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Chapter 14: Theo

“What’s going on, Briggs?” I asked as I got to my office.

“We had another attack at the border,” he told me.

My stomach fell. “Where?”

“Bonnerville,” he said.

“Rogues again?”

He nodded.

“How bad? Were there any casualties?” I asked apprehensively.

“One dead. Five in critical condition.”

“Do we have any information about the attack that could tell us why it happened?”

“They have a couple rogues in custody, but they’re not talking. They need someone with more authority than they have down there. We have to go down, Theo,” he said. “They can’t handle this on their own.”

“Your mating ceremony is in three days, Briggs. You’re not going anywhere.” I sighed. “But you’re right. I’ll go,” I greed.

“You’ll have to take Jimmy,” Briggs said, running a hand through his hair

“Maggie’s not ready to take over Ayla’s security detail just yet,” I said. “So I need him with her at the campus.”

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of. We hadn’t had a rogue attack in decades. I had sent a few teams of warriors

didn’t want to

can’t go down there alone,

get out of

they just have their fourth kid?”

corrected. “It was another set of

grin. “You think he’s the best option? He’s been

my only option right now,”

bring your

still not up for

conceded. “Do you want me to reach out to

need you to keep an

“You okay, Theo?”

idea why. And now I have to leave Ayla. It’s hard enough with us being

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be at the ceremony as much as I do this weekend. So you’ll only be gone a couple days. Just get down there and figure out what happened and get

take care of my travel arrangements. I picked up my

has been happening in that packhouse,” his voice came over

more often, you would already know,”

together growing up. For years, I was torn between having him or Briggs as my

would always be a ranking member. And with his Alpha blood, he could

have five kids to wrangle,”

have to talk my mate into giving me that many first,” I joked. “How are Beth and

kids are great,” he said. “Loud and healthy. But speaking of your mate, Beth

that,” I said. “But, unfortunately, that’s

“What’s up, cuz?”

help. We’ve had some attacks along

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days. Things

do you want to leave?” Will

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