Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

As soon as Derek left Dan's room, word of it somehow made its way right to Hull.

When Silas passed the details he'd dug up over to Hull, Hull just snorted and grinned. "Told you so. Dan's the current head honcho of the Black Gate. Knew it."

They'd all suspected it for a while, just never had real proof. Now, it was pretty much settled-Dan was Black Gate Derek's son.

Still, nobody could say what exactly went down with Black Gate all those years ago. The whole thing was a mess-too many secrets, too many missing pieces. Susanna, hearing Hull's certainty, went pale.

Hull caught her expression and frowned. "What's with the long face?"

Susanna shot him a desperate look. "Star promised Yvonne would help me train for a month. I need her help!"

She really hated to admit her ties to the Murray family men, but blood is blood— you can't change that.

And now Dan, that jerk, had treated Yvonne like garbage.

Susanna genuinely worried Yvonne would take it all out on her.

Hull, catching on, blinked. "You're training with Yvonne? You sure about that?"

"Yeah, I'm sure."

But now? Now she wasn't so sure.

She wanted to train with Yvonne, but if Yvonne found out Dan-the shadowy leader of Black Gate-was her half-brother...

Oh, God. This was a disaster.

got a fever just from standing out in the wind all afternoon. If you end up with Yvonne after this, you're lucky if you make

went wide. She hadn't been

Yvonne is notorious for dragging innocent bystanders into the mess. You might want to rethink

wasn't like Yvonne didn't have a reputation.

beatings for it collateral

with even a vague connection was in for a rough time,

hope Yvonne would go easy on her

the unlucky one here-she'd done nothing, didn't even

to get her caught up in this mess,

way she could still train with Yvonne

call Star and tell her she was

...

in Yoreland, Yvonne was

after endless pestering, finally caved and handed something back to her. Well...

Stella had spilled the beans about Dan being the

het

trinket Skye returned, she was about ready to explode. "You stole so much from

this?"

only picked up this one

Picked up? From her

at Yvonne's unimpressed look. "Well, do you want it or not? If not, I'll

just found it,

teeth, "And the rest of my

all,"