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Chapter 14
Day 159 of the re-emerged Hat Island pack, Wednesday, Nov. 13, Penticton
Benny put the two youngmen in the back seat. Both of them sullen, and both of them rotating their necks like they hurt. Benny had no sympathy. “Just so you know, the penalty for rape is death,” he said conversationally. “So you might want to consider cooperating fast.”
Duncan glanced at him but didn’t comment. Well, the penalty for rape was death —if Benny was meting out justice. And since he was judge and jury here, that had been a true statement.
“It wasn’t rape!” Clueless said, and he actually sounded horrified. His name, it turned out, was Will. “Bjorn said shifter men were entitled to sex, and we should exert our authority.”
Benny glanced back at him. “And you believed that? Is that how you were raised?”
Both men were silent. “Well?” Benny said. “Where were you raised?”
“Bjorn said we weren’t to talk about anything before we came here,” Will said.
“And I’ve told you repeatedly, Bjorn is dead. Now it’s my rules,” Benny said. “Where are you from?”
“Winnipeg,” Trevor said defiantly.
Benny stared at him. “Did you just try to lie to me?” he asked incredulously. “You should know better than that! You can’t lie to a wolf more dominant than yourself.” Not completely true, but it took a lot more training than either of these young men had. And Trevor was not a good liar.
“But they wanted it,” Will was insisting. “That’s what Bjorn said. He said the protests were for the fun of it. That we needed to take what we wanted.”
Benny looked at him coldly. “You raped those women,” he said. “Every time you had sex with them, you were forcing them against their will. No, they didn’t find it fun. They were kidnapped, forced to live here, forced to have sex against their will. And you just watched a shifter in wolf form rip a woman’s guts out. Did that look like a willing woman to you?”
Will turned white and tried to get out of the moving vehicle. “Let me out,” he said frantically, getting the door open about the time Duncan slammed on the brakes. He started retching, on his hands and knees, in the gravel at the edge of the road.
Benny got out and leaned against the Jeep, watching the young man.
“I didn’t know,” Will said. “Bjorn said shifters ways are different than human ways.”
“And you were raised human,” Benny observed quietly. “Weren’t you?”
Will nodded. “We’re not supposed to talk about it,” he said miserably.
“Don’t say anything!” Trevor said from inside the Jeep. “They’ll kill us all if they know.”
“You’re dead anyway,” Benny said, “unless you tell me enough so that I decide you’re worth something alive.”
There was silence as the two young men considered that.
“Will? How old are you?” Benny asked.
“Seventeen,” Will mumbled.
“Trevor? Age?”
“Twenty-two.”
