Broken Loyalty by K.N. Banet

Author:K.N. Banet [Banet, K.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Sixteen

Monday turned into Tuesday. I barely ate, and I tried my best not to sleep.

The next full moon was still weeks away, but I knew better than to think it would take that long. For them to kill me, for me to get rescued, or for me to escape—one would happen long before the full moon came overhead again.

Tuesday turned into Wednesday, and I was beginning to notice a pattern. They woke up around noon and stayed up late into the night. They left one person downstairs with me while I was awake, and that person changed on a rotation with the others.

It was Wednesday evening when Mikkel came back down, holding dinner.

“We want the wolves,” he said without any preamble. “You’re going to deliver them to us.”

“No, I don’t think I will,” I said with a smile. “You’ve lost your ability to trick anyone by making that phone call, and no one I care about is stupid enough to accept a trade.”

“He’s your ally.”

“He has a daughter he wants to see grow up. If I were in his shoes, I would pick her too,” I retorted. “There’s nothing on this earth that will get him to choose me over his daughter.” And that’s what I like about him. He’s a good father, and nothing is going to change that.

“Why don’t we call him and find out?” He lifted my phone and waved it around. “Certainly, you want to go home.”

“You’re planning on killing me, and that’s okay. This isn’t the first time I’ve been held for potential execution. I was okay with it the last time, too.” So long as I’m not being tortured.

“You’re stubborn. You have a strong will. That’s a good thing, but don’t let it lead you to stupidity. The werewolves don’t care about you enough to attempt a rescue, so why throw your life away for them?”

“I thought I was weak. You said I was weak to Hasan, just like Liza. Mikkel, do you possibly think you can win this?”

“Yes, because Hasan won’t risk another child.”

“You’re right. He won’t risk another child. He’ll burn down this world for me or any one of my siblings, you fucking idiot. There’s no winning here. There’s only destruction. There’s only a lot of dead bodies at the end of this.”

Let’s just hope that mine isn’t one of them.

“You have a lot of confidence in him.”

I only shrugged. Even if I was killed, my siblings would scour the land near my territory for months—even years if they had to—to get at him. Hasan would make sure no one in this building lived when he was done. Was I confident I was going to make it out alive? No, but I was very confident Mikkel wouldn’t either.

“Why don’t you tell me how you learned pack magic? Certainly, that won’t betray anyone.” He didn’t bring the food closer, and I was starting to realize that starving me may become a new tactic. That was an unpleasant thought. Werecats needed a lot of calories, and they were already barely feeding me anything worth its weight.

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