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man beneath me and saw only prey.
    “ Tell me what you know about Kale Sinclair.” I focused on the clean after-shave scent of Briggs, trying to block out the enticing aroma of human and terror. I couldn’t lose control. Not here, not now.
    “ Get the hell off me,” he grunted, struggling for breath.
    “ Try again.” I tightened my hold on his throat, choking off his air supply completely.
    A sudden surge of panic had Briggs flailing. As well muscled as he was, he still didn’t have it in him to fight a pissed off werewolf. He had no idea how lucky he was that I purposely held off using power on him. I wanted him to talk; I didn’t want his head to explode. At least, not just yet.
    Briggs stared up at me with wide eyes. The fear in their brown depths faded, replaced by a growing fury. He shook his head as much as my grip would allow. Total refusal.
    I smacked his head against the concrete hard enough to rattle his pearly white teeth. “Tell me, goddammit!”
    “ Alexa, that’s enough.” Juliet stepped closer, her gun inches from my face. “Let him go.”
    I didn’t look at her when I held up a hand and, with a push of power, threw her back. Before the remaining agents could rush me, Arys surrounded us with an energy circle. Briggs was trapped inside, entirely at our mercy.
    “ Start talking before I decide you smell just a little too good,” I growled. I eased off just enough so he could speak. “Where is Kale?”
    He gave a strangled cough. With a murderous light in his dark gaze, Briggs said, “He’s dead.”
    “ Liar,” I shouted. The punch I threw was automatic. I wanted to make him hurt for that.
    “ I gave the kill order,” Briggs roared back at me. His words cut deep because I smelled no lie on him.
    “ What?” I whispered more to myself than to anyone else.
    “ When I told you he escaped, it was a lie. We had him all along. Keeping him alive wasn’t a risk worth taking.” Briggs might have been in a bad position, but it didn’t diminish his arrogance. “Go ahead and kill me. The entire agency will be on your ass, and your demon problems will be a cake walk in comparison.”
    I glanced around at the waiting agents, each of them with guns drawn. Juliet was back on her feet, watching me with a guarded expression. Killing Briggs was exactly what I craved. It was the least I could do after what the FPA had done to Kale.
    Kale… how could I not know that he was dead? My instinct had told me he still lived, and yet Briggs’s words rang with truth. A scream built within me, threatening to burst forth.
    My wolf stared out of my eyes, gazing down into Briggs with a fierce hunger that had nothing to do with appetite and everything to do with vengeance. He was right. The FPA already had me on a watch list. If I tore his throat out the way I wanted, I’d never be free of them.
    I landed one last blow, connecting with his face hard enough to make my hand throb. Then, I got off him and stepped back. Briggs would get his alright. His time would come, and I’d be there to see it.
    “ Stay the fuck away from me, Briggs,” I warned. “I may not know what Shya has planned, but I hope it involves making you his bitch.”
    I was thrumming with power. Holding it contained inside had me visibly shaking. I had no parting words for my sister. There was nothing to say.
    Arys dropped his circle, and we turned to the cluster of agents standing between our car and us. Despite the weapons they held, not one of them appeared confident enough to use them. With a slight wave of my hand, I knocked them aside, creating a clear path to pass through.
    I anticipated a shot or two, but Briggs told them to let us leave. Upon my last glance back, he was sitting up, holding his head with Juliet silently watching us go. I hated myself for thinking it, but I couldn’t help but wonder if it would have been better if she’d died the night Raoul attacked us.
    A smile tugged at Arys’s lips. “Watching you get rough like that