章 20: Chapter 20

He didn't respond, and his silence seemed to placate her.

Her eyes ceased their glowing and she relaxed slightly.

"I'd like to go now. I just want to go home."

He lifted his chin once again and shook his head.

"I believe you owe me an answer. I untied you, so you need to tell me why you were in that carriage."

She looked over his shoulder, as if checking back at the carriage, which was far out of sight, and then wrapped her arms around herself.

"I was being held captive."

"Obviously," he refrained from rolling his eyes, but it was close.

"Obviously. Why were you a captive?"

"They knew what I am. They were taking me as a prisoner," she told him, looking down as though ashamed at her situation.

Which she should be.

No wolf would have let themselves get into that situation.

Kelly growled angrily.

How could she be so careless, allowing humans to discover her?

The one rule, the only rule: don't let the humans discover you. And she broke it.