Chapter Eight

I continue to follow Riley until we arrive outside, he knew I was there and just began to pace up and down. I went to speak but he holds his finger up, I didn't know if he's figured out that me and Toby are mates and is now trying to wrap his head around that. Or maybe he was just mad about everyone turning on him, him just pacing without talking isn't giving me any answers! "Riley, you need to calm down and pull yourself together" I say ignoring his whole finger pointing thing, even if he knew about me and Toby, I wasn't gonna let me treat me disrespectfully. "You're telling me I need to calm down! I woke up this morning to my work partner just gone!" He shouts which does make me roll my eyes, if that's all this is about that's stupid! "If that wasn't bad enough, for the entire day all I've done is babysat those two, which as we all know I hate being around those people!" He shouts still super annoyed, I mean yeah we all know how he feels about Alpha's and Beta's, but nothing that happened today was to spite him, all we're trying to do is catch Richard before he can hurt anyone else. "But you wanna know the main thing that's getting to me, you" he says looking at me with the same sad eyes from before, I raise my eyebrow not really understanding what he was talking about "for the last couple days you haven't been acting like you, you've been off especially, with me" he says which takes me by surprise, I've been a bit off because of Toby but I didn't know I was treating Riley any differently. "Riley, if I have been treating you differently I'm sorry, with Richard and-" I say but stop myself mid-sentence, I was about to say Toby but luckily I caught myself. "And?" He asks wanting me to elaborate, but I knew that was something I couldn't do right now, especially after the blow up they just had. "And nothing, I guess the stress of Richard and work is finally taking its toll on me, I don't need you acting like a baby to make that worse" I say turning around folding my arms, finally having enough with his attitude. "You're lying, there's something you're not telling me" he says which does make my eyes go wide, luckily I was facing away from him at the time "Taylor, we've known each other for many years which means, I know all your tell-tell signs to show me you're lying right now" he says which does start to foil my plans of keeping me and Toby a secret, I can't let this get out without me actually deciding what I'm gonna do. "What did Morgan want to speak to you about earlier, when I was sent to take those two for lunch, what did you speak about?" He asks thinking that was gonna make me tell him, I shake my head taking the door handle but it's slammed closed. Before I knew it I was pinned against the wall, an angry Riley keeping me in place. I try to push him off but was having no luck, I was trapped between him and the brick wall. Looking at his face was the first time I've been a little scared of him, the man looking down at me wasn't Riley. "You're not getting out of this, you're gonna tell me what you spoke about right now" he says his voice terrifying me, the only person I could think about helping me right now was Toby, but he was in the building. "Riley please-" I say but he cuts me off by slamming me back into the brick wall, this causes a huge gash to appear on my arm, not only that but he was also pushing me really hard up against the wall "okay, we found out that Lukas is Richards son!" I say finally giving in and just telling him, well one of the things anyway. "And why was I kept out of the loop?" He asks his face even closer to mine than it was before, this just causes a while feeling of discomfort to take over my senses. "I don't know, I was just following orders" I say moving my face as much away as I could, which wasn't that much due to the brick wall. He begins to study my face for a second before reaching up and cupping my cheek, I turn my face away which just results in me rubbing my face against the wall, now that gash is gonna be noticeable. "Why are you turning away Taylor?" He asks as I reach down and push him hard, this actually works and he smashed against the wall behind him. Luckily, my key card was around my neck which meant I could easily unlock the door. As I open the door, he grabs me by the hair and pulls me back. I'm once again smashed up against the wall, but this time I make sure my foot was by the door preventing it from being closed. "You wanna help that monsters son! His father was the one that took our wolves away and ruined our lives and you're okay with helping him!" He shouts close to my face, his spit was actually going all over my face as he shouted. "That's our job Riley" I tell him which he doesn't seem to like and pulls my hair, this makes me cry out in pain staring up at him. "Our job is to help people that deserve it, he does not" he says turning his face in disgust, I use this as my advantage and brung my knee up hitting him in the privates. He doubles down in pain while I bolt through the door, I run down the corridor as fast as I possibly could. Now I was running for my life, these corridors felt like they go on for miles. As I turn the corner I see the door, I just need to make it in there and I'll be safe. Before I could reach it though, he takes my arm and shoves me into the wall again. Once I'm against the wall, he starts to swing punches at me, luckily only one managed to hit me in the mouth. This is when I realise, if I scream really loudly they'd probably hear. I let out a blood curdling scream that echos through the corridor. Riley doesn't like this and shoves me onto the floor while he sits on top holding my mouth. Wait is he trying to suffocate me?! I fight under him just trying to make him let go, but he was twice the size of me which was proving this to be hard. All of a sudden, he was off of me and on the floor. When I look up I see Morgan punching him around the face, I start to cough my guts up slowly sitting up. At the same time, I hear loud bangs on one of the doors from somewhere. This is when loads of people rush into the corridor, most of them jumping on Riley while pulling Morgan away. "Taylor" he says running over to me helping me to stand, the banging on the door only continued which does make me look up at Morgan confused "that's probably Toby, he immediately knew that was you screaming" he says wrapping my arm around his shoulders so he could help me walk, but even though I was fine. He uses his key card to open the door but he didn't have to open it, it flies open and stood in front of me was Toby. Who once he saw my face his eyes went black, without warning I'm pushed into Toby's chest by Morgan. Within the same second, the door was closed behind us which meant it locked. Toby's arms immediately wrap around me which hold me so tightly, he leans down near my neck taking deep breaths in. "What happened?" I hear Brandon asks from behind Toby, but I actually couldn't see him as Toby wasn't removing his arms from around me, part of me didn't mind too much though. "It was Riley, he just started attacking me" I explain where my head on instinct lay on Toby's chest, the sound of his heartbeat was helping me to calm down. "I'm okay, but you need to let go" I whisper so quietly that I knew only Toby who hear, I didn't need anyone that wasn't Morgan seeing this. He just growls slightly pulling me even closer to him, this is the closest we've ever been and to be honest, I sort of liked it. "We'll talk about us later, but I need to sort the cuts on my face out" I whisper again, I knew he would be more inclined to let go if I said it was to help me. "Fine, but we are having that conversation later" he whispers in my ear before finally pulling away, where I discover Brandon had already laid out the first aid kits. Before I knew it, I was sat at the table with Brandon patching me up, under Toby's watchful eye.