Page 82 of Bite of Sin

“Can’t do that if I’m chained up here, now can I?”

I crossed my arms. “I didn’t come here to talk about the necklace.”

“Then let’s talk about that note Warner mentioned.”

My heart dipped, my nails digging into my arm as I stared at him. “I was telling the truth about not being the reason PARA raided your city.”

“But you told your group.”

“Yes.”

“What was in the note, Kali?”

“Everything I learned while I was with you.”

He cursed under his breath, a dangerous gleam hitting his eye. “About new vampires?”

“Yes.”

“You told them about me and my brothers being Kanes?”

“Yes.”

Oh, he was pissed. He jerked in the chains, and I took a step back, ready to bolt up the stairs. He had a scowl on his face. The cool and calm look he’d worn when I first came in was long gone.

“So they knew about Impulse?” he asked quietly.

I swallowed thickly, realizing where he was going with this. “Yes. They knew that’s where you’d be.”

He forced out a cold laugh. “You set me up in my own city.”

“I had no idea they’d come like that,” I hissed. “I didn’t know they’d take you.”

“You did,” he accused. “That’s why you told them I was a Kane. So they didn’t kill me.”

“You saved my life; I saved yours. We’re even now.”

He fell still at my words, his intense gaze not leaving me. “That’s what you think?”

“Why did you save me?” I asked, anger building inside me. He was a vampire. Someone who kept me for almost two weeks. Yet I cared about whether he died. I shouldn’t fucking care.

“Why didn’t you tell Warner what I did?” he countered.

“Because I have a feeling whoever knows that secret will find themselves at death’s door,” I muttered.

“You’d be right.”

“Except me?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“You can know all my secrets, Kali.” His lips tipped up in a grin that had the back of my neck prickling.

“Why?” I repeated, not sure I wanted to know the answer.

“Because you’re coming with me when I leave here.”

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