The Trinity: The Ashland Pack Series (23 page)

“No. Its okay, Percy. It’s ready. Cade can wait until later,” Adrianna calmly
said as she grinned at Cade.

Cade
looked at Adrianna and frowned. He
grabbed her, whispering in her ear, “You just wait, mate. Later will be here soon and you will be
screaming my name.”

Adrianna
looked up into her mate’s lusting eyes, loving how Cade could be the jokester
one minute, then sexy the next. She
loved him and his different personalities.

Cade
looked over at Percy, one of his Protectors and frowned. Percy knew they came in at the wrong
time. The way it looked, Cade was
about to take his mate on the kitchen counter.

Percy
looked at Cade and mouthed, “Sorry.”

Samson
walked in smiling, trying to locate his mate. He walked over to Adrianna and pulled
her toward him, placing a passionate kiss on her lips. Nobody thought anything of showing
affection toward a mate. They
continued to eat, talking among themselves. Everybody sat down at the big table for
the first time, enjoying their first meal as a family and they were a
family. Cade’s Protectors and
Samson’s Guards were now her family too. She loved the feeling of family. She missed that. It was
different when she was with Afton and Selena. They tried, but something was always
missing.

Mace
walked in with Jacob, carrying all kinds of sweets with him. They sat down at the table and started
eating. She looked around the table
smiling, when she looked at her mates she started crying.

“What’s
wrong, my love?” Samson asked with concern in his eyes.

“Nothing
is wrong for the first time in a long time. It feels like home and finally a family
I can call my own.” Adrianna smiled
at everyone sitting at the table and they smiled back at her.

Once
breakfast was done, the Protectors and Guards went back outside to resume their
detail. Mace sat at the table with
Adrianna and her mates. Mace
advised them that everybody was ready with the plan and described in detail how
Selena had left the hotel to go into the next town. She had informed Afton that she needed
some more clothes and they had a bigger department store there.

“Okay, so
we go with taking her down on her way back into town. Who do we have following her?” Samson
asked.

“Damen is
following her. He knows what he’s
doing and he is part of the inner circle,” Mace said.

“Let’s get
everybody into position because we may only have one chance at this,” Cade said
as he started getting up from the table. Everybody got up, getting ready to leave. Jacob sat silently at the table watching
Adrianna.

“What’s
wrong, Jacob?” Adrianna asked putting her hand on his shoulder in concern.

“I don’t
know. I just feel like something is
going to happen to you and I feel like we are family. I know I’m not your real family, but if
you had mine, you would want another one too. I don’t want to lose you,” Jacob said
looking down at the table.

“Oh,
Jacob. You are my family, silly
boy.” Adrianna grabbed Jacob and
hugged him tightly to her. She
could hear Jacob’s heart pounding in his chest. Jacob hugged Adrianna back, finally
feeling like part of a family. “I
will be fine, Jacob. I need you to
stay here with your computer in case I call and need you to look something up
for me. You are a big part of the
team, Jacob, and nobody is as good as you are at this. Think you can handle it?”

Jacob
looked up at Adrianna and smiled. “Yeah, I can handle it. I’ll
be waiting for your call.” Adrianna
moved toward her bedroom when Jacob stood up. “Adrianna? Be careful. Something is off and I don’t know what
it is, but my wolf is restless.”

“I will,
Jacob,” Adrianna said as she disappeared into her bedroom.

Adrianna
and her mates were sitting at an old shack outside of town. This was the place Mace and the others
would try to take Selena down, giving Adrianna enough time to cast the spell
holding Selena until the Twister’s Council could put her in a magical
cell. Adrianna hoped she would be
able to bind Selena. She was a
strong witch and vampire. Mace had
purchased some walkie-talkies to help communicate with each other instead of
using their cell phones all the time.

The radio
came on with a little bit of static when Damen’s voice came over the radio
informing the group that Selena was walking out of the department store with a
couple of bags in her hand. Then
Damen said that another black van pulled up, blocking his path. He advised the team to stand by; he was
trying to move to see past the van. Damen came over the radio saying the van was leaving and Selena was
gone. Mace instructed him to get
closer to see where she went.

