Page 90 of Broken Souls

He blinks as his mind shifts gears. “Don’t worry. I got them.”

“How many?”

“Three.”

My jaw tics. “You need more than that –”

“And I’ll go out again tonight,” he says calmly.

“You’re not going out again until Dayne gets here.”

He blinks again, but this time, his brain doesn’t catch up.

“I need bodies,” he says.

“Which you were supposed to get last night. If you were not too busy chasing a useless bitch –”

“That better have been the word for a female wolf,” he says softly.

“Are you claiming her?”

“I don’t have to claim her to be a gentleman.”

I snort. “You might be able to change into Khalid, but you can’t pull him off.”

A small smile twitches at his lips. “Tell me what’s really bothering you. Because I have more than enough bodies for now, and Rudy can easily pick up some more for me.”

“You’re fussy.”

“I’ll give him a list of requirements. Now tell me at what angle do I need to pull to get that stick out of your ass.”

My eyes narrow.

But he holds my glare, never wavering.“Because I care about you. You know you’re not alone, right?”The words he said as he tried to stop me from torturing Micha come back to me, and I blow out a heavy breath.

“Micha tried to kill herself this morning,” I say tightly.

His eyes widen, calculating and confused, and I can see his gears shifting. Micha isn’t the type to commit suicide over a bit of pain. She’s the sort to bide her time until she can kill the fucker who hurt her.

“What did you do?” Maddox asks softly.

“I took her magic. She can’t control it anymore.”

“But Mom healed her.”

“Not well enough.”

“Shit.” He turns to the house. “You think the fault is with Mom?”

“I don’t give a fuck about her right now.”

Maddox spins back around to face me. “Think about how much magic she used, bruh. She could be dying.”

There is a flash of hope inside me, that Micha can get her magic back if I find her a better healer. That I can fix at least one part of what I’ve broken. And right on the heels of that is choking concern for the woman who’s done everything she could to protect this family.

Fuck. Today is going to be one of those fucking days.

Feeling a headache coming on, I head for the door. “I’ll talk to her. Tell Rudy what you need and get rid of Zita. She is of no use to us as an omega.”