“Jesus, okay, I’ll tell you!”Silas howled.
She released his balls, trying not to think about how full her hand had been.Silas had a lot going for him in that department.Damn it, was there anything about this guy that wasn’t sexy other than his personality?
“Is that how you interrogate your perps, go around squeezing their balls?”He glared at her like she was insane.
“If that’s what it takes.Spill it.”She reached for him again, and he knocked her hand away.
“That was Alex Ravien Bloodright.”
“I thought so.I couldn’t think of anyone else you’d shoot at without hesitation.”
“You’re familiar with the case then?”
“Yeah.Like I said, my father was a werewolf.”
Silas nodded, dark clouds moving in behind his eyes as he hyperfocused on the deserted road.
“I’m sorry about your parents,” she said.
“Thanks.”
“There’s more to this case than that though, isn’t there?Alex looked strange.I thought he was a ghoul at first because of his complexion.”
Silas scratched the back of his head but never took his eyes off the road.“He attacked me and my siblings a few months ago.He tried to kill me because he wanted to take my place as Alpha of Fireborn Pack and head of the Lycanthropic Society.He failed.”Silas gripped the steering wheel so tight his knuckles turned white.“My sister delivered a deadly bite to his abdomen.We thought he was dead.The dragon fae he was working with healed him, but there were magical consequences.”
Meredith tried to process all that.She’d heard rumors, but it was important to have the facts if she was going to help take Alex down.“Captain Manahan said you roughed up a healer.That was why, wasn’t it?You think Alex is visiting healers because he’s still sick or cursed or something.”
He nodded.“That’s exactly it.There are still a few healers in town I haven’t investigated.”
“Good, then that’s where we go next.”
“That’s where I go next,” Silas said adamantly.
She let it go, but if he thought for a second she was going to let him pursue this investigation without her, he was fooling himself.
“Well, at least you learned one thing tonight.”
“What’s that?”
“Alex doesn’t want to kill you anymore.”
“Huh?”
“He had a crack at you tonight.Hell, he had the advantage.That amulet around his neck could have blown you apart in a heartbeat.But he chose to run.That means there’s something else going on, a reason he felt it was more important to conserve his energy for rather than killing you.”
Silas frowned, his head jerking back in surprise.“I think you’re right.”
“I’m right a lot.You should listen to me.”Meredith smirked, but he ignored her.
“Alex is still healing, and he was after human bones tonight.An odd quarry, don’t you think?”
“Maybe he needs it for a healing spell?”
“Possible.Attacking me would take energy.Perhaps he was concerned he couldn’t win a confrontation with me yet, even with magic, and that’s why he ran.He avoided using the amulet before on my brother to conserve energy.”
She picked at the side of her nail.“Hmmm.But what’s he conserving his energy for then if not to take you out?”
“That is the question.”Silas turned in to the CCPD parking lot and parked the car.“What’s important is Alex is still vulnerable.Now is not the time to turn down the heat.Now is the time to press even harder to find where he’s hiding and who’s helping him.”
