Chapter 76

Adam recovers before me. He grabs the syringe and the collecting bag from the imposing wolf.

“Are you continuing to pay the blood debt?” Tobin asks me.

I have a pretty good idea why Adam’s here. And what he’s thinking. “No,” I tell him.

He angles his head quizzically at Adam.

Adam, bless him, says nothing.

Tobin’s eyes flash. He sniffs the air

Then his brows draw together. “Hmm,” he says absently.

Hmm? What the he ll does that mean?

didn’t say why you were here,”

he agrees. “I didn’t.”

and walks away from us. Who is this wolf wandering inside my father’s-my packhouse-as if he has every

mutters a curse.

worried?” I ask

when they take me in. “We have bigger concerns just

health, for

the little fact that I’m still human…

you came for.” And let’s see if this absorption of

better. I’m less tired. I feel stronger. But I don’t want to get my hopes up.

there would

I wouldn’t know.

Aaron before

hand. He twines our fingers together. But it doesn’t feel

intimate.

want someone to see us like this. I squeeze his hand once and then extricate

won’t bring me past the, uh, party in my

way,” I

to the infirmary instead.”

“Why?”

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