands together. “We make
one hell of a team. Now that Jake and I found our perfect partner in
work as well as in love, we are never letting you go.”
“Never,” Jake repeated, smiling. Wiping the tear that fell down
Triala’s right cheek, he added, “Whatever the future holds, we’ll face
it together. O ur love will keep us happy and strong.”
Triala sniffled as she dried the other tear streaming down her left
cheek. She had found her soul mates, whom she loved with all her
heart, and yes, she’d be able to face whatever was coming because
Jake and Sam would always be by her side, loving her, and she loving
them.
Reciprocating their smiles, she said, “Yes, my loves, our love is
all we’ll ever need.”
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THE END
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jessica Frost has always had a passion for fiction and the written
word. Add to that her wild, vivid imagination and her pure romantic
tendencies and she soon realized she had the traits needed to become
a romance author. She decided to take the very big step not that long
ago and wrote her first erotic romance story. And she hasn’t looked
back since.
Being a romance writer is a dream come true for her. Having the
opportunity to create fantasy worlds where anything and everything
can happen is an amazing feeling. She hopes these worlds and the
delightful characters she creates will bring hours of enjoyment to her
readers as they have done for her.
Also by Jessica Frost
The Lost Collection:
The Good, the Bad, and the Naughty
Haven for the Lustfully Damned 1:
It Begins With a Rogue’s Bite
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