Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 126

My breath catches when I see it’s a birth certificate and something else. I reach for it, but he holds it just out of my grasp. “Her name isn’t Brielle. I went to her storage locker containing her grandmother’s things and found this, so now I am trying to find her real ID.”

“What are you talking about?” I snap at him. His expression ist a mix of triumph and apprehension. There’s a smug satisfaction in the way he holds the paper, shaking it slightly in my face as if he’s unearthing a truth he believes will support his actions.

“She looks pretty damn alive to me!” Damian growls, and I snatch the papers from his hands and am horrified to find. that the second paper is a death certificate. I look at Damian, who is glaring at me.

“Still believe she isn’t hiding something? I found the death certificate in her grandmother’s things.”

My mind races as I piece it together. I try to think of a reason why she would lie to me, but nothing comes to mind except this Ex, which she is so terrified of. “She’s been using a dead girl’s birth certificate? Why would she lie about that? And if she isn’t Brielle, who the heck is she?” I mumble.

“Exactly! We can’t trust her,” Damian argues, his eyes

narrowing with conviction. “What else has she hidden? What else do we not know? You can’t deny the evidence of her being deceptive when you’re holding it!”

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breath, trying to keep my voice steady, but I’ve spent more time with Bree than anyone other than Max; I know she must have her reasons, and I refuse to believe she has malicious intentions wholeheartedly. “I know her, Damian. You

judgment!” he interrupts, his voice sharp. “What if she’s playing you? What if this is all

flaring between us. “I’m trying to understand because this level of deceit doesn’t match the woman I’ve come to know. I won’t throw her to the wolves based on just

no damn clue who this woman is!” he snarls, and he is right, but I refuse to

out to be a threat? You’ll be the one responsible for putting

permission to

just doing my job,” he replies, his tone cooling but still firm. He snatches the paperwork from me. “I’m going to run this via the council and see what comes up using the death certificate. On the plus side, we know she

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