Contingency~TW/TO~ Lahey

Chapter 10: Threesome

"What if he's lying?" Isaac insists as we walk through the halls of the school. "What if this can actually kill you?"

After my chat with Deucalion, I went back to my apartment and awaited the next day. I knew as soon as I saw Isaac I was going to tell him everything. I couldn't call him with ears all around, and I wasn't going to send my experience through text. That would take forever to type. But Isaac is my closest confidant, so, when I was given the chance to tell him everything, I took it. There is no reason to hide anything from him anymore after our heart-to-heart and I don't want to keep something like this from him. Bringing everything out into the open has lifted a weight from my shoulders and made us closer. I don't want to lose that.

"I don't trust him either," I sigh. "But he speaks the truth. He believed I could be persuaded into his absurd pack. He has been studying us all. Manipulating us. He even knows exactly what is going on around here. It's no coincidence he comes out of hiding when bodies start to make an appearance around this town."

"What are you saying?" Isaac asks. "That he's the Darch?"

I unlock my locker, twisting the correct combinations and unlatching it, "No, I'm saying he knows something. We have all been pawns in this game of his and we need to figure out our roles."

"Okay," Isaac agrees. "But how?"

"I'm not entirely sure yet," I reply slamming my locker after placing my books inside.  "But I know he wants me in his pack and because of that I think it is best if you-"

"I know, I know," he interrupts as he bobs his head with each word and adds an eye roll. "Stay with Scott."

"No," I correct. "I was going to say, never leave my sight. I can't risk anything happening to you."

Deucalion had mentioned that Isaac could have easily been Kali's target and that thought has been floating around in my mind since. I trust Isaac will be safer with me than with anyone else in case any of the Alpha's try to use him as a liability. I'm still not enthusiastic about him being in the same building as them, but as long as he is with me we should be okay.

Besides, if he were to get a hold of Isaac, I still wouldn't partake in his pack. I would hunt each one of them down and kill them myself.

"At least until we figure out his endgame," I continue. Turning around, I catch sight of Scott walking in our direction, "But we're going to need him to do it."

"Have you seen Allison?" Scott asks frantically once he approaches us.

"She was still at her apartment when I left," I answer with a questioning look. "Why?"

"Uh," he prolongs. "Do you think you could go check on her?"

"Scott," I smile. "This relationship you two have going on is pathetic. It's the twenty-first century, send her a text or check on her yourself."

It is ridiculous how these two avoid each other. The amount of tension that flows through a room when they both are together is suffocating. I will not play messenger for his benefit.

Scott's puppy dog eyes travel upward to my boyfriend, "Please?"

"I, uh" Isaac drawls out. His mouth opens and closes like a fish out of water as he looks back and forth between the two of us.

"Unbelievable," I mutter under my breath and release a huff of air along with an eye roll. "Fine, but I need to discuss something with you first."

He tucks his thumbs under the loops of his backpack at his shoulders and shrugs with a smile, "Anything."