Book 13 - Page 63 (2/2)

“You were a much bigger, bada.s.s wolf,” Elizabeth said.

“You were just a pretty red dog,” Bjornolf said, smiling.

“You’d better smile about the dog reference,” Elizabeth said. “I didn’t know you were Peter’s brother.”

“I didn’t know you knew Peter.”

“I didn’t. I only just met him a few days ago.”

Bjornolf bowed his head a little to Tom. “Will you be on our team?”

Before Tom could say anything, Elizabeth said, “Yes. For old time’s sake.”

“Jake, Tom, Elizabeth, join me. I need to talk with you,” Darien said. “Sam, you want to fix Bjornolf and Anna some lunch? Make them welcome?”

“I’m on it. If… you’re discussing the teams,” Sam ran his hand through his hair. “Silva wants to go with us. With me. On… the same team. The… two of us.”

Darien smiled. “You got it.”

He waited for his brothers and Elizabeth to enter his office, then shut his door. “Lelandi wanted to sit this one out because she won’t be on the hunt tomorrow and is off to see to the kids. So, tell us what’s going on, Elizabeth. We’ve heard bits and pieces, but we need to know everything.” He took a seat in a chair in front of the coffee table where two love seats were situated.

Tom sat next to Elizabeth on one of the love seats as Jake sat on the other. Tom pressed his leg against her, unable to keep from showing his possessiveness, despite both brothers being mated wolves. It was just instinctual. He would have held her hand, but she was using her hands to explain her situation, family, what had happened to her up until now. So he just sat close, watching his brothers’ expressions, reading them as they listened to all that she had told him already.

Until she came to one minor point. North Redding.

Tom turned to look at her. She blushed.

“All right, so for once in my life, a red wolf was interested in me. But he couldn’t stand up to my uncle. He didn’t protect me from my brother or my uncle.”

Tom took Elizabeth’s hand and squeezed gently.

Elizabeth continued, “But he said he would give me evidence of my uncle and half brother’s involvement in my parents’ murders in exchange for me giving him my parents’ horse farm. I was willing to do it, since I didn’t ever want to go back there. All I want is to see my uncle brought to justice. Anyway, I called North the morning I left and there was no answer. I’m worried that Quinton might have learned North’s plan and gone after him. Or worst-case scenario, they deliberately let him find the evidence and are using him to lure me to them.”

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