Chapter 50


    Everly POV


    It took ages for me to get rid of Valen. Valen had been pestering me all bloody day about taking Vrian


    for the weekend; he finally agreed to leave if he could get Vrian from school and take him somewhere


    after school. I decided to agree so I could get some bloody work done because once again, we were


    down more staf f , and to make matters worse, no one could get a hold of Emily, and apparently, her son


    also didn’ t show up for school.


    However , when it was nearly 6 PM, I began to worry when Zoe hadn’t messaged me to say Vrian had


    been dropped to her like promised for dinner.


    Walking back to my office after the dinner rush started to slow down. I pulled my phone f rom my pocket


    about to ring Valen when I smacked into someone. Looking up, I find it was Marcus.


    “Seriously, I have been looking for you everywhere,” He said, shaking his head.


    “Ah, okay. Why, but more importantly, do you know where Valen is with my son?”


    “At home, I think, he sent me to watch you for the night,” I growl, shoving past him and heading toward


    my office. Only when I got there I could hear banging inside the room and some strange noises. I push


    my office door open, wondering who is inside bef ore stopping dead in my tracks at the sight bef ore me.


    Marcus walks in behind me and bumps into me before freezing also. Looking up at Marcus, his


    mouth had fallen open in shock, and he nces at me before suddenly covering my eyes. I p his hand


    away, about to back out of the room quietly. When Marcus, of course, makes shit awkward by clearing


    his throat and drawing attention to the fact we were in the room.


    My n was to back away slowly and pretend I did not just see one of my best friends bent over my desk


    with her pants around her ankles while Tatum was pounding into her. They both jumped, and I tried to


    bail out, but Marcus was blocking the door with his huge *ss body.


    I nce everywhere but at the pair of them, while Marcus has no issues openly staring at them. I elbow


    him while poor Macy, who looked mortified at being busted, scrambled to put her clothes on.


    “You should really put a sock on the door or maybe just lock it, ” Marcus taunts. Tatum clears his throat,


    yanking his pants up.


    “We were um, filing and,” Tatum nces at Macey.


    “And tripped and fell into her vagina; it happens all the time? I hate when that happens,” Marcus finishes


    for him while shaking his headughing.


    “F*cking filing? Do I look like a damn cab, you idiot?” Macy growls.


    “If you were, I would definitely stick my files in you, ” Tatum says as Macy buttons up her blouse; she


    growls at him.


    “Next time, can you pick a room and not my desk?” I ask, still not looking at them. I would definitely be


    taking some sanitizer to that deskter. Maybe even buy another. I don’t think I will ever look at it again


    same without seeing Macey bent over it.


    “I thought you knocked off at four?” I asked her. “I did, but Tatum asked for help,


    “Wait, why are you still here?” “I haven’t left,”  Tatum says.


    “Jenny didn’ t show up?” Tatum shakes his head and shrugs.


    “Jenny wasn ‘t on today, ire was, and she never showed . I tried ringing her, and that was when I


    met.”


    “She nces at Tatum. “Your friend, did you get a hold of Emily? Zoe tried this morning and could n ‘t?”


    Macy asks, and I shake my head.


    “No, I was about to go over there and check on her,


    “Maybe ire caught the bug too? ” Macy said, but this was getting too strange, I had managed to lose


    two receptionists in two days, and multiple staff was already sick .


    “Okay, ring Jenny and see if she can fill in; I am heading over to themune,” I tell Macy, who picks up


    the phone. Shit! Vrian, I thought. Pulling my phone out, I quickly dialed Valens phone, which was


    switched off. I growl and look at Marcus.


    “Mindlink your Alpha and ask where my son is?”


    ‘If you let him mark you , you could mind link him you rself ,” Marcus taunts, and I roll my eyes before


    watching his eyes ze over. I waited when he sighed.


    “He said he is taking Vrian for the night,” Marcus tells me, and I press my lips in a line before walking


    out to the car park. I would pick him up on the way home. Only when I get out there, I curse, realizing I


    don ‘t have a car thanks to Valen and turn around to head back home to see if I could borrow Zoe ‘s.


    Only when I turn around, do I smack into Marcus again.


    “What are you doing?” I asked him, seeing that he was following me.


    “Ah,ing with you,” He says.


    “You are not staying at my ce, go home and… wait, have you got a car,”


    “Ah yeah, you think I walked here”


    “Good, you are taking me to the roguemune,” I tell him, looking for his car. I spot the shiny, sleek


    sports car and start marching over to it.


    ” Is that where your friend lives?” Marcus asks, chasing me to keep up.


    “Yes, she isn’t answering her phone, and her son never showed up for school,” I tell him as he unlocks


    his car.


    I climb in the passenger seat before sending Zoe a message that I would get Vrian and that I was


    going to check on Emily.


    Marcus drove me insane the entire drive there; the man could talk the leg of f an iron pot. And what was


    up with his music selection? It sound ed like a kid ‘s musical in here.


    “What the heck are you listening to?”  I ask. “Trolls soundtrack, it is catchy, do you like it?” “No!” I tell him.


    “Casey downloaded it on my Spotify,”


    “What is up with you sniffing her, by the way. And I wou ld stay the hell away from Zoe. She wants your


    damn head on a silver tter,  I warn him.


