Perseous's Human Mate

You Look Good in Leather

Tristan's POV:

Walking into the condo, it was no surprise to find it destroyed. It's going on sixty hours now. The weight of her absence was beginning to cripple him. I found him on his knees, a piece of her clothing hung on his hand and brought to his nose.

He looked so broken and lost. I've seen such dispar only once, the last war where Percy ordered me to kill the Gold Moon Alpha. He had watched his mate die and then killed his own best friend in blind revenge. Percy had not reached the same level of no will to live - not yet.

"Her clothes have lost her scent. I've torn apart most of Petersburg searching for her. The black blood won't tell me what he knows. Parker is our last chance to find our Luna," Percy says, a quiet pain edging his voice.

"What will you make him do?" The words are there but they feel hollow in my gut.

He rose to his feet, his back still facing me. "I won't make him do anything. He will comply because she is his little sister."

"I know that but what do you need him to do to get the Luna back?" This time I speak with words that are full and hard, no hollowness found.

He still doesn't face me when he responds. "I've trained him and so have the Kytani. I will sneak him in and then he will find out what he knows."

"He's not ready," I argued, a heat of worried nausea growing in the pit of my stomach.

"Neither was Max when she came into this world. She's done just fine as a human Luna. Parker will be just a good a spy, he has to be and he knows that," Percy argued back.

"Viorel is hundreds of years old, it's not like he's going to have Max's location written on a piece of paper sitting on his desk!" I don't know why I raised my voice, wether it be the fact Percy was weak or because Parker was involved.

"I saw the look on his face when he was talking about his brother, Prince Silviu. We were asking him about the disappearances and his brother came to his mind. Wether he meant to connect them or not some part of him thinks his brother is involved."

"But why? That makes no sense Alpha-"

"The Charm speak that survived the bar explosion. Amani has been torturing him for information, why he was so close to us during the war. He said there was a deal going on, something between a royal and Charm speak. I suspected it was Viorel, now I'm beginning to think I was putting my money on the wrong Aries member," Percy explained with great frustration.

"I just can't pin down what a Charm speak would want from a royal and vice verse," Percy said quietly laying the piece of clothing on the couch edge.

"Let me go with Parker. I will look for anything on Prince Silviu while Parker looks for anything on Max," I said quickly.

Percy hesitated, taking the time to turn around until he was finally facing me. His unbrushed hair and black stubble only made the bags under his eyes darker, he looked sick. Being away from your mate and stretching the bond so far will do that to you, I should know better than anyone.

"Does this have anything to do with the fact Parker is your mate?"

I said nothing at first, before saying in the quietest voice," he doesn't know, I haven't told him." I couldn't look Percy in the eye. I wasn't ashamed I was mated to a man, just nervous at the fact it was his mate's brother.

"Parker is - a nice kid. Not the brightest and certainly not the choice I would have chosen to help be co-Beta... but he is kind and he is brave. After all this is over, I'll give you a weeks leave, you and Parker can go where ever you want. All expenses on me, you've earned someone who can make you happy."