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Whatever, the result would be the same.
"Or do you work for the Watcher and you want the council blamed?" I was starting to get a headache from all this speculation.
"Does the Watcher know you have power?" I squirmed, trying to work myself free. The wall was hard and rough against my back. I couldn't budge.
"I've come with a message," tiger-man said.
"Write a letter next time," I suggested. I would suggest text or email, but would he even know what those things were?
I found a gag of power over my mouth. Shit, I forgot others like me could do that. I hated it more than being bound.
"Tell your precious Keeper the wolves will fall. Their day is done. We hold the power now."
I wanted to ask, 'who is we,' but all I could get out was a muffled sound.
He stepped closer to me. "We areeverywhere. We will step forth and seize control. We will—" His eyes widened and he started to fall.
It wasn't until he landed on the floor that his power evaporated from me, and I saw a knife in his back.
Kerina stood in the doorway, looking down at him.
"He was a bit full of shit," she remarked.
"Yeah. Just a bit," I agreed. Or was he? "Thanks for that. Is Bain—"
"He's fine," Kerina said. "Lucky I was walking past though, the tiger almost had him."
My mouth formed an O. That was lucky. Or planned so we'd keep trusting her. She was a fox shifter. Just because Bain said everyone was welcome here, didn't mean—
No, I couldn't buy into that line of thought. It was what they wanted. Mistrust, suspicion, friend wary of friend.
Were they friends, though? To some extent, I was still a captive here. I had to remember that. Just because they weren't as overt in their hatred as the witches, didn't mean they were on my side.
"Shame about Czari." Kerina sighed. "Dex sent me to take you to a new room. One with its own bath."
"Right." I didn't want to sleep here now anyway. "I'll throw my things into my suitcase."
Before I could move, something occurred to me. "Kerina, is Slade a wolf?"
She hesitated for a moment, then said, "No, he isn't."
3
Viva
"Well this is nice."The room was decorated tastefully, but everything looked expensive. Carved wooden tables and chairs, art in frames on the walls, a rectangular wool rug on the floor in front of a couch. If I had to guess, I'd say everything cost a lot of money.
Twice the size of the room I'd just come from, this one wasn't in the Women's Sanctuary. Unless I missed my guess, and got totally lost in the labyrinth of corridors Kerina and Bain led me through, it was near Dex's room.
That was confirmed a moment later when a door opened in the wall and Dex's face appeared.
He smiled and stepped the rest of the way through. For a wolf, he moved like a cat, all long, lithe body; loose but ready.
I don't know what he was ready for, but he wasready.
"I should have thought of this sooner." He took in all three of us, but settled on me. "How better to keep you safe but to have you in the room next to mine?"
Kerina made a sound like a half-snort, but when I glanced at her, her expression was contained. Indifferent even.
