Chapter Forty-Five

I woke up a little late for me, Toby was actually the one to wake me up worried something was wrong. I assure him I was fine before getting my butt in gear, we had so much work we needed to get done today. What was plain on my agenda was to track my mum down, only problem was I had no idea how. Toby and I walk together to the main room, which also doesn't happen a lot either. The whole way he kept asking if I was okay, I was trying not to act off but it was hard when I learnt what I did last night, could my mum be helping Richard? Once we make it to the main room, the whole team and Lukas were already there waiting. I send them all a little smile before walking straight to Brandon, he was the only person I could think of that could help me. "What is it that you want my area expertise to help you with?" He asks before I even sat down, I smile taking my seat beside him handing the name of my mother. He immediately, begins to type away on his laptop hacking into many different sites and documents. I'm glad we have someone with his clever of a brain on the team, I wouldn't know what we would do without him if I'm being honest. "Okay I found something, Mrs Westlake was reported missing by her husband 14 years ago, but with little to no leads the case went cold" he explains already telling us what we already knew, but I knew this was just the tip of the iceberg of what he's about to say "but because I'm clever, I compared her face to a database to hopefully find a link, it's very plausible that she wanted a fresh start and is going under another name, if there are any hits I'll let you know" he smiles while still not looking up from his laptop, I smile placing a kiss on his cheek as a thank you before getting up. "Wait Mrs Westlake, is that like your mum or something?" Lukas asks from across the room, I smile nodding my head "look at me figuring things out, we should celebrate" he exclaims rather happy with himself, I laugh a little walking over to Morgan who was waving a little piece of paper at me. "Talking of celebration, your party is tomorrow Taylor" Julian chimes in from his little table, which was full to the brim of papers from the room last night, he should have just kept it in the supply cupboard rather than filling this room with mountains of papers. I just roll my eyes not really being in the mood to have any kind of party, I hated being the centre of attention. Everyone who will attend will probably want to talk to me, I only have a certain amount of tolerance for social interaction, once that is used up I'm done. "Have you written your speech yet?" He asks rising up from his chair slightly, what is it with him and asking me a bunch of annoying questions?! "I don't do speeches, that's why Morgan does them for me, so Morgan have you wrote your speech yet?" I ask looking at him with a smile, he laughs opening his draw pulling a notebook out. "I wrote it right after the director told me she was giving you an award" he smiles before placing the notebook back in the draw, so he's not gonna even let me look at it before tomorrow?! "You should be celebrating Taylor, all your family and friends are gonna be there!" Julian exclaims from across the table, I smile but an idea soon comes to mind causing me to smirk. "Yes they will" I smile pointing at the photo of my dad, this could be when we grab him "I could invite my dad and all his workers to my party, if they come we'll grab them there" I say rather happy with my idea, I told them I wouldn't arrest them when they helped me yesterday, but this is a total different situation. "Yeah but that's if they even turn up" Julian says dropping a pile of his papers on the floor, as they hit the floor papers fly everywhere. "Well they turned up yesterday, so they probably will-" Brandon begins to say behind his laptop, my eyes go wide as I whip my head around to look at him. He didn't understand at first but he immediately, stops talking when he catches on. I move my eyes slightly to look over at Morgan, who was definitely looking at me with a raised eyebrow. "Yesterday, you saw them yesterday?" He asks crossing his arms as he spoke, oh Brandon I so wanna hit you around the head right now "that's how you managed to go to no territory, they went with you" Morgan says piecing all the little bits together, why does he have to be so smart about things all the time?! "You went to no territory, Taylor that's one of the most dangerous places to go!" Toby exclaims standing up from his chair, well yes I know we were the ones that went there. "We didn't necessarily go there, it was just a fly in visit" I say taking slow steps backwards closer to Brandon, who looked as though he wanted to puke at any second. "Regardless, you could've been killed!" Toby continues to yell, my response was just to roll my eyes at his growing anger. "Did anyone try and attack you?" Julian asks still knelling on the floor to pick off the papers up, I walk over to help but as I pass Toby, he takes ahold of my arm pulling me back to stand with him. "We had a little kerfuffle with a few of them, but I handled it" I smile shrugging my arms a little as I went, I really didn't see this as a big deal, let's be honest it was yesterday, we can't go back and change it now! "Yeah and when that guy tried to claim you as his" Brandon says from his laptop once again, doesn't this guy think before he speaks?! A growl immediately, erupts from Toby beside me. I turn my head to look at him where his eyes were pitch black, oh dear he's on the verge of shifting, lucky he can't do that here. I take a look to Morgan, who knew exactly what I was thinking and nodded for me to take Toby out for fresh air. I take Toby's hand and begin to pull him towards the exit, at first I thought I'd really have to drag him but he moved with little to no arguments. I scan my keycard fully pulling him out the room, his room was closer so I lead him there. Once we stop outside the main door to his and Lukas's rooms, I use his keycard to open the door and pull him inside with me. We don't go in his room but stand in the tiny lobby place, could it even be classed as a lobby? "Toby, you need to calm down" I say as the door closes behind us, no one could hear or see what was going on now. "I will not calm down, you are mine, how dare some disgraceful rouge think he can have what is mine. Didn't he see the mark on your neck?" He growls out taking a look to my neck, but it's covered with my top "your marks covered" he growls walking towards me, he goes to move my top but I grab his hand moving away. "I have to cover it, I can't let people around here see that I'm marked, I'm an alliance agent" I say having to really hold his hand back, he really wanted to see the mark. "I don't give a damn if you're an agent, that mark shows that disgrace that you belong to me" he growls putting his forehead against mine so my head hit the wall, but his comment annoyed the heck out of me "Side-note, I belong to no one, I'm no ones property so please reframe from saying that" I correct him, I'm my own person and was rather independent before he came along, he looks down chuckling a low chuckle. Before I knew it, I was pinned up against his bedroom door. I stand there totally confused on what just happened, his eyes stare deeply into mine. "That little one is where you're wrong, you're mine, you belong to me" he growls his face inches from mine, I just stare in his eyes melting into him "let me prove it to you" he laughs a deep laugh while opening his bedroom door I was up against.