Chapter 26
CHAPTER 26
J acob was happily munching on his breakfast. Well, not happily, but he was eating his toast. Clairmont had brought breakfast into him earlier, along with the aforementioned toast, there was orange juice, a banana and one slice of bacon. He wasn’t sure he could eat it all, but he appreciated the butler's kindness.
“Bacon cures everything,” Clairmont told him.
Jacob grinned. “Yes, it totally does. Thanks, Mr Clairmont.”
“Just Clairmont, Master Jacob,” the butler replied.
“As long as you just call me Jacob.”
The butler nodded. “I can do that.”
“Thank you.”
“Can I get you anything else, sir?”
“Just Jacob,” he reminded Clairmont. “Do you know where my laptop is?”
“I believe it is in your room, shall I fetch it for you?”
“Please, but only if it’s no bother.”
Clairmont touched his arm. “It’s no bother. I’ll get it for you now. Also, I checked on Lord Frank and Master Joe earlier, both were happily sharing breakfast and getting to know each other.”
“Thanks for letting me know.”
“I’ll get your laptop now,” Clairmont said, turning and leaving the room.
Jacob laughed to himself. What were the odds that Joe arrived yesterday and found his mate today, and that said mate was father to his mate?
Maybe the fates paired Finn and Jacob together so Jacob could reject him and they all find their perfect mates. There must have been an easier way to go about it though, maybe a less painful way.
Definitely a less painful way.
Clairmont was back a few moments later. “Here you go,” the butler said, handing Jacob’s laptop to him.
“Thanks,” Jacob said.
“I’ll leave your orange juice and banana on your table and take the tray. If you need anything, just use the phone there, and dial 1,” he said, putting the bits down.
Jacob looked towards the phone and nodded. “I will do, thanks.”
And picking up the tray, Clairmont left the room.
Jacob shifted around a bit but stopped when pain shot through his middle. He looked at his stomach. “Just heal, dammit.”
“If only it was that easy,” Berni said, walking into the room.
Jacob grinned. “It was worth a try.”
Berni laughed and walked over to the bed, sitting down on Fran’s chair. “Fran has been sent to bed.”
“Thanks. I know he slept some last night, but not enough after being so busy at the hospital yesterday.”
Berni grinned. “You’ll make my nephew a caring mate.”
“I can only hope so,” Jacob muttered.
“You will be. Now while I’m here, I imagine we both have questions. Who wants to start?”
Jacob looked at Berni. “You can.”
Berni nodded. “When you and my brother fought the wolves the other day, did you fight one Frank didn’t?”
Jacob nodded. “Yeah, the shorter one. Why?”
“Emory thinks his claws might have been poisoned.”
Jacob frowned. “But he didn’t slash my stomach, it was the large one that did that.”
“If silver was in your system already, it might have affected your wound. It’s worth Robbie checking just in case,” Berni said.
“I get that,” Jacob replied but then paused. “You told Joe I was part of your pack. Are you sure you want me here?”
Berni nodded. “I do. If you don’t mind me saying, you need a gentle guiding hand.”
Jacob sighed. “Yeah, you’re probably right. Joe and I need to register for a new college. I promised my mum I’d finish all my studies and Joe promised his parents before he left.”
“We have a pack college here, you can all transfer there if you want. Now, I wanted to ask you, when you snooped on your father’s secret conversations, did you happen to hear any names?”
“I've been wracking my brains, and didn’t want to send you on a wild goose chase, but I heard him mention the name Mortimer. I don’t know if that was a first or last name, or even if that was who he was talking to.”
“Thank you. I can look into that. You have access to your father’s bank accounts. Would you be able to recognise any strange payments?”
“l honestly don’t know. I mean, I don’t know what he had coming in or going out. I can look and try and make an educated guess. I can’t promise I’ll be right, though.”
“That doesn’t matter, if you identify something, great, if not, never mind.”
“I’ll look in a bit for you.”
“Thank you.”
Jacob nodded, but before he could say anything else, Finn walked in.
“Hey,” he said, walking over to the bed.
“Welcome back. Did Robbie give you the medication?” Berni asked.
Finn nodded, and, after putting the bag he was carrying on the side of the bed, pulled out two syringes. “He did, a new antibiotic and a different pain killer. He showed me what to do in case Fran was sleeping. Jacob, do you trust me?”
Jacob nodded. “Sure, shoot me up.”
Finn and Berni laughed and Finn walked over to the other side of the bed.
“I need to inject them both into your bag and they should get to work quickly,” Finn said, injecting first one syringe and then the other. “The pain meds should knock you out pretty quickly and this antibiotic should work alongside the other one.”
Berni stood up. “Let me help you get settled.” He helped Jacob lie down and get comfy.
“What about the accounts?” Jacob asked sleepily.
“Check when you wake up.”
Jacob nodded and fell asleep.
“I’ll stay here if there are things you need to do,” Finn offered.
“Thanks, I’ll be back later to check on you both.”
“No rush. I’ve got my e-reader in my bag, I can read that.”
“Good, bye for now,” Berni said, striding from the room.
Finn picked up his bag and moved around to the chair. He pulled out his e-reader and settled into the chair to watch over Jacob and read.