Cass nodded her head slowly as she said softly, “It is not the most pleasant experience that is why Stan was hoping against hope that you were not Jay’s mate. Stan almost lost me during my change for I had doubts about whether I could be a good Alpha Female for his pack that if it had not been for his mother, I would have died and Stan would have been heartbroken. Emily, you must have no doubts when you accept Jay’s mark and you must love him unconditionally, or it will never work.”
“Does Jay know about this?” Emily asked quietly as her mind worked.
“Yes, his father told him about it the day you and Sasha went out to get your dresses,” Cass said. Then she said, “He does not want to frighten you for he and I know that you are not sure about being Alpha Female.” Cass went to go say something else but she stopped when she saw the smile that graced Emily’s face and the brown eyes that lighted up as if somebody had lit a hundred candles behind her eyes.
“No, the idea of Alpha Female never really scared me although it is a lot of responsibility,” Emily explained softly. “It was the idea that as a human I would put Jay and the pack at risk for although I can fight, darn well if I say so, and of my abilities, I will still be going up against werewolves. As a human, my chances were slim for helping Jay, but after what you told me, my chances are looking up.”
Cass had to know so she asked, “And if Jay is not chosen as Alpha?”
Emily laughed as she said, “That would suit me fine too. It seems to me like he would rather be farther down the role of command not because he cannot do it, but because he feels more comfortable being behind the scenes well getting what needs to be done out of the way.” She knew this for a fact because after the first night in his room, instead of letting Emily get what she needed or pack her own things, he had took her out to a restaurant and a movie. By the time they had returned her things were packed and sitting in her room waiting for it to be taken to his, which they did themselves as she glared at him the whole time.
Cass smiled in relief as she watched Emily for she knew that she understood Jay as well as his family did.
“Thank you, ma’am,” Emily said as Cass stood up to go back inside the house. Cass stopped and leaned over in gave her a quick hug before responding, “No thank you Emily.”
That evening, Jay and Emily cuddled in his bed talking about minor things like their favorite colors and such as their minds wonder to what they knew they were going to do. Emily was going to let Jay mark her and hope that her love for him and her faith in herself would pull her through, and Jay made plans to ask for her permission to mark her on her birthday in three days for he did not want to wait much longer to proclaim her his for the world to see.
He laid next to her as she curled against him with her head on his chest, her hand settled on his abs, and her leg crossed over his. He had an arm curled around her waist and the other was stroking her cheek and tangling in her hair.
“I love you, Emily Ann Jackson,” he said giving her a light kiss before closing his eyes not knowing that the next night everything would be different.
Chapter 12
Emily looked around and smiled for the party was in full swing. Sasha and Emily came down about ten minutes ago, and they were looking for their mates.
“Do you see him?” Sasha murmured her red-hair curled and hanging down her back. She had put minimal make-up on both of them and the violet-blue she used for herself made her eyes look bigger than they were. Emily chuckled as she looked around the room spotting Mark over in the corner with a big chest girl snuggling up to him.
“Over there, and he looks like he could use some help,” Emily said as she saw Mark’s eyes narrowed as he said something to the girl who only laughed and leaned closer.
Sasha growled as she headed over to them and Emily watched as Mark’s eyes grew wide, and his jaw dropped as he saw her. The woman looked at her for a moment and tried to say something to Mark, but Emily chuckled as she noticed he was not paying any attention to her. Mark pulled Sasha into his arms and kissed her so passionately that the woman walked away in a huff. Emily laughed lightly as she turned her gaze away to search for her own mate. Mate, she liked the thought of that, for Jay was everything she could ask for and more. She saw him standing near the doors that opened to the garden and she started forward to go to him but faltered as she saw Victoria walk up to him and put her hand on his arm. She smiled at him with a tilt of her head and Jay looked down at her before turning his gaze back to his friends. A slow smile graced Emily’s lips for in that moment, she knew that he was over Victoria, how she was not sure, but she did, and she resumed her walk towards him. She had taken two more steps before she froze. Then the vision began.
She saw the man walk towards her his eyes black and the evil grin on his face made her shiver.
“Michaela would like to see you,” he said quietly, and she knew. They had Michaela.
“Where is she?” Emily asked in a shaky voice.
“If you come quietly then she will not die, but if you do not…” he let the sentence hang, but she understood his meaning. She was scared, but what could she do? Michaela meant the world to Jay, Mark, and their parents, and she could not let anything happen to her.
Jay, she screamed silently as she walked beside the terrifying man, and then she saw her, Sasha.
She snapped out of the vision, and she looked up to see him walking towards her. She kept her face blank as she watched him.
“Hello,” she said politely.
“Michaela would like to see you,” he said just like in her vision.
“Where is she?” she asked playing it out like her vision.
“If you come quietly then she will not die, but if you do not…” letting the sentence hang, and Emily dreaded what he could have done to that little girl.
