“No, they are in the dungeons.” Wolf had an arm around her waist. “The staff captured them, and Max and James are speaking with them now.”
“I want to speak to them.”
“What? Don’t be ridiculous.”
“They shot me, and I want to hear what they have to say about Rory.”
“I thought you said he betrayed us, that you wanted nothing to do with him.”
“I-I… yes, I know what I heard, but maybe I was wrong about that.” Kate had thought about the pain she saw in Rory’s face when she’d said he’d betrayed her. It had been real, but at the time her pain had been greater. The thought of him turning on her, on their family, had made her irrational.
Wolf stopped walking and pulled her down onto a long, narrow seat. He then took her hands.
“I need you to answer me truthfully now, Kate.”
“I’ll try.”
“Do you love Rory?”
She looked up into those magical green eyes, at the face that was so dear to her, and couldn’t lie.
“I do, yes.”
“How is that possible when you barely know each other?”
“How long did it take you to love Rose?”
He exhaled. “Longer than a couple of days.”
“Only because you wouldn’t acknowledge it.”
“We are not speaking of me, but you. Surely you can’t love him, Kate. We know nothing about him or why he was trussed up and left for dead before you found him.”
“He is of their blood, Wolf. Those you hold dear and respect. Yes, he may have done wrong, but I doubt he is a bad person. Perhaps circumstance has played a part in who he is. And you have seen how he is with the children. How gentle he is with his sisters. He’s not used to us… this, Wolf, but he’s a good man.”
“Well I guess there is only one way to find out.” Standing, Wolf held out a hand to Kate. She took it, and they were soon walking down to the dungeons.
“What is my brother to you?”
They heard these words from James as they entered the room. Cam, James, and Nicholas were standing inside a cell. Kate could just see the man who had shot her between shoulders. His hands and feet were bound. Wolf moved her to stand beside the door, then held a finger to his lips before he entered the room.
“Brother?”
“That’s right, Rory Huntington is my brother.”
“I-I did not know, your G-Grace.”
“Explain his connection to you, and before you contemplate lying, I would remind you that there are men in this room who love the woman you shot very much, as they do my brother.”
“The woman, she… I did not mean—”
“Luckily for you, she will live.”
“H-he worked with me. W-we brought him here.”
“It was you who shot and left Rory for dead?”
Kate was surprised how calm James sounded. Were she in there facing those men, she would not be that way.
