touched the small, dark-skinned woman on the shoulder. “Go ahead, Mary. Start with what you remember from the brothel.”
Part of the room gasped at that word. It was the first time Rain had heard it acknowledged in the full summit, and obviously some of the wolves hadn’t expected it. Had Cavanaugh kept that hidden on purpose?
There were alphas here from all over the country. Did he suspect some of them of being involved with covering up this mess?
Rain watched old Cavanaugh as Mary started with her memories. He didn’t flinch or shudder like some of the others, and his eyes covered the whole room every few seconds, avoiding Rain’s gaze.
Aria and Marco slipped in the room, and Mary began to shake when her son appeared.
“What’s going on?” Aria asked from behind him.
“His mother is recounting what she remembers, for the full summit,” Rain said.
Nora touched his back, almost imperceptibly, but Rain could feel the electricity wrap around him.
She whispered something to Aria, but the summit continued, and Rain couldn’t hear anything. All he could think about was the heat and the pressure of Nora’s hand on him.
The pressure of her fingertips intensified and Rain took a step forward. She slipped farther behind him, pushing Marco and Aria ahead of her, undoubtedly to give Marco a better vantage point on his mother. But it also served to get Nora shielded from her father by his body. While her touch had ceased when he’d moved, he could still sense the heat of her, behind him.
He wanted to take her out of the room and get her alone somewhere. Preferably naked, or at least out of the turtleneck. It made her seem foreign—not the woman who had just climbed on top of him in a casino hallway.
More than anything, he wanted more time with her.
The crack of the magick between them was drawing him toward her, and he couldn’t help it. She wanted to ignore it—fine. He didn’t want complications, either. But that didn’t mean they couldn’t have a couple of days of fun while he waited to go on mission.
Cavanaugh cleared his throat. “We’re sending a team of ten enforcers to Guadalajara, Mexico, where Mary remembered being held.” He pointed around the table. “From all around the country, ten of you have volunteered your top enforcer to go on this mission to discover the identity of this psychopath and bring him to justice.”
As each name was called, the alpha stood. “Sureda, from Miami. McConnell, from Kentucky. VonBrandt, from Texas. Gallagher, from Colorado. Li, from Seattle. Davis, from California. Lupescu, from Chicago. Rivera, from Las Vegas. Dubois, from Louisiana.” When Francis stood, Cavanaugh paused and his big, black eyes went beady and small.
That was only nine.
“This mission will be led by one of our very own,” Cavanaugh continued.
Rain was prepared to step forward when Cavanaugh looked at him, but the big Boston man waved him aside, like an annoyance.
“My oldest daughter, Nora Cavanaugh.” He barely glanced at her as she moved out from behind Rain, keeping her head low. “Now that we know the injustice exists, we will not rest until it is righted. In order to determine the extent of the mistreatment of wolves, and the breeding of unbonded wolves…”
The old jackass kept talking, but Rain couldn’t process anything beyond the fact that he was expected to go on mission with the woman who had just fucked him.
Holy shit ass.
Chapter Three
T ime …possibly days, weeks…without Daddy looking over her shoulder or anyone else reporting back to him about her movements. Thank the gods!
She waited until the turbulence from the take-off smoothed out before getting up from her seat to see where Rain had taken up residence. He’d been avoiding her since the summit meeting, and she didn’t care for it. She was ready to have sex again. No need to wait since she was free to do as she pleased.
If Rain wasn’t interested in having sex with her again, she needed to know.