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Kent ignored him. “Where’s Foster?”
“Who?” He took a seat in front of the Earth captain.
“The girl.”
Rainey traced his lips with his fingers. “You seem more preoccupied with the human than with your own kin,” he said. The corners of his lips quirked up but he wasn’t smiling. “You know a wolf died last night.”
“I’ve been informed,” Kent said tightly.
“Have you?” His sharp face tightened slightly but the playfulness didn’t leave his dark eyes. There was something eerie about those eyes. They were liquid black sky, pools of nothing that could suck an unsuspecting victim in his grasp with no hope of survival. “You see, I wasn’t aware we took on a human. She’s only been here for a few days, so I understand I’m not going to be a first priority. I get it. But to hear that this girl had her own mother murdered in front of her just a day prior to her arrival, and now Lucy…”
Kent tilted his head to the side, refusing to move, to give him anything to observe and calculate. “What are you implying?” he asked when Rainey remained silent.
“I imply nothing,” he said, leaning back and stretching out his legs. He looked up at the ceiling, furrowing his brows. “In fact, I’ve been up late. I’m in the mood for a coffee. Any of those officers lingering around?”
Kent leaned forward. “Stop playing games,” he snarled. “You are clearly implying something by your word games. Be a man and speak your mind, Rainey?”
“This girl comes from nowhere,” he said. “Her mother is an alumni. Her mother was murdered. Her mother was murdered a day before she arrived here. She’s been here for a couple of days at most, and there’s a second murder in her room.”
Kent said nothing. He wanted Rainey to say it. He wanted Rainey to say something before he grabbed the human by the collar, threw him against the wall, and wiped that cocky smirk off his face.
“I’m saying,” Rainey said slowly, “this girl is followed by death. I don’t believe in coincidences.”
“So?”
“So,” he said, “what I’m trying to insinuate since you can’t seem to wrap your meaty head around it is the fact that two murders in so many days. Both brutal and bloody. Both of them being people she knew. We both know it’s not the Vrykolakas or else there wouldn’t be blood. The only common denominator is her. Do you understand what I’m implying yet, Captain?”
“Tell me,” Kent demanded.
Rainey glanced away, a mixture of boredom and exasperation. “Don’t you think, Byron, that this girl might be the one behind the murders in the first place?” he asked. “That Freya Foster murdered both her mother and Lucy?”
Adrya
Matthyw was gone the next day.
I wasn’t sure why. I wasn’t sure about anything anymore. Not after my father told me he was intent on marryingher.
The urge to talk to Rianne about everything after leaving my father’s quarters that night burned through me. It took everything in me not to indulge the fire.
Our conversation from last night flashed back to me, the one about the Marriage Law, and I was forced to stop myself from doing what I wanted. Instead, I marched my way over to my room, the one I had shared with her for most of my time at the academy, and stepped inside. I already knew she wouldn’t be there. Where she was, I didn’t know. I glanced at her bedroom door — closed — and thought maybe she was there, maybe she was…
But even if she was, I didn’t think now was the best time to speak to her.
I was still angry. I was still…hurt. Tears pricked my eyes. My cheeks were surely blotchy because of the warring emotions within me. My blood burned. Why didn’t Chamberly tell me this?
I laughed.
Why would she?
Maybe…maybe she couldn’t.
Maybe my father forbid her to until he spoke with me himself.
I closed my eyes, a tear crawling down my cheek.
Was I allowed to be angry, or was that irrational…unfair?
Was I allowed to be angry with my father, or was he doing what he thought was best for himself, given that this law was about to go into effect? Was he really doing what he thought was best for the pack?
