No one's POV

A year had passed since Kira's passing and slowly things had gotten somewhat better. Emily and Sam were expecting their first kid, Jared and Kim were planning their wedding, Quil was still a hopeless case whenever it came to Claire, Leah and Blake were together (nobody had ever seen Leah smile so much in such a long time), the guys that didn't have imprints were still the idiots they had always been, and Paul…Paul was hanging in there. He had gotten 2 jobs. One was at the mechanic shop that he and some of the guys from the pack owned and he also worked at Sue's diner. He never smiled a full blown smile like he had with Kira but he had a small smile on his face and it wasn't forced.

Paul had taken to telling Claire everything he knew about Kira, since she frequently asked. One day when Paul was telling Claire about Kira, Claire had asked where she was now. Everyone watched with baited breath at what Paul's response would be. Claire didn't understand why everyone had suddenly gotten quiet so she just looked at Paul and waited for his answer. Paul just smiled down at Claire and told her that Kira was an angel now and that she would always be watching over them. Claire just smiled and ran around cheering that she had a guardian angel. With that the tension in the room eased away but what gave everyone hope was that Paul didn't look sad or withdrawn he looked happy.

So as you can see everything had been going pretty well.

Leah's POV

I couldn't help it something was wrong.

"Leah?" I turned to see that Emily and Kim were staring at me. We were at Emily's in the kitchen taking a break from preparing the food for lunch. "Huh?"

"Leah is something wrong? You've been looking worried for some time now." Kim looked at me with a concerned expression. I sighed knowing that if I didn't tell them then they wouldn't leave me alone. "I'm worried about Blake." I finally admitted.

"Why did something happen?" Emily asked. I'm glad that I no longer held any resentment for Emily I feel bad for all those years. "Well-" I started carefully thinking about how to word this "he's been really moody lately and he locks himself in his room for days. Every time I ask him he just tells me it's nothing for me to worry about and to just forget about it…..But I can't. I know he was involved in things like Kira was, and I-I-I don't want anything to happen to him. I'm scared!" I let it all out. The tears, the frustration, the worry. I had been keeping this to myself for about a week but I needed to talk to someone about this. It was driving me crazy. I'm so scared that I might lose Blake too.

"Sweetie hush hush." Emily wrapped her arms around me trying to get me to calm down. "Nothing is going to happen to Blake he's going to be alright. You'll see we'll all talk to him later." She kept trying to comfort me. I knew that if we did Blake would get upset, but I needed him to realize that I wasn't strong enough to deal with losing another person so close to me. "Don't worry Leah. We'll talk to him today. You're probably worrying about nothing." I looked at Kim and smiled weakly. 'Yeah I just might be worrying for nothing at all.'

With Blake, his POV

'It doesn't make sense!' I threw a pillow against the wall. It being the only thing that I could get my hands on at the moment. "It doesn't make any fucking sense!" I was beyond frustrated. I could still find things out about the crime world. I was still the fucking best at getting information. 'So why can't I figure this shit out!' Something was going on in the crime world. Something big and for the life of me I couldn't figure out who was causing it or why they were doing it. 'Whoever's doing this has to be someone big. But why would they do this? Are they working for someone or are they just taking matters into their own hands?'

Ring Ring Ring Ring

I looked at my cell phone and saw that Leah was calling me. I'm not stupid I know I worried her with the way I've been acting but this was putting me on edge. I took a deep breath to calm down before answering. "Hey babe what's up?" I said making sure my voice was normal.

"Hey the girls and I finished making lunch, so come over to Emily's."

"Alright I'll be there in a few." I forced myself to not sigh. I really didn't want to go to Emily's I still needed to figure this out, but what Leah wants I'll go to hell and back to get it for her.

"Okay then… I love you."

"I love you too Leah." With that I hung up. I know she wanted to know what was going on but I didn't want to worry her. 'Heh too late for that.' I calmed myself down some more before heading to Emily's.

A few minutes later

I arrived at Emily's house. I'm pretty sure the others were already there. 'Damn wolves with their damn inhuman speed.' Okay so maybe my pride had taken a couple of hits when I found that it took a lot to kick their ass. BUT I was deadly… just to normal people and not supernatural shit. I open the door and take in the smell of home cooked meals. Leah sticks her head out from the kitchen and runs towards me before giving me a hug. I wrap my arms around her and buried my face in the crook of her neck inhaling her sweet scent that makes me crazy for more. "Blake?" "Hmm" I say letting her know that I hear her but that I am too busy taking her in to say anything else. "Is everything okay?" I sigh knowing where this was going. I didn't even have to look up to know that the others were there and staring, I could feel the weight of their eyes on me. "Blake-I need you to understand something." Leah removes her arms from around my neck and makes me look at her. "I've lost too many people close to me already. I-I-I c-can't lose anymore." I stiffen as I realize what she was saying. I look into her eyes and notice the unshed tears and the fear in them. I give her a kiss a fierce one to let her know that I was here and that I wasn't going anywhere. "Blake?" She asks as I finally let her pull away. I sigh and take her to sit down on the couch with me. She automatically curls into me as I sit there playing with her hair. I think over my words carefully.

"There's been some activity." I finally say. I feel everyone get tense and the tension in the room thickens to almost where it's tangible.

"What do you mean?" Sam asks ever the alpha, the leader of the pack who has the utmost care for his family.

"Lately, important people have been ending up in some unwanted composition. People who held a lot of worth and aren't the type to get careless and let themselves be taken by surprise like that." I say hoping that they'll understand me.

"What do you mean?" I sigh knowing it's going to take a lot more explaining to do.

"I mean that powerful people are dying and nobody knows who's doing it or why." I say my earlier frustrations leaking out. I lean forward and run my hands through my hair while I let them rest on my thighs.

"What does that have to do with you?" Jake asks. "Look the reason why Kira was on the run is because she failed to complete an assignment ordered by one of the biggest crime lords. However, Kira and I took care of that so he wasn't a problem. But before that Kira or should I say Shadow had a lot of enemies who wanted her dead."

"Okay?" I groan trying hard to restrain myself at their confused faces. "These same people that were after Shadow are ending up dead. All over the world. The thing is that you don't mess with these guys and they aren't the easiest people to take out. They're not the easiest to find and they've got shit loads of guards protecting them. The reason why I'm frustrated is because it doesn't make sense. Why would someone do that? What would they have to gain from taking them out? They're not leaving a calling card or anything so it can't be for reputation." I had stood up and began pacing the floor my mind going at a million miles an hour. "And if they are doing it to throw everything into chaos, then why is it just them why not all of the bosses? And it's not just the bosses but it's also some of the men that-" It hit me then. I stopped and thought about it, this was the only thing that fit but again the question was why.

"Blake?" Paul asked. "They're taking out of all of her enemies." I say in a somewhat whisper as one of my questions were answered but the rest still remained.

"Her? Who's her?" Leah asks standing up to stand by me. I swallow the lump in my throat taking a deep breath before looking at Paul. He flinches from gaze as I can only imagine what I look like right about now.

"Who Blake? Who are you talking about?" Sam asks impatience filling his voice.

"Kira." Paul flinches and begins to tremble but not because he's about to shift. "W-What do you mean?" He asks me. "The person who is doing this, this assassin, is taking out all those who posed a threat Kira or Shadow as we knew her." Everyone takes a deep breath.

"They're taking out all of Kira's enemies."