Page 19 of Sold Wolf Slave

Blinking those gray eyes at me, she looked up. Her scent, chocolate and smoke, distracted me momentarily. I had to force myself not to inhale deeply.

“You really want to help me?” she asked, skepticism still tainting every word.

“I do,” I said. “I don’t want a slave. I don’t like the idea of slaves. I’m here to take all of this down.”

“We’re still married,” she pointed out, distrust filling her eyes and hardening them again. “You can get rid of those, but that doesn’t change the fact we’re tied together.”

“One thing at a time,” I said. “Right now, the most important thing is getting you out of here.”

“What about all the others?” she asked.

“Some of my team should be here soon, if they aren’t already. I’m going to relay everything to the Gold Wolves,” I said. “I’ll send one of them back with you. I plan on staying here and learning more about this operation. I need to find a way to earn their trust so I can meet Cain and learn enough to take down this entire thing.”

“You’re not going to be able to do it,” she said. “He’s too dangerous.”

I raised my eyebrows. “You don’t know how dangerous we can be. Don’t count us out quite yet.”

“Yeah, don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not going to take your word for anything. I know you can fight, but that’s the only thing I know for sure about you.”

She had a point. I didn’t have any way of proving any of this, not until I actually carried out my promise. I reached out to touch her, but stopped myself.

She looked at my hand, then back at me, a speculative expression on her face as she cocked her head, her hair falling down one shoulder. We stayed like that for a long moment, each studying the other.

“I don’t know if I believe you,” she said. “But I don’t have any choice but to go along with whatever you have in mind, so I guess that more or less comes to the same result.”

Part of me wanted to reach out, to take her hands and hold them. But considering she still looked ready to murder me, I figured I would keep my hands to myself.

“We’re going to get you out of here, I promise,” I said. “As soon as Chris or Nolan gets here. You’ll be free soon. We’ll take you through the portal, and you won’t have to see this place or anyone in here ever again.”

“Joy,” she muttered. She shifted in her seat and glanced away as if lost in thought.

I frowned, tilting my head as I studied her. I would have thought she would be relieved about leaving, not sullen.

“Do you want to stay here? Because you don’t seem like you’re particularly happy here, but you also don’t sound particularly excited about getting out of here and being set free.”I tilted my head as I studied her. “Any particular reason why that would be?”

She didn’t answer at first. I didn’t expect her to, based on the way our conversation had gone so far, but one could hope.

Finally, after what felt like entirely too long, she took a deep breath. “I want to leave,” she said. “Just not yet.”

I nodded. “And I’m going to guess that you aren’t going to tell me why or anything like that.”

She gave a wry grin that drove my wolf insane. “What do you know? You’re a fast learner.”

I tilted my head. “You’re not exactly what I thought you would be like.”

She gave a coy, amused smile that drove my wolf wild. It took all my strength not to pull her to her feet and press my lips to hers. I wanted to know how she tasted, to know if it would drive me as insane as her scent.

“I’ll bet you say that to all the girls,” she said.

Chapter 7 - Kendra

He gave me my own room. Later, after what passed for night here, when the purple sky overhead turned black, I lay on my own bed, a mattress softer than anything I’d ever slept on before, cradling me, tempting me to go to sleep.

I didn’t sleep, though. I stared up at the ceiling, listening to the other sounds of the house to see if Will was still moving around. Nothing but silence filled the air, leaving me to ruminate on the thoughts swirling around my head as I tried to process what had happened in the last few hours.

I had expected him to demand that I sleep in his bed with him. Instead, he had shown me up here to a massive room with large windows and a huge bed. The room was almost as big as the house I grew up in.

Will wasn’t what I had expected. I had prepared myself for a brutish asshole who got off on breaking women. And instead, I’d gotten a shifter who insisted he was here to help. Part of me believed him.

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