Chapter 368: 1-1

Chapter 44.1 – Gabriel POV Different scenarios were running through my head, reasons that Ethan would even go as far as to call Logan. I hoped that it wasn’t a trap, I would hope it wasn’t… but… I knew that without me there, Ethan and Andrew would have to take over, one the pack, the other train as Don. Now we had Nonno while Dante was back home, I’m sure whatever was happening couldn’t have been healthy. “Tell me everything.” He waved his hand, “he called, was in a panic… I’m supposed to meet with them,” Logan informed me. I was on the fence with this entire situation happening, the wrong decision could so easily blow up in our faces. On the one hand for Logan to get that call just as we were given Robert Delaney seemed to easy, making me want to help Ethan. However they could be just bluffing, making it ease, reversing the game onto us. “You think it’s the Elders trying to reach out us indirectly?” Lips pursed, I nod. “Why not contact Jay? He left… Ethan knows he can trust Jay, but he’s calling you?” Logan remained silent, I wasn’t insulting him but just stating the fact that Logan shouldn’t have been his first choice in calling. Jay was. We already had Logan doing so much, he didn’t need anymore on his plate in my opinion, but again he was his own Alpha. But you’re the Alpha, Max pointed out. “I’m taking Jay and Wolf with me to the meeting spot I chose,” Logan said when I went quiet. I nodded, “Did you check this girl out?” “Yeah, of course.” “What’d you get?” “Well her file is a bit fishy, she has no birth certificate on file, she’s intelligent. Was in the system and applied for a scholarship at a few different boarding schools so she could get out of the group home she was living in. Your brothers school as well as another school did give her entrance but only your brother’s school offered her a full scholarship,” I sat back listening. “He hasn’t told her…” he stopped when my body stiffened, ‘you think George was going to actually let you two go off to Florida?’ I remember asking them months ago. “How long?” “What Universities did she apply too?” I demanded to know. “She applied to two universities in Florida, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown and Yale-” “She committed to UF,” I said matter-of-factly, Logan’s eyes widened as he nodded, “how?” I shook my head, he’s known for months that she was his mate, his plans were always about her, knowing how my father felt about humans, them being below us, less than us. “She’s reported as bi-racial-” I snorted, all of Ethan’s secretive just making more and more sense as Logan spoke, “How if she has no birth certificate?” “She’s – well I had to do a lot of digging but when she was thirteen she was taken into the system, living with some man that pretended to be her father, but turns out he saw her and took her from one of those safe haven drops-” “What?” He nodded sadly, his mind on Rainy. “Yeah, she was almost three years old when he took her, according to him he saw a white woman drop the girl off and left her there. Majorie – that’s her name – she told social services that she remembers her mother being black, but nothing else.” “Then how did she even get with the white woman?” He shrugged his shoulders, “She didn’t say…” his words implying that she remembered but just wasn’t saying anything about it. “What else did you get on her?” “Well the only contact your brother has with her is she tutors him in physics’, she babysits for pocket money, her bank account has just over five grand, she filed for emancipation the minute she turned sixteen…” I rubbed my hand over my face “She’s alone?” Logan nodded, “From her schedule I’m not seeing when she has time for anything else. She lives in the boarding house on campus, she works as Saturdays and Sundays as a sitter, the family is home so she basically plays with the kids. She tutors on Mondays, Tuesday and Wednesdays for three hours; she’s on the debate team and… yeah-” “Damn,” the curse muttered under his breath, “You’re father has two of his guys following her-” “Where is Ethan?” “I was supposed to meet him in two hours-” I shook my head, if my father had two men on this girl; she wasn’t going to make it the night. I was on the fence, I jumped to my feet thinking this all over quickly, and I knew Logan did his homework, researching her in a way better than any federal or private agency, “Pick her up, and take Ethan as well… Oh – oh – he has a tracking chip,” Logan’s head dipped, I just rolled my eyes. And then I found myself alone; Ethan was much sneaker than I had ever given him credit for. He had to have known for months that she was his mate but he never said anything.