Chapter 146

“I have to know he’s alive.”

“You have my word,” he tells me.

Oddly. I believe him.

This wolf is many things…

Cold. Cru el. A Kil ler.

But he isn’t a li ar.

I get the impression that he’d consider that beneath him. Or

more aptly, he’s too arr ogant for that sort of machination.

Five.

Four.

He smiles.

grab the pen.

I’ll be able to fight

and

back from the table. “Bring him out. Now.” I level the gun at Ryker. “And so help

one actually looks genuine. “Such

waste,” he mumbles.

the desk and

coiled cord. He picks up the receiver and punches in the numbers. “Bring

glance behind me at the door I came through. No wolves crowd or block that route of escape.

It won’t stand. There are attorneys in the human world and laws that protect against exactly this type of extortion. We have evidence of the hostage

step is

can figure out the rest.

“I think I can see into `your mind. All the little thoughts spinning like

I’m still holding the gun. Ryker doesn’t look concerned at all. He crosses

4

antique Louis XIV table. Everything in this room feels old and big

is going to make you pay

“There is nothing that Aaron Rathborn can do to address this situation. It’s

making.”

sound of this at all.

wish Aaron was here.

gun a

see why he favors

Or even who he is

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