Chapter 8: Accepting Help
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-Phoenix-
“We don’t need them,” I insisted.
Kenzo caught up with me just as I was heading for our car. Andrew and Rick were just leaving the warehouse when Kenzo grabbed my arm. I looked back at the door the two alphas were coming out of.
“You aren’t thinking clearly right now,” Kenzo remarked. “And those two won’t slow us down. We need muscles like that.”
Kenzo pointed at the two of them. Rick was leaning a little on Andrew, who was clearly inspecting the damage I had done to his friend’s face.
“I already have you. I don’t need more,” I argued.
“I know I am a little stronger than most, but we are up against more than just a small group of alphas,” Kenzo reasoned, tightening his grip on my arm. “We need the backup.”
“No, I just need you to get angry,” I asserted.
Kenzo smiled a little. “So, you were going to unleash me on them like a wild dog?” he queried.
“Why do you think I allowed you to come?”
Kenzo shook his head a little. “I know why you allowed me to come, and I know what you want me to do, but I am one person.”
“As if that would stop you from tearing them to shreds,” I remarked, noticing a dark look appear on Kenzo’s face.
He looked away from me, slowly releasing his grip on me. I knew I had stepped over the line. Kenzo didn’t like to be reminded of what he was. He didn’t even like what he was born to be, and that was exactly why he had survived as long as he did, because he did his best to suppress his other side. The one who demanded nothing but blood to feel satisfied.
The sad thing was that no matter how much people bled, it would never be enough to truly satisfy his monster. He hated that part of him, so he fought it with everything he could.
“Listen,” Kenzo began, looking at me again. “That male knocked me out with one punch.”
“You were unprepared,” I reasoned.
“Perhaps, but he still did it,” Kenzo acknowledged. “We need someone like him.”
“Fine, we will take him, but the other is just dead weight,” I insisted.
Kenzo shook his head. “We need them both. The other clearly has a head on his shoulders, or he wouldn’t have surprised you like that.”
“I wasn’t surprised,” I countered. “I was busy taking care of his friend.”
“Right, and that was why you allowed a gun to be pointed at you. Don’t you see you aren’t thinking clearly? You don’t even notice your surroundings! We need them!” Kenzo argued.
“I need you to find that feral side of you and let it out,” I urged him.
Kenzo sighed. “I will do it, okay? Why do you think I came? But there is a good chance they might still overpower us. Can we just take them with us? And if you find them too annoying, we ditch them,” he suggested.
I looked over at the two alphas. They didn’t really smell like alphas since they had clearly taken on the lone wolf role. It masked their natural scent, but I had been trained to look into the small details, the ones most people wouldn’t notice.
Those two could do their best to mask their scent all they wanted, but I knew. I could sense it too—the power that emanated from them. It was what finally gave them away. No lone wolf had the power to make others bow, and those two did.
“Well?” Kenzo prompted.
“They annoy me. I kill them,” I declared.
Kenzo smiled. “Sure.”
“Then let them come.”
Kenzo’s smile turned more satisfied. “This is a good thing, Phoenix. They will help get Hope back.”
“They better not stand in my way, because I don’t care, friend or no friend, whoever stands in my way to get to Hope will die,” I asserted.
Kenzo nodded. “I get it.”
“No, you really don’t,” I insisted.
Kenzo sighed and shook his head, but he tolerated my behavior because he understood how on edge I was. I knew, though, that he would probably get back at me once I had Hope with me again. I deserved whatever punishment he had in store for me because I had really been difficult lately, dragging him around the damn world.
“You two!” Kenzo called out.
The two of them turned to us.
“Come on!” Kenzo waved them closer, but they looked a bit hesitant. I understood that. I had beaten the crap out of one of them, but only because he had allowed me to.
Rick could probably snap someone in two. How was someone created that massive? Andrew was large too, but more my size. Rick was taller and broader than both of us.
“Going to kill us now?” Andrew asked as they stood in front of us.
It was clear who was the talker. Rick had not said a damn word.
“Not yet,” Kenzo replied. “Just don’t annoy Phoenix, or he will rip both your heads off.”
Andrew looked at me for a moment but didn’t say anything before he turned to Kenzo. “Sure, we will try our best not to be assholes.”
Yet the way he said it sounded like he was calling me the asshole. I supposed that was fair. I wasn’t really showing my best side, but the thing was, my best side only came out when Hope was near, and right now I had no idea where she was.
“Good, so now that we are all friends again,” Kenzo said.
“Leave the jokes to Raiden,” I interjected.
Kenzo chuckled a little, shaking his head. “I was taught by the best.”
“You spend too much time with him,” I remarked, crossing my arms as I leaned against the car.
Kenzo ignored me and focused on the two alphas in front of us. “Have you any leads?” he asked.
Andrew and Rick glanced at each other.
“See? They are useless,” I commented.
“Would you give them a second?” Kenzo asked me.
I sighed and rolled my eyes before looking at the two males in front of me.
“Actually,” Andrew said, “we do have an idea where they might be.”
“Please do tell,” I requested.
“Scotland.”
“I’m sorry?”
It was then that I realized something. Something I had forgotten when I put all that sh*t from my past away. The Dark Soldiers had many bases around the world but mostly stayed in Egypt. I knew there was a base in Scotland far away from any cities.
“What?” Kenzo asked.
I watched the two males in front of me a little closer.
“How?” I inquired.
“What?” Andrew asked.
“How did you know about it?” I questioned him.
Andrew seemed hesitant, and even though he tried to hide it, I could see it. I walked closer to him, and funnily enough, his friend came in front of him as if he were going to protect him. That was interesting, I thought.
He was sending off possessive energies. I looked between the two of them and wondered if these two were more than friends. It was a question for later, though. Right now, I wanted my mate back.
“I better not learn you are on their side,” I warned. “Or I will make your deaths very slow.”
“We serve no one,” Andrew declared, pushing Rick back a little. “Only ourselves.”
Funny, that was exactly what I had decided to do after I left The Dark Soldiers. Who the hell were these two?
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