about you check out the second location on
the list? It’s only 3 hours north of you,” Cass suggested, rifling through
paperwork.
“Give me
the address,” Sebastian scowled.
As he
memorized the coordinates to Pines Forest, North Carolina he noticed a figure
slowly making his way towards them from the opposite end of the garage.
“Here’s our
mystery person now,” he whispered into the phone, trying to make out the face
of the man that had sent a spy after him.
“Please
tell me you’re not going to watch her have sex,” Cass laughed, “I never pegged
you as a voyeur, but I guess everyone’s got to have a fetish.”
“Don’t even
joke,” he snapped, disgusted.
The man
walked with a swagger full of self-importance, his shoulders thrown back to
puff out his chest, his chin tilted upwards. It had to be someone higher up in
the embassy to be so cocky.
“Holy hell,
it’s Marcus,” Sebastian couldn’t hold back his shock as the bald head and proud
ginger beard that were Marcus’ signature, came into view.
“Well there
you go, he sent her to sniff around and figure out what you’re doing in his
territory,” Casstiel was completely unbothered by the news, “you really should
have at least given him some sort of a reason for being there.”
“Why would
a man of Marcus’ intelligence and power be slumming it with her? If he really
wanted to know why I was here he could have demanded a meeting with me, or came
to me as a man and asked outright,” he shook his head, unconvinced.
She had
offered to be his spy, but perhaps she was already hard at work spying for
someone else. Sebastian’s instincts were rarely wrong, and no matter what his
brother said, right now his instincts were telling him that these two were
teaming up for far more than trying to figure out why he had encroached on
their territory.
Tensely he
watched as the two exchanged greetings and struck up a conversation. With the
tone of seriousness between them, they certainly hadn’t met here for a social
call.
He tried
reading their lips, but with the SUV’s blocking him it was no good.
“What is
that noise?” he asked, irritated by the obnoxious scraping noise coming from
Casstiel’s end of the phone.
“Oh that?
Tessa just found out her parents are coming here for Thanksgiving and she’s
having a heart attack. That noise would be her dragging a ladder so that she
can scrub the walls. My mate is an absolute lunatic,” he laughed.
“Well it
looks like I’m done here,” Sebastian suddenly sneered in disgust.
“Finally
realized she’s just a silly pawn for Marcus?” Cass asked, lifting the ladder
out of Tessa’s hands.
“No.
They’ve finished their conversation, and she’s stripping on the hood of his
car,” he shook his head.
Marcus
had fallen so far.
~
“That’s
your car?” Jax gaped in horror at Quinn’s pride and joy.
The old
rusted jeep wrangler was the first and only car he had ever bought. The paint
was chipped, the entire back end was covered in bumper stickers about zombies
and video games from his teenage years, but he had scraped pennies together for
three years to buy it, and it had never once failed him.
“What?”
Quinn laughed, “I love my baby, ole’ blue.”
“You have
got to be kidding me? Does it still run?” Jax kicked at one of the tires.
“Like a
champ,” he patted the hood, “just shut up and get in.”
The moment
he started the ignition however, a searing pain