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He puts his hand to my throat and scratches his claws over my marks.
“You let them mark you.”
I ignore the stab of pain as he makes me bleed. I will not show him he’s hurt me.
“I know you really wantme,” he says, before his jaw clamps shut tight.
He’s delusional, but I decide it’s better not to tell him so.
It doesn’t look like he’s interested in getting answers out of me anyway.
His eyes are glazing over, and his gaze has moved down to my chest.
“You thought I was dead,” he muses, nodding as if he’s convincing himself that that’s the reason why I claimed my mates and let them mark me.
Goddess, he’s crazy.
“You never would have let them touch you if you hadn’t been grieving me.”
My nails sharpen into claws at my sides. I stay silent, because he doesn’t need to hear a word from me. He’s made up the story of us inside his own head.
All I have to do is play along and wait for my moment.
“I forgive you,” he says, laughing and moving back. “I mean, I will. At some point. Not right now. Right now, I’m wishing my brothers were still here to punish you for your sins. If there’s anything they were good for it was making a woman regret opening her legs.”
Anger sparks inside me at his vile words, but I don’t let it out.
Instinct tells me it would make things worse.
Whatever he’s leading up to here, I can’t just think about myself.
I need to protect my town.
I need to find out why he took Adam and where he is so I can save him.
“If you come with me now, without any questions, I’ll start to forgive you a whole lot easier.”
“It’s early,” I tell him. “People are still walking around town.”
He laughs. “What does that matter?”
He looks me over. “Are you afraid they’ll be able to tell like I can that you’ve been fucking around with monsters? Or do you actually think they all want you dead?”
The first question doesn’t bother me, but I flinch at the second, because for a few nerve-shredding seconds while I looked over the crowd of faces of people I see every day in Nightshade chanting for my death, I did actually think the people here wanted me to die.
Goddess, that hurt.
I can see now it really wasn’t about me.
It was about how tight a grip the chimera have on this pack.
He smirks. “The people here are mindless drones, Lita. They do whatever they’re told to do.”
I steel myself to do it, to just go with him, but I can’t.
Not without asking about Adam.
I need to know he’s okay.
