Page 65 of Wolf's Endgame

“Watch you shower?” Nikan asked gruffly.

“Yes.” Rolling her head on her shoulders, Kezia tried to loosen herself up. “Bale said that if I didn’t cooperate, Landon was to give me to the men.” She paused to wet her lips. “I don’t know how many men there are, and when I got free, I…” She looked at me for support, and I sent it through our bond. “I wasn’t myself when I left.”

“I understand.” Leo was frowning as he thought. “How many stalls?”

“What?”

“In the shower block, how many stalls?”

Pushing her hair off her face, Kezia closed her eyes briefly. “There weren’t any. But there were showerheads… Fifteen?” Opening them, she looked at Leo. “Five on three walls, one wall was bare.”

“Bare? Or were there lockers?” he pressed.

“Um…” Again she closed her eyes. “Not lockers, open compartments for…towels?” She looked between Leo and me. “Does that help?”

“Fifteen means his pack is big.” Leo spoke to Kezia, but his attention was on me. “We need to assume fifteen men per shift, eight-hour shifts…”

“Forty-five pack at least,” Royce grumbled in agreement. “Separate from his main pack. Kezia, how many can fight in the pack?”

The doors to the study opened, and Kris came back in. Leo quickly told him his thoughts, and I watched the other alpha pale, his gaze darting to his sister’s frequently.

“The females of the pack do not fight,” he told us all, shame tinging his cheeks. “Kez can, Cass as well, although she is not proficient in it.” Kris rubbed a hand over his face tiredly. “The pack numbers are seventy-three. Forty of those are males, who have been trained by me.”

“Eighty-five fighters.” Royce and I shared a look. “At least,” I added.

“We have those numbers,” Leo reminded me.

“We do, but it’s all our numbers…”

“And we have to assume that Tev has told them everything.”

“Fuck, I knew I would regret letting him live.”

“You should never regret mercy, Alpha,” the shaman corrected me.

“When it hurts my mate, he can,” Kezia bit out. “We can’t leave the pack here vulnerable.” She began to pace, her frown matching her brother’s. “You don’t know their numbers, and you don’t know if where I was held is the only place they have. We know so little, and as Royce said, we need to assume that traitor told them everything about Blackridge Peak.”

“And they have the Pack Council,” Kris added. “Which means Bale has our law in his pocket.”

“So the odds aren’t good,” Royce said with a shrug, a knowing look in his eye. “Right, Alpha?”

“Right.” I grinned at them all. “But when has that stopped us?”

CHAPTER 17

Kezia

Cannon and the others were planning, and they looked like they would be there all night. My knowledge of planning a strategic attack was very much limited to one-on-one combat, and I managed to leave them to it on the pretense that I was going to the bathroom. I knew that I hadn’t fooled my brother, who knew exactly where I was headed, nor my alpha who had dropped a kiss to my temple as I walked past him.

Climbing the stairs, I wondered what room Cass was in, but I needn’t have worried—I followed the sound of crying.

She was in one of the guest rooms I hadn’t been in before, decorated in gray and white. I hovered in the doorway before making the decision to go in. She was curled in a ball, her back to me, and while so much had changed, familiarity made me climb on the bed beside her and scoot in until I was lying on my back, staring at the ceiling, knowing she knew I was there.

“I’m sorry about your mom.”

“Were you telling the truth?”

It stung a little that she asked, but I kind of understood. If she had told me Kris had acted like her brother or father did, I would have doubted her too. Only, my brother would never have done that. But…when I thought about it, wouldn’t Cass say the same about Landon?

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