    “Yeah, Valen told me on the way to the school at Lunch time, said she bitched him out really good. I only


    wanted to know what washing powder she used, a bit of an overreaction if you ask me, ” Marcus sighed.


    “You wouldn’t think that if you had her upbringing, she spent the majority of her childhood in youth


    homes; she met some bloody creeps in her time,  I tell him.


    “Is that how she had Casey?” He asked, and I shook my head.


    “No, and what were you and Valen doing at the school at lunchtime, “


    “Getting Vrian to take him to the birth registry,”


    “Excuse me?”


    “Valen, got him DNA tested and changed hisst name?”


    “He what?” I growled. “You didn ‘t know?”


    “No, I f*cking didn ‘t,” Marcus looks away


    awkwardly, drumming his on the steering wheel.


    “I thought you lrnew Valen had a blood sample taken the night he found out before you got there,”


    “Why would he need to have his DNA tested? We can tell our own Kin,”


    “Yeah, but the birth registry would need it. They can ‘t tell if Vrian is his or not, ” Marcus shrugs.


    “ I thought he told you he was taking Vrian f rom school,”


    “Yes, picking him up after not kidnapping him and changing his name, I am going to f*cking kill him, ” I


    growled as we pulled into themune.


    Driving in blue and red lights made us slow down , and officer Richards waved for us to stop as we pulled


    in. We were in a pretty secluded area at the back of themune, so there wasn’t any reason for them


    to be out here. Only Emily and her son lived out here because her neighbors keptining about the


    smell of her vegetable garden, so she moved to the other side of themune away from everyone.


    Marcus rolled down his window, and officer Richards came over and peered in the window.


    “Beta, Everly,” Officer Richards said. “What is going on?” I ask him.


    “School sent us out to do a welfare check on a woman called Emily and her son. Apparently, neither


    showed up to the school today; she did the morning reading group,” I nod. Emily always did two days a


    week at the school, one day for canteen duty the other reading group.


    “So you spoke with her?” I asked. “You know her?


    “Yeah, she works at my hotel. I wasing to check on her,” Officer Richards runs a hand down his


    face.


    “Her ce is a mess, and there are signs of a struggle; forensics are in there now taking blood samples,


    ”  Forensics were  taking b lood samples; I blink, thinking of  thest time I saw Emily or her son.


    “Blood samples?”


    “Yeah, the ce is pretty messed up, she put a fight, but we can’t find any sign of her or her son,”


    “Forsaken?”


    “Unsure, maybe, but we found a dead one not far into the forest,”


    “You reported it to Valen?”


    “No, we tried , can ‘t reach him, but Alpha John is on his way out said he would stop by and grab Alpha


    Kalen, bloody strange seeing them two talking, “


    Officer Richard says. Marcus nods, and so do I. My brows furrow, wondering why my father was


    interested in missing Rogues.


    “I will let Valen know tomorrow; let us know if you find anything,” Marcus says. I wondered briefly if Kalen


    would tell my father about Valen and me but doubted it. However, I was interested in why those two were


    so bud dy-buddy right now. Officer Richards goes to leave bef ore stopping anding back to the


    window. He leaned in, looking at me, but I was still stuck on the fact my receptionist was missing and her


    son.


    “Also, Everly, you might want to give Zoe a heads up, “I look over at him.


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    “Amber found out about Casey, “


    “F*ck, think she will cause issues,”  Officer Richards shrugs.


    “No idea, but she wasn’ t happy,” I sigh and nod.


    I will let Zoe know,


    I’m sorry, Everly,


    Why are you sorry?


    They are filing for custody of Casey,


    What?


    “Don’t worry, we will back Zoe up; she is a good girl, and honestly, Amber is just being spiteful, “ I  curse,


    shaking my head. Zoe was going to freak out.


    “Tell you r son to back off and pull his mat e in line; theye after Zoe f or Casey there will be issues,”


    “I will speak with him, but you know what the courts are like, he already filed, and Zoe is a Rogue, “


    “That says nothing about her ability to parent,”   I tell him. Officer Richards nods sadly.


    “Which court did he file in?”


    ” His mates, Shadow Pack. Alpha John ‘s pack, ”  F*ck! I was hoping he would have said Valen ‘s pack.


    “Wait, she is from shadow Pack?”


    “Ah yes, she is the Beta’s daughter,”


    I blink at him, racking my brain for the name. “Wait, Amber Zimmer?”


    “Yeah, do you know her?”


    “Yeah, I went,” Marcus elbows me, and I realize I was about to admit going to school with her. She was


    one of Ava’ s best friends.


    “We should go; I need to get Everly over to Alpha Valen is to pick up Vrian,”


    “Oh yes, Kalen told me it was being announced at the Alpha meeting when I rang him. The pack will be


    stoked that Valen finally found his mate,”


    “Once they get over the shock of his mate being a rogue?”


    “Ah, well, yes, bu t the pack will love you ,”  Officer Richards says. I doubted that but sighed.


    “Well, we should go; keep us updated,”  Marcus says, winding his window up and turning the car around.


    “Valen’ s?”


    “Yes, then I need to go break the news to Zoe,”  I tell him, and he nods.


    “She can fight it,”  Marcus tells me.


    “She is rogue, and the custody case will be heard in my father’s pack, ” Marcus seems to think for a


    second .


    “You think he would interfere?”


    “I know he will if he finds out she is my friend,”  He nods, and we drive to Valen’s.