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?”

swear. I cut the brake lines


and hauled him

“What girl?”

daughter. What

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

all I knew, I was about to make love to the enemy for

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have been just as delicious as the most addictive drug known to

went wide with fresh terror. “I… I overheard them talking once. The Alpha and his second wife. They said something about using their daughter to get close to the Ashclaw

swear.”

a punch to the gut. Everything Gabriel

felt just


this?”

Maybe six or seven years.

or seven years ago. Right around the time our marriage had

look. “That’s enough proof for

needed more. I needed concrete evidence, not just the overheard conversations of a guilty

isn’t enough. Anyone could claim they overheard

Gabriel’s jaw tightened. “Alexander-”

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