Ronan Continued
“Are you ready?” Malrick asks, glancing at his watch like he’s got empires to dismantle, and this meeting is cutting into that.
“For what exactly?” I ask, keeping my tone neutral.
His lips pull into a smirk. “To find the rest of the skeletons that have been hiding out in Shadow Ridge’s closet.”
Aric bristles while pacing tight circles in the back of my mind. He clearly doesn’t trust Vexmoor—and neither do I. Maddox is slimy, but Vexmoor? He’s the kind of wolf who hides his knives behind velvet and smiles while he chooses where to cut the deepest. But there seems to be something more that neither of them is going to share at the moment.
I raise a brow at the Alpha. “Won't you need time to dig in?” I ask, but a thought pops up that makes me pause. What if he had been w
