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I swallow hard. “Elijah Pike. I’m not what you think I am.”
The leader exchanges a glance with the blonde lady, but they both shake their head.
“Never heard of any Pikes,” she says.
“Me either,” he says. “In that case…I’m Will Watson. This is Arden Kovalenko, and our friend here is Grant Turner. We want to ask you some questions.”
Grant—the ginger—stays posted up by the door, while Arden paces back and forth like a caged animal. Will stays still and steady, a monolith in the middle of the room.
“Ask away,” I say. “I don’t have anything to hide.”
Not from them, anyway. From Charlotte though…
“You wouldn’t have come this direction alone if you didn’t have a death wish, right?” Will asks.
“I wasn’t alone,” I say. “I was bringing Charlotte here, then I planned to go to the city.”
“To do what?” Will says.
“Join the Resistance,” I say. “I used to be with the Heavenly Host, but obviously that’s no longer the case. I’m just looking for somewhere to live after dipping out of Dallas.”
“So you really were just going to bring Reyes’ niece to the den, then go on your merry way?” Grant asks.
“Yeah,” I say. “You got a problem with that?”
“Uh, yeah,” he says. “She’s your mate. Kind of a dickhead thing to do to just bail on her.”
I roll my eyes. “I think we all know that stuff is just superstition.”
“Nope,” Grant says. “It’s real. And it would be pretty fucked up.”
“How do you know?”
“We’re asking the questions,” Will cuts in. “Grant—do you want to go see if Reyes needs anything? I think Arden and I have got this.”
Grant huffs out a breath, but he turns to leave us behind, frowning back at the two of them. At least he doesn’t seem pissed at me.
He’s right, though.
I don’t think I can leave her.
“How did you get out of the Heavenly Host?” Arden says suddenly, scowling at me. “You don’t just leave. And you were a special breed of wolf, weren’t you?”
“It was a long time ago,” I say. “I ran with the Dallas pack during the New Crusades, but I was a kid.”
“Bullshit,” Arden snaps.
“I was Blessed when I was thirteen,” I say. “My family were zealots. I didn’t have any choice but to comply, and even then I was never able to shift.”
“But you can now?” Will says.
“Yeah,” I reply. “Because of Charlotte. I guess it just brought out a protective side of me.”
“And you’ve been without a pack since the war?” Will asks.
“Mostly been picking up odd jobs and flying under the radar in Dallas,” I say. “Which was fine until I heard they were picking up the Blessed for further enhancements. Then I had to dip.”
“How did you get out of your pack?” Arden asks. “Not normal for a wolf to go solo.”
