All Chapters of The Catalyst: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Dannie ran her hand through her hair, frustrated. She tried asking people around the house about Balric, but most wouldn’t even look her in the eye. Some of the enforcers looked ready to throat punch Dannie if she got to close. The books in the library didn’t have much on him. As far as Dannie could tell Balric’s only connection with the book was it was used to kill his son.

Dannie cried out as pain sliced through her head again. Her vision turned dark and she saw Sara in her mind, only the healer looked much younger, maybe late teens or early twenties.“It’s not okay,” she demanded. Her blue eyes blazed with hate and disgust as she looked at Dannie then turned to her parents, who a

Dannie took a moment to catch her breath before answering her father’s question. Also, she wasn’t exactly sure how to answer when she wasn’t sure what happened. Dannie decided to go with what she did know. “Laina,” she said, seeing the shock registering in her parent’s faces. “What exactly happened when I was a baby and why didn’t you tell me?”

It took Dannie almost five hours and a long hot shower before she calmed down enough to be willing to be around anyone. When Sara looked up when she entered the infirmary, Dannie expected her to make some kind of comment or snide remark. Instead, Sara immediately set the broom against the wall. “Come over here and sit on the bed.”

Dannie left the infirmary and shook her head. Sara, the others, they didn’t know any more than she did. Dannie wasn’t going to find answers here. There was no reason for her to stay. At home, she could dig more and not have to deal with werewolves. This clearly wasn’t a werewolf problem anyway. Dannie thought about telling everyone before actually leaving, but she was still too angry at her parents. She’d send Cass a text since she was irritated at her too. Dannie went to her for help and Cass didn’t believe her.

With Voss busy with Balric, Dannie crawled to her car. She needed to get the suppressant before it was too late. Dannie didn’t make it far when a foot landed on her back, pushing her down and grinding Dannie against the asphalt. “You know, this is mercy. She’s a freak.” Dannie gasped as pain tore through her. Her muscles were starting to contract. “See, too weak to even fucking defend herself. Like I said it’s a mercy. Most of my people wouldn’t be as kind.”

It took everything Balric had to leave Danielle’s room, but he needed answers. Balric stormed down to the ground floor. Caius was in his office as he expected. “We need to have a meeting now. All of us.”Caius’ expression didn’t change as he stared at him. Balric had no idea how h

The ranch was the closest thing werewolves had to prison, in the entire country. Their criminal activity that didn’t carry a death sentence was very low. Currently, the ranch had twenty men and women worked there and served their time. Most of those there were paying back to the community for crimes where they lost control of their instincts or disobeyed their alpha.  Crimes like murder were rare and were what made Ian, Desi, and Balric become so notorious, not that Balric was proud of the fact. Though, only Danielle seemed to enjoy reminding him of his past.

Dannie came down the stairs cautious of her heavy stomach. She slept well now that she wasn’t having nightmares, but waking up wasn’t so nice. So many injections all in a row Dannie thought was taking a toll on her system. She threw up five times before she felt strong enough to come downstairs. The plan was to get her laptop and see what she could find on Laina. Maybe if Dannie knew more about her she would be able to figure out where the demon might have left hints for her.

“Shit man, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that,” Dannie said rushing over to Balric. He grunted as she helped him sit up. Dannie dusted off the dirt and grass that stuck to him. “Are you hurt? Should I go get Sara?” “Danielle,” Bal