Chapter 86: Theo

I left after Marie and Kylee arrived. They needed time together. And it still hurt too much to watch them be there for her in the way I wanted to be. Kingston was waiting outside the door still. I didn’t know if she would want to see him either, and I couldn’t bring myself to allow it. Not when she was pulling away from me already.

“She needs time with her family,” I said gruffly.

“Of course,” Kingston said.

“Jimmy has tracked down one of the culprits involved in her poisoning,” I said. “My father is handling the other Alphas and Lunas if you would like to join me at the precinct.”

“Absolutely,” he said eagerly.

We traveled to the sheriff’s station in silence. Jimmy and Maggie had been able to catch up with John easily enough. He was holed up in an old management building at the fairgrounds. He didn’t put up much of a fight when they cornered him. His guilt was already eating away at him.

I looked at him through the one-way glass at the station. We used to be friends back in high school. We were never close, but as his future Alpha, I knew him well enough. At least, I did back then. The man sitting before me now was a stranger to me. An enemy I would have never expected.

“Do you want Sheriff McCabe to question him, Alpha,” Jimmy asked. “It may be…”

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interrupted. “I need to take

the interrogation room and sat down across the table from John. Anger and the sting of betrayal boiled under the surface but was tempered by pity. He looked ragged and disheveled. But I could tell this was a state

poison Luna Ayla. I know you were involved.” He closed his eyes tightly and shook

his shoulders falling. “She didn’t take a drink,” he muttered. “I was watching. Watching like a hawk. Like a wolf. Watching to see if she took a drink. I didn’t like it. I didn’t want to. But she said it had to be done. But she didn’t tell

asked. “Who didn’t

would have let them hurt me. I wouldn’t have… That’s why I stopped her. I heard

at the gathering. That

leave

had been drawing blood from doing so. He was losing his mind, but he managed to nod a confirmation to my question. I stood up and walked around the table, leaning on it as I reached out for John.

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his shoulder, trying to offer some

you to tell

vigorously. “No, no, I can’t,” he insisted. “They’ll hurt

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