CHAPTER 40: WHERE IS SHE (2)?

"Let’s go," Tao glanced at Mrs Sinclair, who wanted to quibble with Scarlet before shoving the woman out of the bedroom.

"No, wait!" Mrs Sinclair shouted as she chased after Tao. "Scarlet, say something, please. Tell them where that girl is. If you don’t, then what would happen to Ricky—"

"So that’s why you are doing this?" Scarlet paused and turned to look at her mother with an incredulous expression. "You don’t care about me or Inez; you only care about Ricky. Well, thanks for letting me know, Mom. At least now I don’t have to feel guilty anymore."

She finished speaking and continued to walk away, leaving Mrs. Sinclair to look at her with a stunned expression. She stared at her daughter’s cold back and blinked her eyes. Did she do something wrong? But all she wanted was the best for her family!

Dominic glanced at Mrs. Sinclair; his cold eyes swept past her as he inhaled deeply and followed Tao, with his fingers pinching the bridge of his nose. He was fighting every fiber of his being to remain composed when all he wanted was to set the world on fire. Damn it, it fucking hurt that she left him like that. Not just because she was away from him, but because she found it so easy to leave him behind when he, despite knowing that she killed his sister, couldn’t let go of her.

And he was angry.

Angry that she could leave him when he couldn’t find the strength to kill her for killing Abertha. His dearest sister. And he was angry with himself for taking the warning signs so lightly. He thought that it didn’t matter if Inez was to leave or die.

But now that he was faced with the situation of never seeing Inez or having her in his life, Dominic realised that he couldn’t do it. He still hated her, but he didn’t wish to be away from her. It was a subconscious reaction — the instinct of his wolf, something that he couldn’t ignore.

"Look for her."

"Dom," Luca spoke in a wary tone. But Dominic ignored him; he continued speaking in an even tone, "Look for Inez and bring her back to me. I don’t care what you have to do, Luke. But I want to see her within three days."

That was his limit, and beyond that, he had no idea what he might do.

Inez let out a sneeze as she stepped out of the public restroom where she had not only taken a quick bath but even changed her clothes. She was not good at wiping trails, but when she was young, she had gone on small missions with Luca and Blake where she had learned a few tricks that could be used to wipe off her trails.

And to make things better, she was also part siren; as long as she mixed her scents, Dominic and the rest would never be able to find her because they never found out about her true identity, something Inez was glad that she never disclosed.

Feeling odd as she walked to the parking lot of the gas station without anyone glaring and poking and pointing fingers at her, Inez made her way to her truck only to hear a growl followed by a low thump.

Inez frowned; she was certain that she had driven way past the territories of the shifters and was now in the city where the humans lived. Strictly speaking, there shouldn’t be any shifters here. So where did the growling come from?

A part of her wanted to ignore the curiosity in her head, but at the same time, she knew that there was no other choice. The sound came from the front of her truck, and she needed her truck to keep driving. She needed to head to South Caroline before anyone traced her and caught her when she was in the middle of running away.

Inez sucked in a breath and then walked over and around her truck but she had just taken three steps close to the front when she smelt the scent of blood.

This made her pause for the last thing Inez needed was to get involved in something dangerous. Once again. She didn’t know whether it had something to do with her being a siren and her desire for adventures that such problematic things came to look for her.

Her heart was telling her to ignore the situation in front of her, and for the first time, her mind was agreeing with her as well, but then—

"I know that you are there, Miss Sinclair."

A familiar voice and teasing tone.

Inez closed her eyes and released a shaky breath. It seemed like her plan to ignore this person was going down the drain.

She stepped forward and looked down at the shifter who was leaning against her car. Though it was dark, Inez knew that the man in front of her was Killian Sokolov, as the scent of Vodka, sea salt, and hot sex flooded her lungs. Ever since she discovered her crush on Dominic, no man had ever held any sort of attraction to her.

However, Killian Sokolov was an exception. He made her body tingle as her siren side stirred with arousal. It was at times like these that Inez wished that her wolf was active within her. At least with her wolf being a rather loud entity within her, her siren side didn’t cause any trouble for her.

She could have ignored it, but now that her wolf was gone, her siren side became dominant, and it became hard to ignore.

Inez held mixed emotions as she stared at the bleeding man who was smiling up at her and questioned, "What are you doing here, Alpha Sokolov?"

"The same thing as you."

"Me?"

"Yes, you," Killian grinned. He stared up at Inez and said to her, "I am running away. However, unlike you, I am running away from my enemies."