But that wasn’t the worst of it.
No, that would be the fact that despite my woman being able to defend herself, I was angry that I didn’t get to save the day.
And in order to figure out why my fucked up head was so concerned with that, I would have to delve a little deeper into my psyche.
And that was just something I wasn’t willing to do at the moment. So, I turned on my heel and stormed away like any normal man.
Because men just didn’t do feelings.
“Areyou sure you want to stop?” Sinner asked. “We still don’t know how they’re tracking you.”
Fuck, I wasn’t sure of anything right now.
“It’s a safe house,” Derek said, taking away the decision. “We should be fine.”
“Fine is a relative term,” Sinner muttered, “but sure, we’ll go with that.”
He pulled down the long, winding drive and parked at the back side of the house.
It was small, not bigger than fifteen hundred square feet, but it would work for a place to rest and figure out our next move.
Getting out, I eyed our surroundings, taking in the tumbleweeds blowing across the desert and the mountains in the distance. We were alone. At least for the moment. The only thing surrounding us was nature and the occasional jackrabbit.
“Where are we?” Kaylee asked, getting out and stretching her limbs.
“Just outside of Vegas.”
“Ugh. I was just here, and based on my lack of memory, I didn’t enjoy the experience.”
I didn’t like being out in the open, not even when I could see for miles in every direction. A sniper could still be hiding in the distance.
“Let’s get inside.”
Grabbing Calista’s arm, I dragged her to the door, entering the code that Cap texted to me. The lock clicked and the door opened. Carefully, I shoved it open and stepped inside, keeping her behind me.
It was quiet, with nothing more than the gentle hum of electricity filling the silence. “Stay here,” I whispered, pulling the gun from my holster.
I whistled for Storm and he quickly followed, staying by my side as I cleared the house, moving through each room until I returned to where I left Callie.
“We’ll take the back room. There’s a bathroom attached where you can get cleaned up.”
She cocked her head at me. “We?”
“There are only three rooms,” I said tiredly. “Would you prefer to share with Sinner?”
“No,” she grumbled, trudging past me.
I eyed Storm and jerked my head in Kayla’s direction. He quickly trotted behind her, being a good wild wolf that he was and keeping her safe.
Everyone else filed in, grumbling about needing showers and sleep. But me? I was headed right to the computer in the panic room. Entering the code, the door slid open. I sighed at how small it was. We wouldn’t be able to fit all of us in here in an emergency, but at least the women would fit.
Taking a seat at the computer, I ran through all the video of the previous twenty-four hours, but found nothing. No one had been here, and the area was silent. Which meant they couldn’t read our minds.
I laughed to myself at the absurdity of it all. Of course they couldn’t read our minds. But they were tracking us somehow. I set a wider perimeter on the sensors, making sure we’d know if even the slowest turtle crossed our border. I wasn’t taking any chances.
I sat there for a good ten minutes, staring at the screen and contemplating our next move. Nothing was making sense, and no matter how much I racked my brain, I couldn’t come up with a single reason why we were being tracked or how.
Sighing, I scrubbed a hand over my face, pressing my fingers to my throbbing temples. I couldn’t think clearly like this. I needed meds.