Fates Hands novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Maybe it was the whole mate bond thing, she didn’t really know. It felt like they were connected somehow. It felt deeper than just love alone. Adira was getting really comfortable with Duncan, she never thought that she would ever be able to trust anyone again.

Here she was though, on her back floating in the water with his arms under her. It felt wonderful, if she was going to be honest about the whole thing. Once he was confident that she at least knew the basics of swimming, they got out of the water.

She sat on the edge of the bank with her feet swaying in the water as she became lost in thought. So many memories, so much pain, so much betrayel. Why? she never wanted anything more than their love. She wanted a family. When she started sneaking out and following her father and uncle, she wasn’t sure what she was going to find. It was far worse than she ever thought it was. 2

When the family would go on vacations, she would go down to her fathers office and look for stuff, she found plenty of bills of sale, documents, fake visa’s, bank account records

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and account books for profit and loss.

She also found another account book seperate from the others, she wasn’t an accounting genious but she could tell that her father was keeping this book to keep track of the money he was stealing from their businesses.

Wonder if Uncle Alpha knew about that.? Not that she was going to tell him. Who know’s neither of them liked each other, so it’s a good bet that Uncle is also doing the same thing to dear ole Dad.

She drifted off to other memories, the one where she and another girl were playing together in the woods and Uncle Alpha came up behind them. He just stood there and watched them, it gave them both the creeps. Finally Cathy’s mother called out for her and she never saw her again.

A week after Cathy went missing, there was a note taped to her attic door. She remembered it word for word…….

{I Don’t Ever Want You to Play in The Woods Again.}

The note wasn’t signed but she knew who it was from. She never went to that spot again, but when Artemis showed up she needed the woods

10:40 AM | 1.7KB/S DOO again. She would always wait till the end of her shift at the hotel and run in the woods behind it. It wasn’t really all that much, it was enough to get them through some bad stuff

Adira noticed that she was shaking and was having trouble breathing, she couldn’t get enough air. The world around her started to dim as she could hear the voices and all the terrible things they were saying to her. She could hear Duncan screaming her name off in the distance and then it was all gone.

She was back in her room in the attic, tied to a support beam and being beaten by her father because she got caught using the downstairs bathroom.

Duncan was in a panic, she was fine one moment and then she went quiet. The next thing he knew she was screaming NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! over and over. He picked her up and carried her to the tent,as he held her yelling her name over and over hoping that she would come back from her nightmare.

He saw the scars on her back and legs, he wished he could of been there for her so none of this would have happened. He could not because he was not. He will do anything she

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He laid her down on the rug and got out the blankets, the pillows and made her a bed. He then went to the sides of the tent and shut the curtains, so when she woke up she would be surrounded by white. He lovingly put her down right in the middle of the bed he made, then cuddled up next to her and gathered her into his arms. Falling asleep as close as he could get to her.

An hour later Duncan woke to the sound of Marco in his head, Marco was waiting outside for him. He slowly disentangled himself from her body and went to meet his Beta. When he stepped outside the tent he gave Marco an angry stare. Marco held up his hands in surrender.

I have a message from Jack, “he says that there were enforcers sent into his territory. Jack and his Slueth of Bears took care of them easily and sent a rather nasty message back daring Alpha Micheal to send more.”

As far as he knows they still believe that Adira is with them in their territory. He said he will play as long as you want him to.”

“He also said that he can be on the move at a

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moments noticed if needed. All you have to do is give the word.”

“That is good Marco, send this message back to him. Tell him he can play as long as he wants, just let me know when he get’s bored with it and I will change it up for him.”

“Also Marco I need a favor, Adira had a bad PTSD attack. I don’t want to move her through the forest and wake her. Can you bring one of those futon mattresses here and some extra blankets. Ask the Pack cook if she can send along some of her homemade herbal tea.”

“Don’t worry about pack business, I will take care of it till you come back and I will mind link you to any developments going on as well as any problems.”

“Now go back to our Luna, I will be back shortly with everything you’re going to need.”

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