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 cut the


Gabriel grabbed Thomas by the shirt and hauled

“What girl?”

Alpha’s daughter. What were their

I pushed him down, no matter how much I wanted to agree with him. We didn’t know

tryst in the kitchen short. Because for all I knew, I

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as delicious as the most

his second wife. They said something about using their daughter to get close to the Ashclaw heir. That’s all I

swear.”

to the gut. Everything Gabriel had been saying,

suddenly felt just a little more


was this?” I

ago. Maybe six or seven years. She

Right around the time our

meaningful look. “That’s enough proof for

concrete evidence, not just the overheard conversations of a guilty man desperate

I said. “Hearsay isn’t enough. Anyone could claim they

Gabriel’s jaw tightened. “Alexander-”

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