CHAPTER THIRTY THREE

I’m led through familiar hallways, back into the Alpha’s office. I suspect he’s going to interrogate me further and that the claim there was a guest here to see me was a lie to get me to come here without fighting.

Once I enter the office though, I see my brother at Ryan’s desk. He stands and he doesn’t seem concerned or upset at all.

Has our relationship fallen apart so much that he doesn’t even care that I’m a prisoner?

As he looks at me, I realize something though. He is upset. But he’s mostly upset with me, and the concern is hidden in an attempt to make this seem much simpler than it is. I’m in for a lecture when I get home.

“Getting yourself in trouble again, I see,” Ben says, with the smile I’ve known since we were children. He shakes his head. “I knew you were up to something, Isabel. You can’t fool me, you know. We know each other too well for that.”

“I know you’ve been up to something too,” I counter. Maybe now’s not the time, but I won’t let him get away with putting