Chapter 39.-1
Nyx
I smelled the blood before I even saw him. It mixed with sweat and the musk I only associated
with him, so I turned calmly and waited for him to catch up to me. “I sent Duke to escort you,” Rhyson said with a frown. “Why are you walking?”
“Walking is good for me, and it’s not like I have anywhere to be. Why were you fighting?”
“A skirmish outside the border. Nothing that Troy and his people couldn’t handle.”
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“But you wanted to see how they handled it,” I guessed, then turned and started walking again. He
fell into step next to me. “Why do you care? These aren’t your wolves, and it doesn’t look or sound
like they’d welcome your interference. It would take an army for you to conquer them.”
“I’m not worried about power, and I’m not thinking of conquering this mountain. It’s just idle
curiosity.”
He was lying, but I brushed it aside. I was still trying to come to terms with the fact that Janelle couldn’t repair my bond. Silly, of course. I’d never had any hope until I came here, and now, every day brought new hope only to dash it again. I was starting to think that it would have been better if I’d never known at all. It wasn’t like I had any additional fury or shock that my father was behind it. I didn’t hate him more. I couldn’t. I already hated him with everything I had.
“How did your meeting with Elonso go? Are we leaving soon?”
“Tomorrow. Elonso knows who I am, and he wants my power to help clear up a problem for him,” Rhyson said stiffly. “It seems that drugs are a rampant part of his pack, and he can’t quell it. He wants me to find who is producing them and cut off the head, so to speak.”
“What makes him think you can do that? There are plenty of other wolves who know way more
about this mountain than you do.”
“He has a name, but he can’t find him, and he apparently can’t expend the wolves to find him. I have a feeling Victor knows more about the drug trade here than he’s letting on, so I’m going to see if he has any information. Then I’m going to do what I do best.”
“And what’s that?”
He flashed me a feral grin. “Hunt.”
It was all I could do not to roll my eyes. We both knew that Rhyson no doubt had the power to walk right into Elonso’s pack and demand the information, but he wanted the thrill of hunting something
down. He reveled in death.
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But then again, I was quickly discovering that so did I.
“You’re disappointed.”
His statement startled me. I thought I’d been hiding it so well, but obviously, he’d detected it in my face. It wasn’t like he could feel it in my bond. I didn’t have bonds.
“Janelle found a bond on my wolf, but she couldn’t find one on me. There is nothing to connect it to. So while she feels it, I can’t. I’m never going to be able to bond with her. I’m never going to be
whole.”
My voice caught, and before I could take another step, Rhyson grabbed me and wrapped me in his arms. We’d never had this kind of relationship before, so I stiffened. The urge to collapse into him was overwhelming, surprising me even further. We’d made some progress, but only in that he didn’t believe that I was a lying whore anymore. It didn’t mean we were cuddle buddies.
“Even if we can’t heal your bonds, we’ll keep searching for another way. You and your wolf can still have a relationship without the formal bond. We just have to figure it out.”
“We?” I asked as I slowly pushed away. “Worried about your child carrying my curse?”
His eyes flattened. “Nyx, I’m worried about you. I told you, we’re going to find a way to make this
work.”
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