Unspoken - Book 6 - S.S.

Genotype

After finding a cellphone in the skinned corpse in the woods the night before, Scott had asked Diana and Liam to meet with him at the animal clinic so that they could try and figure out what to do about the voicemail Scott had found on the phone. Considering Lydia and Malia had gone to the hospital to see Halywin since Lydia was pretty sure he wasn't as dead as they had thought, that left the three of them alone. Well, not completely alone since, as it seemed, anywhere Liam went, Theo went too, so, there Diana was, in the closed animal clinic with Scott, Liam, Theo and her hatred for the last boy around her.

"Play it again." Diana said, as soon as Scott was done playing the voicemail he found, causing the alpha to nod his head as he pressed the button on the phone again and let the recording play.

"Hey, it's me again." The woman said through the phone. "I, hum, don't know why you can't seem to call me back. Maybe it's because you think you're punishing me. But, this is too long. It's too much. It's not about us. Something's happening in Beacon Hills, to the people here. I just... I just, I need to know everyone there with you is okay. So, can you just please, please call me. Please? One call. That's all I'm asking for. And, if you can't call me back, then I'm going to get my answer anyway. That means I'm coming up there myself if I don't get a call from you. I'm coming up there. So, just try... Try to remember... It's my pack, too."

"So?" Scott asked, almost as if expecting an answer from Diana. After all, she usually did have the answers and she knew most of the population of Beacon Hills, so, if anyone would know anything about the voice on the phone, it would be Diana herself.

"I swear I heard this voice before." Diana frowned. "But I can't... I can't remember where."

"You pulled this off of one of the bodies in the woods?" Theo asked, as Liam nodded.

"Malia did." He said.

"Yeah, there's six dead bodies." Scott explained. "One of them had no face."

"Okay, so the one with no face..." Theo said, after a moment of contemplation. "Do you think that's the woman on the phone?"

"Maybe..." Scott shrugged.

"It's the same thing that happened to Aaron." Liam spoke up. "It took over his body, basically stole his face and his DNA."

"So, that means whoever this woman is, she could be the other half of the Anuk-ite." Diana said.

"Which means she's just half of the problem." Theo said, as everyone turned to look at him. "The other half, we already know about: Aaron."

"We don't know where he is, though." Liam said.

"Okay, hold on. Aren't we supposed to keep both halves apart?" Theo asked. "We know about one half. Let's just go for that one! That's Aaron."

At his words, Diana turned to look at him, surprised at how helpful Theo seemed to be at the moment and, in spite of every single fiber of her body protesting as soon as she opened her mouth to speak again, Diana groaned as she crossed her arms over her chest and clicked her tongue gently in annoyance.

"That's actually not a bad point." She said, scrunching up her nose as Scott turned to look at her with wide eyes, absolutely shocked that, out of everyone in the room, Diana Hills had been the first one to agree with Theo Reaken. "I do think it would be easier to track down Aaron over a voice on the phone..."

"Are you agreeing with Theo?" Liam asked, as Diana let out another, louder groan.

"Shut up." She glared at him as the boy backed down in an instant. "I was trying not to make it so obvious."

"Is everyone completely shocked that I might be right?" Theo asked, almost offended.

"No." Liam whispered through gritted teeth. "We just don't like it."