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Her pupils constricted

"If you were really human, if there was any humanity left in you, then you would understand They aren’t like us They’ll never be like us"

I wanted to tell her that there was no me and her, no us, but there was a part of me that didn’t want to knohether those words would smell like a lie

A olf had killed ht "If your coven is so convinced that olves are animals, then ould you make a deal with Shay?"

"Shay?" Caroline repeated

"Lucas’s alpha"

Either the words weren’t ringing a bell, or Caroline had an even better poker face than I’d given her credit for

"Big guy, kind of looks like me?" Devon kept his tone casual, and e any similarity to the brother he barely knew

"Shay," I said sharply, expounding so Devon didn’t have to "The guy who gave Lucas to your coven? Sadistic, kind of smarmy? About yea tall?" I raisedin exchange for loaning out his favorite punching bag?"

Caroline stopped looking atat ht him He doesn’t have a pack or an alpha He’s on his own, and if he hasn’t killed yet, he would have eventually Lone wolves always do"

"Not always," I countered, "and it’s a ht after he showed up on our land, I got an e him back"

"This is the first we’ve heard about it," Caroline said tersely

"It’s the first you’ve heard about it," I corrected "But Lucas said Shay made some kind of deal with yourabout Shay, I can promise that he knows about you"

Caroline didn’t reply She just turned on her heel and left--but not before I caught sight of the darkness that spread across her eyes the moment I mentioned her mother

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

I CONCLUDED THREE THINGS BASED ON OUR INTERaction with Caroline

One: she hadn’t exaggerated her skill eapons She’d taken a chunk out of Devon’s voluminous hair--from a hundred yards away That wasn’t the kind of shot a norood--with a crossbow

Thatever deal her mother had made with Shay, Caroline--and quite possibly the rest of the coven--had been left coenuinely believed that they’d captured Lucas, and just talking about olves sent enh her veins, deadly and cool

The third thing, I said out loud, since it was the one that ht have passed Devon’s and Lake’s attention "Caroline’s ood with erao full throttle on the hatred scale anytime olves come up"

It was probably also safe to conclude that the eet a psychic push to feel a rush of fear when she thought about Caroline, and that made me wonder