“I can walk away. That doesn’t change the fact that he’ll still be out there doing whatever it is he wants to do. He’ll find another poor sap like me, or even someone worse to replace me with, another Shifter like the Pelts or any of the other horrible men he’s recruited. He won’t stop trying to make money, to gain power, no matter who he has to step on. In a couple months’ time, hell, maybe even a few weeks—he’ll have replaced me and I won’t even be a bad memory to the man.”
“It doesn’t have to be that way,” Kate told him.
“Really?” he grunted. “How do you know? Do you have some kind of plan to stop him?”
Without realizing it, she took his hand and squeezed. He didn’t squeeze back, but his eyes betrayed their surprise.
“Not yet,” she told him truthfully. She hadn’t known how s
