Semua Bab Elding: Bab 71 - Bab 80

Two weeks went by without incident and after three days I had told the Zetas to go home. I wasn’t worried about Noah but I was still alert. I would know if he made his way to White Sulphur Springs and this time I would kill him. Jo went back to work at the safehouse and I stayed close to home. I didn’t accept any new work and I rarely left the property. I smiled as I sat in my office and closed the laptop.“Shouldn’t have worn aftershave,” I said to him and he appeared in the doorway smiling.“Didn’t think of that,” Kiran said to me as he took the cloak off.“Should’ve used the realm rather than the cloak,” I said to him.“I miss the cloak, haven’t used it in many years,” he said as he sat down.“To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?” I asked him.“Interesting development actually,” he smiled. “Some guy claims he can unmask the Ulfr Banamaðr.”“Oh really?” I asked and laughed.“I figured, you know, we’d have to investigate this immediately,” he said.“Absolutely, I mean that gu

Noah sat behind his desk and opened the drawer. He looked at the notebook and frowned. Written in the front was Ulfr Banamaðr. Why had they driven to Bitterroot Lake and asked the head Alpha to join the Council? He opened the book and started to read the last few entries.I’m finally home and then the heartbreaking news that Jo didn’t wait for me. I’m not mad, everybody thought I was dead. I lay awake at night because the nightmares of what I went through are so terrible that I don’t want to close my eyes. My house still looks the same but it’s empty without her.She was the one thing that kept me going. The memory of Jo is what kept me alive through the torture, the starvation and the hopes of coming back to her kept me sane. I never want to feel the pain I felt when I came home and she wasn’t here.I called Mark because Jo’s number doesn’t exist anymore. She got married almost three years ago and she has two kids. My father had to tell me that the baby Jo was expecting was never bor

More than a year went by without any incidents and I began to relax. Noah’s location showed him in Leavenworth, mostly at his house and he seldom left the town borders and I relaxed more. Our lives went back to the way it was before I knew Noah Rivers existed.The kids grew at an alarming rate and before I knew it we had our second annual Council meeting and we encountered no problems. Levi didn’t show up for that meeting either but we didn’t replace him and I doubted we ever would.I kept myself busy with the construction of a meeting hall about twenty miles from our house on another property I’d bought that would mainly be used for Council Meetings. It kept me busy and I hadn’t killed anyone in six months. I didn’t really have time to go look for evil doers between the construction and the safehouse and I was quite surprised by my next visitor.I had just dropped Regen and Rayne off at daycare and I noticed his car following me. I drove to the grocery store and his car slowed down.

I was busy tracing Jason Kingsley’s credit card and GPS and I was following his trail from gas station to gas station and shop to shop. This guy wasn’t a professional and he had just taken her, didn’t know where to yet but he was still using his card and he wasn’t that far from us.His phone had pinged off a tower just outside Harlowton and then it was switched off. I brought up a satellite image of the area and looked at the town. I found the location of where his phone had been switched off and I looked at the farmhouse a mile away.“Gotcha,” I said to the laptop and smiled.“Gotcha?” Jo asked as she walked through the sliding door and I laughed.“I was talking to the laptop,” I said and she looked at me.“Not weird at all, did you forget about Rayne’s penguin?” she asked me.“Shit, I did,” I said and stood up.“What’s keeping you so preoccupied?” she asked as she looked at the map on the laptop.“Malcolm’s niece disappeared and I think I just found her,” I said as she turned around

It was 5 PM and I was about to close the laptop for the day when the message came through. Someone had just hacked into the Council’s server. I sat there and watched him as he accessed the lists of members on the Council and I started my own trace, copying everything he was doing while also searching his own computer.When he accessed Kiran’s emails I added both our names to the search on his computer and I sat back and watched him. I smiled and turned his camera on as I hacked his computer and I looked at his face. He turned to someone else and looked straight at the camera and the screen went dark.“And who might you be?” I asked out loud as I went back to the image of his face. I had his IP address and his location appeared. It was a coffee shop’s wi-fi in Leavenworth. I was confused for a second because Kiran had wiped Noah’s memories but something must have happened as I looked at everything on his laptop.They’ve been busy, I realized. He had information on me from Boulder, wher