Chapter 27


    Nathan POV


    He woke up in a bed, his mother sitting on a chair next to it, she looked very tired, just like his father


    had on Saturday morning after everything that had happened at the restaurant.


    Looked like she had not gotten any sleep at all “What time is it?” he muttered, recalling his father had


    dosed him up with wolfs-bane.


    She just stared at him for a minute and he thought he hadn’t actually asked his question out loud, then


    she seemed to straighten up in her chair.” Son, I need you to remain calm.”


    “Why? What did you do while I was poisoned? by my own father!” he grated.


    “It was necessary, you were as blinded by your own rage, just like Havoc gets.”


    “What do you expect? We are one and the same, and my Mate was threatened by my brother, when


    she was already in severe distress.” He sat up on the bed and looked around himself, still in their


    serviced apartment, he guessed.


    “Rae-Rae called Micheal and we’re all going out to talk with her family very shortly. You will be going


    with us.”


    “Why?”


    “Because Tony thinks you took Jay again.” That got his undivided attention. “Why?” he asked. He


    had hot gone near her, in fact. He’d had all his warriors back off to a safer distance to give her some


    breathing room, in the hope that she would calm down, and then she had disappeared, arg she was


    missing, the bloody human FEDs were going to be all over him yet again.


    “Because Jackson, Stephen and Ethan found out where she was and went and got her and the triplets


    and took them back to the pack this morning, the ne left about 8am. Son, you have been out for well


    over 24 hours now.”


    “What how is that possible?”


    “Havoc is not with you is he?” she asked, leaning forward to peer at him intently. “your father dosed you


    with enough wolfs-bane to put you and Havoc down, but seeing as he’s not with you… you were out


    longer than expected.”


    “No, he’s disappeared. What happened? Why’d they take her back to the pack and not bring her


    directly to me?”


    Something else had to be going on here, they would all know better.


    “Her mother was violently attacked by a rogue and is in the pack hospital, nearly died. Jay did not


    handle it well.”


    Nathan was out of bed in a split second. “l have to go to her.


    “No, I need you to go and talk with Tony and Lauren, reassure them that Jay and the triplets will


    “Why, I don’t care what they think.”


    She sighed heavily, clearly exasperated with him. “Tony, Lauren and Rae-Rae are her human family, it


    seems they took her in just after the triplets were born. They are currently willing to give Micheal


    another chance, but Tony and Lauren want a word with you in person, and seeing as you’re right here,


    and can’t get back to the pack until your ne returns for you. You son, have the time.”


    His mouth twitched: “My ne. Yours, l am willing to bet, is still here, I will use it.” He was no fool, they


    hade on their own private ne, and if his was no longer here he would simply,-endear it for


    himself. No pack member would dare refuse his order.


    He watched his mother stand up. “You can go to your Mate after you talk with her new family, til then I


    will not allow my ne to leave the ground. So you might as well just do it.”


    He was staring at her, he honestly didn’t care about her human family, he only cared about her. She


    must be terribly upset. “Is her mother okay?” he finally asked.


    “Yes, will be just fine from what I have heard. The triplets are with Jody and she has been ced in the


    Luna Suite for rest.


    “They’ve been separated?” He didn’t like it, this would only increase more fear and distress.


    “Not my decision, perhaps just temporary. Do this one thing for me please son.”


    “Fine, let’s make it quick. I want my Mate and she clearly needs me.”


    “l understand, I’ll have my ne on standby and ready to leave at a minutes minute’s notice.”


    “It had better be,” he muttered, looking for his phone to call Jackson and find out just what the hell


    happened while he was drugged and unconscious. They should havee and got his body


    regardless of his unconscious state, just his presence would have helped her. Once she smelled him.


    “You’re up, boss.”


    “Jay?” he bit out her name, showing his displeasure at his Beta for the actions they had taken


    without his permission.


    “Upset as expected. You might want to get back here. I actually just found out what happened.”


    “What do you mean?” he just knew he wasn’t going to like what he was about to hear, “mother said


    rogue attack.”


    “It seems Abbey took matters into her own hands when she heard you attacked Micheal over your


    mate.”


    “And” he suddenly had a very bad feeling and his mind was weighted all of a sudden, he could feel


    Havoc’s alpha presence returning.


    “Apparently, Abbey convinced Jay’s family to stage that her mother was attacked and injured, but


    Bradley is not good at acting, and Jay didn’t believe him..”


    “And,” he really hated when his men didn’t want to tell him things and paused out of hesitation, irked


    him to no end. It’s not like Havoc could suddenly rip him a new one. He was on the other side of the


    country in the pack. Though he could now feel Havoc prowling towards the front of his mind.


    “Well.. you know Abbey.. took it a step further, a step too far…convinced Jay’s mother and father to


    actually allow Vera to be seriously injured…she used your mate bond to their daughter to convince


    them.. they went along with it once convinced, because they want their daughter back home. Vera took


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    a near-lethal dose of wolfs-bane, and..”


