Page 257 of His White Moonlight
Lindi scoffed.“He’s only nice to her because his parents adopted her.He doesn’t like her.I heard him say she’s not his sister.”
The man watched my slow smile.
“Who is he to you?”he asked.
“The better question is, who am I to him?I’m his potential mate.He’s one ofthem.And I’m the orphan girl he found when I was six and he was thirteen.He’s waited twelve long years to bring me home to claim me.”
I looked at Lindi.
“When he found out I wasn’t the perfectly protected princess he thought I’d been, he didn’t get mad at me, Lindi, did he?No, he got mad at you while making me promises that you’d pay.And he did make you pay.He took everything you ever flaunted away from you.”
I focused on the lead guy again.
“What do you think will happen if he finds me raped and dead in a ditch?Because he will find me.He has the nose for it.He will hunt you down and kill all of you, but not before you regret ever listening to her.And then, he’ll go after her.
“He won’t care about human laws.He’ll use pack laws for all of you.Murdering someone’s mate means that the pack will hunt you down and tear you apart like the animals you are.
“So, save yourselves, and walk away.Let him find Lindi here.”I met her gaze.“We both know you won’t walk away, no matter what they do.Are you crazy enough to kill me yourself, though?”I slowly shook my head.“No, you need them to do it for you.They’ll be the sacrifice.That’s why it’s a cash payment.Nothing in or out of your accounts to pin the blame on you.I bet you haven’t even been using your phone to contact them.”
“Any recorded calls to cover your ass?”I asked the man.“Because it’s going to look like a self-defense rape case when you’re found dead if you just did a pump and dump.”
He frowned and looked at Lindi.
“Yeah, a condom would have been your friend with her,” I added.
He took out his phone and took a picture of her, but she was fast, changing her hardened expression to something soft and pitiful at the last second.I knew right when he figured out she was setting him up.
“Bitch.”He hit her hard.Not a slap like she delivered me but a solid fist to the face.
I wasn’t a good person.I didn’t feel bad for her.
“You think you can set me up?”
“No, that’s not?—”
His next swing knocked her down at my feet.He kicked her twice in the stomach.She was sobbing and curled in a ball when he spat on her and focused on me.
“I know what you’re thinking.Witnesses are bad.But in this case, I’m good.
“He’s going to smell you, no matter what you do.Gasoline and a match will only cover up the bodies, not the trail he’s been following from where you kidnapped me.Your scent is in his nose.In his memory.He’ll never stop until he has answers.
“He’ll have someone pull the surveillance from the stores in the area so he has faces to go with the scents.If you were smart enough to mask, he has the van you used.He’ll use all his resources to keep pulling surveillance until he has the face of whoever was driving.Then he’ll find known associates for that person.You’ll be on that list.He won’t discriminate.He’ll hunt everyone down, even if it takes his whole life.
“I’m exhausted just thinking about it, but he won’t be.He’ll be fueled by his rage.
“Unless…”
“You’re as annoying as she is,” the man said.
I grinned.“Oh, I’m way more annoying, which should tell you a little bit about how obsessed my mate would have to be to still want me.And how grateful he’d be when he learns that you were tricked into kidnapping me and stopped Lindi before I was seriously hurt.”
“Don’t listen to her,” Lindi said, trying to push herself up.“She’s a liar.Everyone knows you can’t lie to a shifter.They can smell a lie.He’d know she was trying to lie for you.A million if you kill her now.”
She managed to sit up, but didn’t try to stand.
“A million?That’s it?And I wouldn’t be lying.Did you tell them who I was to the Wulfs?No.You didn’t even know who I was to them.Have they hurt me?No.You’re the one who slapped me.
“Do you have my phone?”I asked.“We can call Bennett right now and ask him.”
