Dorthena drove out of town to the out skirts, drove down a couple of back roads and when she came to the place she had checked out earlier in the day she pulled into a drive way to a vacant house. “Come Michael your going to love this.” Dorthena gave Michael her most charming smile. Dorthena never did answer his question to tell him about herself. Besides what would she say I am here to kill you slug meat!
Michael stepped out of the vehicle he could see a roof just behind some tree’s. When he turned to Dorthena she was gone. Michael thought she must have started to the house with out him. So Michael walked towards the house when he turned the corner he saw and old dilapidated house that was nearly to the ground. Chills ran up and down his body, he knew instantly he was set up and his death was staring him in the face. He tried to calm down the adrenaline rushing through his body as he kept looking from shadow to shadow. “Please don’t kill me! I never did anything to you!” Michael said in a shrill voice.
Dorthena smiled as she smelled his fear, “you killed an innocent man Michael. What did Cue do to you but win a few dollars in a card game?”
Michael began to perspire, “I didn’t mean to kill him I just lost my temper” Michael started to back towards the vehicle, stopped when he heard from a distance the doors locking.
Then he was hit from behind and down he went.
A black panther dug its nails into his neck and back. Michael screamed, he pissed his pants, and then he felt teeth biting down on the back of his neck. His hands clawed at the dirt beneath him trying to grab something he could defend himself with. Large paws flipped Michael over; sharp teeth grabbed him by the throat and hung on. Michael tried to struggle the panther bit down harder. Michael grabbed a handful of fur and hung on. The Black Panther dug its nail deeper into his chest, clawing down ward. When Michael lay dead the Black Panther took its sharp claws and clawed up his body and face to sharpen its nails. The panther started shaking its head from the smell of urine, grabbed Michael’s body and dragged it off the roadway to a small stream. Dragged his body into the water and left it there to be washed cleaned by the rushing water of the stream. Thena walked up stream two yards and began to clean the blood from her fur. She quickly dressed.
Dorthena came out of the trees got into her vehicle and drove away. Put her wig, her false teeth cover she had in her mouth, unsnapped the bottom of her skirt and the length dropped by six inches, unsnapped the top of the dress and the sleeves came off, the front came away and the back dropped down to her waist at the back. She smiled as she drove off to her favorite club and met up with her friends. When she got out of the car she took her items tossed them into a bag and popped them into the trunk of the car. Dorthena walked into the club.
Two of her friends came rushing up to her, Doris we are so thrilled you made it to my party. Dorthena smiled. “I told you I was coming, and here I am!” Doris laughed. After a fun filled night of out with the girls, Dorthena was tired out. She had her alibi for the night and she was all set to go home.
The next day Dorthena turned in the rental car totally cleaned. Two days later Dorthena was at home relaxing next to her pool drinking a nice cold ice tea. She had a nice tan on her body and felt great. The money was in the bank and Michael had been found the day before and it hit all the papers. The police contacted Melrodger asked him where he was at the time of the death, he had been at a meeting with hundreds of witnesses. The R.C.M.P. decided the cause of death was an unknown large cat attack. What the R.C.M.P. could not figure out was why Michael was out at an old abandon house. Michael was buried and that was the end of the story or so Dorthena thought at the time.
Alberta, Canada
Once they reached Alberta, Seeker checked out a small quiet town call Little River. He spoke to the realtors in the town to see if they had land that would be available to purchase. Seeker found a large parcel of land for sale. He paid out the money and purchased the property. There was an old run down house on the property and the three men moved in. Seeker got a job welding, Telme worked at a lumber yard, and Coal picked up a job working at repairing vehicles. They used their money to fix up the large abandoned house, the men decided to fix the roof first especially because when it had rained it was if they were being placed in a shower every night. The windows were next on their list of repairs and within a year the house looked pretty darn good for three men rebuilding the house and turning it into a home, even though it was missing the touch of a woman’s hand. Seeker smiled, the house was finished. They had added more rooms to the house on the right and Seeker made up a small bedroom with bathroom, small office. The house had a new coat of white paint, the bathrooms were redone over and two added. The kitchen had been remodelled. The den was left as it was bare to the bone with just fresh light green paint on the walls. Oak hardwood floors were placed through out the house they were beautiful, the stair case and steps going up stairs were of the finest oak he could purchase. The basement was small and used for storage of supplies. Seeker was darn proud of the effort he and his betas accomplished with the house. An offer had been made on some land that Seeker had heard came up for sale that bordered on his land and expected to buy the land within the next few weeks. Things worked out as he the planned he thought they would then be the proud owner of not just twelve sections but an additional ten sections of land.
