Chapter 145: Operation separate the mates

Noah’s POV

My eyes widen as they meet Elias’s and I look away immediately.

He can’t possibly think I have something to do with this. We’ve literally been together all through and I don’t have a cell phone.

He takes his dead brown eyes off me and I swallow, fisting the hoodie on my lap in anxiety. I wish I was anyone but Noah Goldsmith right now.

Who the hell is sick enough to attack a school?

"If Elias hadn’t seen those cars in time, the building would have been burnt to crisps" Silas’s angry voice says and even though he’s sitting stiffly, I can smell his usually calm scent growing stormy.

"What are the damages left behind?" the omega man asks calmly while the other men start to murmur to each other.

"It’s after school hours, so all the kids from the school are safe. We have been searching and none of them have been found" Silas says in that rough voice and the tension in my shoulder goes away.

Oh good.

"Thank you, Goddess" I mutter under my breath.

"Aria? Any information from the police?" Siren asks and the tough looking omega shakes her head. "I hacked into their records and so far, no parent has reported a missing child" she says.

"They gutted the guards placed around the building, Luna. Every last one of them" Silas snarls.

"Find them no matter what" Siren says and I look up to find him staring straight ahead.

He looks like an animated statue.

"Whoever they are, they did this in my own territory and it’s a slap in the face" the man says coldly and I gulp, feeling sorry for whoever it is.

"What about Dad, why isn’t he here?" Kai asks.

"He’s on a business trip. In the meanwhile, every single person needs to find who is behind this mess" Siren orders.

"We should have gotten rid of that one when we had the chance" someone points at me, and Siren picks up the pen his son just put down. With the precision and force of a psychopath, he throws the pen like it’s a knife.

The pen ends up in the headrest of the man’s chair, embedding itself right next to the man’s neck.

It means that if Siren wanted to, he would have effortlessly murdered the man with a simple writing material all because of me.

"New rule" the white-haired male omega says as he gets up.

The Goddess is the Goddess, but the next human who comes close in aura, elegance, and power, is Mr. Siren Deus.

His long hair falls over his shoulder as he places his hands on the table, leaning his weight on them, and watching everyone in the room including his sons.

"Anyone who dares to point fingers at this omega will not leave this room without leaking at least one pint of blood" he says and the men look at each other with their mouths hanging open.

"Disrespecting my son-in-law is equal to spitting in my face. And in the same way Darius won’t hesitate to kill you, I won’t hesitate to end you" he pauses to look at everyone in the room.

"Understood?" he asks and the men collectively nod like puppets on strings.

He’s defending me. Siren is...protecting me.

"I suspect this isn’t Julian" someone says and the Deus family turn their attention to him.

"Why do you say so?" Elias asks in the same kind of cold tone his mom just addressed the room with. I can tell he’s barely holding on to the thread of his sanity.

"Julian is brutal and now that he has Goldsmith on his side, he wouldn’t waste an opportunity to kidnap people on burning buildings" the person says and my omega whines in shame.

They’re talking about my dad with the certainty that he kidnaps kids and it hurts.

If this was a week ago, I would have fought for my dad’s honor, but right now, I keep my mouth shut.

"That’s true" Kai murmurs.

"Plus, Julian has the immunity to commit a crime here without the government being able to do anything, so why would he hide?" the man asks his smart question and Elias’s jaw clenches.

"It still doesn’t rule Julian and Goldsmith out" Damien argues.

"Let’s fucking attack them and blow them to bits, damn it" Silas spits out through the speaker, and I imagine his scarred face as he says those words.

"They have other kids as hostage, Silas. If we blow them to bits and save at least fifty, what happens to the rest?" Siren asks.

"What do we do now?" someone in the room asks.

"We make friends with a potential member of their circle" Siren says after a moment of silence.

I feel like an outcast and an idiot as I sit and watch them without having anything to offer.

"What do you mean, mom?" Elias asks and Damien slides into an empty seat while Kai rests against the wall.

"Stiles" Siren says and Elias’s eyes flash red.

"Mom" he says through clenched teeth.

"Stiles...as in Roman Stiles?" I ask and Siren nods. Elias growls next to me and his mother shuts him up with a cold glare.

"His father was a partner of Julian and Goldsmith. Now we need to find out if the son is also a part of the scheme and if we can use him as a mole" Siren says and Damien nods.

"Solid plan if you ask me" the oldest Deus son says and Elias snaps in his older brother’s direction.

"Luckily, no one is fucking asking you" my alpha snarls rudely and Siren sighs.

"The day after tomorrow will be a good time to go. He will be burying his father and will need a familiar face" the older male omega says and I blink in shock.

Wait...what? Roman’s Dad is dead?

"Mom, I don’t approve of this" Elias protests.

"He will need comfort. He will need you, Noah" Siren continues to speak without looking at his son. When he turns those pale eyes on me, I suddenly choke on my own saliva.

"This fucking weakling" Arias scoffs as I start to cough violently and someone pats my back.

"Nothing you say will change this plan of mine, Elias. It’s always logic over emotions" I hear Siren say and someone hands me a bottle of water to drink.

They’re discussing my future and I’m coughing like an idiot.

Elegant son of the governor, my ass.

I gulp the cool water down and wipe my mouth with the back of my hand.

"We will--" Elias starts to argue and his mother chuckles. "We? No, no. Elias, there is no ’we’. Kai and Lucas are the only ones who will accompany Noah" Siren says.

"MOM" Elias roars.

"You are freshly mated and volatile. You are likely to lose your temper from jealousy over the pettiest things in this state" Siren tells him bluntly.

"Why not me then?" Damien raises his hand and Siren glares at him too.

"You’re too much like your father" his mother snaps and he grins. He looks too pleased with being called deranged indirectly.

"Noah, can we trust you to do this?" Siren asks me softly and I nod without looking at Elias.

The alpha angrily gets up. His scent is bitter as he storms out of the room without saying a word. Unfortunately, his chair falls forward from how jerkily he moved, and the shopping bag on the table drops to the ground.

The contents spill out and Lucas gasps.

"Holy fuck...are those brand-new butt plugs?" Damien asks loudly and the room erupts in awkward conversations as I melt into the seat in embarrassment.

Oh...shit.