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.

is she doing

out of the same hotel where Ryker

a high–end bar and restaurant, so I

do with the fact that Ryker is

my instincts are telling me this

here, and I wonder

and the

I’m now a widow.

the bottom of all this, one way or

determination, I march into

where

as security, and it makes me wonder about the kind of life he lives where he can’t

the outside of the

I approach, one of them speaks into a wire attached

at the door, they simply nod and let us in, since apparently Ryker has let them know he’ll see us.

the city and out toward the snow–capped mountains

by the bar to one side of the sitting room.

smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. “Can I get either of you a

refusal, and takes up a stance near the inside

I

cross the room.

see,” Ryker teases, before pouring a measure of expensive bourbon into two glasses.

as he brings the drink over to hand to me. “What

admit, I’m surprised to see you, given everything

Council killed my mate?” I ask, ignoring the sharp pang in my chest I get whenever anyone mentions Aaron

expression sobering. “I’m sorry, Leah.

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