chapter 57

“Your friend is in the basement. Locked in a cell.”

“I don’t have any friends.” The words stung, but it was the truth.

“He got himself captured to try to get to you,” he said. “The feral shifter. Alec.”

My chest tightened. He’d come back for me? How was I supposed to react to that? He was the reason I was here in the first place. He sold me out for the toxin and cash. I was nothing to him. For all he knew, they’d kill me the moment he walked away. He’d sold me out. Him coming back changed nothing. “So what?”

“Don’t you get it? He tried to play both sides. Or he grew a conscious. I don’t know what feral wolves do. Either way, they caught him at your window. You were still unconscious.”

“How is any of this helpful to me?” I demanded. “Are you trying to threaten him in hopes that I’ll fuck your friend?”

“Seriously, Lola. Get over yourself. I’m trying to help you. Can’t you see that?”

“Nobody helps me,” I said.

He lifted his shirt again. “I am a protector.Youare my alpha. Not Tyler. You.”