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Saige’s breathing changes again. It’s racing now. “Like Simon?”

She speaks in a whisper, but you don’t need volume to hear her guilt.

“Not your fault, Jane,” Harley says easily.

“Her name isnotJane,” Kade bites out.

“Really?” Harley smiles. “Is it Angel?”

I take a step forward and intervene before things turn violent. “A wolf attacked you at the hospital?”

Harley’s amusement slips away. “I don’t have a problem with a wolf attacking me. I know how to fight back. It’s the innocent bystanders I have a problem with. A nurse nearly walked right into the middle of our fight, and she would have died. I’ve taken time off work. We’ve had one person die in that hospital parking lot. I don’t intend for there to be another.”

“We have this well in hand,” Kade says tightly. “So you can take your—”

“Rylan has Sam.” Dariel’s cold voice comes from the top of the stairs.

He has his cell phone in one fist, and rage hardens his expression. When Saige squeezes my hand again, I squeeze back, the two of us quietly comforting—and reassuring—each other.

Dariel stalks down the stairs. “Greg is out of the city. He’s safe. Killian and Grady are at home. I checked. Sam.” He squeezes his phone with enough force it creaks ominously. “Her roommate said she’d forgotten her purse. She went to the Cerberus to look for it and didn’t come home.”

And Rylan found her there and took her.

Dariel points at the dead wolf. “Bury her in the garden. Clean up the blood, and I want everyone around the dining table in the next hour.”

Kade nods toward Harley. “Not him.”

“Yes. Him,” Dariel snarls. Fur ripples across his cheeks. Saige’s breath hitches. No one moves. The fur subsides a second later, and he’s fully human again. “We’re going to sit around that table, and we are working out a plan to destroy him. Now isnotthe time to turn down the offer of help. Do you understand me?”

Kade says nothing.

Harley nods. “I’ll help clean up.”

Dariel swings back up the stairs, dialing as he goes.

“You didn’t say what he wanted for Sam.” Saige’s voice is very quiet. Not stunned, but flat. As if she’s not the least bit surprised at the direction things have gone.

Dariel pauses but doesn’t turn around. “I would think that would be obvious.”

He continues up the stairs, raising the phone to his ear. At the top, someone answers. “Mother. I have bad news.”

“Me,” Saige whispers under her breath. “He wants me.”

CHAPTER 26

SAIGE

“We all know something about Rylan Trevailer.” Dariel sweeps his gaze over the table. “We share it all.Now.”

His eyes focus on me the longest. I possess the biggest piece of knowledge of all of us. What he can’t know is that the biggest piece comes with all the ways Rylan has hurt me. But Rylan has Sam, and if anyone knows what he will do to her—all the ways he will hurt her—I do.

I need to tell them. It’s the only way they will understand what’s at stake.

To do that, I need to tell them all the things Rylan and his pack did to me. I have to reveal all the ways they hurt me, and all the times they made me cry and beg for them to stop.

The shame is the worst.

I don’t want Kade to think less of me. I don’t want Aden to pity me. And I don’t want Dariel to decide that actually, I’m too much trouble after all, so could I please just hurry up and get the fuck out before I kill them all.

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