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“But I didn’t.”
True. Though it’s hard to look past his darkness, he’s telling the truth.
Okay. Not surprising. I didn’t think he was the one skulking around Accalia, looking for some way to get at me, especially since we already know that another one of our packmates betrayed us.
“That reminds me, how is Barrow?”
“Barrow?”
“Aidan Barrow.”
Walker repeats the name to himself, lifting his hand to tap at the side of his chin. “Nope. Can’t say I know who you’re talking about.”
Of course not.
I asked Ryker about Barrow before I left. If I saw the wolf who attacked Trish and dragged her out of Accalia, what did he want me to do? He thought about it long and hard and decided that the betrayal was too deep. He was already a dead wolf, only now I’m sure Walker was his executioner.
As if I needed another reason to know he’s nothing but a terror.
You know what? We could do this all day. The faux pleasantries, the tension crackling between us, the promise of everything he’s holding over me swinging above my head. He dismissed his goons right as he insisted on Jace and Duke going into the district ahead of me, but I’d be a moron if I believed that he didn’t have countless others watching us as we talked. Not because he’s afraid of me—I have no doubt in my mind that he’d snap my neck without a second thought if he got the urge to—but because he wants to flex his power.
Dick.
“Okay. You wanted me here. I’m here. Let’s get right to it. What the hell do you want from me?”
“Can’t a father want to get to know his daughter?”
I so want to tell him pointedly that he’s not my father. He’s my sperm donor, the male who impregnated my poor mom, and he never cared that I was his pup until he decided I had something he wanted.
Instead of answering his question, I ask one of my own. “Where’s Trish?”
I swear to the Luna, if he tries to play it off like he doesn’t know where she is, either, I’ll walk right out of this dark territory and there isn’t a wolf around who could stop me.
“I put her somewhere safe for now. Once I get you settled in here, you can see her, if you’d like.”
“She’s alive?”
“Of course.” Walker’s eyes darken, going molten. “I don’t know what you’ve heard about me, my daughter, but I’m not a monster.”
He reeeeally needs to stop calling me his daughter. My skin crawls every time he does. “We’ll have to agree to disagree about that.”
He smiles. I lost my temper and openly insulted him, and he smiles.
“Twenty-five days.”
Huh? “Excuse me?”
“Going back to what you said. You asked me what I wanted. I want you to stay in the district for twenty-five days. Let me get to know you. Show you what it’s like to live under a true Alpha, not a little boy who’s playing pretend. Then, if you decide at the end of those twenty-five days that you’d rather return to Wolfson, I won’t stop you.”
Yeah, right.
“Why should I believe you?”
“Why shouldn’t you?”
Oh. He really doesn’t want me to answer that.
“If you mean what you say, swear it. Swear to the Luna.”
