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.

the pen.

mistake, I know. But I’ll be able

weeks to file and we can

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

again, only this one actually looks genuine. “Such

waste,” he mumbles.

the desk and walks to a

old-fashioned phone with a coiled cord. He picks up the receiver and punches in the numbers. “Bring him up,” he tells someone, then gently sits

me at the door I came through. No wolves crowd or block that route of escape. But despite that,

to break free of this place. My mind is racing. We can petition the Council. What’s happened here…it isn’t legal. 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 situation and can pursue this in legal

be okay. First step is to get Liam to

can figure out

watches me, his eyes glittering. “I think I can see into `your mind. All the

the gun. Ryker doesn’t look concerned at

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against the antique Louis XIV table. Everything in this room

to make you

that Aaron Rathborn can

making.”

sound of this at

just wish Aaron

the gun a

see why he favors you,”

what he means. Or even who he is talking

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