Page 124 of Fangs
I stared at him, my temper boiling.
His eyes narrowed. “What?”
“I’m just tryin’ to decide if you thinkI’mstupid or if you’re a hell of a lot dumber than I remember.”
Lee let out a noise suspiciously like a laugh, but Wolf’s temper rose to meet mine.
“Ember—”
“Idon’ttrust you, for the record. Or your crew.” I snapped.
Maybe I imagined the hurt thatflashed through his eyes because he just sounded angry when he spoke. “You trust these people more than your own brother?”
“Thesepeople believe me.”
“What do you think these two months are for?”
“I don’t fuckin’ know, Wolf!” I threw my arms up in the air. “To torture me?”
“We made a deal, remember? You said you’d talk to me, Ember.”
“I might have to tell you everythin’ aboutme,but I am not draggin’ anybody else into this.”
“So there are others, then,” Wolf raised an eyebrow, the corner of his mouth ticking up.
I bit the inside of my cheek hard to keep from swearing. Godsdamnit, I hated that he could still back me into a corner so fucking easily.
“Mac has some sort of power, doesn’t he?”
I glared at him and didn’t answer.
“What doesn’t make much sense is that no one else seems to know,” Wolf continued like I was participating. “Like you and Mac are keepin’ it a secret.”
“I’m not talking to you about Mac,” I said through my teeth.
“Em, all I’m tryin’ to get at is if you and Mac are keepin’ somethin’ a secret from the others, I would guess you have a pretty good reason for it. And if you have a good reason for keepin’ it secret, don’t you think your crew had a good reason for keepin’ that girl’s powers a secret from you?”
I felt my cheeks heat up, and a familiar stubbornness filled me. “It’s different.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s Clarity.”
“Why does that make it different?”
I wrapped my arms around my torso, trying to physically hold myself together. My voice came out wobbly. “Because she’s Trey’s sister.”
Realization flashed through his eyes, and he studied me quietly for a few breaths. “I would guess if her health started going downhill, they would have immediately told you.”
He was right, and I hated it. I wished he would stop making so much sense and just let me be mad.
“Ember, I’m not tryin’ to dig up information on your friends for whatever horrible reason you’ve got in your head. I’ve got no beef with any of them.”
“Well, I’m sorry if I don’t trust the person who snuck in here in the middle of the night and abducted me at gunpoint.”
Lee wasn’t even trying to hide his grin now. Wolf noticed and shot a dirty look at him.
“Look, man, I’m not gonna lie; it feels good to see you have to deal with this mini version of you.”
