Chapter 268

James isn’t happy, but he also doesn’t have a better idea.

So I finally convince him later that evening to drive me to the

luxury hotel where I know Ryker has been staying.

We don’t say much to each other during the long drive.

I can tell James wants to convince me not to do this, while I

want to ask about Jessica.

However, I know that puts James in an awkward position, she

his sister, after all. It wouldn’t be fair to expect him to not respect her privacy or whatever.

So we sit there in strained silence with the weight of all the things we’re not saying hanging between us.

Instead of using the valet service at the front of the hotel, James insists on parking the car himself nearby, which leaves us about half a block away to walk.

As we’re approaching the hotel, a woman steps out through the revolving doors and gets into the back of a black town–car waiting for her.

I stop dead in my tracks as I realize it’s Karolina.

hell is she

stepped out of the same hotel where Ryker is

the hotel does have a high–end bar and restaurant, so I suppose it’s possible she was just

with the fact that Ryker

instincts are telling me this

and I wonder if it’s somehow

of Aaron and the Council

I’m now a

of all this, one way or another.

I march into the hotel and up

suite where Ryker is staying.

guys standing in the hallway, acting as security, and it makes me wonder about the kind of life he lives where

the outside of

speaks into a wire attached to his

the door, they simply nod and let us in, since apparently Ryker

view over the city and out toward the snow–capped mountains in the

by the bar to one side

quite reach his eyes. “Can I get either

takes up a

I tell him confidently

cross the room.

teases, before pouring a measure of expensive

drink

I have to admit, I’m surprised to

Council killed my mate?” I ask, ignoring the sharp pang in my

his head, expression sobering.

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