Chapter 179

“Thomas Black,” I said quietly. “We need to talk.”

He tried to run, of course. But Gabriel caught him before he made it three steps, shoving him back onto the bed so hard the frame cracked.

“Please,” Thomas stammered, “I–I don’t know what you want, but I haven’t done anything-”

“You cut the brake lines on my parents‘ car.”

The color drained from his face. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Gabriel stepped forward, cracking his knuckles. “Would you like me to refresh his memory, Alpha?”

“That won’t be necessary.” I pulled up a chair and sat down, making myself comfortable. “We already know what you did. The question is whether you’re going to tell us who paid you to do it, or whether my Beta is going to have to get creative.”

Thomas’s throat bobbed.

“Here’s what’s going to happen,” I continued. “You’re going to tell us everything. Who hired you, why they wanted my parents dead, and what else you know about their plans. And if you cooperate, I might let you live to see sunrise.”

Thomas broke after another ten minutes of threats and Gabriel’s increasingly creative descriptions of what he planned to do to him. The confession came tumbling out all at once.

“It was the Alpha of Stormhollow,” he sobbed. “He said the Ashclaw pack was getting too powerful. He paid me fifty thousand to make it look like an accident.”

“What else?”

I swear. I cut the brake lines and


by the shirt and hauled him upright. “There’s more. What

“What girl?”

Alpha’s daughter. What were

mention of Ella made my wolf howl again. He didn’t believe that Ella was a pawn. But I pushed him down, no matter

for all I knew, I was about to

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would have been just as delicious as the most addictive

them talking once. The Alpha and his second wife. They said something about using their daughter to get

swear.”

to the gut. Everything Gabriel had been

felt just a little more


this?”

ago. Maybe six or seven years. She was just

seven years ago. Right around the time our marriage had

shot me a meaningful look. “That’s enough proof for me,

I needed concrete evidence, not just the overheard conversations of a guilty man desperate to save his own

isn’t enough.

Gabriel’s jaw tightened. “Alexander-”

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