Liam frowned while Lucas’s eyes turned a stormy blue. I sensed he was pissed I’d brought up the escort agency in front of his friends. What I didn’t understand was why. It wasn’t as though he actually wanted to hire anescort.
“Didwhocall him back?” Liamasked.
“The escort agency,” Isaid.
Matt waggled his eyebrows. “Trying to get over Taryn,huh?”
Pink-cheeked, Lucas slugged him. “No, you douchebag. Ness thought Everest’s last girlfriend might be working for Red Creek Escorts. And yeah, they phoned me back. They don’t know anyMegans.”
My heart contracted with surprise.So Everest hadn’t lied. I toyed with my mother’s wedding band which hung from a leather cord around my neck. Slid it on my finger, then off, then onagain.
“Why were you looking into her?” Liamasked.
“She thought the chick might be Everest’s link to Denver,” Lucasgrumbled.
Liam and Matt exchanged a look. When Liam nodded toward the door, the blond giant closedit.
“We found your cousin’s link to Denver,” Liam said, voicelow.
I let go of my ring, and it bounced over my T-shirt a few times before settling. “Youdid?”
“Thanks toyou.”
“Tome?”
Liam scrubbed his thumb over my knuckles. “You know that visit we paid Aidan Michaels? It was very . . .edifying.”
Matt cracked his knuckles. “Don’t know if you’re aware of this, Little Wolf, but Michaels has a hotel inDenver.”
That’s why Denver sounded familiar!Sandra had sent me information about Aidan before I’d met him. He owned a hotel in Denver, Las Vegas, and . . . what was the third location again? It didn’t much matter, I supposed. Unless Everest fled the Denver hotel. Then it mightmatter.
“So Everest traded the Sillin against shelter?” Iasked.
Liam shook his head. “No.”
“No?” I cocked a dubiouseyebrow.
“Your cousin sold Aidan somethingelse.”
“His soul?” Lucasquipped.
Matt snorted. “I doubt he had one tosell.”
“His land,” Liam said. “Effective upon hisdeath.”
“His land?” What land did my cousinown?
Matt gestured to theroom.
“Theinn? He sold Aidan Michaels the inn?” Ishrilled.
Liam noddedheavily.
“Good thing we never set up Headquarters here, huh?” Mattcontinued.
Something dawned on me. “That’s why Everest struck the deal . . . Even though the inn’s not Headquarters, this place is central to the pack’sterritory.”
“Maybe that was his reasoning, but it doesn’t change the outcome,” Liamsaid.
