Undeniable Bonds by Kaje Harper

Author:Kaje Harper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kaje Harper
Published: 2021-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Nikolai slumped in an armchair hurriedly dragged into Rick Brown’s office and tried to focus on the conversation. He’d had a shower with Rory, who’d shifted back to help him; the presence of the medic kept them from anything personal. Still, they’d looked at each other as they passed the soap back and forth with Rory’s arm under his, Rory’s hip bracing his thigh. The bond had echoed with something wistful, a sense of loss. This was not the naked-together moment he’d imagined over so many years. Nor Rory’s either, no doubt.

They’d found clothes for him that fit loose around his healing leg, and fed him, and one of the strong young wolves hanging about had carried him up here like a cub, like there was nothing to him. He felt light inside, like maybe there was nothing. Yuri? Mikhail? Other than a faint presence that said they lived, he touched nothing.

He jolted as Rory clasped his arm. Opening his eyes, he realized all the wolves in the room were focused on him, from Rick’s terrifying stare to the steady focus of Aaron, to that cop wolf— Theo?— looking at him like a tin can he wanted to pry open. “I’m sorry.” His voice came out creaky and he cleared his throat. “Did you ask me a question?”

“You said that tuft of fur we showed you smelled of Mikhail.” Rick leaned toward him. “How could he have ended up in that room?”

“I do not think he did.” He struggled for words, fatigue making him stupid. “I think it was his fur only. No other— nothing other makes sense.”

“Go on.”

“If he was awake and out of metal, he would have called for me. I know this. I would have felt it from his bond, heard it, from out in the open like that. If he was unconscious? What sense on God’s earth is there in dragging him to that room and then away again?”

“Unless they meant to leave him there as a scapegoat and he woke up and fled before the body was found,” Rick said.

“That was not the scent volume I got,” Aaron pointed out.

“And I would have felt him if he woke. He is not— not brave. Not a thinker.” That felt like a betrayal, to tell another strange Alpha, but they needed to understand. “He would always call for help.”

“While you were asleep, maybe? Exhausted?”

“If it had happened when I was so ill, perhaps. But not now.” He was not so far gone he’d sleep through a packmate’s desperate plea.

Rick said, “Either the fur came off the clothes of the murderer, or it was a deliberate plant to suggest a wolf was to blame. Either way, it ties the men who brought you to the US to the murder and the FreeWolves movement.” He turned to a thin, middle-aged wolf sitting with a computer on his knee. “What’s going on online?”

“The murder’s now public knowledge.” Something in the computer wolf’s voice hinted at Russia. Nikolai stared at him but felt no hint of recognition.

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