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Finding Me

Adrian looked through the blinds of his house as he waited for the Marrok's liaison/enforcer to arrive.

Adrian was a slim black man with close cropped hair and a slim, animated face with boyish eyes and slightly plump lips. Today that face was unusually still. At 70 he wasn't really that old by werewolf standards and he had adapted well with his New Orleans.

He was scared that he had made a huge mistake by reporting the situation with their young Omega and the rogue that attacked her to the Marrok. Apparently he thought it was worth investigating because he sent Charles and Anna all the way from Montana to New Orleans to check out the situation.

The sound of a new car pulled his attention from his musings and he soon saw their rental pull into his driveway. Adrian was on the tall end of average at 6 ft tall but somehow he still felt small when Charles entered even though Charles was only 2 inches taller than him.

"I thought your Omega was going to be here" Anna said.

"She had to stay late at work so she's getting her some food then she'll be here… that is if that old Toyota of hers decides to stay running." He sighed.

"What's wrong with it?" Charles asked.

"There is a laundry list, timing is shot, along with the power steering, ac works when it's in the mood too, which isn't often the starter isn't much more reliable, and the oil pan leaks." Adrian replied "And that's just what I know… she told me to sell it for scrap after she's out of here." He continued stretching out the last "and" for a beat longer than the rest.

The sound of an engine that sounded as if it was way past its prime interrupted the conversation pulled their attention to the road where a white 1992 Toyota 2 door pickup parked on the street. A petite black woman exited the truck. She had a round, baby face with full lips and wide, expressive hazel eyes. Her hair was wavy and transitioned ombre style from black at the roots to blonde at the tips. As she walked she ran her fingers through it as if she had just taken it down.

She entered the house and Charles had a bad feeling things were worse than Adrian had told his father. They knew Adrian hadn't told them everything and even then he wanted to hear it from Jordan.

"Okay I know why you came but what do you need to know"

"Jordan…"

Before Anna could complete her statement the sound of another vehicle drew their attention. They looked to see a tall, wiry blonde get out of a brand new, jacked up Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. Charles growled, the alpha was in a perfect, and extremely flashy, vehicle while his omega, who should have been a treasure to the pack, drove something Charles figured was older than she was and couldn't even be relied upon to start up on any given day.

Adrian growled as well, this wasn't the usual reaction from a second when his alpha arrived but Adrian and Matthew didn't get along anymore. Jordan started to get scared, Charles didn't understand why she was afraid but it didn't matter, he would protect her anyway. He not so subtly placed himself between Jordan and the door as Matthew entered the house. She hid willingly, coloring Matthew in an even worse light.

"Matthew, how kind of you to show up." Adrian said his Creole accent thickening with rage. Charles sat back, it seemed he and Jordan hadn't been noticed yet.

"So what's so urgent that you had to call me here?"

"How about the matter of a certain rogue you won't kill even though it has a body count in the double digits?" Adrian asked

"What rogue?" Matthew asked as if he was unaware of the events his second spoke of "I didn't know we had a problem with a rogue." His accent was New Orleans by way of Georgia by Anna's figuring but at this point none of that really mattered.

"LIKE HELL YOU DIDN'T!" Jordan roared pushing passed Charles who, to his credit, didn't look nearly as shocked as he felt.

Charles was just as shocked as anybody when she stormed out from behind him breathing like a marathon runner apparently finding her courage in her rage at his blatant lies.

"How else do you explain how my sister and I were changed? We damn sure didn't ask for any of this!" she demanded "We were mauled by that moonstruck bastard and you did nothing. I told you my sister was developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder… you did nothing." Jordan's voice cracked under the weight of her emotions. Her accent had become almost indecipherable to those not native to New Orleans but Charles understood well enough to realize where this was going and why Adrian hadn't mentioned it.

"… I told you my sister was a danger to herself and you STILL did NOTHING!"

Jordan swallowed hard, unable to speak. She felt the pain growing again inside her heart as she aired her accusations at her alpha not even thinking what the man that stood behind her would do. His hands came to rest on her shoulders and through the contact and energy she found what she needed to continue her rant to the inevitable end.

"…She killed herself… and… and all you could say was 'I'm sorry'… and it was a fucking LIE!" the last part she yelled at the top of her lungs in a sob.

Jordan dropped to her knees in a fit of sobs and Anna collected her into her arms as Charles stepped around them drawing attention to his presence.

"Charles… what… brings you here?"

"My da got a call about you letting a rogue kill in your territory. We weren't aware you had stood idly by as one of your children died by her own hand."

"I have no children."

"You are an alpha… every werewolf you bring into your pack is your child to protect." Charles informed him "I judge you guilty of endangering the safety of us all by allowing this rogue to hunt humans freely."

"You are also guilty of negligence in the death of Jaquelin Christine Devereaux" Adrian said and Charles nodded in agreement.

Adrian was an old detective and knew the law both human and werewolf would hold him accountable for Jaquelin as he knew she was a danger to herself and did nothing thus responsible for some part in her death. If the had been human and she had been caught in an attempt at suicide, she should have been committed but she wasn't.

"And for those charges I sentence you to death." Charles finished.

Matthew said nothing just attacked and was dead within seconds.

Adrian felt Matthew die and the weight of the pack fall on him.

"Now what?" he asked looking between Matthew's dead body and, the still inconsolable, Jordan, his heart breaking for her.

"She has wanted to leave for over a week but he wouldn't release her. She has been planning to finish out her master's in clinical psychology in the Tri-Cities. Hauptman is incensed because he was supposed to get her three days ago but Matthew has essentially held her hostage because of her unique gifts."

"Release her and we will make sure she gets to Adam safely."

The Tri-Cities pack had only just been reinstated to the Marrok a couple of months prior.

"Okay… but I can't banish her in this shape. I'll give her time to calm down while I call my new second and third to let them know of their promotions." Adrian was an old hat at leadership even though this was his first turn at Alpha.

He took the vows and went to call his men and Charles reflected on what he had just heard.

"How did Jaquelin go about her suicide?"

"She went to one of the levies in the south of our territory and jumped." Adrian sighed "How she figured out to drown herself I don't know. Perhaps she thought it would be like jumping off a bridge."

Charles could tell Adrian felt guilty about not being able to save Jaquelin but without the Alpha's support there wasn't much he could have done.

Charles figured when Adam learned of Jaquelin he would likely keep an eye on Jordan or even put her on what the police call "suicide watch" until he was sure she was in no danger of following her younger sister's example by walking into the Columbia. His musings were interrupted by his cell phone.

"Yes Da, Matthew is dead… he stood idly by not only as a rogue hunted humans in his territory but also as one of the survivors had a mental breakdown and committed suicide." Charles paused "Her sister was changed at the same time and isn't taking her sister's suicide well."

Bran sighed "Our omega?"

"Yes," Charles sighed

"I will make sure Adam is aware she has issues and refer him to her for more details."

Adrian made sure Jordan ate and soon they were going to her apartment to get her belongings that she was taking on the flight. Her truck was left at Adrian's as it wouldn't start and Adrian begrudgingly moved Matthew's truck. It would net a pretty penny on resale with all the cash Matthew invested in tricking it out.

He released her from the pack bonds and said a prayer over her before handing her over to Charles and Anna to take to the Tri-Cities.

Adrian kissed the top of her head in a fatherly gesture before she left.

"I won't let this happen again." He vowed into her hair before she followed Charles and Anna out of her old appartment.

To be continued…