Damen came
back over the radio. “Hey, I think
we have a problem. Selena’s keys
and bags are lying on the ground beside her car.”

Adrianna
looked at Cade and Samson with shock in her voice. “Something is wrong. Tell Damen to go and search for the
van. Somebody took Selena. Leave somebody behind in case she comes
back.” Samson relayed the
information to Damen.

“Already
on it, boss,” Damen said over the radio.

Cade and
Samson didn’t want to show how concerned they were and possibly that they were
wrong about Selena. They got out of
the truck as if they needed to stretch their legs. Adrianna sat in the truck, grasping her
head in her hands, looking down at the floor. Adrianna kept whispering to herself,
“Please let her be okay. Please,
please.”

Samson
came around to the door when he heard the radio go off again. “We can’t find the van and nobody has come
back to Selena’s car,” Damen repeated in the radio.

Samson
instructed Damen and the team to get Selena’s car and bring it back to the
hotel. They would need to tell the
Supreme Alpha that his mate had been taken or did she go of her own free
will? Nobody was looking forward to
this conversation because then they’d have to tell Afton their theory.

“It’s my
responsibility to tell my father.” Samson and Cade turned to look at Adrianna. That was the first time they’d ever
heard her call the Supreme Alpha her father.

“Baby, we
will be with you when we talk to the Alpha. Remember, one for all and all for one,”
Samson said smiling.

Adrianna
laughed at Samson trying to get that saying right, and then she dragged in a
deep breath, praying that Selena was safe. She tried her cell phone but Damen answered it, having found it in her
car. They all sat in silence as
they drove to the hotel to meet with the Supreme Alpha. Mace informed them he would be there to
be part of the meeting.

They all
arrived at the hotel with Mace standing outside waiting for the others to
arrive. He told Percy to wait on
Damen and Declan to arrive with Selena’s car. He instructed Percy to tell Damen to
stop anybody from touching the car so Adrianna could try a spell to see if
anybody touched it beside Selena.

Adrianna
knocked on the Supreme Alpha’s door. Afton came to the door opening it, smiling at Adrianna. “Hey sweetheart, I’ve missed seeing you
every day.” He hugged Adrianna,
looking over her shoulder seeing Cade, Samson, and Mace behind her. “Where’s the funeral, boys?”

Mace spoke
first, “Sir, we need to speak with you in private.”

“Well, it
must be important for all of you to come. Has something happened?” Afton asked as he went to his desk sitting on
the edge.

Adrianna
bowed her head in respect to the Supreme Alpha. “Sir, we need to first tell you
something. I know you are going to
be pissed off, but we all came to this conclusion. I will take full responsibility for
this.”

Adrianna
started telling Afton their theory about Selena. As she continued to talk, they could see
Afton getting angry. By the time
she got to the part where Selena was taken, he was livid.

Afton
yelled, “My mate has been taken?!”

Then he
slammed his fist onto the desk, breaking it in two pieces. All the contents on the desk fell to the
floor. Adrianna continued to stand
in front of her Alpha with her eyes pointed down to the ground. Samson and Cade immediately came to her
side, trying to pull her behind them.

Samson
pulled Adrianna away from the Supreme Alpha. “Alpha, it wasn’t Adrianna’s idea, it
was mine. I was the first one to
put this together. Adrianna didn’t
want to believe it.”

Afton moved away from the group, shaking
with rage. “First of all, I asked
Selena to take down notes about each of you and about Ashland. I wanted to know all our weaknesses to
see how we could better prepare ourselves. Second, Selena would never betray you or me for that matter. A mate would know that. They wouldn’t be able to keep it secret
from each other. Third, how could
you betray Selena and me? If you had
these feelings, we could’ve cleared up everything including, about the
cape. That cape is something they
give you when you graduate from the Twister’s Academy. She’s had it for years. When we moved here, it had been packed
up for over twenty years. I found
it in one of the old boxes and showed it to her. If you would have looked further Samson,
it has a big hole in the back of it where rats had gotten into the box. She didn’t want to throw it out, so she
placed it in her car, hoping she could get someone to fix it. It held sentimental value for her. You betrayed me by not coming to me
first. I thought we were
family. I can’t trust any of you
now.” Afton looked at Adrianna with
deep sadness in his eyes then asked, “My mate, where is she. Who took her?”

