Chapter 135

Stella is clearly uncomfortable at the casualty of my remark and she shuffles in her seat, "right," she replies. I can see the wheels turning in her head as my eyes are drawn towards Liam's.  "Then we begin the council for plan of action?" He directs the questions to the other Alpha's, because this is Liam's field of expertise, and they nod in agreement. We talk for hours on end, shuffling chess pieces on the wood board in front of us. It's all very metaphorical, the white queen and king, the knights, the rooks, the bishop, and the pawns. On the opposing side is the black king, a queen absence in it's place, and I realize we've all been reduced to players on a board. One pawn on the opposing side sticks out to me because we all have a silent agreement to who it is -- Adam.  I think that's all Adam has ever been to Beckett. A pawn in a game of chess. And Stella makes her distaste for that with a curl of her lips and leaving as quickly as possible when the meeti