Hidden Desire (Hidden Series #2)

Seventeen

She took a deep breath and took a step outside of the SUV. She was on her second hunt. This area of Caldwell smelled so much like lesser. She wanted to gag. The smell made her begin to get angry. She knew to focus her energy on finding the bastards. She took a step forward and halted. Something felt off. She closed her eyes and covered her ears and relied on her smell. A pack of maybe four or five were heading their way at a fast rate of speed. She turned toward them and launched into a full run. She heard Butch and Vishous running behind her. She didn't slow until she was a few hundred yards from them. They were still running toward them. They split up and surrounded the pack.
"Ooo look what we found. The Omegas little pet. Have you finally decided to come join us?" One leered at her.
She curled her lip, "I think not."
"The Omega won't be happy about this." He said again.
"Fuck the Omega. He changed me. He damaged me." She roared before attacking.
She grabbed her daggers and began slicing at him. The lesser didn't have time to react. She stabbed him in the heart over and over for what seemed like forever before finally twisting the blade to kill him. She looked up and saw the brothers staring at her. She felt embarrassed as she cleaned their blood off her blades with her leathers. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"That was the only pack. I wonder what had them running..." She began before the smell of burning baby powder hit her nose. "They set a fire."
She began running in the direction the smell was coming from. She stopped dead when she saw what it was. Her aunts house. The house she basically grew up in. The smell of death filled her nose as she breathed. She fell to her knees in pain. Her aunt and uncle were now dead because of her. She growled and stood smelling lessers off on the woods behind the house. Likely watching the house burn. She took off toward the smell and came upon a camp. She stayed out of sight and hearing range. She watched as about ten of them were gathering wood building tents and setting up camp.
"What do we do now?"
"We wait. She's bound to show up here sooner or later. This after all was a close relatives house. It's too bad her mother didn't get to see this."
"You know her mom?"
"Of course. She was a known whore back then. She was willing to spy for us. We paid her good. But then she got pregnant and skipped out on our last transaction."
"What was that?"
"Her child or the location of the brothers mansion. She knew the location. We hoped that threatening her child would make her tell us but she skipped out. Went off our radar. Probably shackled up with the brother who impregnated her."
Sage couldn't believe her ears. How had she never known that her mother was a spy? That she had been bargained with? How could she not know the past of her mother? She wanted to know all these answers and her last hope died in the house fire. She stood staring.
"We need to wait for backup. Lets go back to the truck and wait. Its not safe here." Whispered Vishous from behind her.

" This is personal. They are out for her because of her mother. They claim she was a spy for them. She was a common whore so they said. I think we need to look more in depth into her mother." Vishius said.
"Now wait a minute. I don't believe one word. How do we know they didn't know we were there? How do we know that they didn't say that to get me riled up? Which they did." Sage said, "When I was kidnapped my mother had been talking a lot about Rhage. Always telling me what he looked like. Three days prior to my kidnapping she committed suicide. I just can't believe this was the reason. I can't see her being a spy."
"I know it's hard to believe but we must look into it. Did she ever keep journals? Something maybe before you came along?" Asked Beth.
"Yeah. She always kept them in her lock box. She never let me read them." Sage said.
"Where is the lock box now?" Vishous asked.
" She had it locked up in a bank near our house on Manhattan. I can take you there." She said calmly.
"Just give me the address." He said. "By the way where did they get kidnapped?"
"Just outside of Caldwell. I was coming here to look for Rhage. I figured she wanted me to know about him for a reason. I wanted to know why."
"Her name?"
"Janice Walterman."
"Wait... I knew her. She worked at the Caldwell Courier with me. I remember her. She drove all the way from Manhattan every day. Said she didn't like small towns." Beth said in a rush.
"Are you sure she committed suicide?" Wrath asked.

Cliffhanger!!!