Chapter 38
“I thought I told you to leave this young woman out of your conspiracy theories.” The President’s words—along with the abrupt cessation of keening from the guard I’d so relentlessly attacked—should have been heartening. But any warmth blossoming within my chest was quickly overwhelmed by drugged coldness settling back over my mind.
Why am I worrying about a lowly human? I found myself wondering. There were far more important matters at stake than the life of one man.
No, don’t forget who we are.... my wolf whispered back. But I lost track of her mutterings as Shepard responded to the President’s chiding with a parry of his own.
“I knew you’d feel that way, Mr. President. Which is why this will be a case of show not tell.” Then, in a move that made me entirely too sick of nee
