Bitter Discord (Jacky Leon Book 8) by K.N. Banet

Author:K.N. Banet [Banet, K.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-14T18:30:00+00:00

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CHAPTER TWENTY

HEATH

Gripping the steering wheel, Heath’s knuckles were white. Every time he had to drive today, they had been tight enough to cause his hands to cramp. He kept his eyes on the road, stewing on the dozens of theories for today’s sudden turn of events. One night. He couldn’t keep his werewolves from causing problems for just one night. Now Jacky was paying for it, and so was he.

Beside him, he knew Landon was thinking of similar things. When Heath had shown his son what Jacky had sent, he had immediately jumped to the worst-case scenario. He’d looked Heath straight in the eye.

“Not all the wolves are going to come. At least one is going to be missing or ignore you reaching out. Just you wait. At least one of these fucking idiots did something, and they won’t want to see us. They’re going to run for their lives, probably back to Callahan, and beg for forgiveness.”

Landon had never held his packmates in the highest regard, not that Heath could blame him. Heath could find enough trust and devotion in the packs to keep from spiraling out like his son, but his experience with werewolves helped him understand why Landon believed what he did. Landon wasn’t broken by enemies. He’d become a twisted version of a werewolf because of what their own pack had done.

When Arlo turned up missing…

No one had expected it to be one of the boys, not even Landon. No one expected Jacky’s next piece of news to be the murder of a werecat.

“Teagan is probably smothering Benjamin right now,” Heath said, trying to start a conversation. They had been stewing long enough. He needed to clear his head by talking out the problems, and he needed Landon to talk about his own theories so they were on the same page. “The werecats won’t like Arlo when they learn about him. We need to think of ways to mitigate that. He’s skilled enough to have done this, and that’s a problem.”

“Arlo is a fine shot, thanks to Teagan, but he’s not steady enough at his age to kill a werecat in cold blood. That takes practice. It takes time and experience, especially the first time you kill someone. You know that, Pa. Arlo isn’t murderous. He’s shown no signs of having this in him. Teagan would have caught it. I would have caught it. You would have caught it years ago.” Landon’s sudden growl of frustration didn’t surprise Heath.

“Unless the boy is spelled. With how much magic the pack has been exposed to, there’s no telling who has been fucked in the head with a curse or two. With how well they controlled the information in Dallas, there’s no telling what Teagan, Arlo, and Benjamin could have been subjected to without remembering.”

“Exactly, and we need to lean on that. Not to make Arlo look guilty, but to set him in the light of a potential victim, a refugee from the previous pack in the city, who could be under the influence of something we don’t understand or didn’t catch.

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