Chapter 15
They were able to go home as a family for the first time in weeks. Pac, Hunter and Alley all rushed to their rooms, flopped on to their beds and rested. They were so happy to be home once more. Rover spent time going in between the rooms to check on them.
Melee and Garou smiled for the first time in weeks. Yet, something troubled her. "Is there anything you want to tell me?" she asked.
Garou didn't even give her eye contact, "No, not at all."
Melee however put her self before him and made him look into her eyes. "Garou… where did you go?"
"What makes you think I went anywhere?"
Suddenly his tail acted up, making unusual sounds before it coughed something up. Melee peered down and saw a torn up lab coat on the ground with an earpiece. Garou turned to his tail. "Way to keep a secret!"
Melee leaned down and picked up the items before realizing whom they belonged to. She turned to him, stunned to say the least. "You didn't…"
Garou's arms crossed. "Don't act so surprised."
As she stood once more, she kept staring at the coat and earpiece. "But… how did you…"
"I can mimic his voice." Garou explained. "Also… after he was… taken care of… I took another thing of his…" he tapped the side of his forehead. "I have it all up here, and there's a lot more going on with him than we knew."
"What do you mean? Was he doing more outside of the association?"
"Yeah, a lot more. Now, the question is what to do with this knowledge and how to use it. It's not just him in the association who are going between there and another place. Corruption is in every location, he was keeping an eye on it all to make certain none of it go out of hand or into the public."
Melee sat down, so it wasn't just Metal Knight in on their children's forced transformation? "What do you know?" she asked of him.
Garou shook his head for now. "There's nothing to concern us at this time, for now, we have won and I say we savor the victory. Besides, I don't think anyone else will want to come after the family now. Not with what I know, not with what Alley is capable of. We also have a damn good guard dog!"
"That thing?" Melee demanded.
"Don't play with him for a while, he becomes a beast! You know that is a beyond level dragon threat of a monster right?"
"And yet, we keep it in the house and let it sleep with the kids." She muttered.
Garou smirked. "Rover isn't going to hurt them, not after they take such good care of him. Melee, we have all been through hell. Let's just enjoy the moment, shall we?"
She reluctantly agreed, but couldn't shake the feeling now. With Metal Knight gone, who else is going to come after her and her family?
