Page 40 of Wed Or Dead

Gage lifted his gun. “Don’t move,” he ordered as he stalked toward the blond male.

The hunter froze. “K-Kayla? What’s going on?”

“I’m sorry, Thomas, but those prisoners aren’t being transferred.”

Gage was less than a foot from Thomas now. Could Thomas see the flash of fang? Probably. He was sweating. Trying to back up and?—

Gage grabbed him and rammed the Thomas’s head into the wall. One hard rap, and Thomas fell.

Hell. Kayla raced across the room. “You weren’t supposed to hurt him!”

“And he wasn’t supposed to have shifter blood beneath his nails.” Gage’s nostrils flared, and she knew he was pulling in the scent. His jaw tight, he growled, “The bastard’s lucky that he’s still breathing.”

Hewasstill breathing. But Thomas was definitely out.

Gage’s gaze rose to the monitors. “Shamus.”

She stood slowly and followed his stare. He was looking at the redheaded male wolf shifter who had been brought in first for containment. She still didn’t know how an Irish wolf had wound up in the new Vegas pack, and from what she’d gathered, Shamus hadn’t exactly been the sharing sort.

Blood dripped from the redhead’s side. He stood just a foot away from the silver bars, and he glared straight up at the camera.

Shamus had put two hunters in the infirmary when he’d been brought in.

An animal.Lyle’s words drifted through her mind.See how wild? How vicious? This one will have to be put down before he can kill again.

“Has he killed?” Kayla asked quietly.

Gage nodded.

So have I.When had the line between good and evil become so blurry? Maybe it had just always been that way. “Has he killed innocents?” she pressed.

Gage’s stare slowly turned to her. “I’m getting him out of there.”

Okay, so that wasn’t the answer she’d been hoping to hear. Kayla grabbed his arm and stopped him. “If that wolf is gonna get loose, then turn on humans, I can’t let that happen.” That would just be more death on her. Kayla swallowed. “I’ve seen what wolf shifters can do to humans. I won’t let him hurt innocent people like that.”

Gage stared down at her. “When will you stop judging us all, based on what happened to you?”

She felt that hit all the way to her soul. But Kayla didn’t let him go. “Is he a threat to humans?” Lyle had said so, but now she knew Lyle was a lying sack of shit.

That I trusted for years. That I freaking loved.He’d been a second father to her, only the increasing icy certainty in her gut told her that the creep had quite possibly killed her real father.

No, not quite possibly.You did it. I know you did.Her blinders had been smashed to pieces now.

And I was with Lyle. I fought side by side with him for years and didn’t realize the truth.

She had to clench her teeth to hold back the scream that wanted to break free. She’d been so blind. So driven by rage and anger. Lyle had given her targets, and she’d been only too eager to attack.

“I trust Shamus.” Gage spoke softly to her. His body was tense beneath her hand. “Things haven’t been easy for him. But he isn’t psychotic.”

As wolves were prone to be.Like you, Lyle?

“He’s in control, and as far as I know, Shamus never killed a human in his life, not even those who deserved death.”

Her breath rushed out. Okay, that was something.

“And the woman?” The female wolf. The one with the short, close-cropped black hair, the tawny skin, and the dark eyes that looked like she’d seen hell a time or twenty.

“Faye can’t shift.”

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