Cara obliged, but only a handful of steps. She was still close enough to dive in if I needed a rescue.
Returning my attention to Claire, I asked, somewhat bluntly, “What is it that you want?”
“I know you are here as some kind of farce,” Claire said. “I won’t fall for it, and neither will Damien.”
“What exactly do you think I’m doing?” I asked.
“You are no healer, that I know. Whatever useless knowledge you think you learned in the human realm has no bearing here in our werewolf one. You shouldn’t even be here at all.”
I looked at her blandly. She wasn’t saying anything I hadn’t heard before, and I certainly wasn’t going to let her disbelief and fear of human medicine interfere with my choices or how I intend to actually help her brother.
“You’re here under false pretenses, pretending
