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I reached out to Lucien touching his mind with my own, as the memory of the fair-haired woman that appeared in our front room came to my mind, along with her warning. We still had no idea who she was.
'Lucien, we have to get this under control. All we wanted was your help in finding Megan and now anyone else that's been taken, if that means working together, that's what we need to do.' I tell him though our personal link.
"Damien. Step. Down," I hear Lucien demands of his second. "We didn't have time for this shit. There were more important matters at hand going on."
"Fuck," Damien swore, tearing his eyes away from Abigail's blue ones, pointing over towards Mia, "just keep that bitch, the fuck away from me," he warns Lucien before turning around and walking away, till hes standing behind Lucien again. A look of thunder was written across his face. He stood there never taking his eyes off of Abagail.
"Now we got that out of the way, maybe we can get back on track?" Lucien asks, looking at every one of us, daring us to protest. None as yet was forthcoming. "We'll make some sort of arrangement between us. At this point in time, we need each other. Humans and Naturals alike are being taken. By whom we haven't a fucking clue."
"What kind of arrangement?" questions Pamela with curiosity and suspicion?
CHAPTER TWENTYONE
‘’We’ll share Intel, help each other wherever possible,’’ I reply to Pamela’s question while looking at every single person in the room, as if daring them to protest any further ‘’we will put everyone in groups. So each patrol has a mixture of our own people,’’ There was muttering all around us. It was obvious that some of my men weren’t happy with the decision. The look of distrust on their faces said it all. Did I give a fuck? No. My word was gold.
I hold up my hand, causing the muttering to stop. ‘’If any of you have any objections you know where the fucking door is,’’ no one says a word. ‘’we will met tomorrow and decide between us who’s going with whom. In the meantime. There’s another issue that needs to be discussed,’’
‘’What matter?’’ they all ask at once.
‘’There’s a meeting taking place this evening,’’ I tell them clearing my throat, watching as they turn their heads in my direction, waiting for their reaction as they hear the other part, ‘’Here in this room. Lucien wants us all to attend,’’
‘’What kind of meeting and why do we have to be there?’’ Emma demands, staring at me, puzzlement on her face, ‘’and why are we just hearing about it now?’’.
Lucien replies to Emma’s question, ‘’because I had been waiting for the other Leaders to agree. To answer your question. I, Damien, a handful of my other men will be attending. Also, members of the Council, twelve in total. The leaders of the Fae, Vampires, Shifter’s ….’’ The names of the ones who agreed to attend goes on, ‘’and if you agree. The eight of you and in the way that we have become a …. shall we say a Unit. We, as a whole will have to do the same with the leaders of the other territories and need to find out if anyone else has gone missing,’’ Lucien tells them. Lucien doesn’t mention that he had already informed me and had left for me to notify them.
‘’I don’t like to say it, but he’s right,’’ Melissa tells us, without an apology in her voice, ‘’all of us have to work together!’’
‘’I don’t like it. It puts us in an unbelievably bad and vulnerable position,’’ Pamela advised, looking at us all. Making sure we understood. Her eyes narrow as if she was overthinking something, ‘if, and it’s a big if, we do agree. Then if we are threatened in anyway, we will have no choice, but to protect ourselves,’’ she warns Lucien.
‘’Do they know that we are witches? Because if we agree. I don’t like the idea of walking in blind,’’ I tell Lucien as I push my red hair behind my ear, starring over at him.
If Lucien could get us all agreeing and working together it would be easier finding out who or what had taken Megan and the others that are going missing. I knew that whatever was coming our way, everyone would all have to agree to what Lucien was going to propose to the other Leaders and the Council. Everyone had to be on board, no matter our differences.
‘’I can’t promise that they don’t know. Though all my people were instructed not to talk about Scarlett, sadly even I, can’t trust everyone,’’ Lucien replies with a shrug looking over at me, ‘’and it would be best you if you try not to attract anyone while the meeting is taking place,’’
‘’All weapons are to be handed over on arrival,’’ Damien informs us, standing beside Lucien, ‘’and they have agreed to go through the imaging scan to prove that they aren’t hiding any other weapons upon their bodies.’’
I look at my family. I can see the worry on Pamela’s face, Abigail and Mia are as normal standing next to each other, and Melissa is standing next to Emma and Ava while Evelyn is standing off to one side, a frown on her face deep in thought. We all look at each other, each of us joining our mental link.
`Guys, I know we all have our own fears, and I can understand every single one of them, but Melissa was right we have no choice. We need to find out were Megan is and how many humans and supernatural have gone missing. It’s a chance we are going to have to take, no matter what the outcome will be. ` I tell them, as we join our link.
`Is it possible that a concealment spell could be put in place to hide our Witches and Omega’s? ` Ava asks.
`The only problem is, would it even work? ` Evelyn question, `there is going to be various powerful Supernatural’s in this meeting and we wouldn’t know if it was working until the meeting had begun. `
I could sense that they weren’t sure on Lucien’s request, but we didn’t have a choice.
I feel a sense of relief when I hear Pamela say.
‘Melissa is right. We all know we need to work together. We need to find Megan and to do that we are going to have to work together and to deal with the threat that is coming our way we need Lucien’s and the other Leaders of the other Territory’s and Regions.. If we don’t. The outcome will be worse than we think it’s going to be. `
I see the acceptance in their eyes. Realising there wasn’t another choice.
‘’We’ve agreed to be at this meeting,’’ Mia and Abigail announce in sink. Standing side by side, linking hands, turning their attention to all the men in the room, ‘’but make no mistake. If we are attacked in any shape or form, we will retaliate!’’
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THE MEETING
Scarlett
I could feel the nervousness radiating off my sisters and cousins. I couldn’t say I blame them seeing I felt the same. What had we stupidly agreed to? We would soon find out. A concealment spell had been placed around every single one of us. I just hoped it worked. If not, we would be fucked!