*Barbara*

“You want me to go… where?”

I look at Alpha Kane, my alleged lover, a man who is supposed to truly care about me, and I can’t help but stare at him with my mouth hanging open. He’s got to be shitting me.

“Back to the castle, babe,” he says with a quick shrug of his shoulders like he’s not telling me to walk right back into the death trap I just escaped–barely escaped at that. “You need to get your ass back in there and convince Gene that ...