Claiming My Wolf
Chapter 33

~~Logan’s PoV~~

Micah comes into my office with Sadie just behind him and I greet them both and get right down to business. “I know my dad’s got his own team looking into this, but the more ideas we have, the better. The three of us are pretty smart and obviously, Sadie, you’ll know your own past better than anyone. Let’s figure out why someone wants you dead.”

They both agree and we dive in. I’ve made a list of questions for Sadie about what her life was like before she came to Westbridge, but as she answers them, nothing stands out to me. We already knew that she didn’t know about werewolves. She’s certain she’s never been to any other packs besides ours. Her parents never mentioned any kind of enemies or dangerous people they knew.

There’s something else I want to ask her and I don’t know if it will upset her. The last thing I want to do is make her feel worse, but I think it’s an important question. It’s been bugging me for a little while now, so finally I just spit it out.

“Do you think there’s any chance that your parents’ accident wasn’t an accident at all?”

As I expected, she looks shocked at the suggestion. “What do you mean? It was snowing and the road was icy. That’s what the police said.”

I nod as supportively as I can. “I know. But was there anything at all that seemed strange about it to you? Even just a little thing?”

She pauses to think while Micah and I wait patiently. “Well, my dad was always a really careful driver,” she says slowly. “If there was any kind of bad weather, he’d usually pull over and wait it out. So it is a bit weird that he would have kept going if the roads were really that bad.”

“Good.” That was exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. “Anything else?”

“I heard one of the policemen say that the tires on the car were worn, but they shouldn’t have been,” she adds, getting a little more worked up. “He just had them replaced a few weeks before. I know because I went with him to get it done.”

I can see her getting more agitated as she thinks about it, and when she looks back at me, there’s dismay on her face.

“Do you think someone messed with their car on purpose?”

I recognize the pain in her voice and my chest feels tight. I wish I could make her feel better, but I know there’s nothing I can say. If it’s true, she’s going to have to learn to live with it. “I don’t know for sure, but it’s possible. Where were your parents going when the accident happened?”

~~Logan’s PoV~~

Micah comes into my office with Sadie just behind him and I greet them both and get right down to business. “I know my dad’s got his own team looking into this, but the more ideas we have, the better. The three of us are pretty smart and obviously, Sadie, you’ll know your own past better than anyone. Let’s figure out why someone wants you dead.”

“To visit some friends. I was supposed to go too, but I had a school assignment that I needed to finish, so I convinced them to let me stay home.”

That uneasy feeling in the back of my brain gets stronger. “So you should have been in the car too?”

She nods, and I see the guilt in her face, the same guilt I’ve lived with for the last year.

The guilt of surviving.

It’s just about the worst feeling I can think of.

But what she’s just said makes me even more convinced that I’m right. These attempts to kill her didn’t just start when she got to Westbridge. I think someone wanted to kill her in that car, that she was a target even then. Were they trying to kill her parents too, or were they just in the wrong place at the wrong time? That was one of the things I didn’t know yet.

“Micah, we should get a copy of the police report and anything we can replace about the car itself.”

He’s already making notes. “Got it.”

Even if I am right, it still doesn’t answer the big questions though. Who’s behind this, and why Sadie?

Micah jumps in now to talk about just that. “These rogues keep saying they’ve been hired by someone to kill Sadie, right?”

I nod.

“So why don’t we send someone undercover? Have them pose as a rogue who just got kicked out of the pack and is looking for work? I bet whoever it is would jump at the chance to hire someone who really knows the pack territory, and then our guy could try to replace out who it is.”

That’s a really smart idea. I don’t have the authority to plan anything like that though, so we need to take it to someone who does. “I think you should suggest it to my dad.”

I get up and knock on the door that connects my office to my dad’s. He calls out for me to come in and I open it to replace him with his own team of advisors, reviewing not only last night’s attack but the mate issue as well.

I bring Sadie and Micah in and Micah repeats the suggestion he made to me. I can see my dad is impressed too, like I knew he would be, but Micah’s dad quickly jumps in to shoot down the idea.

“It would be too suspicious, Alpha.” His tone is completely dismissive. “They’d immediately suspect that it was a setup and it would endanger not only the wolf who took on such a foolish mission, but it could further endanger Ms Jennings too if they realize that we’re onto them. It could make them more desperate. We need to actually be smart about this, not jump on the first thing that comes into our heads.”

Micah’s fists clench at his sides though he tries to keep his face neutral, and I don’t blame him for being upset. I still think it’s a clever idea and not foolish at all. And even if it wasn’t, there are kinder ways of disagreeing with it.

“We’ll consider it,” my dad says to Micah, giving him a more supportive look than his own father does. “I appreciate that you’re putting some thought into this.”

That’s obviously a dismissal, so the three of us return back to my office and Sadie gives Micah a rather sympathetic look. “Is your dad always that much of a jerk?”

Micah and I look at each other in surprise before we both laugh. A lot of people might think that about the Beta, but not everyone would say it out loud, especially to his son.

But Sadie’s not like everyone else. I already know that.

Micah nods at her as his laughter trails off. “Yeah, pretty much. That’s just how he is.”

“Well, I thought it was a good idea,” she says, and I can see Micah stand a little taller at that.

“Me too,” I agree. “A really good idea.”

The more I think about it, the more I like it, actually. The quickest way of figuring all of this out will be going straight to the source. But because the idea came from Micah, I know Beta Aldric will fight it every step of the way, and we can’t afford to waste any more time. They’ve already tried to kill Sadie twice in the last week. Who knows what they might try next?

“And if the Alpha council isn’t going to take it seriously, maybe we should look into it on our own,” I suggest.

Both of them look at me curiously. “What do you mean?” Sadie asks.

“I mean that we’ve already got someone who could do the job,” I reply. “Someone who everyone already knows doesn’t get along with his dad. Someone who might consider leaving the pack and trying to make it on his own?”

Micah’s eyes widen with both surprise and excitement. “Me? You think I could do it?”

“If you want to,” I clarify. “I think it’s worth a shot. What do you say, Micah? Feel like going rogue?”