Klaus”Why are you doing this?” I stare up at him as he strides back and forth. I still felt a little dizzy, but it was just like when I was a kid and my parents had me bound. I was just a little weaker. It was fine, nothing I couldn’t handle.”Do you always ask so many questions?” He growls. He keeps checking the window of the old cabin, as though he was expecting someone to be following us. No one knew that I had left, though it would only be a matter of time before someone figures it out. “Pretty much. It’s what I’m known for in Black Shadow. I like knowledge. My entire house is full of books.” I fidget with my bound hands, trying to create a little wiggle room so I didn’t have to feel the rope burning my skin with each movement. “Okay then, Mr knowledge. Tell me how I get Samara and Blair out of the dungeons.” S~ᴇaʀᴄh the Find_Nøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.”You don’t. They are too heavily guarded. They will see you coming from all angles. You would be stupid to think that Dane would have just one guard. Why do you want them back, surely they are usless to you now?””They didn’t see me coming to the hospital though, did they?” He smiles, ignoring my question.”Because it wasn’t a priority.”He runs a hand through his cropped blonde hair. “You are going to help me get them back.””The agreement was that if I came with you, you won’t touch anyone inside the pack.””They are not part of the pack.”I laugh, “Inside the pack, that was the deal. I’ve seen enough contracts to know the correct wording!”He squats down in front of me. His sage green eyes study me. “You love that pack. Why?””It’s my family.”He laughs and shakes his head. “There are a lot of bad people in Black Shadow.””And you’re not bad? You take away people’s abilities. To me, that’s bad.” My neck still aches where he had jabbed me, and I’m desperately fighting the need to sleep. But until sleep completely takes me, I was going to get as much out of him as I could. I will find a way to get the information to Dane or one of the others.”No Klaus, I’m correcting everything that is wrong.” He tells me”According to who? You? Why do you get to decide what is right and wrong?”His fingers grab my cheeks and he squeezes enough to create pain. “Someone has too. Now get some sleep, we have a big day tomorrow.”He moves out of the room and watches me as he quietly closes the door. Within seconds my eyelids grow too heavy for me to keep open.”Wakey Wakey sleeping beauty.” He nudges my legs with his boot. Groaning, I push myself up until I’m sitting against the wall. “Here, eat.” He places an apple in my hands, “I don’t need you starving.”I take a bite as he watches me. “I assume you didn’t tell them. Is that why you came so easily?””Tell them what?””Oh, you know exactly what I’m talking about.” He squats and wipes some of the apple juice from my chin.I take another bite, refusing to say anything.”Just so you are aware, what I’ve drugged you with isn’t permanent like Madisons or Blairs. A couple of days or so, you will be able to scent me again. Though I’m hoping that I can convince you not to reject me.”The blue flecks in his sage green eyes seem brighter, full of hope. Like he was totally convinced I would be on board with him just because he happens to be my mate. “Maybe I can convince you not to be a prick!” He smiles at me and pulls a bottle of water from the inside of his jacket. “As much as you think I’m a prick, I would rather you didn’t die on my watch.””But you will gladly ruin the lives of others.” My eyes move to the bottle, but I don’t pick it up.