When they touch me (Shelagh Milano) novel Chapter 104

Chapter 104
CAYDEN

“Want some?” I ask with a grin, and he straightens back up, walking around my desk to sit down in one of the chairs standing in front of it. “Thank you, brother. But I guess you would bestow the most severe form of poisoning on me since the Black Death.”

I flash him my canines in a broad grin, getting him to laugh again. “Anyway, if you have a few moments to spare for me, I can let you know what I found out in the most boring, still ongoing, trial of our kins’ history.”

“What is it?” I ask, and he takes out a small notebook.

I have always asked myself where he got these from as they look as old as he is.

“They finally are getting that the wolfless woman was one of ours and that she was kidnapped and not exiled after having been tortured like the Saviano idiot was trying to convince everyone. And, finally, it was acknowledged that Fynn’s trespassing into the territory of the Gray Shadow Moon Pack was to get her daughter back, and not in the intent of starting a war.”

I chuckle at him calling Riccardo an idiot without knowing Artemisia yet. “Finally! Was about time.”

“So, all charges against him were dropped,” he sighs.

I close my eyes, hitting my fist repeatedly onto my desk. “Nice!”

“But as the idiot was still adamant about the fact that he or any other member of his pack wasn’t involved in the kidnapping,” he takes a short pause to inhale deeply. “The high court wrapped it all up again. Going through every single count again. It was like watching your Nan tell you about the war for the umpteenth time. But… at least we seem to be getting shoved back slowly under our true light… Very… slowly…”

“Which war did your Nan pester you about, Hendrick?” I ask him amused, causing him to lift his brows.

“Aaaaanyway, once they were going in the right direction, it got very interesting,” he says with an amused expression. “There was a new Alpha. A big boy. I think it is the one who held the coronation ceremony you went to a few weeks ago.”

“Ah, yeah. Alpha Giorgio,” I say with a smile.

“Whatever,” he sighs annoyed, turning a page. “It seemed that the big boy and the alpha idiot were in together on everything. The big boy sometimes struggled to follow where his idiotic friend wanted to aim at, but he was always really supportive.”

I scratch my chin, feeling troubled by this information. “He was supportive?”

“Yeah, sometimes I felt like trapped in a movie about a cute little bromance. But they were one in making their claims… You know, about you being the monster and us being the brainwashed cult followers ready to sacrifice everybody for the greater good. Then denied every possible involvement in the kidnapping and the torture and in the end, they rode into the sunset happily. I felt uncomfortable watching all this, but I would have been awfully sad if I had missed it.”

Sitting up straight, I grab my pen, “Is there anything else that they said?”

“Yeah,” he grins, obviously amused by my distress. “They hinted at the fact that you and your brothers got the big boy’s sister off their territory with a scam.”

“Oh, Goddess,” I sigh, passing my hand over my face.

“Is that true? Are you holding a poor innocent girl as your hostage?” he grins wider, idiotically.

“She is my… our mate. Nobody is holding her hostage,” I growl, baring my mark at him by pulling at my shirt.

He looks at the mark curiously before mocking me, “Sure, you tell yourself that.”

“Jerk,” I murmur and he leans back in his chair with a chuckle.