Chapter 173

Demetri’s POV

I hang the phone up with a sigh, burying my face in my hands. This callback didn’t end the way I needed it to. The council is taking the case and looking into it; that’s perhaps the only good news I’ve received from it. Otherwise, it feels like a huge mistake, one that’s ultimately going to let Cole down.

Unlike protection from abuse orders, this doesn’t lock him into my pack, preventing him from leaving or his father from coming and getting him. He remains just as vulnerable as if I did nothing at all. If I could just get him to talk to me, to tell me about the abuse he’s suffering. I know that it’s severe enough that getting into the depths of it would result in him needing a psychiatric hold in the hospital. Perhaps that’s why he refuses to talk. He did say that every time he talks, he ends up in the hospital.