The Bear's Heart: Clanless Book 2 by Victoria Kane

Author:Victoria Kane [Kane, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

They started back through the trees, Dillon striding along as if he was wearing an expensive suit rather than nothing at all. The other shifter stayed in his wolf form and loped along beside them.

“So who are you that someone like Dominic Vascenti is looking for you?” Dillon asked. “You steal from him or something?”

“No, I didn’t steal anything from him. I didn’t even know who he was until some of his thugs murdered my brother three weeks ago over a gambling debt,” she responded. “Rick and I went back to New York to try to help him.”

“Sounds like something Rick would do,” he muttered with a shake of his head.

“What do you know about Rick?” Laura demanded, angry that this lowlife would dare look down on someone as good as the man she had come to know.

“Just what I’ve seen and heard around town. Gentle, nice guy, helpful to everyone around him, would give you the shirt off his back. Volunteers at orphanages, saves women from burning buildings,” he muttered with a chuckle. “Stupid, basically.”

“Fuck you, you scumbag!” Laura shouted, somehow angrier at the slight to Rick than at her forcible abduction. “Rick’s got more courage in his pinkie than your whole pack. Out here kidnapping a woman for a bit of cash. You’re pathetic.”

“Courage?” Dillon chortled, sounding incredulous. “Courage is a word invented by the people who run things so they can get the poor of society to fight their wars and protect their estates.”

“Better than being a spineless coward who only picks on people weaker than him,” she muttered, some of the fight gone out of her. What was the point of arguing with him?

Something about that got a rise out of him, however. “Screw you princess,” he snarled, grip tightening painfully around her arm. “You don’t know who I am or how I ended up here.”

Why had that set him off? And what had she heard in his voice? It had sounded like regret, but that didn’t make any sense. She decided the stress of the situation must be getting to her.

“Right, I’m sure you’re a solid upstanding member of society,” she snarled back, the anger that had been sitting inside her for so long starting to come out again. It was shockingly easy to be unafraid when you’re angry, Laura was beginning to learn. “Let’s get back to the car quick, so you can get back to doing volunteer work and looking after your sick grandma.”

The man beside her let out a growl that sounded more wolf than man. He shoved her forward, falling behind her. It was an effective way to end the conversation, she supposed, though she still didn’t understand why her jabs were getting to him. What did a career criminal care what some random person thought of him?

Laura mulled over what she now knew. Their short conversation had been surprisingly informative. Dillon didn’t know who it was who was after her. It was possible that some of Vascenti’s thugs had

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