Alice Worth and the Elite Death Machine: An Alice Worth Series Novella (The Alice Worth Series Novellas Book 5) by Lisa Edmonds

Author:Lisa Edmonds [Edmonds, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Storybook House, LLC
Published: 2024-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

Sean did his damnedest to ensure nothing and no one followed us once we got close to Landers.

The GPS coordinates we received from Lucas Stone eventually led us to a two-story home built partly into a hill so the lower level had no access from the back. The house was surrounded by woods, offering plenty of cover for anyone doing counter-surveillance. From the roof, however, watchers—especially ones with sharp nighttime shifter eyesight—could keep a lookout for movement in all directions. My first guess upon seeing the house was that it had at least one safe room built into the ground and that was where Noah would be.

Once Sean parked in the garage and we made it into the house, I had no trouble figuring out which of the half-dozen men in the home’s living room was Lucas Stone; like Sean, his status as alpha made him the first person I noticed when we walked in. The room and everything in it seemed to lean toward Lucas. I’d been so intimately involved with Sean for so long that I tended not to notice that he had the same effect on his surroundings.

When Sean and I came in with Ben and Jesse in our wake, the room’s energy changed noticeably, from a single gravitational pull to something more like twin orbiting stars. Two alphas of near-equal dominance couldn’t share a small space for very long, even if they were good friends. Everyone’s anger and restlessness made the atmosphere even more tense. I rubbed my arms to ease the painful prickling of shifter magic and barely suppressed rage.

Lucas Stone was as tall as Sean but all lean muscle, as rural shifters tended to be because they ran in wolf form more frequently and for longer distances. I figured the tall blonde woman at his side holding a newborn infant was his wife and mate Mariah. To my surprise and dismay, next to them stood a boy of about eight who looked like a shorter version of his father. So much for keeping Noah in a safe room. I tried not to let my reaction show on my face.

“Lucas. Mariah.” Sean stopped a good ten or twelve feet from the Stone family. Under other circumstances, he probably would have shaken their hands, but everything about the body language of the Blue Valley werewolves said keep your distance. His attention went to the Stones’ son. “How are you, Noah?”

“I’m okay. Thank you, Mr. Maclin.” Noah did sound surprisingly calm. He scanned our faces. He didn’t look surprised to see me, so his father must have told him Sean’s consort was a human mage. But then again, that was common knowledge among packs in the area thanks to the drama it caused with members of the Were Ruling Council who believed alphas should only have shifter mates.

“Thanks for coming, Sean.” Lucas put his arm around Mariah’s waist. “I’m sorry we rarely get to see each other in good times.”

“It’s our privilege to stand with you.” Sean gestured to me, Ben, and Jesse for the benefit of the others in the room.

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