He left the station to return home. He’d put the money from the rental away for her in case she ever turned up and needed it. He could likely find her if he wanted, but he needed to get her out of his head and looking for her wasn’t going to make that happen. Why he thought he’d ever even hear from her again, he wasn’t sure, but there was some part of him that believed he might.
He was met at home by the sight of a police car parked on the curb in front of his house. He wondered who he was going to have to beat the unholy shite out of, James or the rental manager. Hitting the remote to open the garage door, he pulled inside and turned the car off, walking back out the open door instead of closing it and going into the house. Two uniformed cops got out of the car and approached him.
“Olcan,” one of them said.
Olcan recognized him as a friendly, but he was unfamiliar with the other one. He smiled and nodded as he continued to walk toward them.
“Officer Nelson. What can I do for you?”
“Your neighbors reported a break-in,” Nelson replied.
“Did they? Shouldn’t you be at their house getting a report then?”
“They reported someone trying to break into your house, not theirs.”
Olcan looked from him to the house, noting the front door was ajar. Who was stupid enough to try to break into his house?
“Have you been in?” he asked.
“No. We just came out of their place and were trying to contact you before we went in. They said you’d left earlier and hadn’t come back. They seem to keep surprisingly good tabs on you,” the other officer laughed. His badge said his name was Hannigan.
Olcan fished his phone out of his pocket and looked at it. There were several missed calls from the same unknown number, so he assumed that was them. There was also a message notice flashing, so he clicked on it and read it.
“Fuck!” he suddenly shouted.
“I’m sorry?” Hannigan responded.
“Listen, check out the house if you want; lock the door when you leave. I’ve got to go,” he barked at them, already turning and running to his car.
“Hey, you can’t just leave,” Nelson called out to him, but he ignored him, jumping into his car and screeching out of the driveway, back toward the office.
He left the Charger parked in the half-round outside the front door and ran inside, punching the elevator button and dropping to the lower floor. He called several members of the clan to meet him there on the way, handing one of the computer techs his phone.
“Find where this message came from, Carter. I need a GPS, and I need it ten minutes ago.”
“I can’t track an SMS message,” Carter replied.
“Find a fucking way to find the person who sent me that message, Carter. Now!”
“All right, I’ll see what I can do.”
Carter disappeared with the phone, leaving him with his brothers and a half dozen members of their clan. Olcan stood at the end of the table as they all sat down and looked at him expectantly.
“Listen, I know this is a big ask, and I also know that I could order you to help me as your Alpha, but I’m not going to do that. I’m giving you all a chance to say no, considering the problem. I got a text from Niamh. Sorley Maguire has had her taken to some animal care facility somewhere outside of New York, and if I don’t get there to help her before Sorley does, I don’t know what he will do to her.”
“This is the chick that tried to seduce you for information on your brother?” one of them observed.
“Yes, and I know that none of you have any sympathy for that or should have, but you need to understand the choices she faced. She did what she had to do in order to escape the punishment he intended to lay out on her, and when she realized that wasn’t the road she wanted to travel, she told me everything to protect our family, knowing it might be the end of her.”
“She should have run,” Niall said, entering the room.
“She tried. He found her before she could get away.”
“And you think we should help this girl? A woman who was almost the end of us?”
Olcan drew in his breath, knowing that every second he was here talking to them, every second it took Carter to find him a location, was another second closer to Sorley getting to her. He might not be able to forgive her for what she’d done, but he damned sure couldn’t live with himself if he let a man like that take out his grievances on someone innocent of wrongdoing.
“I know that many of us come from different clans, unfamiliar cultures, different rules. I don’t know who among you had Omegas in their mix and who did not, but if you did, you know how they are treated in many clans. It’s a fate no woman deserves. I am going after her and I am asking you, some of my strongest men, to go with me and help me. It’s up to you whether you choose to do so.”