“He wants me back.”

“Your brother is a prick.” I mutter.

She shakes her head. “No, you are wrong. He protects me. He has always protected me.”

“Is that what he tells you?” Dane questions. “He took away your Lycan abilities so that he could protect you? Do you know the name we give people that do that?”

Her grey eyes peek up at us and she shakes her head.

“Abusers. Cowards. Pussies. I could go on.” Dane tells her, “But you wouldn’t believe me.”

“He’s my brother. He protects me.”

“Yet it is you who is in my dungeons and not him. We know you can link him, Samara and judging by the claw marks on the wall, you have shifted too.”

I had been too busy focussing on her soul to notice the deep claw marks in the wall

“It hurt.” She whispers and lowers her head.

“It’s going to hurt if it’s your first time.” I shrug my shoulders. She would have known that if Cooper had taught her anything.

“When is Cooper coming?” Dane demands as her grey eyes drift to the food. Her stomach was making some awful sounds from hunger.

“He just said he is on his way.”

“She’s lying.”

Her face snaps up to mine. “I’m not!”

“You are. I see it and your whole demeanour has changed.”

“So he’s not on his way?” Dane asks for confirmation.

She presses her lips together and frowns. “He said he would and then….”

“And then?”

“What he has is more important. He wants you to go to him.”

“Did he ask you to tell me that?” Dane demands

She bobs her head and Dane looks at me. I nod, confirming she was telling the truth.

“And you can’t see that he was using you?” He asks

“He isn’t!”

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“He isn’t? He had you set up in a house, right where he expected Blair to run. He had you make friends with her. Convince her to come back here even when she knew there was a strong chance she would be slaughtered. What else? Did he expect you to scope out my pack? Draw him the pack’s layout? Mingle with the other assholes he has working for him?”

“I don’t know.”

“What did he want you to do Samara?”

“I….

“What is his plan?” Dane is growing louder and louder

“I… I don’t know.”

“He is using you and you don’t even know what for?”

“No.” Tears fall thick and fast “I just had to get her here.”

Dane glances at me. I nod “She’s telling the truth.”

He slams his hands against the bars and storms out. My patience was almost non existent most days, but Dane seemed to be slowly losing his rag with the lack of answers.

“Eat. Stop that stomach making all those stupid noises.” I snap at Samara and follow Dane.

“You believe she is telling the truth?” He demands as I make my way out into broad daylight.

“There’s several things I know. She believes Cooper is helping her, not punishing her by taking away her abilities. She believes she is a friend to Blain even though it was built under false pretences. She also has no idea what Cooper wants.”

“So he is using her?”

“We both know that, but he is being careful how he uses her. If no one knows his plan but himself, it’s going to be harder to stop him. In some ways, the guy is a genius.”

He scowls at me. “He’s a prick.”

“I never said he wasn’t. But even you have to admit it’s a good idea to not share any of his plan!”

His scowl deepens. “Go and see Ryken. He is gathering names of Wolves who are causing the Lycans issues. They could possibly be working for Cooper.”

“I’ve checked them all.”

“Brax, just do it.”

“What are you going to do?” I ask cautiously. I could see he was angry. And my backhanded comments were starting to do his head in.

“I need to speak with my Betas.”

“Well, it must be your lucky day.” I nod towards Eric who was talking to a Wolf a few hundred yards from us.

I watch Dane stride away, making a mental note to speak to Neah. An extremely pissed off Alpha was not someone anyone needed and if he feels he is losing control over his pack, we are all in for a world of shit.