Tracked: A Valkyrie Saga Book 2

Chapter 2 - Broad Street Diner

Fuck, I'm confused.

The magic the witches were using to keep me in my wolf form and all of the blood that they were taking was really messing with my head. Then, all of a sudden there is a female Val kneeling in front of my cage telling me that we are going to be friends and asking me not to eat her face. She broke me out of that god forsaken cage and moments after bullets started flying. Before I knew it the scene had devolved into screaming and pain.

I was a wolf. I had no business sticking my nose into Valkyrie politics, but something inside of me needs to protect this brave and lost girl. Not to mention the fact that Ray is the only Valkyrie in my entire life to treat me like an equal. I didn't understand what was going on with her people, but I did know that we were now indeed friends.

-- Logan Torres

Logan waited for me to catch up and then we walked side by side down the sidewalk to some unknown location. If I didn't have so much on my mind I might have been more worried about where we were going, but all I could think about was the royals and how to get myself out of this mess. What would they do now that they knew that I had five Gifts? I doubted that Kaiden would be the only one to react dramatically. How did I protect myself while still exploring this new world I seem to have stumbled into?

I was lost in my thoughts when Logan started talking, distracting me from my own problems. "My brother was right. I drove down here to square some things with Lawrence and the Oakland Pack. But once I got down here, I decided that I could use some fun before dealing with those tight-asses, so I went to Solace for a couple of drinks."

"Solace?" I asked and Logan looked over at me with disbelief written all over his face.

"You're telling me that you are a teenage supernatural in the Bay Area and you don't know about the supernatural nightclub? What rock have you been hiding under? You are like a walking, talking contradiction," Logan declared and I gave him my best nonplussed stare. He laughed at my attitude and then said, "No seriously, what is up with you? How is it that the scariest motherfucker in the kingdom just called you the most powerful Valkyrie to live and yet you seem weirdly clueless."

"Hernan?" I asked to clarify that he was calling the queen's brother the scariest supernatural in the kingdom. Logan raised his eyebrows at me, as if to say that I was proving his point before giving me a slight nod of his head.

I blew out a breath and fought off a particularly intense dizzy spell before answering, "I seem clueless because I am clueless. My abusive excuse of a father raised me in isolation away from all other Valkyries and when he got himself murdered four years ago the state of California put me in the human foster care system. Before two weeks ago, I hadn't interacted with any other supernaturals for years. And now, every person I meet expects me to act a certain way or wants to use me in some kind of power play. If it were up to me, everyone would just leave me alone," I told him in a heated voice.

"Well shit. That explains a lot," Logan said as I stumbled on a crack in the sidewalk. He reached out and caught me before I fell on my face. "You okay?" he asked and I nodded my head.

"Just low blood sugar. I'll be fine." Logan took a moment to look me over before deciding to take my word for it and we continued to walk towards wherever we were going.

"Solace is a supernatural nightclub. It is run by the vamps, but all types are welcome and show up there. It is a kind of neutral ground where all of us supes can interact. I went there looking for some fun and caught the attention of this fine ass witch. Witches can throw one hell of a party, so when she asked me if I wanted to come home with her, I didn't hesitate. Once we were in her car she must have put some kind of spell on me to knock me out because the next thing I remember is waking up in that cage in my wolf form. They seemed to be only interested in draining my blood to make that weird ass new drug that has been circulating around the human underground. I tried to escape, but as you remember the cage was spelled to zap me anytime I touched the bars."