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.But this guy was deranged.He had to know that Lucian wasn’t the only werewolf in their circus.Heck, he had to know that circus folk protected their own, anyhow, and he wasn’t going to get out of this scot free.Sevrin racked his brain for some way he could help.He wasn’t a damsel.He’d gotten himself out of Jackson’s house, after all – no one had helped him.And while he was very grateful that Lucian had come after him, and it gave him the warm fuzzies to know that Lucian was very sincere about his desire to take Sevrin’s place, Sevrin wasn’t inclined to let that happen.He needed some way to keep the lunatic talking.Wasn’t that what they did in the movies? Kept the bad guy talking so that the good guys could come up with a better plan or more time to implement the one they had?“I don’t understand,” Sevrin said, his voice pleading and trembling – and to his embarrassment, it wasn't forced at all.“Why are you doing this?”He felt the man tense behind him.“Thought you were a mute,” he growled.“Selective,” Sevrin said.“Please, tell me why you want to hurt me.”The man hesitated, taking a step back from Lucian and dragging Sevrin with him.“He didn’t tell you what he did, did he?” he asked, but the question was rhetorical.“He started a war that decimated our population.The two largest wolf packs in the States, and they were just gone.One night they were alive.The next morning there was nothing but blood.So much blood.”“I didn’t know!” Lucian called out.“I didn’t know that would happen!”“Think he’s so good, don’t you?” the man sneered.“He hasn’t even claimed you yet.But he’s not.He must be getting some on the side, because he thinks with his dick.”“I’m not,” Lucian said, stepping closer.“Don’t move!” and a second claw mark joined the first down Sevrin’s chest, the were lifting it to his mouth and tasting the beaded droplets.Sevrin couldn’t see him, but he wrinkled his nose anyway.Another step backwards and Sevrin was off balance, the arm around his throat crushing as he tried to regain his feet steady underneath him.His arms flailed slightly, but as they did, he felt the imprint of the knife he had used earlier – was it only a few hours since he had been doing his duties at the circus? – in his pants pocket.The man was continuing.“It was a tense time.The two packs weren’t happy with one another, but he just couldn’t help but break curfew and sneak off to meet a girl.We thought it was an attack.”Sevrin was oh so careful, drawing the knife out a tiny bit at a time, grateful for his looser cargo pants rather than the jeans he wore most often.He closed his fingers around the length of it, trying to figure out how to open it one handed.“It was madness.My mate was pregnant, did you know? She was due with our first cub.But we didn’t know the area, and instead of running to safety, she ran right into the battle.”Sevrin swallowed convulsively, his entire body racked with fear.His eyes locked with Lucian’s across the clearing – those sad, haunted, furious eyes.He could feel the tightness of the man’s arm across his neck, the heat from the blade-like fingers in front of him.He plunged the knife backward with as much force as he could muster.*It was true.It was all true.He had thought with his knot and not with his brain – but instead of a normal seventeen year old who had enough sense not to cross into enemy territory for his crush, he had defied all the rules.His one defiance had resulted in a massacre.Elena had been pretty, but nothing special.He had known she wasn’t his mate, but he was infatuated with her wide eyes and lush figure and the way she seemed to always welcome his company in her bed.The danger had added to the excitement for both of them, but when the dust settled, there were only a handful of survivors on either side.It was an unprecedented battle – there was talk afterward about outside forces moving things along, stirring the bloodlust, but there was nothing proven, and nowhere for him to turn but to the road.He had killed his entire family.He wasn’t about to let Sevrin go the same way.His own hide wasn’t much worth protecting, but Sevrin’s was
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