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settling in for the long haul, though at least, thank God, he sat in a chair, not on the bed. “Thing is, I don’t like the idea of killing shifters. So I’ve researched you guys, and I’ve developed a new strategy. You’re my test case.” He smiled. “People will be very interested in you.”
Ethan gave up trying to hide his fear and swallowed. “Being a test case doesn’t sound too promising. But I guess you know that.”
“I think you’re promising,” Doug said quietly.
This situation was making Ethan queasy. He wanted to ask for Bram again, which was not only stupid but unwise. Bram was no friend of his, even if his human body thought otherwise. Ethan pulled that body into himself. He’d been feral. He bloody well knew it, and they held it against him, held it up as something to experiment with.
“So you see,” Doug continued, “I am searching out feral cats before they are unreachable. And taming them.”
“Unreachable,” Ethan said in scathing tones, bravado overrunning his fear. “What happens when they’re unreachable but they don’t want to be hunted down, captured and forced to stay in one small room?”
“Unreachable means they’ve become vicious killers of humans, of human children.”
Ethan shook his head, adamant. “I would never attack a human.”
“No?”
“No. I was a cat, but not unaware. I was not an unthinking beast. You know nothing about me.”
“I know my cousin Gabriel tortured you. I know you killed a werewolf.”
Ethan lifted his chin and met Doug’s gaze dead on. “Gabriel is a vicious killer, not me. Euthanize him . I was protecting…someone.” He would not say Lila’s name to this wolf.
Doug rose and walked over to Ethan, eyebrows lifted, expression interested. Ethan needed to figure out how to be less interesting to this alpha. First step would be to shut up , but he couldn’t manage to keep his mouth shut for any period of time. He had this horrible desire to talk now that he could. Even when, especially when, this asshole said such ludicrous things.
“I’ll agree that Gabriel was a vicious killer,” Doug acknowledged. “But since he’s dead, no one can euthanize him. I am now in charge of the Winter pack. And you were in my territory. I decided to bring you in.”
“I am here so you can judge me? If I’m deemed a child murderer, you’ll kill me?” A slightly hysterical note had entered his voice, and he didn’t have the strength to suppress it.
“I won’t kill you now that I can talk to you.” Doug paused. “If you stay human and cooperate, there will be no problem.”
“No problem,” Ethan repeated. “You are unbelievable.”
Doug stared him down and Ethan shrank a little.
“Let me go, please.” Ethan shouldn’t ask, and shouldn’t ask with a pleading note, not after everything he’d been told, not given the way Doug regarded him as a test case . But the room was getting smaller and smaller, and his lack of control unbalanced him.
“No.”
“ Now .”
“You’re almost starving to death, Ethan. Let us fatten you up.”
Ethan was being fattened up for some kind of sacrifice, but it meant he had some time. Careful, be careful. Don’t lose it completely. “I want to be left alone, that’s all.”
“Sleep,” commanded Doug and he dragged the chair closer. He sat there and waited for Ethan to obey his latest command. Doug was toying with Ethan, and Ethan had to keep his shit together.
“I can’t sleep. Not with you here.”
“Try.” Those bland, smug, hateful tones almost sent Ethan over the edge. He pulled in three long breaths, no longer looking at the alpha as he slid down to lie on his back and stare at the ceiling. He listened to Doug breathing beside him for the longest time.
~ * ~
    Ethan was tired of sleeping, tired of waking, and still damnably exhausted. He sat up and looked down to see that he was naked again, and braced himself for someone to put their hands on him, since that seemed to be their MO.
“Hi.”
    Ethan jerked