She nodded to him and he fall in step beside her as they started walking in the opposition direction from her mate. Then she saw Sasha, and suddenly, she knew what she would do.
“Emily,” Sasha cried. “Isn’t this fun? Mark went to go get me something to drink. Who is this guy?”
The man tensed next to her, but Emily said quickly, “I ordered something for Jay and he delivered it for me.” She was lying, and Sasha knew that for Emily had already told her what she was giving Jay as a present.
“Okay, well, it is good thing it arrived on time then,” Sasha said going with the lie. Emily smiled slightly.
“We need to get going so I can give it to you for I have to get back to work,” the man said with a sneer.
“Of course, I am sorry,” Emily, said. Then she reached and grabbed Sasha’s hand with her own, “I better do this before I forget again. I wanted to congratulate you on finding your mate and you never told me waiting until now. We are supposed to be sisters?” Emily finished the sentence with a pout and the man rolled his eyes at her not realizing what she was doing.
Sasha never moved a muscle and gasped as she said, “I am sorry I though you knew, but then again you are oblivious to things so I should have known that you would not have figured it out.” Emily clasped her hand tightly her fingers making fast movements in Sasha’s palm before releasing it, and she frowned, “That’s not nice, Sasha.”
Sasha shrugged her shoulders, and started looking as if she was bored with the conversation.
“I need to get going,” the man said harshly. Emily turned to him in surprise as if she forgot he was there, “Oh, of course, I am sorry. I will see you later, Sasha.” Sasha made a noise and waved her hand at her as they walked away but she watched them from the corner of her eye.
Do not worry, sis, we will come for you…both of you.
As soon as they walked out of the room, she headed towards Mark who was coming to her with drinks.
“We need to go into the library now,” she whispered to him forgetting to use their mate link, and to others it may have been them wanting to go
there to make out, but Mark read the worry in her eyes. He nodded his head as he placed the drinks down on the table, and grabbed her hand heading for the library.
Mom, Dad, there is trouble, meeting in library now Sasha sent as they walked through the people.
Jay, Mom, Dad something is wrong. We are meeting in the library Mark sent as he opened the door to the library.
There was a couple there and Mark growled at them as they walked in, and they left in a hurry.
A few minutes later, Sasha’s dad and mom came in followed by Mark’s mom and dad. Jay was not there yet, and Mark growled Where the hell are you, Jay?
Trying to get this bitch off me Jay growled back.
Jay was worried for he did not understand why Mark had ordered them into the library. He looked around the room but he did not see Emily so she must already be in the library.
“I heard that you are going to be Alpha, Jay,” Victoria purred in his ear before she kissed him on his neck. Jay scowled as he pushed her away from him. He cleared his face though when she looked at him in shock.
He wanted to see how far she would go before he let her know that he had passed the Alpha position to Mark. His mother had told him what Emily said about it if he stepped down from the position, and looking at Victoria, he knew that she would have a different response. He wondered now why he had been so obsessed with her. Yes, she was beautiful, but it was a cold beauty for her eyes were dark with greed instead of bright with laughter as his Emily’s gorgeous eyes.
“Victoria, my father requested my appearance at a meeting,” he said and she immediately stepped back.
“Of course, dear, it would not due to upset your father at this time. I will wait here for you and we can continue where we left off,” she said with lick of her lips. He nodded his head sharply, but turned and walked away heading to the library, and he saw Arnold enter the room. He did not know how Victoria was going to explain to Arnold about his scent be all over her, and then again, he probably did, but he was not worried about it right now.
He walked into the library, “What is wrong?”
Then looking around, he paled, “Where is Emily?”
Sasha started explaining, “Some man I never saw before came into the room when we separated to find you guys. She was leaving with him when I stopped her. She made up some story about him delivering a present for Jay which I knew was I lie because she already had Jay’s present. Then she started congratulating me on finding my mate and not telling her. I already knew something was wrong with the delivery thing, but she used this as a chance to grab my hand.”
Stacy and Jacob nodded their heads, as the others looked at them in confusion. Jay was more confused then anyone because if she left with another man, then she did not want him, but for some reason it did not feel like that at all.
“Okay, I am confused,” he said running a hand through his hair.
Stacy explained, “When Sasha and Emily were small, they made up this sign language between themselves since Emily not being werewolf could not hear what we said via the mind link.”
Sasha continued, “It made us feel special for we were the only ones who knew it, but we have not used it in years. When Emily used it tonight, I knew something was wrong. The man she was with told her that they had Michaela and although she did not tell me this I am thinking he threatened to harm her if Emily did not go with him.”
“What!” Jay, Mark and his father growled as Cass immediately sent a mind link to have someone check on Michaela.
She got the answer a few seconds later. She collapsed onto the carpet and looked up with stricken eyes, “She is not in her room.”
Stan was furious and sent a mind link to his servants that the party was over, and to make sure their guests knew that something came up and the party was over.