Seeker contacted the Lycan registry and advertised a new alpha house opening and all contact information that would be required. He turned to Telme, “Lets celebrate tonight.” With some wolf whistles and laughter, the three went inside went to their rooms and cleaned up and headed into the local bar.
Sammie’s Bar was, a place where the men hung out took their dates out for an evening and fun and drinks. It was just that a bar with a few tables, no entertainment except for a juke box that still took quarters and had songs in it from the sixty’s and seventy’s. A TV was over the bar at one end used for the weather, and sports games. The town was small but sported two banks, three liquor stores, two drug stores, small clothing store, post office and one hotel, one motel, grocery store combination hardware store, three restaurants, two fast food places, hospital, doctor’s, cabins to rent from by one of the local women. The people on the most part minded there own business, stuck to their little clicks or groups of people. For Seeker and his companions it was perfect place to be. Seeker and Telme decided it was a nice out of the way place where no one asked questions and no answers were given.
Telme was dating a different girl each week. Seeker had been down that road and now didn’t feel it was worth another trip at the moment. Sure it was fun, but sometimes hard feelings were also caused, he didn’t feel up to that kind of pressure on him at the moment. He knew he had changed since Cue’s death. He wanted more out of life then just fast dates, and quick relationships. His father had told him that he would change and at the time he had laughed; now he realized just how right his father was.
Seeker was sitting at the bar when his cell phone rang. He walked off by himself to a table nearby where he could not be heard talking on the phone by anyone. Seeker took the phone from his pocket and answered, “Hello you have reached Seeker!”
The woman on the other end of the line spoke softly, “Listen and listen carefully, I can’t give you my name at the moment, but you should know Melrodger is out to have you killed. He contacted me to do the job, but after investigating you, and to find you innocent of Melrodger’s declarations of responsibilities of Cue’s death. Let’s just say I turned the job down!”
Seeker grimaced, “Who the hell is this?”
The woman spoke again, “watch your back I will contact you again soon and keep you informed as to what is transpiring.” The phone in his hand went silent.
Seeker walked back to the bar pulled Telme away from his newest date and when Telme didn’t want to leave Seeker growled. Telme got up off of this stool and they both walked out the front door of the bar and Seeker looked around to see if anyone was near and then be began to speak to Telme “Listen Tel
me, I got a call from a woman saying my life is in jeopardy, and to watch my back. I have this feeling that this is no joke, and I should be careful. Knowing who wants the hit on me makes it easier on me, because I know what kind of man Melrodger is. I would put nothing pass the son of a bitch. I believe the caller. Seeker proceeded to explain about Cue and what happened.
Telme spoke, “That is unbelievable, Cue refused to leave the table when you told him to, then he is accountable for what had happened to him the blame shouldn’t be placed on anyone else but himself, so why the hell is his father pissed at you?”
“Melrodger feels I should have enforced Cue to leave, if the man was treacherous, then we both could have faced him and then maybe Cue would not be dead now. Cue was Melrodger’s only son and heir to the estate, it is set up in such a way that only the sons can inherit the estate, females are forbidden to inherit anything. Melrodger has two daughters and another son who killed himself by accident or so they say. That in itself is a long story, so to make it short his oldest son was not acceptable and Melrodger turned his back on him so the young man killed himself, the suicide was covered up by Melrodger. That left Cue with being the only son to inherit the estate. I am not sure Cue was all there at times, he was one hell of a nice guy, but he did some freaky shit at times. ”
“Damn Seeker that is the worst. Melrodger must have been a selfish son of a bitch of a hard man to have done that to his own son!”
