Page 69 of Wolf Cursed
The others moved aside, and I was carried away from it all—straight through the back door of the Throttle and into the empty garage.
“Let me go,” I screamed, but if anything, the grip around my arms and middle only tightened until suddenly, they released me. I fell in a tangle of limbs onto the hard concrete floor.
Pain radiated up from where I’d landed on my arm, and I hissed through closed teeth. Turning quickly, I looked up into the eyes of my attacker.
“Oscar, let me out of here,” I demanded.
“Not a fucking chance, kid. Are you trying to get killed?”
I glared at him. “I’m trying to stop a mob from killing an innocent person.”
“Innocent, huh?” He rubbed his salt and pepper goatee. “Do you know something about that damned spook that we don’t?”
“Spook?” I echoed, confused.
Movement caught my eye, and I felt a fresh wave of fury at the sight of Kai striding up behind Oscar. With him were Silas, Drake, Presley, and the twins. Fear coiled in my gut as I took in their faces one at a time. No one looked okay about seeing me here. Or what I’d just done.
I stood up, hating the feeling of having to look up at them all. My arm twinged, but I ignored it. No way would I show any of them a weakness now.
“I told you she was a threat,” Silas said.
His eyes were trained on me as if his stare alone could extract whatever punishment he had in mind.
“She’s not one of them,” Oscar said in a hard voice that sounded almost like a warning. Almost.
Except that he was still looking at me like he wanted to whoop my ass too. They all did.
“One of who?” I asked, mostly because it seemed like whoever that guy was, aligning with him was about to get me in way more trouble than I could get out of.
“Like she doesn’t know,” Silas scoffed. He glared at me. “Stop playing stupid.”
“She’s not playing,” Oscar said and then winced when he realized he’d accidentally just insulted me.
“Look, I don’t know what that guy did, but it doesn’t make right what you were doing to him,” I told Silas.
“Thatguywas trying to climb in your window,” Silas said, and I blinked, suddenly at a loss for words.
“Oh, now he deserves what he gets huh?” Silas shook his head.
I looked over at Kai, but his expression was too intense for this moment. He wasn’t moving to defend me, which only made my heart hurt.
I looked at Idrissa. “Is that true?”
She nodded. “It’s why we were so worried about you after…”
She shot a look at Presley, who looked completely unharmed by their little battle earlier. In fact, they both did, which only made me more wary of them all.
“Why would some stranger want to get into my room?” I asked, but even as I said the words, I knew.
Vorack.
He’d found me.
“Good question,” Silas said. He crossed his arms over his chest, and I knew he’d seen the answer written in my eyes. “Why don’t you tell us.”
I hesitated. But keeping my secrets wasn’t an option anymore. Not after this. My shoulders sagged.
“My dad owed some people money,” I said quietly. “Bad people. They came to collect, and when we didn’t have it, they killed him for it.”
