“Fine, I will be there. No weapons and I will keep my hands in my pockets.” He tuts with an eye roll. “and I can’t promise that I will agree.”

“I can accept that for now and now we have that sorted. Why the fuck did you shave Samara’s head?”

He laughs,”I wondered when you would ask. You said I couldn’t physically hurt her. So I made sure she felt no physical pain, just psychological. Though I still didn’t get any useful information out of her.”

“Always looking for a loophole.”

He nods his head and smiles at me. “So Samara and Cooper are siblings?”

“You couldn’t pick that up when you looked at her soul?”

“Why do I need to keep reminding everyone that I am not psychic? If they were twins, yes, I would have known, but I’m assuming half siblings?” “Why do you say that?”

“There is no real resemblance between them apart from the blonde hair. Different coloured eyes, different nose, lips, face shape. If I met them in the street, I wouldn’t have thought they were siblings. Do you believe it?”

“Neah ordered her to tell the truth. You could see that Samara didn’t understand what was happening to her. She freaked out because her hearing was getting louder and louder.”

“Almost like she has never shifted?”

“Exactly that. It reminded me of Neah when her bindings were broken. She wore ear plugs for the best part of eight months just to cope with the heightened noise.”

He nods, “Klaus told me.”

“He did?”

“When we were out looking for something to help Neah, he filled me in on quite a lot of things and I think you are right about Samara. She’s never had the abilities.”

I frown “She kept talking about Cooper telling her that he was protecting her, keeping her safe so she wouldn’t become a danger to everyone. I was thinking Rogue, but if she has never shifted, that wouldn’t be possible. That means he would have done it before she turned thirteen.”

“And I would know if she had been a Rogue at any point. Let me spend some more time with her, I might be able to see her soul better.” “Wait until morning and don’t touch her.”

He rolls his eyes at me. “I won’t.”

Brax relaxes into one of the chairs in the office, “I assume there is no news on Klaus?”

“Not yet.”

“Madison doesn’t know anything else either.” He sighs

“She’s speaking to you now?” We had all heard the shouting earlier in the day and it was pretty clear how furious she was. It was about the only time I had heard Brax sound so uncertain.

“Yes.” He answers abruptly, “I wanted to talk to Neah about her actually.”

“About what?”

“Turning Madison back to Lycan.”

‘Seriously?’ Aero scoffs and I hold a hand up to Brax while I try to push my frustration down.

“You what?” I splutter as Aero starts losing his shit. It had been a long time since he had been so ramped up about something. “To give her her Lycan.” Brax states

“You want Neah to bite her?”

“Yes, though Madison is unsure at the moment.”

“No.”

“It’s for her own good.”

“Why? So you can feel the bond again? You don’t like Lycans. You had a hard time accepting her.”

“I know. She has grown on me.”

“Neah won’t do that. Not after….she

just

And we don’t even know

given will

if the Maddie tent

wear off, just like Samara.”

He glares at me as he gets to his

feet and hastily leaves the

was grateful for the silence. Over twenty four hours awake and hadn’t had a moment’s peace.

‘Dane. Dane. Are you there?’