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“Thomas Black,” | said quietly. “We need to talk.”
He tried to run, of course. But Gabriel caught him before he made it three steps, shoving him back onto the bed
so hard the frcracked.
“Please,” Thomas stammered, “I-I don’t know what you want, but | haven't done anything-"
“You cut the brake lines on my parents’ car.”
The color drained from his face. “I don’t know what you're talking about.”
Gabriel stepped forward, cracking his knuckles. “Would you liketo refresh his memory, Alpha?”
“That won't be necessary.” | pulled up a chair and sat down, making myself comfortable. “We already know what
you did. The question is whether you're going to tell us who paid you to do it, or whether my Beta is going to
have to get creative.”
Thomas's throat bobbed.
“Here’s what's going to happen,” | continued. “You're going to tell us everything. Who hired you, why they
wanted my parents dead, and what else you know about their plans. And if you cooperate, | might let you live to
see sunrise.”
Thomas broke after another ten minutes of threats and Gabriels increasingly creative descriptions of what he
planned to do to him. The confession ctumbling out all at once.
“It was the Alpha of Stormhollow,” he sobbed. “He said the Ashclaw pack was getting too powerful. He paid me
fifty thousand to make it look like an accident.”
“What else?”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“That's all, | swear. | cut the brake lines and left.”
“Bullshit.” Gabriel grabbed Thomas by the shirt and hauled him upright. “There’s more. What about the girl?”
“What girl?”
“Ella. The Alpha’s daughter. What were their plans for her?”
The mention of Ella made my wolf howl again. He didn’t believe that Ella was a pawn. But | pushed him down, no
matter how much | wanted to agree with him. We didn’t know for certain yet.
Which was precisely why Gabriel had cut our tryst in the kitchen short. Because for all | knew, | was about to
make love to the enemy for a second time.
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And it would have been just as delicious as the most addictive drug known to man.
Thomas's eyes went wide with fresh terror. “I... | overheard them talking once. The Alpha and his second wife.
They said something about using their daughter to get close to the Ashclaw heir. That's all | heard, |
swear.”
The words hitlike a punch to the gut. Everything Gabriel had been saying, every suspicion he'd raised
about Ella, suddenly felt just a little more real.
“When was this?” | asked.
“Years ago. Maybe six or seven years. She was just a teenager then.”
Six or seven years ago. Right around the tour marriage had been arranged.
Gabriel shota meaningful look. “That's enough proof for me, Alpha. She’s been playing you from the
beginning.”
But | needed more. | needed concrete evidence, not just the overheard conversations of a guilty man desperate
to save his own life.
“No,” | said. “Hearsay isn’t enough. Anyone could claim they overheard something.”
Gabriel's jaw tightened. “Alexander-"
“I want solid proof,” I cut him off. “Documentation. Recorded conversations. Something that can’t be dismissed
as the desperate lies of a murderer.”
| turned back to Thomas. “Here's the deal. You're going to go back to your life, and you're going to findreal
evidence that Ella is a spy. Letters, recordings, anything that proves she’s been knowingly working with her
family against me. If you bringthat proof within the next month, | won't kill you for what you did to my
parents.”
Thomas nodded frantically. “Y-Yes, yes, | can do that. | still have a key to the main house. | can find something.”
“You'd better. Because if you don't, or if you try to run, or if you warn anyone about this conversation...” | leaned
forward until we were inches apart. “I will hunt you down and make you pay for every day my parents didn’t get
to live.”
“I understand,” Thomas whispered. “I'll find proof. | promise.”
| stood up, suddenly needing to get out of this cramped cottage. | didn’t know where | needed to go | just needed
to go.
Gabriel stayed behind to finish up with Thomas while | burst outside. The night air felt cool against my skin, but it
did nothing to ease the pit that had opened up in my stomach. The taste of Ella's kiss was still
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on my lips, the memory of how right it had felt to hold her still burning in my chest.
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But now, with Thomas's words echoing in my head, everything felt tainted. Had it all been a lie? Every smile,
every blush, every moment of vulnerability?
Had she truly been playinglike a fiddle all this time?
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