Trinity of Power novel Chapter 4

The second that they take the silver chains off and begin tying me with rope, I mindlink my mates.

Zak? Charlie? Can you hear me?

Brandon? They both scream. I can hear the fear and worry in their voices. I want to calm them. To reassure them that I’m ok. To check on them and our pups. But I can’t. I’ve got to get them as much information as I can get out of my captors so that they can find me.

Listen! I link. I can tell that they immediately become alert.

“Who the fuck are you? Why am I here?” I demand.

“I guess that we should introduce ourselves,” the white guy says. “I’m Casen Leblanc and these are my mates, Corinda Bouchard and Severn Whitepaw.”

They left us a note. Zak mindlinks. They want us to meet them at Julian’s old packhouse in three days. All of the trios.

“Great, Brandon Snow. Now, why the fuck did you knock me out and drag me away, not only from my pack and my mates, but from my one month old pups?” Ok, maybe I need to tone down the hostility.

I’m sitting on some kind of cot on the floor. Corinda is sitting on a stool in front of me, Severn leaning against the wall behind her, almost as if he’s her bodyguard. Casen is crouched beside me on the floor, having just tied me up. I’m not sure why they tied me with rope. Wouldn’t take much for me to break these and they have to know that.

When I talk about our pups, a look of pain shoots across Corinda’s face and Severn and Casen both look at her in concern. If I cared, that would be an interesting reaction and I might want to learn more, but honestly, I just want to get the hell out of here.

“Look, Brandon,” Severn starts, running his hands through his hair. “I’m sorry that we took you from your…family. It’s nothing personal and we won’t harm you. We just needed to find a way to get all of the trios to meet us without a war happening.”

“Ever heard of a phone call? Letters are actually pretty popular, too.” I snarl.

“You think that would have been answered peacefully?” Corinda sneers at me. Ok, so this bitch doesn’t like me. Not that I really fucking care. The more I piss them off, the more likely they’ll be to slip up and provide information that will help my mates.

“I think that it would have gone about as well as a snowball’s chance in hell, honestly, after all the shit you three have pulled.” I sneer right back at her. “But it would have gone over a lot better than pulling this shit. You really think this was a smart idea? Kidnapping someone? Though I have to admit it takes balls.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment, since it was my idea,” Corinda says. Alright, now we’re getting somewhere. She’s got these boys wrapped around her finger if she can get them to do this stupid shit.

“Yeah? Probably your idea to decimate all of those packs, too, huh?” I goad her.

“Damn right, it was. They fucking deserved it!” She raises her voice, her face contorting with her anger.

“Rin!” Casen says, his voice stern, his alpha tone leaking out. Doesn’t really work on a mate, but it definitely made his point.

Looking at the two of them, it’s easy to tell that they are having some sort of mindlink conversation.

She gets up in a huff and stomps out of the room. I hear the rustling of leaves and branches and a kind of ripping sound for several seconds. Then all is quiet again.

Casen watches her leave, a look of exhaustion and resignation on his face. Severn stares at the floor, the same look mirrored on his face. He’s the one that breaks the silence.

“Look, Brandon, this situation sucks. But, honestly, all we want to do is talk. We never thought that there would be other trios out there for us to bond with. Anyone who would understand. We want to call a truce.” Severn finally looks up and faces me. He’s eyes hold a sincerity that I didn’t expect. I’m honestly a little taken aback.

“Look, we know that you could easily break those bonds. But you have to heal from where Sev’s tree hit you, so the silver needed to come off. We know that you’re probably linking with your mates right now and we’re not going to do anything to stop you. In fact, I’ll give you some more information for them,” Casen says. He sits down on the floor, his legs bent with his arms laid on top of them. He leans back against the wall. Severn kneels down and slings an arm across Casen’s shoulder, leaning his head on Casen’s.