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herself it was from surprise and not from the feel of his knuckle brushing over her breast. “My sense of smell is damn near as good as yours.”
    One side of his mouth lifted in a cruel smile. “Did you check my blood sample for anticoagulants?”
    She stepped back in a rush. She knew the Sentinels kept samples of every lycan’s blood in cryogenic storage facilities at the lycan outposts, but she hadn’t considered that those samples might be vulnerable to abuse. “What the fuck?”
    “I was set up. You, however,
are
guilty of killing my friend. Hopefully you remember him, since his murder signed your death warrant. The redhead you pinned to a tree and left for dead?”
    He circled her. Dozens of pairs of emerald eyes watched her with open hostility. The chances of getting out of the cave alive diminished to zero.
    “If you kill me now,” she warned, “you’ll have both the vamps and Sentinels after you.”
    “That’s problematic,” he murmured, rounding her shoulder from the back.
    “But there’s something I want more than my life. If you help me get it, I’ll let you kill me in a way that looks like self-defense.”
    Elijah stopped in front of her again. “I’m listening.”
    “Clear the room.”
    With a wave of his arm, he gestured everyone out.
    “Alpha…?” Stephan questioned.
    “Don’t worry,” Elijah said. “I can take her.”
    She snorted. “You can try, puppy. Don’t forget I have a few eons on you.”
    In less than a minute, the room was emptied.
    “I’m waiting,” he said, his eyes glittering dangerously.
    “One of your dogs killed my mate.” Familiar rage and pain raced through her veins like acid. “If you think what I did to your friend was bad, it was nothing compared to what was done to Charron. You help me find the ones responsible and let me kill them, I’m all yours.”
    His gaze narrowed. “How do you plan on finding these lycans? What are you looking for?”
    “I have the date, time, and place. I just need to know who was in the area then. I can narrow it down from there.”
    “Such bloodthirsty loyalty.”
    She turned her head to look at him. “I could say the same about you.”
    “You’d have to stay with me,” he pointed out. “I expect to be present anytime you question a pack member. It could take days, maybe weeks.”
    The scent of his lust grew stronger by the moment and she—damn it all—wasn’t immune.
    “I’ve been searching for years. A few weeks more won’t kill me.”
    “No, but I will. Eventually. In the meantime, I don’t have to like you,” he said softly, “to want to fuck you.”
    She swallowed hard, damning the elevated rate of her pulse, which she knew he could hear. “Of course not. You’re an animal.”
    He circled her again, leaning in and inhaling deeply. “What’s your excuse?”
    She had none, which was screwing with her head. In all the years since Char had been killed, the need for sex had been less than an itch. But she wasn’t about to confess that he was getting to her in a way no man had since her mate. Especially when she was certain her reaction had less to do with him than with her own anxiety at being in a den full of creatures she hated without a weapon on her back. With her fangs and claws, she could take down a half-dozen lycans; with Charron’s twin katanas, she could hold her own against a legion. Only Char himself could rival her skill with the swords. “No excuses necessary. I’m a heterosexual woman and you’re an exhibitionist who likes to fondle his big dick. The show had its merits.”
    He bared his teeth in a semblance of a smile and crossed his arms. “What does Syre want in return for protection from the Sentinels?”
    Vash studied him, noting his wide-legged stance and uplifted chin. He was a solid, anchoring presence. She could almost imagine him remaining an immovable object in the midst of a tornado. Although his rage was a tangible force, battering her senses along with his desire, his