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In the packhouse I was standing by a window with Jacob, keeping watch, but we were also talking and laughing. We were old friends and we always got along really long. But the triplets were giving Jacob filthy looks and Izzy definitely hated me even more now because of the relationship that I had with not only the triplets but with her own brother. And no matter how many times Izzy tried to pull Jacob away from me, he resisted and told her to knock it off. He’s heard all about what she’s been doing here and he’s ashamed to call her his sister.
I had to look out the window to hide the smile on my face that I couldn’t help that spread across my face.
Jacob was asking me a lot of questions about what it’s been like here. I hadn’t been here long but I knew that he was asking about Evelyn and Henry.
My phone interrupted us and I looked at the name on the screen before I looked at everyone else in the room.
“Hey Logan.” I answered.
“Hi. Listen, I knew that we were meant to meet up tonight but I’m gonna have to reschedule.” He said.
“Okay. Is everything alright?” I asked.
“Yeah. Everything’s fine. Something has just come up. I have to figure it out.” He said.
“Alright. I hope it’s not too serious.” I said.
“It’s not. We’ll catch up again tomorrow night.” He said.
“Okay. No worries. I’ll see you then.” I said.
“Alright. Bye.” He said. And I hung up the phone.
I know that everyone heard the conversation because of their werewolf hearing.
“What do you think?” Jacob asked.
“He’s up to something.” I said.
“Do you know where he’s staying?” Ava asked.
“Of course I do. I’ll be back later.” I said, walking across the room.
“What are you doing?” Jacob asked.
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“Making sure that he’s not plotting against us.” I said.
“I’m coming with you.” Jacob said.
“You’re too protective Jacob. You know that I can take care of myself.” I said.
“I’m coming too.” Tyler said, walking towards me.
I let out a sigh and just shook my head as I turned towards the door.
We drove a part of the way but then I told Tyler to pull over and we had to walk the rest of the way.
We were in the middle of the forest, and we were a long way from town.
I followed Logan home one night because I needed to know where he was staying.
We snuck through the forest and when we got close enough, we climbed trees that were far enough away that he couldn’t sense us near, but close enough so we could hear him.
He was staying in an abandoned cabin and almost immediately we could hear that Logan wasn’t alone in the cabin.
“Why the hell can’t you just tell me what you’re doing here? Is it Skylar? Is that why you’re here? I should have known that you liked her more than me.” Evelyn said.
The guys looked at me and my eyes were practically bugging out of my head hearing my mother’s voice.
“Evelyn. I didn’t invite you here to talk about my intentions towards Skylar.” Logan said. “Then why? You said that you needed to talk to me about her.” Evelyn said.
“Do you even care about her? She’s your daughter. Do you care about her?” Logan asked.
“Of course I do. I guess. I don’t know.” Evelyn said.
“She’s in danger.” Logan said.
“Well, if she’s in danger then she probably brought it on herself.”
“I’m not saying that this is any sort of normal danger that you would expect. She’s getting involved with triplets. They have people wanting them dead and if Skylar is near them, they are going to kill her as well.” Logan insisted.
“Well, like I said, it’s all her own doing.” Evelyn said.
“Get out.” Logan said.
“What?” Evelyn asked, shocked.
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“I don’t know why I even bothered trying to talk to you about this. You’ve never cared about her. Get the hell out. I’ll take care of her myself. Like I did when we were dating. Just leave.” Logan yelled and practically pushed Evelyn out of the house.
I could hear her muttering until she got to her car on the other side of the house and she sped away down the dirt road.
“What the f**k?” Jacob asked.
“I don’t know. He obviously thinks that it’s a bad idea for me to be here.” I said.
“We need to know why he’s here.” Tyler said.
“It’s still daylight. He’s got something planned for tonight. That’s why he rescheduled. So, get comfortable boys. We’re going to be here a while.” I said, leaning back against the tree while sitting on the thick branch that I knew would be able to hold my weight.
I leaned back against the tree and closed my eyes, relaxing because I knew that we weren’t going to find out anything until after dark.
As soon as the sun went down Logan left the house and we waited until we got far enough away in his car before we jumped out of the tree and ran all the way back to our car and Tyler got in the driver’s seat, I was in the passenger seat and Jacob was in the back.
We drove along the highway, staying back far enough so Logan couldn’t tell who we were, but
he was driving further away from town.
“I don’t like this. We’re getting too far away from everyone else.” Jacob said.
“Relax. He’s not going to hurt me.” I said.
“He will if he thinks you’re a threat to him. He’s a vampire.” Jacob said.
“He doesn’t kill humans. He eats animals.” I said.
Logan finally pulled off the road and went down a different dirt road and we pulled over on the highway and we got out of the car and started walking down the dirt road.
I noticed that Tyler made sure that he was right by my side the whole time and he was keeping his eye on Jacob.
I could see that they were constantly glaring at each other, but I was trying to ignore it.
We came to a picnic area in an opening nearing a lake and Logan was sitting at the picnic table with another man that looked really familiar to me as well.
“Owen.” I said.
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“You know him?” Tyler asked.
“That’s the vampire that trained me.” I said.
So we got as close as possible so we could hear but not so they could see or hear us.
“Have you seen her?” Owen asked.
“She looks good. Her mother and stepfather are still assholes.” Logan said.
“Yeah. We expected that. What about the triplets?” Owen asked.
“They’re safe. But their school was leveled today because of some sort of attack. I’m still
trying to get the details. I talked to her on the phone after it happened and she seemed alright.
Logan explained.
“Do you know where she was when you called her?” Owen asked.
“I didn’t ask. I can’t let her know why I’m here.” Logan said.
“Well, maybe you should. We’re not here to hurt her.” Owen said. So I stepped forward into the
clearing.
“Then why the f**k are you here?” I demanded and they both turned around really quickly to
look at me.
Both looked really stunned and I was glaring at the two of them for lying to me.