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Inside the cell, I laid her on the bed gently. I pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead, and let my eyes drift over her for a few moments before I turned and left the cell. I locked it behind me and left the room.
Outside in the hallway, I leaned against the wall next to the closed door and slid down the wall. I waited anxiously for her to wake up. I'd already set in motion my plans to protect her. I couldn't do this to her without coming up with a plan to keep her safe.
Finally, a few hours later I heard her gasp as I was pacing the hallway. She was awake and it was time to face her. The anger that I felt at the knowledge she had decided to give herself to Victor still simmered under the surface as I opened the door and stepped into the room.
She looked so fragile that I wanted to open the door and go to her, but I stopped myself.
"Take it easy, the effects will take a few minutes to wear off," I warned her when I saw her struggle to sit up.
Slowly I watched her piece what happened together and her eyes shot to mine. The hurt in her eyes nearly undid me. What had she expected me to do? Open the door and shove her in Victor's direction?
"I don't understand..." she began to say as she walked slowly to face me through the bars. She reached out to hold one of the bars.
"Don't touch the bars," I warned her. She stopped her hand just in time.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"The bars are covered in wolfsbane," I revealed. She clearly had no idea what that was.
"It'll burn your skin if you touch it," I told her. "It's a security precaution we take to keep werewolves from escaping."
"I don't understand," she whispered again. She looked at me like I'd just kicked a puppy.
"After you came downstairs last night I knew there was something up, I just had no idea what. I went to talk to Jake and Gary came to me. He told me that you'd overheard what Blake and I had been talking about. I had this dreaded feeling that you were going to do something stupid."
I waited for her to say something but she remained silent. I watched as anger ignited in her eyes. She was pissed.
"I began to understand why you were acting so strangely. I decided it was in your best interest to keep you confined so you wouldn't try and do something stupid. I knew you wouldn't be able to sit back and do nothing."
I paused for a moment as I tried to control my anger.
"It was only after I injected you with a sedative and I heard your jumbled thoughts did I realize how far you were prepared to go," I said, and my voice broke on the last word.
She kept silent.
"Do you have any idea what he might do to you?" I yelled at her when I finally snapped. "Do you have any idea what that would have done to me...your brother...or Gary?
It would have broken me. Did she not understand that?
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Cade
She looked sad for a moment and then her emotions disappeared from her face.
"And you really thought that I'd just stand back and do nothing while you gave yourself over to a fucking lunatic!" I shouted.
The fear of losing her scared me more than anything and I couldn't believe how close I'd come to that.
"I would have started a war to get you back," I stated to her. I was still so angry. I ran a hand through my hair as I dropped my eyes from her face and fixed them on the floor. It hurt to look at her.
"How long was it going to take for you to tell me that you'd figured out that Victor was behind the rogue attacks?" she asked, her anger becoming more visible.
"It was only when Kyle told you about your parents and Victor that things started to make more sense. Jake confirmed it last night. A couple of the rogues were in our territory and Jake tracked them to the border of Victor's territory. He saw them talking to some of the pack members from Victor's pack. It explains how he was able to get the rogues to work together. He is an alpha," I said as I shoved my hands into the pockets of my jeans.
"So when were you going to tell me?" she asked. We both knew I had no intention of telling her anything.
"You weren't going to tell me, were you?" she asked as she put her hands on her hips.
