Jeremiah Warner was still scared about what the future held for him. He knew the Russel siblings would let him go at any point in time and if she was being honest with himself, Jer didn't know where he would go to.

He was aware that there was no place that he would ever be able to use to hide from Awor Hawi, if not here with the Russels. He could have had an advantage if Hawi was scared of the fact that he had been sworn to kill her, but then Hawi wasn't even worried about shit.

Jer knew Hawi would crush him in seconds and that got him wondering how to be the good side of the Rusel siblings. He had tried to trigger a conversation about Amina last night and it didn't end as well for him because Sebastian simply pretended that Jeremiah didn't exist.

Today, he would try again, because he needed to know when his usefulness to the team was about to end and find a way out before they cast him aside without so much as a severance fee for all the shit he had endured for them.

It was a huge gamble for Jeremiah, but what else could he do when his life was already going to shit at the moment?

"You're here again?" Seb asked Jer who was seated at the balcony taking the office door that had been locked.

Seeing how the operations of the Russel siblings were most mobile, they had a truck as their office and were driven to their next destination from the warehouses they started at.

They never spent more than three weeks anywhere because they were sure Hawi would find them. As much as they appreciated a battle with the psycho alpha, they seemed to love their lives more, so they didn't have time for stupid decisions.

"I just wanted to see if you needed anything," Jer said and Sebastian scoffed. He had seen this tactic on too many times and as much as it was tiring, it was something that he knew encouraged Jeremiah Warner to do most of their dirtiest work.

It was like Jer was disposable and maybe he owns that too. But then again, Jer still needed their help with Hawi. He needed to kill Hawi with his bare hands so the task that Atticus bound his life to would be completed and he would be free again.

Jer missed his parents and he was worried that shit may have happened to them. He had been keeping in touch with his family over the past seven months but the moment the Savasci knights left Sicario, Jer was certain that his parents were not safe.

He had taken Hawi's parents from her and she would take his in retribution. That was a really that was so painfully obvious, but then what else was there? They had to find a way around this or he would be the one who lost more than anyone else here.

"We still need you. Get out of here and get busy. The moment you will be useless to us, you will know. Until then, I don't want to see your face here," Sebastian said and Jer took in a breath of relief.

He knew this didn't mean he had earned freedom but then compared to everything that he had been dealing with in the past month, Jer was sure that it was way better than anything anyone could have offered him.

His life was now a circus for people to come and watch and he still had no control of that. Jer had heard of hybrid warlocks and had been certain he was stronger until he learned of the one link that could render him useless and dead in an instant.

He still had so many things to do. Once Hawi was dead, he would be able to go faster than Malika for playing with his heart and making him believe that she was just a meek girl who needed protection.

Malika had reminded Jer of how helpless he had even when he first came to Sicario and that was why it was so easy for Jer to interact with her and accept the proposal the Clarksons had come with.

Jer had thought of that alliance for months after he raised what reality lay between him and Malika and he had missed a lot of signs. He should have pointed it all out when Malika had managed to silence everyone at the funeral of the Sicario alpha, but he hadn't thought too much of it.

Her ability to command Sicario despite the fact that she came from a lowly pack would have also spoke volumes to him, but then Jer had trusted her.

He had fallen hopelessly in love with her to the point that he defended her with all of him even when it was a bad idea. She had been his bane, and he was determined to fix that. At what cost though?

"What's with the long face, wolf?" Amina's voice snapped Her out of his 6trance. He was still staring into the blank space where Seb had left him. Sebastian had been clear with Jer and Jer was smart enough to not push shit with Sebastian Rusel.

He didn't have the strength to go against the warlock who took pride in reminding Jer that he was ten times more powerful than all the Russel siblings.

Sebastian was sort of a bully, but then with Atticus and Nik missing, someone had to step up and be there for their family and protect them, especially now that they had a new kid on the block.

"You still call me wolf even after all this time," Jer chuckled sadly as he looked at the woman who had just walked in.

She looked like every other Russel sibling. She was dressed in all black, had power oozing from and looked like she could break Jer with her tongue and no one would question shit.

She looked different, but she wasn't stupid enough to try and question her. Amina had temper issues and she was the most irrational of the Russel siblings. Sebastian may have been the most powerful, but Amina?

She was wild and crazy and everything in between. Even Sebastian was scared of Amina Russel. Amina reminded Jer of the psychotic Sicario girl, which was why Jer had been apprehensive about Amina not returning to them.

Birds of a feather did flock together and Jer was aware that it was just a matter of time before Amina broke his neck for doing something stupid. He wasn't safe with the Russels and yet at the same time, with these people, he was safe from Hawi.

What choice did he relay the time?

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"Aren't you a wolf? Anyway, why are you here? Haven't found ways to kill your ex yet?" Amina asked nonchalantly, making Jer wonder what was going on in this woman's head.

She was always blunt with him, like the world could go to shit and she would still be alive to see the mess and the beauty of the chaos that would unfold later on. She was wild, but she was everything that Jer was considering seeking help from.

"Still thinking. You reek of her by the way. I bet she hugged you or made you come here like this? Are you a puppet, Amina?" Jer asked and in seconds, he was on the ground, right in front of the incoming truck, and he crashed while Amina smiled, proud of herself.

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