Fuck, no
“Riley, could her name beNeve? With anN?”
“Probably.”
“Was she with a tall, skinny white woman?” I added. “One with blonde hair?”
“Yeah. Molly, I think.”
Holly Valenti.
Velour’s mother. Pepper’s, too. She was the vampire Rhone had killed a few months earlier.
Somehow, she and Neve were behind this. It wasn’t another werewolf pack at all.
“I assume those names mean something to you,”Maverick said into my mind.
“Neve is Harper’s mother. She runs the Guild.”
“The vampire guild?”
“Yeah.”
“Why would they do this?”
“I don’t know,”I admitted.
It was terrifying, but it was the truth.
“Help her,” Carter plead, his gaze fixed on me. “They’re going to kill me if you don’t. Whatever the cure is, give it to her.”
“Do you have another room like the one Harper’s in?”
“We do. We were attempting to rehab a dozen turned vampires at one point.”
“Would one of your wolves be willing to feed her, so she and Carter can say goodbye before you move her there? He only did this to try to save her.”
Maverick dipped his head.“I can make it happen, but I don’t want you in the room. Not for your safety. For your sanity.”
I didn’t want to be there any more than he wanted me there.
I felt shitty enough for my mistakes with Harper and was still reeling from what we’d just learned.
Maverick squeezed my hip, and I slipped out of the room without allowing myself a look over my shoulder.
Elise and Ken followed me to our apartment, waiting outside when I closed the door and locked it behind me. My back met the wood, and I shut my eyes tightly.
How did things just keep getting more complicated?
Maverick openedthe door thirty minutes later, and found me curled up in a ball on the dog bed, under a blanket.
“I need to be alone,” I told him, my voice muffled by the cushion beneath me.
He plopped down next to me.
“I’m serious, Maverick. I need time to process. Alone.”
He tugged the blanket away long enough to slide under it with me and pull me into his arms.“Then be alone, with me.”The soft rush of his voice in my mind sent goosebumps climbing over my arms.