“Yes it was, and now he wants me dead he feels it was my fault for his son’s death. And the man who killed Cue is now dead, that means Melrodger hired someone to do the job, more then likely it was the woman who called me! Why she is taking an opportunity on losing her own life to save mine has me confused.”
Telme laughed, “Maybe she has the hot’s for you, or maybe she just likes you, or more then likely she thinks you’re not to blame. Whatever the case is, feel lucky, she called you, and warned your ass!”
The next morning Seeker’s home phone rang. Seeker picked up the receiver and smiled, “Hello!”
Women on the other end whispered, “You’re going to receive a call in a while it will be a couple who are going to want to move into your pack, refuse them or they will kill you quicker.” All of a sudden there was no one at the other end of the phone.
It was just under not even the half hour, when the phone rang again. “Hello may I speak to Seeker Pelrine?”
Seeker felt uneasy for the first time in his life, “speaking, what can I do for you?”
“We would like to join you’re alpha house, our names are Betty and Dylan Cullen and if your available we would like to come to your home and have an interview. We think it is so nice of you to open your home to people and help them get started.” Seeker suddenly realized these people were not werewolves, but ordinary people looking for a free place or free hand outs.
Seeker frowned, “I am sorry but I cannot do an interview any time soon I am leaving the area on a trip that came up unexpectedly. You can wait until I return in three weeks or you can have the interview done by my beta Telme, Mr. Cullen.”
“The timing is off for you I am sorry to hear that, we will wait until your return in three weeks! Where are you off to May I ask?”
Seeker gave the wall a nasty look “no you may not ask it is of a personal nature. Call back in three weeks. Thank you again for calling.”
When Seeker hung up the phone it rang again. Seeker picked the receiver up and spoke softly, “hello!”
The woman on the other end of the phone spoke, “I would like to come and stay at your alpha house for a visit short term make a room ready for me. I will be there in an hour.” The woman hung up the phone.
“What the hell is going on? Seeker did not feel comfortable about anyone coming to his home uninvited. Maybe this woman is here to kill him and he should be more careful of her then of someone else! The other thing that bothered him was she was a take charge kind of female, the kind alpha males were attracted too.
An hour came and went, twenty minutes more, a SUV drove up the drive way. Seeker watched from the window of the living room. The woman stepped out and down from the SUV as she watched her entire surroundings by shifting her head in different directions. She had a long braid that traveled down her back to her slender hour glass waist of blonde hair that shimmered and glistened in the sunlight. She had a stunning shape, and a smile that would melt the coldest of hearts. Her eyes were medium blue, and her cute nose had freckles on it. She opened the back of the SUV took out a suit case and a medium size brown box. She stepped up to the door and was about to knock when the door surprisingly opened. The woman rushed into tossed her suitcase and box in side. Then swiftly stepped into Seekers arms planted a kiss on his lips then hugged him. As she hugged him she whispered, “Call me Thena and you are expecting me, is my room ready?”
Seeker smiled while the knot in his stomach slowly dissipated Seeker pulled her in close and hugged her, then kissed her again and again and pulled her inside the door and closed it. Her suit case and brown box sat at her feet. Seeker pushed her out of his arms by her petite waste and stood there looking at her. Her eyes were as dark blue as the midnight sky with a quarter moon, appearing almost black, yet out side they had been a medium blue, he new with one scent, one look, he was looking at a multi shape-shifter. Seeker smiled, “You’re late as usual sweet cakes?”
Thena smiled warmly, “only because I had to lose someone tailing me for one and for two I set up some electronic devices on your long drive way as I drove in. In truth I was on time you just did not realize it!”
