CHAPTER 56


    DAMON


    We all turned our heads to look in the direction of the voice just in time to see the Falcon walk in


    with her six bodyguards behind.


    Something looks different about her. I exchanged looks with Mother while Cathy reached for my


    hands under the table. I was certain everyone could sense the aura around her.


    “He knows” There was temporary silence as she sat on the floor with her legs crossed underneath


    her.


    “Who? Know about what?” Mother asked, breaking the weird silence that had ensued.


    “The collector…”


    Catherine holds on to my hands and tightens.


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    “…He knows I am here and that I am a she” She looks around us with her opaque eyes. “And if I


    know the collector as much as I think I do, he’de seeking blood”


    “…why”


    “…what?”


    “…when?”


    It was like a sword sliced through the silence that had spellbound us as everyone began speaking


    all at once.


    “So what are we going to do?” Cathy’s calcted voice pierced through themotion


    “We?” the Falcon spat out, her anger so visible that for a moment there was a glint of light in her


    eyes


    “It''s an I problem now. He thought he killed everyone including the Falcon when he set my town and


    people aze.” the anger reced by pain “…he had just realized he failed and he doesn''t like to


    fail. So he would be back. For me.” she closed her eyes and gave a strange sound.


    “We could help too, you know” I wasn''t about taking my chances.


    What if hees for My mate again?


    For Cathy??


    The thought sent a wild rage within me, I would die before I let that happen.


    “We are going to help!” It was an order. The finality in my tone reverberates through the room.


    The Falcon opens her opaque eyes.


    Faye and Ryder nodded in agreement. Mel raises her brows, a grin ying on her lips. Like me,


    she was always excited about war -just war.


    We are truly our father’s children after all.


    “But how?” mother asked with worry.


    “I need to rest” Dismissing mother’s question, she stands and walks away with her bodyguard.


    “But really? How are we going to help?” Mellisa asked after the room’s atmosphere was back to


    normal.


    “We could nt….”


    I stood up blocking Ryder’s suggestions and the rest of them from my thoughts. I began pacing.


    Who mates someone without fighting their enemies?


    “Don''t be silly” my inner Wolfughed “The least you could do is be grateful that she wasn''t dead


    before you found her, Alphaaa” emphatically stressing thest word


    “Are you mocking me?” I snarled


    “Be it far from me” he apologized sarcastically and went to settle at the back of my head.


    “You okay?” her voiceced with concern cut through my train of thought.


    I look beside me to see Cathy standing close to me, a hand ced on my arm.


    “You okay?” she repeated, looking up into my eyes


    I slightly nodded as my heart fluttered.


    This woman here would be my undoing.


    “What was it Ryder was saying?” wrapping both hands around her waist and bringing her close to


    me. In all this chaos, I was happy I had a gift of sanity in person.


    “Huh?” a look of disbelief crossed her face “You haven''t been listening?”


    “I tried to”


    “You could have tried harder, but it''s fine. It isn''t what we can''t go through again for you”


    “I am sorry,” she apologized like an afterthought.


    “For ?” I blinked in confusion.


    “For everything” her voice low, barely above a whisper.


    “Why?”


    “If - if-” she cleared her throat and went mute.


    I ran my eyes through this truckload of gorgeousness that I have been mated with and wondered


    what she was on about. With Cathy, I have learned to thread gently and take it slowly.


    “Tell me, Cathy” I coarse softly


    She clears her throat and began


    “If I didn''te here, to your pack, all these wouldn''t be happening” She sounded so helpless


    Nonsense!


    My inner Wolf snarled.


    I took a few involuntary steps backward. My hand swiped off an unruly hair off my face.


    “I wouldn''t have found you.”


    “That not the point Damon” she objected


    Yeah! Right!


    “What is then?” I snapped impatiently. I would rather be ripping the collector''s heart with a stake


    than have this conversation.


    “That I came here and brought so much trouble” She sounded like she was fighting back tears.


    “What are you on about, Catherine” If she was having second thoughts about us being mates, about


    the legend, she should be ready to be locked up with me in my - our - room.


    “ You didn''te. Mellisa found you and brought you here…”


    Her brows creased in worry.


    “It was meant to be, Cathy”


    She blinked and a tear dropped.


    Wiping it off, I wrap my hand around her again.


    “I am grateful for you. For the gift of you”


    She bit her lips nervously, her face crimsonly flushed


    “Aren''t you too?” a finger under her jaw, slightly raising her head “Tell me…”


    She looks right back to her feet.


    Good one, Moon goddess. Good one.


    I was used to overbearing women but this, this… was so easy to love. I was certain the moon


    goddess that arranged Cathy in my stars had a good marriage when she was a werewolf before


    transiting.


    “This isn''t the right time to talk about this”


    “Why is that?” I asked amused


    “Cause of the collector?”


    She looks up at me, her eyes mildly scolding.


    “Sorry…” I stifled augh. That was intentional


    “Because of Willy?”


    She nodded.


    “Well; I think it''s the right time to tell me about what Ryder was talking about. In our bedroom”