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“You said to get the information out of her.”
“Yeah, which works better when she’s fucking conscious,” Dad pointed out. He glared at me again. “Tell us where it is, so we can get it over and done with.”
“So you can kill me?” I asked bitterly.
“Why would I kill you?” Tate asked, feigning being wounded. He clutched his heart for the full effect. “You’re my daughter.”
“You never gave a shit about me before. The only reason you kept me around was for Mom’s money.”
Dad grinned at me.
“You’re keeping me alive for the amulet now. As soon as you have it, you’ll kill me, so I’m not telling you.”
Dad clenched his jaw. He didn’t look as amused as a moment ago.
“I won’t kill you when I have it,” he said. “You have my word.”
I scowled and tried to think straight through the pain in my head. It had turned from dull to piercing after Buck had hit me.
“Your word doesn’t mean shit.”
“You have a mouth on you,” my dad said. “I’m serious. I won’t kill you. You’re worth more to me alive.”
That didn’t make any sense.
“His scent is all over you, you know.”
Jameson.
Dad grinned at me and shifted in his chair, sitting up to lean forward. He rested his elbows on his knees. “You slept with him, you bonded with him, and now he’ll have to come after you because you’re his mate. I couldn’t have orchestrated it better myself—luring the alpha out was something I didn’t know how to do, but you solved it for me.” His smile faded. “I just need the amulet.”
I jerked my head nervously. “Find it yourself. You found me, didn’t you?”
“Because you fucked up the spell, damn it,” Dad snapped. He jumped up, irritated, and leaned toward me, jabbing his finger in the air. “The amulet’s spell is tightly in place.”
I frowned. My spell had slipped, but not the spell on the amulet? How was that possible?
“Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why did you kill Delaney?”
Dad’s face changed. I couldn’t tell if he felt something close to remorse about it—I’d never seen anything close to human emotion on his face, but the expression was out of place.
“Do you have any idea how powerful a shifter without a beast can be?” Dad asked. “They’re a force of nature. Delaney didn’t know what she was, she just wanted out. I promised her I’d help her, and I’m a man of my word.” Dad put his hand on his heart.
I snorted and rolled my eyes. “You killed her.”
“Yeah, well, it wasn’t my fault the spell to take her magic also drained her life. That was an accident. Some of the others didn’t die, they just stopped shifting and turned human.”
I blinked at my dad. “How many others were there?”
“One or two every weekend. Sometimes more. It didn’t take much to get them there. A lot of people want drugs.”
“The drugs and women you paid so much for,” I stammered, the pieces falling into place.
Dad laughed. “Not as stupid as you look, huh? A lot of shifters try to numb the beast by using drugs, and once they’re hooked, it’s a tough world. They’re not human, they’re not shifters, they’re… a mess. Whores were the easiest to find. Shifter whores are the most desperate, and once they were at the house, well, things got easier from there.”
