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We drive through the city, but when Valen doesn’t turn onto his territory, I glance over at him. I’m wondering where we were going when he stops at the police station on the city’s main drag.
“You’re doing this now?” I ask as he unclips his seatbelt.
“Yes, Officer Richards’s mind–linked and said his son and Amber are still here. I told him to hold them until I got here,” Valen says before getting out of the car. I rush to unclip my seatbelt and jump out, and he starts walking up the steps. My heart races in my chest at the thought of what he would do.
“You said you wouldn’t hurt him,” I gush, racing after him and gripping his arm. He keeps walking into the building, and some officers opened the door for him as they came out. They tip their hats to him and continued to their patrol cars. I shake my head and look at Valen.
“I said I won’t, though I damn well want to. But Amber is part of your father’s pack, and Micah is joining it. So if you want her to keep her mouth shut, I need to speak to them and Officer Richards,” Valen explains, and I sigh a breath of relief.
Valen doesn’t bother speaking to anyone, he just navigates his way around like he owns the place. He probably did; I wouldn’t put anything out of his price range. When we came
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to a locked–off area, Valen taps on the Perspex window, and the officer, who looks half asleep, jolts upright in his seat, nearly falling out of it. He quickly reaches over and hits a button. Valen opens the door and holds it open for me. He then grabs my hand, leading me down the long corridor before we arrive at some holding cells.
Officer Richards leans against one, and he stands up straighter as Valen enters, baring his neck to Valen. I see Amber sitting in a chair behind the hold desk. She glares at me, her eyes narrowed. Valen growls back at her, and she drops her head quickly.
“Alpha, I have spoken to him, and he has reassured me it won‘ t happen again,” Officer Richards says while shooting a glare at Amber.
“No, it won’t. I want them both kept here until after the Alpha meeting,” Valen says before turning to Amber. “In cells.”
Officer Richards nods to two men, and Amber jumps up shrieking at his words. The noise hurts my ears as they grab her. They drag her kicking and screaming toward the cell Micah is in while she chucks a full–blown tantrum worse than a toddler. Valen growls and steps toward them before gripping her face.
“You can’t command me. You are not my Alpha,” she sneers, and I could see his rage as his entire body trembles and the back of his shirt rips as he tries not to shift. Her eyes widen with fear and I swallow, actually feeling bad for her despite
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“Be glad I’m not because if I was, I would have stripped you of your title. But your mate is one of my men, and if you don’t get your ass in that cell, the only place you will see him is in the forsaken territory,” Valen snarls at her. She gasps, and her eyes flick to Micah in horror.
He shoves her face away, and the officers let her go. Officer Richards opens the cell, and she turns her nose up and walks in as if she wasn’t just humiliated or embarrassing herself while acting like a fool.
Valen turns toward the cell where Micah sits looking fearful. He was bruised and bloody, but mostly healed from the beating he received from Marcus. Micah cowers when Valen turns his icy glare on him. Valen’s shirt was torn, and his skin ripples as he tries to contain himself.
“Consider yourself lucky, Micah, that your Luna is forgiving. You and I both know I am not. The only reason you are still breathing is because of her, so do you have anything to say?” Valen asks him.
Micah turns his head toward me, stutters out an apology, and thanks me for sparing him. I just stare in disbelief.
“Now, either of you speaks one word of Everly being my mate to anyone. You and your entire families will be considered a traitor and made forsaken, am I clear?”
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“Take their phones and print off the custody forms.”
“Custody forms?” Amber asks, standing up. Micah growls at her.
“Yes, Micah will sign all parental rights to Zoe for Casey and drop the custody battle. I expect all relevant documentation to be filled out, signed, and filed when I return after the Alpha meeting.”
“After the Alpha meeting, I am meant to be attending?” she
says.
“Tell your father you have food poisoning. I don’t care, but neither of you will leave this cell until after. If I hear one whisper around this city that Everly is my mate, both of you will no longer live in this City,” Valen says, before turning to me. Officer Richards clears his throat, and Valen looked at
him.
“Um, Alpha, if Micah signs all rights away, does that mean my wife and I can’t see her either? It would break my wife’s heart, Alpha.”
“I never said he couldn’t see her, but I want it all legal, so he can’t take her from Zoe. If Zoe allows it, I don’t see an issue with any of you remaining part of Casey’s life, and that goes for Micah. If those papers aren’t signed and sent off, and a
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copy waiting when I return, I will send your son rogue, and he will leave my city, that’s if I don’t decide to kill him,” Valen
warns.
“The relevant documents will be here when you return, Alpha. Thank you,” Officer Richards says before glaring at his son and Amber.
The other officers bared their necks, and Valen nods before tugging me out of the room and back down the corridor.
“Would you really make them forsaken?” I ask once back in the
car.
“Yes, and yes, I would have killed him if you didn’t make me promise not to,” Valen answers. He tugs off his torn shirt and tossed it in the back, before pulling away from the curb.
“Are we going to get Valarian now?”
Valen nods, but by the stern steel gaze he had out the window, and the burning rage I felt through the bond, I knew he was fighting with himself not to go back and tear Micah apart. Just as we are about to turn up the street toward Valen‘ s place, my phone rings. Macey’s name pops up on the screen, and I quickly answer it.
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