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“She—”
“Reads me. She makes me feel like I haven’t before. I laugh and I mean it. Kade comes to the bar and orders a drink, but does he drink it? No. And when was the last time he brought a girl in or tried to provoke you into a fight? Cause last I remembered, that used to be a nightly habit of his.”
I open my mouth.
Aden beats me to it. “The answer is he hasn’t. Not since she got here. He’s not bored sitting around waiting for something to happen because he knows it just did.Her. Her arrival happened. Tell me you don’t feel something with her here? Tell me she doesn’t make you feel alive like you haven’t before and I’ll drop this and never mention her again.Tell me.”
I shake my head. “You’re seeing things that aren’t there. This is just loneliness talking. All we need is a night, the way it was before Monica. We’ll find a girl and we’ll have fun for a night. Then everything—”
“She begged me to kill her.”
The quiet words silence me.
Aden clears his throat. “After you and Kade left, she… I don’t know if she’d gotten me confused with someone else or she was trapped in a memory, but she wasn’t with me anymore. She begged me to kill her instead of sending her back. I don’t know what someone did to her, Dariel, but she needs us.Allof us.”
I stare at a gaping hole that a table must have punched in the wall.
“She was convinced I was trying to trap her at the grocery store. Someone put that idea in her head, probably the same someone who has her running. We have to help her.”
Aden’s words roll around in my head, taunting me, teasing, luring the wolf out again.
If I let him out, I don’t know that I’ll even be able to stop myself from killing Kade and Aden, the only two people in this world I feel anything for.
I hang up and tuck my phone away. Only then do I realize the broom in my hand is broken, and I have no idea how it happened. I toss the pieces to the floor.
Once she’s gone, everything will go back to the way it was before. It has to. If she stays…
My wolf snarls.
When my phone vibrates, I ignore it to start gathering the broken chairs into a small pile. I’ll start here, then I’ll move on to the bar. Maybe a bottle of something has survived Kade’s destruction.
But as I clean, Aden’s words haunt me.
What did someone do to have her begging Aden to kill her?
31
SAIGE
It’s only when I’m standing outside the steel and glass apartment building I ran five miles to get to that I realize I have a problem.
“What door number do I buzz?” I mutter beneath my breath.
I stare at the silver buttons on one side of the glass door as if they’ll give me the answers I need if I wait just long enough.
They don’t.
Sam said Kade lived on the penthouse floor, which is the top, but a building like this could have anything from two apartments sharing that floor to four: one on each corner. Just like—
I wrench my mind back on track. Now isnotthe time to be thinking about that, not when I’m just barely holding myself together as it is.
Just two tasks and I can leave the city behind. It’s risky staying anywhere near the club now that Nathan has found me, but I can’t leave without thanking Kade.
And then there’s Dariel… that’s one person I’d rather avoid if I could, especially now I know he’s a wolf and the leader here, according to Aden. Just like Rylan.
I swallow hard when I remember the feral wolf in his eyes at the bar.
Nottoomuch like him… I hope.
