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Here we were, and I was finally listening to his tone.
“It sounds like you’re mad? Are you mad?”
He gave a gruff laugh and kept walking.
Something moved to my side, and I jumped. I peered around and saw nothing.
“The whole place has been reclaimed. It’s interesting what nearly ten years can do for a place.”
Nearly ten years?
“That was the last time I would have been here. I don’t recognize much of this. I wonder why I don’t remember. Shouldn’t I have remembered my own pack?”
I swore I could see his blond head shaking.
“You wouldn’t remember because when you were sold and took an oath to the new pack, they made sure to override everything you ever knew. Magic. Not exactly a common practice, but an effective one at keeping their slaves from escaping. Cripple Creek was in deep with the trade. It was impressive that you were still there when I showed up.”
I swallowed.
“Showed up?”
I followed him for a while longer, but my heart was stuttering, and it wasn’t from exhaustion.
“Are you taking me out here to kill me? You don’t really want to make an enemy of my mate, do you?”
I swear I heard a growl before he lifted a curtain of vines.
“Gee, Luna. Make an enemy out of a man that can do this?”
I didn’t know what he was talking about. My steps faltered, but I followed the nod of his head and stepped through the space.
As I walked through into a clearing, I saw a large building in the distance. The moon was high in the sky and shadows cleared into a skeletal scene.
“What is that?”
Rife stepped up next to me.
“Welcome to your kingdom. After you were sold, you were avenged, I suppose.”
He supposed? Avenged?
“Wait, were you there? Where you part of my sale?”
He shook his head.
“No. We’d all gone north to play nice with the Black Creek pack. Anything to try to make nice with a bigger alliance. We were struggling. Let’s face it, your father was a shit alpha after the Luna was murdered. But the replacement? She destroyed us.”
What was I hearing? Blood thundered in my ears. The world was spinning, and I realized I’d been holding my breath. The ground seemed to rise up under me, but his hands grabbed me and pulled me up.
“Suck it up. You’re the last alpha of our pack. Lucky me.”
What in the hell?
“I don’t understand. Last alpha. Our pack?”
He started to laugh in an uncontrolled manner that made me wonder if he was a few crayons short of a box.
“For fuck’s sake, Kiara.”
