Chapter 76

Adam recovers before me. He grabs the syringe and the collecting bag from the imposing wolf.

“Are you continuing to pay the blood debt?” Tobin asks me.

I have a pretty good idea why Adam’s here. And what he’s thinking. “No,” I tell him.

He angles his head quizzically at Adam.

Adam, bless him, says nothing.

Tobin’s eyes flash. He sniffs the air

Then his brows draw together. “Hmm,” he says absently.

Hmm? What the he ll does that mean?

“You didn’t say why you were here,” I tell him.

“No,” he agrees. “I didn’t.”

wandering inside my father’s-my packhouse-as if he

a

worried?” I ask

eyes are kind when they take me in. “We have bigger

My health, for

little fact that I’m

“Let’s do what you came for.” And let’s see

better. I’m less tired. I feel stronger. But I don’t want to get my hopes up. I can’t because if I’m

Leah. I can’t believe that there would be no

I wouldn’t know.

before I told

together. But it doesn’t feel right. It’s like

intimate.

us like this. I squeeze his hand once and then extricate myself from his

the stairwell, plotting a path that won’t bring me past the, uh, party in my father’s room.

I

go to the

“Why?”

secure, and it has surveillance cameras. I can see who is

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