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“You owe me everything! As far as you’re concerned, your life and the life of everyone you care about is in my hands. Who do you think my father will kill first when I tell him about this, huh? You think it might be the trash I found your dick in?”
“Don’t call him that,” I said with my wolf again resurfacing.
“Or, maybe your brother? Or your mother? Or do you think that he’ll just hire someone to murder the whole lot of you and be done with it? You’ve met my father. Which of those things do you think he’s not capable of?”
As much as I hated her, I knew she was telling the truth. Her father was a psychopath. I knew it because no matter how much my father loved his family, he was too. Nothing stood in the way of him getting what he wanted and his vengeance was that of legend.
“Yeah, that’s what I thought,” Eris said when she knew that she had me.
I was willing to sacrifice my life for anyone Eris had mentioned, especially Dillon. But I wasn’t willing to risk a hair on his head to save myself.
To protect them, my sentence had to be life. I hated it, but it was true. There was no way out of this without someone dying. And if I was the one doing the killing, I would have to do it at the expense of being with Dillon.
Dillon thought he knew who I was. But what he didn’t… couldn’t know, was that I was a Lyon. I had come from my father’s blood. I was capable of doing what my father had and more. I was sure of it.
I had never allowed myself to go there. Dreaming of one day having a life with Dillon had held me back. I never wanted to cross the line to become a man he could never be with. And to free myself of my sentence, that was who I would have to become.
With the barred doors closing on me, would I become that man now? It would be so easy. Who even knew that Eris was here? With her gone, I would have the jump on her father. In hours, his empire could be mine. I could be the most feared man in New York. And all it would cost would be the way Dillon looked at me.
I looked back at the beautiful man laying scared in my bed. His large eyes, his creamy skin, I needed them to breath. The price of my freedom was too high. Realizing it, my head drooped.
“Here’s what’s going to happen,” Eris began. “Look at me.”
Without thinking, I turned to her.
“Since I’m not a monster, I’m going to give you an hour. When that hour is done, you’re going to say goodbye to him and then you will never see him again. Ever! Do you understand me?”
Staring at her, I wanted to snap her neck. I didn’t. Instead, I looked away defeated.
“Good. See, I can be reasonable. I have a heart. But, don’t mistake sympathy for weakness because that’s how people end up dead. Tell me you understand.”
I was going to look away in shame, but I didn’t. I couldn’t because I was no longer the one in control. Before I could stop it, my bones broke. The prickly wave of emerging fur coated my body. He was out, and I could hear everything he was thinking.
It would do what I refused to. It would kill Eris. And there was nothing I could do to stop him.
With his narrowing eyes locked on the startled woman in front of me, he showed his teeth and crouched about to pounce. Soon it would all be over. My wolf would turn me into the man I had fought becoming for so long.
“Don’t!” I heard a kind voice say.
My wolf knew that voice. He craved it. Turning towards it we saw Dillon. At least it looked like him.
He looked changed. There was someone new behind his eyes. And he sat up in a daze.
“You’re gonna kill her. If you do, everyone you love will die. I can see it. She isn’t lying. She came here with a plan. She knew what she would find.”
My wolf turned back toward Eris. Her wide eyes confirmed what Dillon said. She didn’t look like she had been caught in a lie, she was floored by the truth.
“Right,” she said scared by finding her voice. “That’s exactly right. I knew what I would find. And I made a plan in case I didn’t make it back.”
In a moment, my wolf was gone. Lying naked on the ground, I said,
“You’re insane.”
“Maybe,” she replied part confession and part threat.
“It’s okay, Remy. I think I finally understand. I understand everything,” Dillon said looking at me with sad eyes that again resembled his own.
“Well, it’s about time,” Eris quipped slowly finding her strength. “Now I’ll leave you two to it. And when it’s done, I look forward to starting the rest of my life with my soon-to-be husband.”
