Rejected by My Alpha Now He Replaced Me with a Copycat Luna novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85

Kael’s POV

My feet hit the pavement like jabs to a heavy bag. I poured my anger, frustration, and fear into every step as I crossed the parking lot and headed for Off the Rail. We had to find something, anything, that would lead us to Raven. And the Infernos.

I’d always been one to encourage my pack to lead with mercy. Not this time. I would wipe every single member of The Inferno from this Earth. Wouldn’t rest until there was no longer a threat to Raven in any form. And I’d pay whatever price necessary to do it.

Hauling open the door to the club, the familiar sounds of sparring and heavy-bag work filled my ears. Normally, it was a comfort. But not today.

Today, nothing would soothe me except Raven.

The moment I stepped inside, Dante’s gaze cut to me from the side of the ring. Then, he was moving. Everything in me churned.

We’d told people that Raven was feeling under the weather, but since she’d been sick recently, everyone who knew her was starting to get

suspicious. Dante’s gaze swept over me before landing on my face. “How’s our girl doing?”

Fucking hell. That one hurt. Raven had been my girl. For a fleeting handful of moments, anyway. But they had been the best of my life. Until I threw them all away.

“She’s still not feeling great,” I mumbled.

Dante’s eyes narrowed. “You know I respect you, son. But if you keep lying to my face, I’m gonna box your ears.”

My hands fisted, and I let my claws lengthen just enough to prick my palms. I needed the pain to keep myself in check. Too much was at stake.

It wasn’t as if lying was anything new to me. It became second nature when you had to keep the other half of yourself a secret. But this was, different. Dante was in his mid-fifties, loved Raven like she was his daughter. He was protective of her in all the ways she should’ve had growing

up but didn’t.

All because she’d been born to a devil. Michael Clyne. A monster. And the man who’d made my sister’s life a living hell.

It didn’t seem possible that Raven had come from him. She was too pure of spirit. But I’d lost sight of that. I’d let the shock of her origins sway

me for a single minute-and that minute had cost me everything.

“Kael,” Dante said, his voice dropping low. “Tell me what the hell is going on.”

Everything hurt. The idea of concocting another far-fetched lie was more than I could take. Just one more mark on my soul.

I stared at Dante for a long moment. The truth didn’t betray our natures. The Infernos didn’t have the first clue what we were. They just wanted

vengeance.

“Someone took Raven,” I rasped,

Dante’s eyes flashed with heat, “Why the hell haven’t you told everyone? Called the damn cops-?”

“Because”-I cut him off-“the people who have her want to hurt me. Us.”

I couldn’t exactly explain that we hadn’t called Sheriff Grady because we thought dark mages had Raven. It would’ve meant sending law

enforcement in to be slaughtered had that been the case.

But even now, when we knew humans had her, my pack and I were far better equipped to take the Infernos out. If we could just figure out where the hell they were.

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A muscle in Dante’s cheek began to flutter wildly, making the gray scruff dance. “It’s someone you and your team took down.”

I nodded. “An MC back east. They were caught up in all sorts of dark shit. Drugs. Trafficking. Murder for hire. We dismantled their organization, but they reassembled quicker than anticipated.”

Dante muttered a curse. “And now they have Raven?”

I nodded, the admission costing more than he’d ever know..

“Well, what the hell are you doing to get her back?”

“We have to find where they’re holed up. We know they’re close to Duston because they sent a threat from Jack’s today.”

Dante’s brows rose before his expression closed down. “What kind of threat?”

“It’s not important. What we need to know now is where this building is.” I pulled out my phone and showed Dante the photo.

He squinted at the screen for a long moment before shaking his head. “I don’t know it.”

That snuffed out my tiny flicker of hope. There had to be another way to find the location. Some tech tracking Nox could do. Building records or some shit.

“How’s Raven?” Rod asked, pulling off his MMA gloves as he walked over, Marty at his side.

“Tell my future wife I can bring her chicken soup,” Marty said with a grin.

A low growl left my

throat.

Marty just laughed. “Damn, you’re a goner.”

“You guys know this building?” Dante demanded.

Rod and Marty eyed him warily before looking at my phone, not used to Dante’s serious tone.

“I don’t think so,” Rod said.

Marty leaned in, studying the image more carefully. “You know, this might be one of the buildings at the old metal scrapyard in Moss Creek. My ex boss had me go to their closing auction to see if there was anything worth salvaging for the shop.”

Energy buzzed across my skin at the possibility. Marty used to worked for a local mechanic, who also did restoration projects. They were always hunting for parts and pieces on the cheap. And I knew the metal scrapyard he was talking about. It had closed about a year ago and remained empty ever since,

It was a good forty-five minutes away, but that would give the Infernos privacy. They wouldn’t be worried about us stumbling onto them accidentally. And the property itself was isolated.

“What’s going on, Kael?” Rod asked, concern bleeding into his tone,

I couldn’t tell him. Couldn’t risk him and Marty wanting to come along to help, Not when we’d likely have to shift.

“It’s nothing. Just a case. This helps,”

I opened the pack link in my mind and sent out a message. “I’ve got a possible location. Meet in the parking lot of Jack’s. Now.”

Dante leveled me with a stare. “Need backup?”

I shook my head. “No, we’ve got this.”

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We’d do whatever it took to get Raven back. And then we’d return every ounce of pain the Infernos had inflicted on her.

I just hoped like hell we weren’t too late.

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