The Plan--03

"what are you doing here?", Seth asks curiously as he sees Paisley come out of the restaurant.

She walks up to him, still having a deep thought about the tattoo on the neck of the guy on the floor.

"Heard the food here seems pretty good so I came with a colleague to try it out." She replies.

"Ohh."

He looks at her uniform, guessing she probably came over during her break time. Just then he sees another girl coming out and raising her head up as if looking for someone. Seeing the same uniform, he guessed she was the one Paisley had mentioned coming with earlier.

"And that must be the colleague you speak of." He says moving his head pointing her glance backwards.

Paisley turns her head looking back and sees Rylee coming toward her. She looks at him again nodding in confirmation.

Aiden comes walking to them, with his hands in his pockets and each step with much elegance and aura.

"Mr Aiden, it's quite coincidental that we meet again only after strangely meeting yesterday." Paisley says with a smile as he gets to where they were.

Aiden looks at her curiously, removing one hand from his pocket. "How come you always find yourself at the crime scenes?" He asks.

She scoffs, feeling the curiosity emitting from the question."just a coincidence, I actually came here to eat with a friend". She says while he nodds before she continues, "seems like you do have some pretty good skills with magic, unlike many I've seen."

"And how many do you think you've seen?" He asks.

"A few many, just not as skilled as you are." She replies.

He looks at Seth who was busy cleaning his claws with a white handkerchief but was still paying constant attention to their funny conversation.

"What, you're surprised that though she may not be sarcastic like me she does have a different instinct for flattery?"

"Well at least she's not a hooligan like you also?." Aiden replied while Seth rolled his eyes.

"Don't you guys have something to discuss?" She asks sensing he didn't come to Seth for nothing.

He nodds, not completely ignoring her presence just before he drags Seth away, just a few feet's away but behind some vehicles.

Paisley watches as her cousin gets dragged by the shirt away. She sighs, looking back and seeing Rylee walking towards her with a smoothie.

"Who was that?" Rylee asks as she remembered seeing two figures just before she arrived.

"Ohh, you mean, my cousin and the Alpha, they left to discuss something, guess it's confidential." Paisley replies with a smile.

"You mean the Alpha was here not long ago?" Rylee asks more excited than she was surprised.

"Yeah." Paisley replies as she watches Rylee smile before continuing. "But I doubt he'll be here again, I've got a feeling they'll leave just after that conversation. And besides, we're only out on a break, it's better we get back to the hospital before we get called on leave."

"Ohh, yeah." Rylee says with a saddened face. Who wouldn't want to see the rumored handsome Alpha who could steal your heart in an instance without knowing it.

"I think we should get going." Paisley said as she checked the time in her phone. "We're almost late."

Rylee nods afirmatively, deciding to sacrifice her getting a glimpse of the Alpha for her work. She tarries along as Paisley starts walking away.

Just as they walk few meters away from the restaurant, a car surprisingly park's beside them. Seth rolls down the window giving a wink at Paisley.

"Get in, I'll drive you both to the hospital." He says.

"Nice one, you could be really charming sometimes." Paisley replies with a thumbs up before urging Rylee to get in. "Come on."

Rylee opens the car door but immediately slams it shut in panic. Paisley looks at her in surprise wondering what could be so scary about a car.

"What's wrong." Paisley asks and, without waiting for a reply, she opens the door and looking inside, she meets the questioning gaze of Aiden who was sitted inside with his legs crossed. She freezes on the spot, understanding why Rylee slammed the door shut earlier, the man inside was too handsomely terrifying.

"Aren't you getting in." He asks looking forward.

She could see his Adams apple roll up and down as well as hear the sound as he swallowed his saliva as he looked forward. She hesitated for a moment but before she could say anything, she saw Rylee sitting at the front seat besides her cousin, just like she didn't even touch the back seat door earlier.

She gets into the car, sitting carefully before closing the door shut.

"Guess we're good to go." Seth said before driving off.

Within the short distance inside the car, everyone remained silent as the car drove all the way down. It was just a few minutes drive so there wasn't much to worry about the strange atmosphere in the car.

Rylee fidgeted in the front seat beside Seth. Occasionally glancing back but saying nothing.

In the back, the two sat besides each other, too close but still neither of them moved. His presence was overwhelming and calm, she kept her eyes forward, but every breath she heard as well as the constant budging of his throat made her aware of how close they were to each other.

She decided to move a bit further, but the damn Seth of a cousin made a turn almost making her fall onto him instead.

"Careful." He said as he held her hands helping her sit back properly.

She nodded a thank you, almost too afraid or rather shy to look him in the face, she literally had no idea what had come over her now in the car.

The scent of Cedar and snow clung to his suit, she could smell it clearly from the distance. He could feel it also, the mild tension in the few centimeters between them. He could feel her hair gently touching some part of his shoulder reaching a tip of his neck, but he just couldn't make a shift.

Finally the car stopped and Rylee immediately jumped out gratefully escaping the atmosphere in the car. Paisley moved, gripping the car handle and pushing it away. She came out and her eyes drifted to Aiden's hands, now resting on the seat.

She locked the car door looking towards Seth's direction and waving him goodbye before he drove off. 

She watched as the car drove away with her remembering the tattoo on the neck of the guy she saw earlier. That tattoo was one familiar one, the dragon in the spiral was very clear.

She just needed to conduct some personal investigation on it, maybe even ask Nyx for help. Just as her thoughts kept echoing in her mind, Rylee came over.

"You two were so close to each other, I could see your hair gently brushing against his shoulder." Rylee teased.

"Says someone who ran away from the man she wanted to get a glimpse of so badly earlier." Paisley scoffed.

Rylee chuckled, with a bit of embarrassment from earlier. She really couldn't survive the cold atmosphere in the car.

They both laughed it off before deciding to get into the hospital.

Flashback.

Just as Aiden and Seth were in a secured corner between cars. Aiden used a masking spell to cloak them, making sure everything about their presence was concealed including especially their conversation.

"What's wrong?" Seth asks curiously.

"There's a plan now." Aiden says as he adjusted his tie with elegance and confidence.

Seth's eyes immediately came up with surprise, he gave a nod at Aiden's quick thinking, "so what's it?" He asks.

"I took a photo of the tattoo on the neck of the guy who escaped before, too bad it wasn't there before cause we had their entire body screened.

I've already sent it to Caleb, all I wait for is Intel about it." Aiden says.

"What if we find out about it, do we tell the elders of the table about it." Seth asks.

"About that...."