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“That Missy kidnapped and drugged you, had plans to sell you on the black market,” he said.

“But—”

“I’m not going to mention which market she was planning on putting you in,” he quickly added. “She can decide how crazy she wants to make herself look when they arrest her. If she goes ranting and raving about how you are a werewolf and that’s why she took you, they will just think she’s nuts and probably institutionalize her.”

“You mean she could get off without any jail time?”

“It’s possible. But don’t worry. No matter what happens with her, I’m never going to let you get hurt again, you hear me?”

I smiled and wiped a couple of tears from my cheeks. “Yeah. I hear you.” He looked at me for a second longer and then walked behind the curtain and was gone.

“And I love you,” I whispered to the curtain.

CHAPTER 27

RORY

“We’re going to want to talk to you again after we get Miss O’Mally’s statement,” said the officer who had just finished asking me a long list of questions—only half of which struck me as being relevant. “Make sure it all adds up.”

“That’s fine,” I said. “She knows you’re out here waiting and will come to talk to you whenever she’s feeling up to it.”

The cop eyed me as she scribbled something down on her pad of paper. She hadn’t been rude, but she clearly didn’t fully believe my account of events. I couldn’t blame her. It was hard to piece everything together while keeping the most important detail completely hidden. I wished them good luck on their investigation and headed back down the hall. On my way to Daphne’s bedside, a hand jutted out from nowhere and ripped me into a nearby supply closet. The door shut behind me with a loud thud, and I raised my hands to fight.

“Motherfucker, what?—”

“It’s just me,” hissed Nic. My eyes adjusted to the dark, and I confirmed this.

“What the fuck are you doing?”

“I didn’t want the cops to see us talking because I’m not interested in giving a statement.”

I laughed. “You could’ve just texted me to come talk to you outside.”

“No.” She shook her head. “I didn’t want you going outside either.”

“Why not?” I shot her an angry look. Now wasn’t the time for games. “What the hell is going on? I thought you were back at the school with Matt and Cornelius. Why would you come here if you didn’t want to talk to the cops?”

“I came here to check on you… and also to warn you.”

“Warn me of what?”

“Cornelius made contact with one of his sisters tonight,” she said.

“He what? How?”

“It turns out he’s had an emergency phone number that he has been sitting on for a while. He finally called it and told her to come to Solara Bay so that they could talk—so that all of us could talk to her.”

“What?” I yelled.

“Shh! They’ll hear you.”

“I don’t care who hears me. He told his sister where we’ve been living? Is he insane?”

“Yes, and also probably yes,” she said. “But you have to understand, this whole thing with Daphne getting kidnapped by some fucking werewolf collector has totally freaked him out. I tried to talk him out of it, to at least have his sister meet him somewhere else, but you know how he is. He made up his mind, and there was no changing it.”

“This is ridiculous! He can’t make this call for the rest of us.”

“I know. That’s why I’m telling you now. So that you can get out of the area while there’s still time.”

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