Page 91 of Wanted

I pause before making my next comment.

“It’s possible that there’s someone Rufus Dalton was working with, someone we don’t know about.”

“Everyone who worked with that son of a bitch is dead,” Chael replies.

“Not everyone.”

My brother’s sharp gaze locks on me. Chael knows I’m referring to our traitor brother. The scowl that covers his face tells me as much.

“I could go to the prison to?—”

No!he growls in my head.That traitor is dead to us all. You will not speak with him.

Even if it has to do with the safety of our pack?

He has nothing to offer us,Chael replies. He won’t hear anything of my going to Christophe for help.

Truly, I doubt he would know anything anyway.

I’ll use my other resources to get the information I’m looking for.

We can do this without him,Chael replies. He steps closer.And there’s nothing I’ll let happen to you or your mate. As your mate, she is one of our pack as well. She’s a Nightwolf.He tells me at the same time he squeezes my shoulder.

I nod, my throat suddenly feeling too full for me to respond verbally. Yet, my brother won’t let it drop so easily.

“Brother, you’ve believed for years you wouldn’t have a mate.”

I press my lips together and turn my head away from him. For years, I’ve told Chael and anyone else who brought up my mate status, that I would never have a mate.

I never understood why, he says in my head because I’m not looking at him and therefore can’t read his lips.

That’s what I was made to believe,is all I say.

Who made you believe this nonsense?Chael demands, anger lacing through his tone.

I won’t tell him it was the same man he regards as his hero. The relationship Chael had with our father was different from the relationship I had with him.

I’ve long accepted it.

That’s not important.I step away from my brother.What is important is tonight’s Supermoon Ceremony. Afterward, we’ll know once and for all whether Emery is a wolf or not.

Though I don’t need to wait until tonight. I already know the truth.

Once we know the truth, I will go north to continue my investigation.I finish telling Chael.

I give him a nod and start to head back to his house to retrieve Emery. I’ve spent more than two hours away from her, updating my brother before tonight’s ceremony. I need to see her.

And if she’s our pack’s storyteller?

Chael’s question stops me in my tracks.

This time I’m aware of my fists clenching. I keep my back turned on my brother as I count down from ten.

Chael doesn’t wait for me to face him, though.

My brother rounds me until we’re face to face.What if your mate is our pack’s storyteller?he asks again.

I meet my brother’s gaze as I reply,Then Mother Moon helps whoever tries to hurt her.