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Danny hummed. “I think you’d be surprised. Above all else, they want Matty to be safe and happy. Can you make that happen?”
“That’s not what this is about. I can’t be those things for him.”
“Can’t or won’t?”
The little dot stopped moving suddenly. Finally, some good news. “Now isn’t the time to be talking about this. You need to tell me who these shifters are and why they’ve taken Matty.”
Danny pursed his lips, staring into the distance. “Did you talk to them?”
I nodded curtly before giving him a word-for-word rundown of the conversation.
“Fuck.” Danny closed his eyes. “This is all my fault.”
Obviously. “Be more specific.”
“You know I’m an alpha, right?”
I waved impatiently for him to get on with it. Of course I knew he was an alpha. I could smell the power rolling off of him.
“I walked away from my clan a hundred and fifty years ago.”
I don’t think my face betrayed the level of surprise I felt, the muscles unused to doing anything much other than scowling. “Really?”
“Yep. I’m not one for clan politics. Facing eternity as a leader…nah. That didn’t appeal to me.”
Fuck. That was… Wow. At the end of the day, shifters were pack animals. Danny being a lone wolf was surprising—I’d always assumed his clan had been wiped out. I hadn’t considered the alternative.
That he’d willingly walked away.
“They let you leave? Just like that.”
Danny gave a humourless laugh. “No. It wasn’t just like that. There was… Well. Let’s just say a lot happened.”
That was fine, I didn’t need all the gory details. The only parts I cared about were the ones that might help me save Matty. “So why have they taken Matty?”
“I made a deal that I’d return to the clan once I’d taken a mate.” Like vampires and mages, wolves didn’t have fated mates. God left it up to us to choose who we wanted to be with. As seen with Laurent, this wasn’t necessarily a good thing. “They must’ve been tailing me and assumed I’d claimed Matty.”
“How didn’t you notice them tailing you?”
Danny shrugged sheepishly. “It’s been a long time since anyone’s checked in. I have no intention of ever taking a mate, so it wasn’t an issue as far as I was concerned. I guess I kinda just let my guard slip.”
“Yeah well you ‘kinda just let your guard slip,’ and my sunshine is the one paying the price.”
Danny’s lips curved up in delight, alerting me to my error. “Did you just?—”
I staked him before he could finish.
“Dude, you’re ruining your car.” Danny’s response was mild as he recovered and surveyed the damage. “Maybe you’d have more friends if you didn’t stab people whenever they piss you off.”
I gave him a withering look. “You’re suffering under the delusion that I want friends.”
Matty’s spot still hadn’t moved. They were at an address approximately three miles off the motorway. Why they’d stopped was beyond me. Hopefully they’d stay there long enough for us to catch up. “So that’s why they’ve taken Matty? To get you to go back?”
“Either that or to lure me there and kill me.”
I arched a brow at him. “To transfer your power to themselves?”
That was how it worked in wolf clans. If the alpha was killed by another shifter in his clan, the power would transfer to them. It was unusual, but not unheard of. It was how Jeremiah had gained control of the Cameron Clan all those centuries ago.
