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.”

turns and walks away from us. Who is this wolf wandering inside my father’s-my packhouse-as if he has every right

mutters a

worried?” I ask him.

they take me in. “We have bigger concerns

My health, for

the little fact that I’m still

for.” And let’s see if this absorption of my legacy has finally

don’t want to get

can’t believe that there would

I wouldn’t know.

probably should’ve asked Aaron before

hand. He twines our fingers together. But it doesn’t feel right. It’s like a betrayal of sorts and far too

intimate.

I also don’t want someone to see us like this. I squeeze his hand once and then extricate

up the stairwell, plotting a path that won’t bring

I say.

to

“Why?”

building itself is more secure, and it has surveillance cameras. I can

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