Mace
spoke, walking toward Afton, “We don’t know, Alpha. A black van pulled up beside her when
she came out of the store. Then the
van backed out and disappeared down the road. Her bags were left on the ground along
with her keys.”

“Did you
find her cell phone?” Afton asked.

“Yes sir,
she had left it in the car,” Samson calmly stated.

Adrianna
walked over to the window looking out. “I’m sorry Dad, this is my fault.” Afton turned to look at his daughter. This was the first time he ever heard her
call him Dad. “They want me, not
Selena. She is still alive, I can
feel that. I will get her back.”

Adrianna
turned and walked out of the office. She walked outside and met with Damen and Declan. She instructed Damen to keep everybody
back from her while she cast the spell.

“Don’t let
anybody touch me Damen, until the spell is over. It will hurt them if they touch me. Do you understand?” Damen nodded yes. Then she went over to the car and before
she started the spell, she looked over her shoulder. “That includes my mates, Damen. You and Declan will have to restrain
them when they see me.”

Before
Damen or Declan could ask what would happen to her. Adrianna walked to the driver’s side
door and started chanting. The wind
started blowing as she chanted. Then she put her hands on the car closing her eyes. The Supreme Alpha, Mace, and her mates
came out the front door. Damen
instructed the Protectors and Guards to hold their Alphas back if they tried to
get to Adrianna.

As
Adrianna chanted, the wind started blowing harder. Adrianna’s nose started bleeding, as she
got further into the spell. The
pain was evident on her face as she struggled to continue the spell.

Samson and
Cade cried out, “Adrianna, no!”

They
started running to help their mate when Damen, Declan, and the Protectors physically
restrained their Alphas. Damen
yelled at them, trying to make them understand Adrianna said that if they
touched her while she was casting the spell, it could kill them. Adrianna continued the spell with
lighting striking in the sky and thunder rolling, making Adrianna appear distorted. Adrianna screamed, and then lifted her
hands in the sky with lighting hitting her, bouncing her away from the
car. Everybody ran toward Adrianna
lying on the ground passed out. Her
face had blood on it from where her nose had been bleeding. Samson and Cade got to her first, trying
to hold her to them, pleading for her to wake up.

Afton’s
heart ached looking down at his daughter’s lifeless body. They moved her into the hotel, laying
her on Afton and Selena’s bed. Cade
was wiping Adrianna’s face with a wet washcloth, telling her it was time to
wake up. Samson was sitting beside
her when he jumped up and ran outside. He went to Selena’s car pulling the first aid kit he had put back in the
car. He ran back inside, opening up
the kit finding the small bottle and placing it under her nose. Adrianna jumped up, dropping her fangs
down, backing up the bed looking for danger.

“Thank
God,” Afton said as he came closer to the bed.

Adrianna’s
mates calmly spoke to her, telling her that she was okay; nothing was in the
room with them. Adrianna calmed
down, looking around, remembering what had happened. She sat up shaking her head, trying to
clear it. Mace came closer to the
bed sitting next to Adrianna, trying not to show how worried he was about
her. He knew she needed his
strength now. Tension flowed off
her mates wanting to spank her butt for using a spell that could have killed
her. They both grabbed her, hugging
her, smelling her scent, needing it to calm down.

Damen
asked the question everybody wanted to know, “Adrianna, did you see
anything?”

Adrianna
looked up then closed her eyes, trying to remember what she had seen. “I saw Selena tied up with rope, but the
rope glowed. She was being held by
magic. She was knocked out and in
some type of building. I couldn’t
see anything else except one person.”