Chapter 154. Is It Love?

Barbara

“You want me to go… where?”

I look at Alpha Kane, my alleged lover, a man who is supposed to truly care about me, and I can’t help but stare at him with my mouth hanging open. He’s got to be shitting me.

“Back to the castle, babe,” he says with a quick shrug of his shoulders like he’s not telling me to walk right back into the death trap I just escaped–barely escaped at that. “You need to get your ass back in there and convince Gene that you’ve been framed. Tell him that you were unjustly locked up while Alpha Tristan was acting king and made to look as if you had something to do with the fucking Breeder’s disappearance. Remind him that you’re on his side!”

“But–” I begin, not even able to consider what it will be like to walk back into that castle. I did everything I could to get out of there, including killing and kidnapping, but now, he wants me to go back.

“Come on, babe,” he says, stepping forward to drag his thumb along my