Hayden waits down in the cells for Kai to wake up. Max and I are in Mara's bedroom, waiting for Hayden to call me when Kai wakes up so we can here exactly what he says. This set up was the best way to do this since Max and I can't be down there and there's no way Mara will be the person questioning him.

Max and I are on the floor with our backs against the bed, and I'm resting my head on his shoulder with my eyes closed. The little sleep from the last two nights has caught up to me again, and I'm taking advantage of the down time we have right now. Mara's out on a run right now, blowing off some anger that's been growing in her since last night.

I suddenly remember something she told me the other night, and I abruptly lift my head off of Max's shoulder, bumping his jaw a little with the side of my head. "Ouch," he says softly, smiling down at me.

"My bad," I whisper, kissing his jaw right where I hit it. "I just remembered something. The night that you mind linked me about the hybrids, Mara said that I should find us a house and start decorating to help keep my mind off of everything. Plus, we do need a house. With everything's that happened in the last sixty or so hours, it completely slipped my mind."

"So you're saying that you want to move in together?"

I burst out laughing at the happy-questioning tone in his voice. It almost sounds like he can't believe I, his mate and the person carrying his child, want to move in with him.

"Of course I want to move in together. I've wanted to since I woke up the morning after we met and you were gone!" I say, my tone teasing even though my words are one hundred percent true. Waking up the morning after we met and having him not there made me not want to wake up without him ever again.

"So before that, you didn't?" Max grins, teasing right back. I smile and lean forward, pressing my lips to his for a short and sweet kiss. Max has other plans, and he tightly wraps his arms around my waist to maneuver me into his lap. I tangle my fingers in his hair while simultaneously pulling him closer to me, deepening the kiss as much as I can.

As much as I want to rip his clothes off and make love to him, I really don't want to get hot and heavy in my best friend's bedroom and risk her walking in on us at any given moment. Before Max or I (or both of us) starts to lose control, I reluctantly pull my lips away from his. I leave my forehead resting against his, both of breathing heavily.

"I love you," I whisper quietly, opening my eyes because I want to see his dark ones. "I missed you so much it hurt."

"It hurt me too, B. But we're together now, and that's all that matters." He softly kisses the top of my nose. "We have Kai. This is all over." I nod and kiss him on the lips one more time beside shifting in his lap so I can curl up in a ball. I lay my head against his chest, listening to the soft thumping of his heartbeat as we wait for Mara to get back and Hayden to call.

In the silence of Mara's bedroom, my ears suddenly pick up on another noise. It's so faint that I move my head away from Max's chest so his heartbeat isn't right in my ear to listen. After a few seconds, I gasp.

"B, what's wrong?" Max rushes out. "What happened? Are you okay?"

I nod vigorously as he continues to worry over me, and I stop his words in his tracks. "Max, shhh! Listen." Max stops mid-sentence, and in the silence that follows, I know he picks up on it too.

"B," he says, his voice so quiet and happy and amazed that tears form in the corners of my eyes.

"Max," I whisper. "It's our baby's heartbeat."

"It's beautiful. B, that's our baby! We made that!" Max says excitedly, his voice back to a normal volume as his happiness and excitement takes over.

"We did make that," I grin. He hugs me to his body and my head falls into his chest, and I laugh.

The mood shifts from a excited-happy to a calmer version of that, and Max starts rocking my body against his. I can once again hear his steady heartbeat in my ear, but it's the softer and much quieter one that lulls me to sleep. I didn't even know realize I was falling asleep until I was passed out.

I wake up to the sound of my phone going off. Max maneuvers his body to reach for it on the ground without trying to wake me, which is stupidly sweet when you put it into perspective. The sound of the phone going off was going to wake me up, but he's still being careful in the rare chance that I'm still out cold.

When his hands are on my phone, he hits answer. I press a feathery light kiss on his jaw to let him know I'm awake, laying my head back down on his chest as Hayden shuffles around in the cells. Mara is laying down on her back in front of us, an arm thrown over her eyes as if she's trying to sleep. The rapid, angry breaths coming out of her let me know that she is far from sleeping.

We decided the best way to question Kai is for him to not know that we're listening in. We'll be on mute on Hayden's end so they can't here us but we can still here them, and I'll mind link Hayden the questions we want to ask Kai.

I hear Kai's confused voice coming through the phone. "Where am I?" he growls, but his voice doesn't have the same edge to it that it had last night. The accent is still there, but the leader in him is gone. Guess that's what happens when you lose all your followers.

"You're in the Moon River Pack."

(A/N - Because I've been writing this book over the course of about four years, I don't remember if I gave their pack a name. If I did, just comment to let me know lol)

"Wha-How did I get here?"

"Never mind how you got here. Why were you trying to destroy all the packs?"

Hayden's voice is harsh and full of confidence. Each time he speaks and his voice comes through the phone, a surge of pride for my younger brother goes through me.

There's no response to his question, and I start to worry that Kai might not talk at all.

"I'm going to ask you again," Hayden growls, hugs voice booming. Even through the phone, I can hear it echoing across the walls of the cell. "Why were you trying to destroy all the packs."

There's still no answer. Mara uncovers her eyes and sits up, bending her knees and wrapping her arms around her legs. The look in her eyes is so full of fury that I'm surprised there's no smoke coming out of her nose and ears. "Answer you dumb fuck," she mutters, the words more for herself that is.

Hayden tries to get Kai to talk without ruining the professional and terrifying vibe he has going, but it's no use. Kai hasn't said a word since he asked how he got here, and the sinking feeling of not getting all of our answers right now is becoming more and more apparent.

I guess it really doesn't matter if we get our answers or not at this point, though. We defeated the hybrids, and he's the last one left. If he wasn't Mara's mate, we would have killed him by now. I don't want her to have to go through the pain of her mate dying. It doesn't matter how much hatred she feels for him; if he dies, she'll be in the most amount of pain she's ever been in. I refuse to put my best friend through that.

Even if doesn't make a difference as to why the hybrids were trying to kill of all the packs and probably the covens next, it would still be nice to know why. Why did they want to wipe out the two biggest specifies of the supernatural world?

When Hayden finally realizes that he's not going to get anything it of Kai, he says, "We'll get it out of you some other way." I hear his footsteps as he leaves the cells. I hear the big metal security door slam, him say some words to the guards, and then he finally pulls out his phone to unmute it.

"I'm sorry, guys. I tried," he sighs.

"It's okay," I respond. "We'll find another way. The important thing is that he's the last one and we have him locked up. Nothing bad is going to happen to us."

I say those words, but somehow I can't believe them. The heavy, sinking feeling in my gut is strong enough that I know those words aren't true. I put a hand on my bump, hearing the heartbeat of mine and Max's baby, and fear begins to rise up in me again.

Call it instinct or whatever you want, but I suddenly realize that this is far from over.