"You said this used to be Jason King's place?"
"Yep," Rob answered.
"How did he afford it?"
Rob's face was solemn when he glanced over his shoulder. "Remember when I told you that Jason was kidnapping and selling people?"
Luca's eyes widened as he nodded. "Yeah, but..." Luca glanced around the spacious room where the grand staircase was located. The stairs were white marble and there was a huge chandelier hanging in the middle of the room. "He'd have to sell a lot of people to afford all of this."
"Unfortunately, that's true." Rob grimaced and then continued walking. "Erik was one of the people he kidnapped. We were able to rescue him before Jason sold him, as well as several others, but there were a lot of people who weren't so lucky."
"I'm glad he's dead." Luca couldn't believe he was saying that about another person, but it was true. "I know that's a horrible thing to say, but I'm glad he's dead. He was a monster."
Rob snorted. "After learning of some of the stuff he did, I'd like to dig him up and kill him all over again."
"Is that what you need to talk to Randal about?" Luca asked.
Rob shook his head. "No, I need to know who attacked him. Harvey searched the house and there was no sign of anyone else being there, but I doubt he beat himself up."
"It was my brother, sir," Randal said. "My father and brother were waiting for me when I came home. They tried to shoot me up with something, but it broke when I struggled. That really pissed my brother off."
The hair-raising growl that came out of the alpha's mouth made Luca pause at the bottom of the steps. He might live in a shifter town and had grown up around them, but he didn't think he'd ever heard a growl quite that enraged.
"Was it blue?" Rob asked. "This stuff they tried to shoot you up with? Was it blue?"
"I don't remember," Randal replied. "Why?"
"Because the stuff Jason and his idiots shot Erik up with that prevented him from shifting was blue. If it was the same stuff, then I suspect they were trying to keep you from shifting either to make it easier to kill you or so you couldn't shift and heal from your injuries quite so easily."
"Those bastards," Luca snapped. "They wanted him to suffer."
Rob grimaced. "It looks that way."
"My father took a brown box out of the house," Randal said. "If it has more of that blue liquid in it..."
Luca gulped as a shiver of fear ran down his back.
"Harvey!" Rob shouted.
The tall, brown haired man appeared in one of the doorways to the left. "Don't shout. I'm right here."
"Call Albert and warn him that Ralph and Raymond are in the area and that they might have a supply of that stuff that kept Erik from shifting, and then double the guards at the front gate. I also want Dwayne, Billy, or Jeb on Casey at all times. And then I want you to call the sheriff and tell him to start a search. Use whatever means is necessary, but I want them found."
"I'm on it." Harvey spun and hurried back into the room he'd come out of.
Rob turned to look at Randal. "I need to know everything you know about your father and brother. You can start with what happened when you arrived home."
"Like I said, sir, they were waiting for me when I came home. My father took a brown wooden box out of his office and then he ordered my brother to teach me a lesson I wouldn't walk away from. I don't remember much after that."
"Do you have any idea where they might be hiding?" Rob asked.
Randal shook his head. "No, but like I told you before, I don't think this is over. My father won't stop until he's alpha of the Silver Lake Clan."
Rob's upper lip curled back in a snarl. "It doesn't belong to him."
"He thinks it does and he won't care who he has to go through to get it."
Luca glanced up at Randal when he heard the man's heavy swallow. "What is it?"
