“Yes, but I’ve already hired someone for that.” They took his money, they used his knowledge and connections, and then they murdered him, and I don’t know why.” It was expensive as hell, but I wanted the best.” “I met him and your mother while I was over there making a deal for Carrara marble for the Castle Hotel. If he failed to state his case and the man walked away. He wasn’t sure if he was drowning his grief or building up liquid courage. “Smart.” Lander splashed another inch of bourbon into his glass. Lander nodded to the bottle of Blood Oath Pact bourbon waiting on a corner of the desk. “Please think nothing of it,” the guest said. He would wait by them to make sure they wouldn’t be interrupted. Sheldon stepped back into the hall and closed the doors. “Thank you for coming to see me on such short notice.” There it was, in the eyes, the wolf looking back at him. Pain lashed him, and Lander struggled with it. When Felix’s boy grew up, he might look like that. Strong, tall, handsome in that Mediterranean way, shaped by sun and salt water. He was young, so young, and he moved with an easy grace that made Lander feel ancient. The guest took three steps inside and stopped, letting himself be seen. Sheldon appeared in the doorway of the study and stood aside, letting the other man enter. It had been decades since he’d experienced this splash of adrenaline, and for a moment, he felt young again. He used to feel like this years ago, when he was on the verge of closing a huge deal. It was a heady mix of expectation, apprehension, and excitement tinged with fear. This new emotion cut through the thick fog of despair, and he recognized it as anticipation. He needed a human wolf for this job, and he would get one.įor the first time in the last three days he felt something other than crushing grief. Some men were men, and others were wolves in human skin. His old guts would make him pay for it later, but he didn’t care. He shifted in his wheelchair and took a long swallow of his bourbon. Now the two of them were coming back, but Lander only heard one set of footsteps echo through the house. His body man, Sheldon, had come to tell him the wolf was at the door and had gone to fetch him.

Lander Morton knew this because he’d invited the wolf into his home.

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