“This the place?”
Adam nodded.
“Are you sure?” She peered closer at it. “It’s nice,” she said, as if nice was another way of saying boring. “Don’t get me wrong. But the Alpha is supposed to be the most powerful shifter of the pack. I know the Eastern Pack is loaded, too. I guess I just thought he’d live somewhere… different. I— isn’t this a mixed neighborhood?”
“Yeah. New Alpha wasn’t always Alpha, Tab. You have to remember that. He only took over at the beginning of the new year and… let’s just say that he’s a stubborn wolf. He didn’t want to move to the heart of pack territory since this was the home he made with his mate. As for it being mixed?” Adam shrugged. “He calls humans Ants, but he doesn’t mind them. Don’t know what to tell you about that.”
“But you know him, right?”
“We have history,” he said evasively.
“I’ve been thinking about it… you were a cop, right? Did your time as a Cage guard.”
He didn’t like talking about the year they pushed him into the prison instead of patrolling Grayson. He could’ve put off the requirement, but he needed to get it over with if he ever wanted a promotion within his department. It worked; only a few months after he left the Cage, he was Corporal Wright.
Of course, then he felt like he had to quit, so that was a waste of time now, wasn’t it?
He couldn’t understand why she was bringing that up now. “I did.”
“Is that how you know him?” she asked. “The Alpha? Even among us slayers, there was a rumor not to fuck with the Eastern Pack’s new Alpha, that he actually pulled off an escape from a Cage.”
He should’ve known better. It didn’t matter that he waited until he was parked outside of Wolfe’s house to tell her about their contentious relationship. She’d already figured a big part of it out on her own.
Just not the biggest part.
“The legend of Maddox Wolfe,” he said, the scoff coming out all on its own.
“So, it’s true?”
Adam didn’t like the way Tabby turned in her seat, looking at him with a mixture of curiosity and awe.
“He was in there,” he heard himself snap. “They let him out. No escape involved.”
“Huh. I guess hist
ory is an understatement.”
She didn’t know the half of it.
“They’re expecting us. Did you want to go in and talk with them or should we just turn around and head back to Grayson?”
“I don’t know. Are you sure he’ll actually see us?”
Adam jerked his keys out of the ignition, palming them so he didn’t misplace them. “He won’t have a choice.”
“And you’re so sure of this because…”
“His mate will make him.”
“Evangeline,” Tabby said knowingly. “She’s human.”
His fingers were curled around the door handle. He paused before popping it open, glancing back at Tabby. “You know about her?”
“That’s about it. The Society is good at gathering intel, but we have a lot more on the new Alpha than we do about his mate. The whole pack is very careful to keep her shielded. We figure it’s because she’s human and not a shifter.”
Oh. “It’s something like that,” he admitted. He popped the door, climbing out of the car.
Tabby didn’t wait for Adam to come around to her side. She opened her own door, shutting the door gently as he met her near the curb. She had a distracted look on her pretty face and Adam realized that she was still stuck on what he said.