    “Just spit it out Jackson or Ill reach through this phone,1 swear it.” he bit out, his anger starting to boil


    with all that he was hearing, and the bloody hesitation and pausing.


    “Abbey ripped into Vera, to make it look like she was brutally attacked by a rogue. I didn’t know


    anything about it, boss. I would never have approved it in your absence. From what I understand, she


    heard what happened and took matters into her own hands. Trying to help in her own stupid way.”


    From one nightmare to another, could his Mate ever, catch a break from his family members, she was


    not going to take this well, probably think he had set it all up, maybe even think he had harmed her


    mother on purpose to force her home.


    “Have you beaten her yet?”


    “No boss, thought you might want that job, though I think you won’t… she is pregnant.”


    “She’ll keep,” he muttered. “I “ll be there as soon as I can.


    Apparently, I have to go and talk with Tony and Lauren and mother is insisting.”


    “That may be my fault, kind of went all Beta on Lauren over the phone and took Jay and the triplets


    with Stephen and Ethan’s help..they were nonplussed about it. Oh a heads up, they know the triplets


    are yours. She must have told them.”


    “I don’t care. Jackson just make sure Jay is taken care of and give her back her children.”


    “She was just so distressed, boss, they weren’t coping, her pain, guilt and distress were affecting them.


    They too are just as emotionally wrung out. I sent them with Ethan to Jody’s house. Stephen exined


    to them who he was, they seemed to just ept it and go with their grandfather,” he sighed heavily.


    “Jay passed out at her mother’s bedside about 30 minutes ago. I have brought her to the Luna suite.


    Stephen thought it wise to separate them for the time being, allowing the pups to stabilise emotionally,


    so to speak.”


    “Its going to be a very long day.. l can trust you with her, right?”


    “Yes boss… why would you ask that?” there was a clear frown in his voice.


    “No reason…” Nathan muttered, but there was that nagging feeling in him “You’re with her, right?”


    “Yes,” his voice nowced with concern, “l’m not stupid.


    Nathan, I would never betray you. You know that, right?”


    “I know that. I just get this weird feeling about you and her sometimes.”


    “She is not my Mate.” he heard his Beta state firmly, honestly to try and clear things up, “just was one


    of my closest friends is all.”


    “Alright”, he rubbed his hands over his face.


    “Jackson?”


    “Yes boss”


    “Don’t make her feel like a prisoner or that she is trapped there, allow her freedom to wander at will…


    Kora too.” Thest words came from his beast and then he hung up.


    His mother was staring at him with a deep frown on her face. “We had no idea, son, and also would not


    have approved of something like that, especially with her fragile state,” she said right away, clearly


    having listened, with her wolf’s hearing, to his conversation.


    “You deal with your daughter, or I will and it will not be pretty, I assure you,” he muttered, though he


    knew he could not hurt Abbey, or even lock her in a cell for punishment if she was pregrnant.


    But there were other methods of punishment he could deal out that would hurt her without physically


    touching her, he would have to consider teaching her a lesson. She had always been a handful but she


    had taken things way too far this time.


    Abbey was going to learn her ce, and if his mother didn’t do it he would.


    Why did you go Havoc?’ he asked his wolf now that he had returned. He had yet to figure out why his


    wolf came and wentnlike he did.


    ‘Didn’t want to hurt our Mate.’


    ‘Buddy…i know you would never hurt Jay’


    ‘I might have…I hurt Sophia’


    Jay is nothing like ourst Mate. She doesn’t know we’re her Mate that is all. She will never betray


    us once she knows. Jay believes wholeheartedly in the goddess gifted Fated Mate. Once she


    recognises us, everything will be fine. I promise.


    ‘Hurts.’


    ‘I know buddy, but we will go and see her this very afternoon. We will fix it all today’ he told Havoc,


    knowing that finally they would be face to face and she would be able to recognise them as her Mate. It


    was a relief, that was for sure. A weight off both of their minds.


    “Let’s go mother, I need to get back to the pack.”


    “Micheal is already out there. I thought it would be better to keep you two apart for now.”


    “Wise,” he agreed.


    ‘Why?’ Havoc asked.


    ‘never mind, I have punished him already’


    He heard Havoc huff. He didn’t like being kept in the dark, but it was for the best. Leaving him out of it


    was a good idea at this point. Once everything was fixed between him and Jay, it wouldn’t matter


    anymore.


    You should shower and change, shave maybe, be presentable for this family.”


    “Why?”


    “From what I’ve heard, Tony is like a dad to Jay, Rae-Rae a sister. So go and clean up. I’ve already


    dealt with the hotel and had your things brought here..what happened over there?”


    “Nothing,” he muttered, and headed for a shower.


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