My dad scanned me and Andie from head to toe before saying anything " I don't see any injuries on you. Andie has a faint scent of dried blood on her but otherwise both of you look fine. Can I just assume you found young Chase asleep under a tree."
"No!" Andie blurted out obviously panicked "Chase isn't asleep I believe he has been giving rohypnol."
At the mention of the new drug I spin my head around to look at Andie "Babe , that's not the scent you said we followed are you saying they used two different drugs on Chase?" I ask, My anxiety was rising by the second now. I've heard the name of that drug before but I don't remember where . Chase is just a cub I hope he will be okay.
Andie sighed, her cute little brows pinching together " I don't believe Chase was ever giving the propofol.It can't produce the type of unconscious state Chase is in right now without being continuously administered.It has a very shot clearance time of less than two hours. That's the reason I believe chase has been giving rohypnol to knock him out."
" Will he be okay, what's that used for? " My dad ask, before I could process everything Andie said.
Andie glanced towards the emergency room doors they had taken Chase through then back to my dad,hesitatinily answering his question . " He should be okay, and as for as what rohypnol is used for here in the US. Date rape, it's not even manufactured in this country .It's an illegal drug here, but it's easier to obtain than propofol. Rohypnol can be bought on the street like heroin or cocaine."
What the fuck !My head started to spin and my stomach churned. I felt like throwing up. " THEY GAVE A CUB A DATE RAPE DRUG " I growled in disgust my Alpha aura spilling out in waves splashing over my dad making him take a step back.
"ZACK STOP " My dad used an Alpha command. Something he's never used on me before.
I pulled back my aura and closed my eyes it's been a long time since I lost control like that. Before I could lower my head my dad spoke again.
" Don't " It wasn't an Alpha command,and it wasn't loud, but I could still detect the warring in his voice.
My dad is a powerful man the strongest werewolf in existence right now. It's a natural response for a weaker wolf to lower their head when issued an Alpha command.He has the whole pack behind him. They all have total faith and respect for him, everyone including me.
I also know why he stopped me from lowering my head. My dad loves me and has all the faith in the world in my ability to lead the pack. He didn't want me showing weakness of any kind in public. Not even to him, it could cause other wolves to think I'm not fit to lead them.
"Let's take this to my study. I'll mind link Doctor Ryan and tell him to give Chase a through examination and run blood work on him."My dad said calmly, he always has total control over his emotions. Something I hope to achieve someday.
Without another word my dad turned on his heels and started walking towards the parking lot. I was quick to grab Andie's hand and follow him to the Escalade.
My dad jumped in the driver's seat and I opened the door on the passenger side told Andie " Get in and scoot over " I jumped in beside her picking her tiny little hand back up in mine.
My dad glanced over and raised a brow. "You're making it harder on yourself." He said, with an amused chuckle.
" What?" I ask, curious to know what the hell he thought was so fucking funny.
He jotted his chin towards my hand that was holding Andie's confusing me more " Every time you touch Andie you're making the bond stronger "
" What's so funny about that? Shouldn't it be a good thing?You know Andie's not some chick I picked up at the bar, she's my soulmate." I reminded him.
His old ass laughed again this time he even turned his head and his shoulders shook a bit before answering "That's true Andie is your soulmate. Your underage soulmate" He said that last part a bit louder then necessary. Like I didn't already know that shit.
" And as such you can't mark her yet. Every time you touch Andie without marking her the harder it will be for you to leave her side even for an hour. How do you expect Andie to go to school and let's not forget you still need to work." He said all that with a serious tone in his voice like he used when he was explaining pack matters.
Seeing the confusion on my face he leaned over towards me like he was going to tell me a secret. Even though Andie was the only one in the car with us."It's called jealousy" He murmured and fucking laughed again.
I rolled my eyes and shook my head a bit " I'm not that jealous, Andie knows we're soulmates and I trust her completely." I replied confidently,giving my girls soft hand a little squeeze.
He shook his head and laughed like I said something stupid.
" What?" I ask a little irritated now.
"It's not a matter of you trusting Andie or not. It's a matter of you trusting the guys around her. Your mark not only binds your souls together for eternity it also binds your scent together acting like a repellent for other guys. No guy wants to breath another man's scent coming from a woman no matter how cute she is." He explained nonchalantly like his old ass was talking about the weather. Leaving me to ponder what he just said.
And let me tell you, my brain took me in a million different directions. Mostly about horny ass teenage boys hitting on Andie at school. Fucking little bastards!
I threw my arm around Andie's shoulder and pulled her in closer to me.Perhaps she can wear my clothes to school. I can put them on first and rub my scent on them.Then I can hug her close to me right before she leaves. Yep that should work.
Before I could come up with anymore Ideas on how to get my scent on Andie the Escalade came to a halt at the front entrance of the pack house.
We jumped out of the Escalade and my dad tossed the keys to an omega that was watering the rose bushes beside the front entrance.
