“All rise,” the court officer called out and the door at the back opened and Judge William Harding stepped through and towards his bench.“You may all be seated now,” the same officer called out after the judge had taken his seat.He opened the file and read through it for a few minutes before looking up and closing it. He poured himself a glass of water and drank slowly from it, irritating me because I was ready to get this under way.“Let’s get this show on the road,” Judge Harding said and looked at Nathaniel. “The prosecution may start.”“Your Honour we’ve spoken at length to Darius White over the weekend and I believe that we have a plea deal on the table,” Nathaniel said and my head snapped up. I was sitting in the back row of the court room.“We have Your Honour,” Darius said.“Your Honour, may I approach?” I asked as I stood up and every head turned to look at me.“Mr. Woods, you may,” Judge Harding said.I picked up my brief case and walked towards the judge’s bench, followed
“Come on let’s go,” I said to Sierra as I picked my briefcase up and put the copies of the prosecution’s witness statements away.“Where are we going? I thought court’s finished for the day,” she said.“We’re going home,” I said to her.“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” she said.“We need to talk about everything at some point,” I said to her.“Can you please just give me time until after the trial?” she asked me.“If that’s what you want,” I said and walked away from her.I looked at the strange car parked in front of my garage and my heart hammered in my chest as I caught his scent. Fucking Jett and his big mouth. The door opened as I stepped onto the porch and he engulfed me in a hug, wrapping his arms around me tightly.“I had to come,” he said as he let go of me.“You shouldn’t have,” I said to him as I pushed past him and walked into my house.“Griff, don’t shut me out,” he said.“Why don’t you hate me?” I asked him.“I could never hate you,” he said.“You should, I do,” I sai
“All rise,” the court officer said loudly as Judge Harding took his seat and we all sat down again.“Mr. Bridges, I’ve reviewed all your evidence last night and I’ve decided that it’s not necessary to call those witnesses,” Judge Harding said, “does the prosecution have any more witnesses to call?”“No Your Honour, the evidence speaks for itself,” Nathaniel said.“Noted,” he said and looked at me, “the defense may start their case.”“Thank you Your Honour,” I said as I stood up, “the defense calls Dr. Gold for cross-examination.”Dr. Gold was led back into the courtroom and placed under oath again as she sat down in the witness box looking pristine and calm.“Dr. Gold, you see a lot of injuries don’t you?”“Yes, I do.”“How long have you been the Hastings pack doctor?” I asked her.“Eighteen years,” she said.“Did you do an autopsy on Jonas Lasing?” I asked.“No.”“Why not?”“The Alpha didn’t deem an autopsy necessary since we knew that he had been poisoned by wolfsbane,” she said.“B
“That was amazing!” Damon said as he followed me out of the court room and we headed to a restaurant down the street from the Council building.“Just doing my job,” I said.Sierra followed us into the restaurant and we got a table and sat down. The waitress handed us menus and I ordered coffee and waited for Damon and Sierra to also order their drinks.“This is Sierra by the way, and this is Damon, my father,” I said.“It’s very nice to meet you, Sierra,” Damon said as he shook her hand.“It’s nice to meet you too,” she said and smiled at him.“What other tricks do you have up your sleeve?” Damon asked me.“You’ll have to wait and see,” I said and smiled.“I guess I’ll have to attend court every day,” he said.“At least they know he was lying about me stealing information,” she said.“It’s not over yet Sierra, this just establishes distrust towards him, the jury will now think twice about everything he’s testified to,” I said to her.“I know but there’s still the wolfsbane and Jonas d
I had taken Sierra back to New York, she needed time and I gave it to her. She was young and she had her whole life ahead of her. She hadn’t outright rejected me again but neither did she accept the bond. Kane was restless and he told me I was an idiot for letting her go.I felt the bond, completely. I missed everything about her and I’d sit in front of my computer screens and search for images of her instead of searching for the hunters. She had stayed at the Council office for two more days before leaving.She had booked into a cheap motel and she was currently sitting in an interview where she had applied for the position as a receptionist for some architecture firm. She had no friends, no family, and she kept looking over her shoulder all the time.The other computer screen pinged and I focused my attention on it as another box popped open and Samantha’s image appeared on the screen. I could taste the bile in my mouth as I looked at her. This was the woman that I’d loved since I w
“Are you done with your little temper tantrum?” I asked Jett as I leaned against the doorframe of his room.“Are you done being a pussy?” he asked me.“Yes.”“Then I’m done as well,” he said.“I’m sorry,” I said to him.“I know, I’m sorry too,” he said.“Are you really?” I asked him.“No,” he said and laughed.“Good, you shouldn’t be,” I said to him as he stood up from his bed.“Let’s go kill some hunters,” he said as I slapped him on the back and he grinned at me.We met up with Damon and Connor on the porch and Kane followed us down the steps as we walked to the back of the pack house into a small clearing. I checked my weapons as Kane lazily stretched his body and yawned.“Shit Kane, can you be any more excited?” Jett asked him.“This is my excited face,” Kane said through the link and Jett laughed.“I’ll port us to the camp site where we can surround them, I want Samantha and Phillip taken alive for interrogation, don’t kill them and no I won’t be letting them go. Kill as many as
“We need to go,” I said to Kane after Jett had left my room.“I’m trying to sleep here,” he said.“Fine, stay,” I said to him and got up.“I’m getting real fed up with your self-pitying ways, where are we going?” he asked.“Home, there’s something I need to check on,” I said as he stretched his limbs and climbed off the bed.“Fine, I can do with a moose,” he said.I opened a portal right there in the room, Kane and I stepped through it and I headed directly for the shed. The computers were still buzzing but no new reports had come in, things were quiet and for the time being hunters had gone underground after the attack in Montana.I opened the copy of Sierra’s pack file that I still had and read through it, this time taking in all the information about her. My eyes skipped to the last section on the one page information sheet at the back of her file when they had just found her.‘The little girl was found wandering the forest bordering our pack territory. She was malnourished, dirty
The town of Limerick was small and I ported us right to the front gate leading to the Elder hall. The two warriors standing guard gaped open mouthed at us as we suddenly just appeared in front of them.“Alpha Damon Woods, Enforcer pack,” Damon announced himself, “Enforcer Griffin Woods and Enforcer Jett McDaniels.”“Who is your feline companion?” the second warrior asked as he eyed Kane.“This is my pet jag, he chews the couch whenever I leave him home alone,” I said and Kane glared at me.“I’m not a pet you bastard,” he growled at me.“Welcome Alpha Woods, do you have an appointment?” the warrior asked.“I have special permission from the Council to interview Alpha Clive Hastings,” I said and produced the certificate.“I will announce your arrival, you can follow the road up to the hall,” he said and opened the gates for us.“Come on kitty cat,” Jett said as he rubbed Kane’s ears and started threatening me in the many ways he was going to kill me.The Elder pack consisted of all prev