Chapter 189
Chapter 189
Knightly
“You know you have to apologize, right?” Savage laughs.
“Yeah,” I nod.
“He’s very good at it,” Arnold says, handing me a glass.
“Aren’t you supposed to be in Florida?” I ask him.
“I missed my plane and we were just attacked.”
“Phoebe was just attacked,” I correct him.
“Words can be hurtful, Nathan. That’s your father,” Savage smirks.
“In that case, fuck you, Derek.” I take a sip of my drink.
“You overreacted to finding out about Joseph. That wasn’t on her, and she clearly hates him as much as you do,” Arnold says…
“I just found out that my mate was in love with the guy that almost got me kicked out of my pack when I was sixteen. I’m teaching my kids to hate his. I fucked his mate, I never dated her and I didn’t know she was his mate.”
“Valid,” Savage laughs and looks between us. “If someone had told me that I’d be hanging out and drinking with you two assholes one day, I would have punched them in the throat.”
I can’t help but feel bad for him. I’d be questioning my existence if someone told me that this piece of shit wasn’t my father. His parents put him through hell. Training for the Alpha King position is brutal. It also seems like a lot of the things that happened to him as a kid that triggered the Silverback in him, were done on purpose.
“How is the investigation going?” I ask him.
“There’s no investigation. After I finished cleaning up the council, everyone just said fuck it. He’s the King,” the three of us laugh.
I mean, what can they really do at this point? None of those kids belonged to the former King. His autopsy revealed that he wasn’t able to procreate. It’s starting to look like Nelson was not only promiscuous but was also used for this exact purpose. To give the Royal bloodline that extra push of power. The guy was a stud or maybe he had a plan all along.
“Why are you laughing?” Arnold asks.
“Nelson and Perry were the last of their bloodline. The man repopulated the entire bloodline in every wolf species. Pack, Rogue, Lycan, and whatever the fuck those guys in Nova are. He worked it like that was his one purpose in life.”
“He’s been dead for a long time. How did we all get here if he had died three years before I was born? Phoebe, so far, has been the eldest. Then Perry, then me. Melody is going to be six. I had his coffin dug up. There’s nothing in there,” he looks down at the drink. “I’m going to fucking kill him if he’s
alive.”
“If he is, he belongs to the first one of us who gets to him,” I huff.
“What do you mean so far? You think there’s more out there?” Arnold asks.
“Yes,” he reaches into his coat and pulls out a tablet. Arnold and I look at one another to make sure that this is what we saw the Alpha King do. It’s not small. It’s as big as the one Phoebe uses to draw. “Look, this is a list of his missions. Where he was stationed, for how long, who he took out, and how old
he was.
“The dates add up to our birthdays. Phoebe,” he taps the screen, and this location comes up. “He was after this guy. Fernando Cuevas. He was here for
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three months. This is Phoebe’s birthday. He had moved on to Arizona to hunt down Gerardo Montoya. Jerico, Diego Velasquez. Dallas; Esteban Cruze
“Why just Mexicans?” Arnold asks.
“These were all members of La Familia Roja. One of the most powerful cartels in Juarez. He was taking them out so that Mikael Savage could establish his own men.” I explain.
“How do you know that?” Savage asks.
“Montoya had two sons and a daughter before he was taken out. Allergra Jamerson. She’s my agent, and she’s got two mean brothers. She’s as spoiled as Ashley. Only she’s not one to partake in her family’s business.”
“Phoebe was born, and he was sent to Madrid. Where her highness was studying abroad, he was there for two years, gathering intel on the Prime Minister for the King. She was maybe four months pregnant when she moved here, and boom, tiny psycho was born. It kind of seems like she told him about Perry, and he took her just as Luna Lockwood hired him to look for Eloise.
“He used this to stash her, because there are hundreds of reports just before he was compromised. Several shadow operatives were watching him, and not one ever caught him with the baby. They were looking for her. They were all called back when he went on the run. My guess is that the King didn’t believe that he would take a child with him under these circumstances.”
“And he used Perry not only to get them off his back-” I scoff.
“But to bargain with them if there was ever the need to,” he concludes.
“That asshole was a genius,” Arnold laughs.
“This man was all over the world. He was forty–three when he was killed or he vanished. Not even in his prime yet. Can you imagine if he had made it and my grandfather had granted him the territory promised? Your ass wouldn’t exist,” he points at Arnold.
“We’d probably be friends,” he smiles.
Being around Phoebe has helped me look at my surroundings a whole lot better. I’ve learned to read the emotions on people’s faces, and this is one we’re both familiar with. Arnold’s, I know something you don’t smirk. I don’t say anything because my guess is that we both know that Reggie Nelson is still alive and so is the real heir to the throne. There’s also the little part where the two are mated.
“Have you checked to see if the former Queen Luna is your mother?” I ask him. He stops the glass halfway to his lips and then lowers it.
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