Seeker stepped forward with a big smile on his face, pulled her into his arms to kiss her again and found that she had turned the tables on him. Seeker was suddenly facing the wall with his arm twisted behind him. Thena leaning up against him and rubbing her chest into his back, then she whispered, “don’t touch unless invited.” She released Seekers arm, stepped one foot back and waited for a violent reaction that never came. Instead Seeker turned around with a big smile on his face.
When seeker smiled he looked Thena straight in the eye, he said, “Bang your dead!”
Thena looked puzzled at Seeker, “what do you mean bang your dead?”
Seeker smiled, “Turn around sweet thing!”
Thena turned around and was starring at a man on the stair case smiling with a hand gun in his hand pointing it directly at her!
Thena gracefully turned looked at Seeker, smiled warmly, good thing he didn’t speak he would be dead not me!
Seeker was shocked when he noticed a small silver hand gun inside her light jacket with her hand ready to pull the trigger. Thena turned smiled at Telme, “hi Telme how are you doing?”
Telme was shocked, “how do you know my name?”
I investigated this pack before I came, before I accepted a previous job. Now put the gun away or I will pull the trigger, the chances of you hitting me will be slim at best where I am a professional; I never miss.” Thena said with a big smile on her face and a winked at Telme. Telme never had a woman treat him this way and now he was in love for the first time in his life. She was an independent strong woman even if she was delicate in appearance.
Telme gradually dropped the gun down to his side, smiled and walked up to Thena. “Go out with me to night?”
Thena smiled, “I’ll make us all dinner and we stay in for the night I am expecting company soon.”
“Then what is for dinner?” Telme said with a big smile on his face as he leaned in to kiss Thena as she stepped back. Telme frown disappointed at Thena, and then smiled.
“Where is the kitchen Telme and you will have to wait and see what I decide to prepare for dinner?”
An hour later the table was set, A tossed salad set in the center of the table, Grilled salmon with a hollandaise sauce set to the right of the salad, shrimp cocktails were sitting on the saucers that were placed on their plates, baked potatoes and dark string beans for a vegetable. Hot coffee was poured into the cups. Seeker took his coffee
black one sugar; Telme took his coffee with cream, and one sugar. Coal took his coffee black two sugars. Thena had done her home work, and had done it well. After dinner was over Thena cleaned up the table did the dishes. Walked into the den turned on the TV picked up a horror flick placed it in the CD player, the movie was Jaws three. Thena just sat down in a chair that was much more comfortable then it looked. An alarm went off on her wrist. She shut the TV off, turned out the lights, rushed to Seekers office where he was sitting doing paper work, “shut down the lights now! “
Seeker did as he was told. Thena moved from window to window checking out side. She saw nothing. She opened a window slightly telling Seeker to close it behind her and lock it. Thena shifted down into a black panther and moved away from the house. She made a circle around the house found nothing. She moved out and away from the house into a larger circle. She crept silently trying not to make a sound.
Then she heard a male’s voice. “If we intend to kill Seeker we are going to have to wait until his girl friend leaves or he is alone some place. It is far too risky to kill him if someone is around as witnesses against me or us.”
The females spoke, “I agree, however things are not as they seem. I am not so sure about the female being Seekers girl friend. She seems like someone I should know some how. What do you want to do if she doesn’t leave?
The man chuckled, “Then we kill her too, what Melrodger doesn’t know won’t hurt him. She will just be some unidentified female found with Seeker is all? Let’s get the hell out of here before someone finds us here casing the place!”
As the couple moved away and down the driveway Thena followed them just inside the woods moving silently making sure she did not disturb anything in her path. Once the couple was back into there vehicle and drove away Thena ran back to the house.
Thena took her cell phone out of her pocket just before she reached the house made a call to her friend, “Ned, if anything happens to me make sure Melrodger gets the blame for my death. Don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to. Great work on the detectors you built for me they work like a charm, and were not even noticed by two intruders. And Ned, do me a favor tell Ry; oh never mind.”
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