Page 151 of Carnage Island

He uttered that last part through his teeth, his fury at the situation a palpable presence in the air. He clearly didn’t know about that link until Alpha Ebony voiced it.

And now that he knows about it, he’s still angry.

But he’s remaining mostly calm at the desk, awaiting his fate.

Alpha Kin and Beta Gafton’s remains are sitting in the hallway as a pair of gifts—something Alpha Ebony suggested they do. “It’ll give them enough pause to perhaps consider talking to you before ending you,” she said after voicing the recommendation.

Alpha Dirk didn’t necessarily agree, but did what she told him to do after I grunted in agreement.

They fell into a brief conversation about my former father, wondering how he even managed to get here. Then Alpha Dirk confirmed something I already knew. “He wasn’t of sound mind,” he said. “He was under his Alpha’s control. I could see it in his crazed eyes when he attacked Clove.”

Which explains why he stood still as a statue after putting a knife to my throat.

But doesn’t exactly tell us how he arrived on the island.

“Someone must have helped him,” Alpha Ebony said, voicing my concern out loud.

The question is,who?

Alpha Kin’s father?

I refuse to call the maleourfather because I don’t know him, nor do I want to know him.

Just the thought makes me shiver.

“He could have just taken a speed boat from the mainland,” Alpha Dirk told Alpha Ebony.

“Maybe,” she replied, not sounding all that convinced.

I’m not convinced either.

It’s a piece of the puzzle that’s been swirling around in my mind on repeat for hours.There’s someone else involved, I keep thinking, even now.But who?

From what Alpha Ebony said, Alpha Kin’s father was taken into custody by Alpha Umber. So it can’t be him.

A deep roar comes from the hallway, snapping my wolf’s head in the direction of Volt’s fury.

They’re here. They’re here. They’re here.

My wolf wants to bound into the corridor to greet them, but I stay seated.

Because I’m protecting Alpha Dirk.

Alpha Ebony is right. They’re furious and they’re going to try to kill him because my blood is in the hallway, as is his from the fight.

Alpha Tieran is the first through the door, his gaze wild as he takes in the scene with a snarl.

Until he sees me sitting there, waiting.

He’s in wolf form, his animal dwarfing mine.

His reaction is immediate, his wolf leaping forward to sniff my neck and nuzzle my throat.

Volt is next. Then Caius. The three of them are all in their beast forms, rubbing against me with purrs and growls and sniffing every inch of me to check for injury.

I let them, refraining from the instinct to do the same.

Because I need to keep my focus.