Inner Predator: Unleashed

Chapter 33

Chapter 33

 

"Like hell!" I shout at the room full of men. Except for one of them, they're all looking at me like I'm an over emotional, unstable little girl with no ability to be rational.

"Aurora," Orrin says carefully. "With the meeting this afternoon, we need to wait it out. We cannot risk you breaking into a facility, it won't look good."

"I don't two shits what it looks like."

"Ok," Beckett breaks in. "Maybe let's take a breather." He gives a get-your-woman-under-control look to Chase that has me ready to crawl across the table and rip off his head. Chase wisely ignores the look. There is no chance of him successfully getting me under control and he knows it. I will not back down about it.

"This is your third meeting with the president, what makes you think he's going to finally sign some arbitrary agreement?"

"If he wants us to stop killing his people, he'll sign it."

"You said that two days ago too, Arlo. He didn't sign it then either."

"I think Beckett's right," Jackson adds. "We should take a break. I could use some lunch."

They all murmur in agreement and trickle out the door leaving plenty of space between them and me. I've bitten off their heads enough times in the last week that they have reason to give me space. The last seven days have been the longest of my life and if people thought I wasn't pleasant when Chase couldn't remember me, they were in for a rude awakening when they found out my son is alive and I had to leave him behind for the sake of the fucking mission.

"Chase," I say when we're in an empty room. "They're going to push what we got forward and agreement signed or no, they are not going to admit to trying to create an army of infant Supernaturals. And the second they can they're going to begin destroying any evidence it was there to begin with."

"You may be wrong."

"There is a greater chance that I'm right and you know it. Stop listening to them because they don't know and they don't care. They have no reason to care and right now they're only going to tell us what they think we need to hear to do what they want."

"Love, your father cares. Arlo cares. You have to know that."

"Chase, I don't know that there's anything we can possibly do to save the babies in the pods. With a survival rate of one in a hundred, I'm not sure it'd be possible even if we found a way. But, there are eight babies who don't need that life support. It wouldn't be simply unplugging them or turning off a machine, they would put them down like animals. Chase we can get them out. We have to."

"I know. Rory, this isn't a two person job."

"I know that. We'll have help. I just need you to be with me on this. You promised."

"And I don't intend to break the promise. This week has been hard for me too, don't think that it hasn't."

Chase has kept it together this week. Been exactly what I needed, the way he always is. Putting me and my needs first. But of course leaving Linc behind was as difficult for him as it was for me. The fact that I've been more vocal about it doesn't mean he's felt any less.

"I know that. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply—"

"It's ok."

"Aurora," my fathers voice sounds as he enters the room.

I twist in my seat to look at him. He takes my attention as an invitation to conversation and closes the distance between us, sitting down next to me.