Never breaking his stride he passed all the guests who looked on curiously and went straight to his office. He pulled the keys out of his pocket unlocked the door holding it open for me and Andie. We walked inside and he closed the door behind us. Andie and I plopped down in the leather chairs in front of his desk.
My dad Stalked on over and set down behind his desk, taking a couple of deep breaths and ran his hands through his slicked back hair before he spoke .
" I want you to start from the moment you left the back yard while I was talking to Luna Rebecca. Tell me what happened and don't leave anything out."
" Okay " I started narrating what happened. "We came in here and got the maps, then we went to the storage room down the hall. That's when things started getting crazy. I opened the door and human scent hit me in the face, but there was nobody was inside. I came back out of the storage room and looked around for Andie. I found her at the end of the hallway hot on a scent trail of a drug she was familiar with." I stopped talking when my dad threw his hand up and snapped his head in Andie's direction.
" Andie tell me about that drug and it's importance." He murmured inquisitively.
" Alpha Riker " Andie started.
" Dad" he corrected.
" Dad" Andie started over and my old man smiled a little "Propofol is a drug used in general anesthesia. I recognized the scent coming out of the storage room when Zack opened the door. It's not an easy drug to get and it's difficult to manufacture." My dad threw his hand up again stopping my baby girl from taking.
" Are you absolutely sure that's the drug you detected,a drug used to put people to sleep during surgery?" My dad ask concern written all over his face. I'm sure he was thinking the same thing I was.
"Yes Sir, the head chemist at my dads company let's me help him after school and I've worked with propofol a bunch. I would recognize it's scent anywhere." My baby girl said confidently.
" Okay " my dad nodded bringing his attention back to me " Zack go ahead and tell me what happened after you found Andie at the end of the hallway."
" Well let's see, I mind linked Skyler to bring trackers and to help Young Alpha Aiden with the field serch. Then I followed Andie while she tracked the scent of that drug. She shifted and so did I. Apollo did his best to keep up." My dad gave me a what the fuck look, so I explained.
" Andie has a huge Alpha wolf she's almost as tall as Apollo, but not as bulky. Some of the places she could slide between Apollo had to go around. She's fast as hell so it was all Apollo could do to keep up with her." I shrugged and my dad looked dumbfounded.
He didn't say anything so I continued "Anyway
Andie tracked that scent up to Walker cave. We followed it on inside and I could hear voices coming from the big cavern in the center. We used the rock ledge to look through the peep-hole. There was four guys inside all armed and all human with an unconscious little boy. I sniped them from the peep-hole. Oh yeah here's your gun." I took my dad's pistol out of my pocket and slide it across his desk and continued "I picked up Chase and on the way out of the cave I mind linked Skyler"
My dad opened his desk drawer and slide the pistol inside hummed thoughtfully murmured. "Good work, you didn't get hurt, you protected your mate ,and found Chase alive. I'll send some warriors up there to extract the bodies we may find out who they are." He shifted his gaze from me to Andie and ask " Is there anything else?"
"Yes there is, I think someone from inside the pack house let them in from the emergency exit possibly a werewolf." I blew out the breath that I didn't even know I was holding in. It was hard to say that out loud.
My dad kept his composure and shifted his attention to Andie." Andie tell me what you think those guys planned to achieve with the two different drugs you mentioned."
Andie looked thoughtful for a moment before she spoke " Well, I'm just guessing here, But I believe those men drugged Chase with rohypnol or a similar drug before they approached him through the opening in the hedge. Because it's hard for me to believe that it was a snatch and run.We all know one whimper out of a cub and everyone in the garden would come running. The reason I'm saying rohypnol is because it makes people agreeable with things they normally wouldn't and with high doses it renders the person unconscious like the state we found Chase in. The propofol knocks a person out fast but wears off quickly and needs to be injected or given intravenously. Unlike rohypnol that is available in pill form and can be crushed and put into food or drink , rohypnol also lasts a long time. And as far as what I think they would be planning with the propofol, some type of surgery on poor little Chase maybe even inside that cave."
After Andie shared her thoughts my mind started racing, it's my biggest problem.My mind works to quickly different shit running through my brain all at once.l shot out of my chair yelling. " We need to go back up there. Those bastards might have been waiting on someone to preform the surgery."
My dad rolled his damn eyes at me motioning with his hands for me to calm down " Set back down, we can't go now, your Alpha ceremony starts in two hours." He shook his damn head sounding exasperated "I swear boy you're strong and smart but you need to work on your impulsive nature. Look at your little mate she's a lot calmer than you." My dad brought his hand up pinching the space between his eyebrows like he was getting a headache, murmured " Thank the Moon Goddess."
Then continued talking to me."I'll send some warriors up there to stand guard until we can investigate. I'd like to take a look around up there myself ,we can go tomorrow morning."
I snapped my fingers because I almost forgot to tell him what else I discovered " Oh, one more thing those guys didn't have a scent. Well not a contusions one the only place it was strong enough to follow was inside that storage room. The whole time I was following Andie's wolf it was hit and miss the whole way."