Scarlett: (GxG)

Chapter 37

Scarlett

"What are you talking about?"

Cam signed with his thick fingers before picking up a value pack of paper towels and stuffing it onto a tightly packed shelf. The generic music in the Quickie Mart sounded overhead while I had the Enforcer cornered.

"I'm saying I need you, right now. Can you give me two hours?"

That was a partial lie. I had no idea how long this would take.

He looked over his shoulder at me with that heavy gaze of his.

"It's important. I've got a lead on the rogues and Robert's guard Lee has agreed to take me to where some might be hiding out."

The wolf picked up a few more packs of paper towels and when I mentioned Lee's name they tumbled out of his hands to bounce on the newly buffed floor. Cam didn't waste time in signing. His fingers moved swiftly in front of his face, far too quick for me to even begin to understand what the hell he was trying to say. I needed Robyn more than ever, but pulling her away from the kids she was sharing with her ex-husband wasn't something I wanted to do. Not to mention I knew she was mad at me for a multitude of reasons.

"Slow down, man. You know I'm still learning."

Cam took a breath and let it out slowly, flexing his hands. When he brought them up to his face again, he signed only a few words.

"Don't trust her..."

"Okay," I nodded, knowing that, to most of us, Robert's guard was someone we were forced to keep in the corner of our eye at all times. But when he reached out to me, gripping my shoulder tightly, it felt like his wariness was coming from another place altogether.

"I'm serious, Scar."

I looked at the hand that left me to sign those few words, only to return to my bare shoulder.

"Fine. Then come with me and watch my back, tough guy."

That got a smirk out of him.

Somehow Lee felt more intimidating now than she'd ever had before. While I followed behind her slightly crouching form in the dark, I tried to make myself believe that I knew who she was. But in truth, I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know what she was.

The hound I'd seen laying in the granite tomb Zoey had led me to, my mind struggled to understand that it was also the woman in front of me. If I'd told Cam about any of that there was no denying he probably would have attacked her on sight.

Before long the simple drainage pipe turned into a pitch black corridor that branched off from the trickling water and took us down underground. It felt like we went to the very opposite end of the world before I finally heard the woman's feet stop.

I'd already let my wolf slip out, taking over my eyes so they could pierce the dark. They were also careful to keep Zoey in their sights.

"Marcus was very smart when he started using these underground dwellings."

While I watched the woman's back, I noticed a hand reach out and touch the stone wall. Following her fingers, I saw the individual pieces of stone that made up the corridor. All of it seemed old and placed there by hand possibly centuries ago.

"During the war it was a place we'd forgotten about. No one knows who built them. They were here long before the city itself."

Lee turned to look back at us. Her red eyes glowed eerily in the dark. It forced Cam to let out a soft growl behind me.