“No need to. It’s fine. It’s all good.”
“We … doubted you.”
“But you had Boyan and Draco, right?” she asked.
“No, Boyan and Enzo.”
She had learned that Alpha wasn’t entirely convinced she was a liar, and had Boyan and Enzo still keeping an eye on her. It wasn’t much, but she at least got to know someone was keeping an eye on her. That had to count for something.
“Right, Boyan and Enzo.”
“It was Valwho alerted us to your disappearance.”
Val was also taking care ofher dogs for her, seeing as the club didn’t like to have them around.
She didn’t want to irritate the Poison Wolves anymore than she had to.
“Do you think he was turned on purpose?” Amelia asked.
Alpha stared at her. “What?”
“Something hunted him. It had to be a wolf, andit had to be a shifter like us, right?” Amelia asked. “Do you think it was just a freak accident, or do you think … someone is going around changing humans into wolves?” She pointed at her leg and her face. “Don’t you think I can take it?” she asked.
Amelia had been going through it constantly the last couple of days. Whatever attacked Milton had done so violently.
“We don’t know for sure,” Alpha said. “He had to have been attacked by a wolf like us, butthat doesn’t always have to be the case. He could have the wolf gene.”
She shook her head. “There’s no possible way of that. He was … he didn’t have a clue who he was. He couldn’t control it, and I watched him, Alpha. It was like he couldn’t completely turn either. Like he was stuck in whatever form he was.”
They had no choice but to take Milton’s body. Whatever he was, they couldn’t allow it to fall into the wrong hands.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t keep him alive.”
“Amelia, this is not your fault. You can’t take the blame. You did what you could to survive. It was all any of us could do.”
Wolfe was approaching. She didn’t even need to turn her head to see.
“You did good, Amelia,” Alpha said, getting to his feet, walking away,and leaving her alone with Wolfe.
He was the last person she wanted to talk to. This man had believed her to be a liar. He also didn’t want anything to do with her either because he saw her as weak.
Wolfe sat in the place where Alpha had been.
Amelia averted her gaze.
“I know you’re upset,” he said.
Upset. That wasn’t even a strong enough word for how she felt.Heartbroken,angry,humiliated, they were good words. The right ones. Close to how she truly felt.
She didn’t want to even look at him.
Hehadn’t believed her. If that wasn’t humiliating enough, she didn’t know what else was.
“Amelia, look at me.”
She wasn’t a child. Hands clenched at her sides, she turned her head and looked at him. Really looked at him.
Why did he have to be so good-looking, with his hair pulled back into a ponytail, his thick neck on display, and just his overall presence one of … pure sex?