“How the hell did they get her out?” Mark asked his voice was harsh.
Every one frowned at this question then Sasha gasped, “When Emily and I were coming down to the party, we saw that new young maid go into Michaela’s room. I would not have thought about it except Emily made the comment that Michaela should have been asleep. She was worried, but we saw the maid exit a few seconds later so we both assumed that she was just checking on her.”
Stan growled as he sent another message.
Jay was standing still for he knew if he moved, he would destroy something. Emily was gone, his niece was gone, and they all had a good idea who took them.
Sasha walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder lifting her self up onto her tiptoes, she whispered so softly that he was the only one to hear her, “Emily would want me to tell you this as she had planned on telling you herself tonight after the party. I think she would like you to know that she loves you and she would let you mark her no matter what happened.”
She settled back down onto the balls of her feet as Jay looked at her with wide eyes. She nodded her head and he clenched his jaw tight. Sasha walked over to Mark and into his arms.
What did you tell him, he asked through their mate link.
What Emily and I talked about last night before coming to bed she said, and Mark looked over at his brother to see the turmoil in his eyes.
He knew what Emily wanted him to know but he had to ask any way, you wanted him to know that she loved him.
Yes, and that she would let him mark her no matter what happened Sasha confirmed. Mark sighed and pulled her closer to him as the library doors opened and the young maid walked inside.
“Yes, Alpha,” she said, and they all could see the look of contempt on her face before she cleared it.
“You went to my granddaughter’s room tonight,” Stan asked, and every one held their breath for he had said ‘granddaughter’.
“Yes, Alpha, I did to check on her,” she replied not realizing what she had done until he growled loudly.
Before she could move, Jay had caught her by her throat.
“Where…Are…They?” he growled and the young maid looked at him in fear for his eyes were almost black as he stared at her calmly.
“I do not know,” she stuttered. “I was just told to leave the window open in the room that is all.” Cass looked at her and then said without a second thought, “She is lying.”
Stan did not question her word, “We will take her down to the interrogation room, and then we will get the truth.” Her eyes widened in disbelief.
“You will not use that on me,” she whispered, “He promised that you do not use it.”
“When it comes down to my granddaughter, and my son’s mate, all bets are off,” Stan said coldly, and the young maid shivered for she knew that her Alpha had lied.
“It is about a two day drive from here,” she whispered the fear making her shake, “It is in the middle of a clearing but you cannot win. He has over three hundred wolves on his side including seers.”
“The seers, as you call them, do not perform on command,” Stacy said harshly, “It is a gift that they have no real control over so it does him no good. Besides, the child’s gift is not fully matured so she will not be useful to him right now.” Her eyes widened as she stammered, “But he said that…”
“Yeah, he said a lot things like you probably would not die tonight,” Stan said.
She grew brave at these words as she straightened up with a smirk, “Of course.”
“Interesting,” Cass said standing back up as Jay let her go and stepped back so that he did not kill her.
“The house was emptied over ten minutes ago, so your friends should know that something is wrong, and yet there is no one here. Should we wait a little longer?” Cass asked looking around the room.
They all looked around at each other and then shook their heads.
“Damien,” Stan called and an older man came into the room. Damien had been with the family for years since the boys were babies and he remembered Cathari
na for she had been his goddaughter. Stan did not have to say a word and Damien understood. He grabbed the woman by her arm and yanked her out of the room. They could hear her screaming all the way down to the basement where Damien would keep her until he decided to let her go, or killed her depending if they got back Michaela and Emily.
“We need to ready our self to attack,” Stan said. Mark and Jay nodded their heads as each left the room. Mark going to the office to get the maps while Jay headed to the room adjacent to the kitchen to get the weapons that they normally did not use, but they knew that this pack was deadly. They used any force to kill their enemies, and they were going to be prepared to go up against Hell itself.
Stan tilted his head back as his sons left the room and let out his howl, the howl that let all fighter wolves know to report to the pack house immediately.
Jay and Mark came back into the room, and they all could hear the paws as the others run to the house.
The wolves came through shifted back into their human form and Stan explained what happened. He saw the looks on their faces as he said, “If you rather not join this fight in regards to your family, we will understand.” Jay and Mark nodded their heads to show their support for their father in this, but the wolves could see the look in Jay’s eyes, in fact in all there eyes. Not one wolf left the room and Stan nodded his head, “Let us get down to business.” His voice was cold as he began to explain the plan to attack one of the fiercest and cruelest packs in the world.
The last thing he said was “We leave tomorrow at sunrise.”
Chapter 13
Emily and Michaela stood in the middle of the room as the man stood with his back towards the fireplace. It had been three days since they were taken, and they had arrived late last night. He smiled charmingly but his eyes were cold and Emily shivered at his look.
“What do you want with us?” Emily said trying to keep the shiver out of her voice; her vision was coming true.
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