Escaping Death

Chapter 6

Hunter

Of all the women in the world, they just had to bring back Solana. I almost didn't recognize her, she's changed so much, but she still smells just as good as I remember. I don't have long to reminisce on the past before her fist connects with my cheekbone with a thundering crunch.

She's gotten stronger, too, apparently. Solana storms off upstairs followed by Ace igniting in flames and storming off outside. I know why Sol is mad at me, she has every right to be. I'd like to pretend like I don't know why Ace is mad but I'm pretty sure he thinks I've been lying to him, and Ace hates liars.

Death has no secrets. It's his number one rule.

When he gets home I'll have to answer to him and explain not only how I know Solana, but why she hit me the moment she saw me.

"Wow, it took her ten seconds to hate you. I think that's a new low for you H." Dean taunts me from the kitchen where I can hear him opening the freezer hopefully for an ice pack.

"I have to reset the bones she broke, you ready?" Elias asks me.

"Just do it," I grimace through the pain that's starting to increase. "Why is she here, what happened at the club?"

Elias resets the bones properly before responding, "she's our new job. There, you should be just as ugly as you were before." Eli says, pleased with his work.

"Fuck off," I say but my words carry no weight as the pain is starting to blind me. "Ace told you guys not to take the job."

"The deal was already done when we got your text, and if you haven't noticed she's more than a handful. We've been a little busy." Dean chuckles. "Her daddies are Alphas of some pack and want their princess protected. Ow!"

Tate smacks Dean on the back of the head, "they're not just any Alphas, idiot. They're mated to the Queen of Twilight Grove, they're Kings. I'm shocked they let Eli live."

"Why? What did I do so wrong?" Eli asks defensively.

"You hit on the queen in front of her mate, you hit on their daughter in front of them both, and then you tried to stick your hands down her shorts." Tate ticks off each infraction on his fingers.

"Shut the fuck up, all of you." I'm using every spare ounce of control not to punch Eli in the teeth. Not just because he's a goddamn idiot, but because he had his hands on Sol.

"You have no idea what you've gotten us into," my words come out slowly and inflamed. I walk out to the back porch, leaving the rest of my pack mates in the house. I know we have a lot more to discuss, but it's too much for me right now. My head is throbbing, Ace is pissed, and the girl I gave up has just come barging back into my world.

***

Thirty minutes pass by in quiet solitude before the purr of Ace's bike disturbs the silence, followed by the sound of the front door being kicked open.

This far from the heart of the city the nights are deadly quiet, which enables me to listen in on the conversations inside the house.

"Where is she?" Ace asks the group inside.

"Upstairs somewhere, haven't seen or heard her since we first got here," Eli says.

"Try again. Where is she?"

"She snuck out the upstairs window and jumped down from the roof shortly after you left." Tate says casually.

"You didn't care to stop her?" Ace growls.

"I'm tracking her phone, she's back at Caligo." Tate says it like he's bored of the conversation.

Ace sighs heavily, "give her an hour. If she's not back on her own by then I'll get her myself."