All Chapters of Bring Him to His Knees: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

ROANThe room Sloane leads me to is small, bare, private in the way that suggests she chose it for exactly that reason and nothing else. No windows. One table. A door that shuts behind Marcus when she tells him, without looking at him, that this part doesn’t require an audience.Then it’s just the two of us, closer than we’ve been in two years, and I don’t know where to put my hands.“Sit,” she says, nodding at the table’s edge. “Shirt off. I need to see where it’s centered.”I do as she says, because there isn’t a version of tonight where I don’t do exactly what she tells me to, and because some small, useless part of me is grateful for any excuse to be looked at by her again, even like this. Even clinical. Even cold.Her hands, when they finally touch my chest, are steady in a way that undoes something in me I don’t have a name for.She doesn’t smell the way I remember either. Underneath it, faint, she still carries something warm and familiar that used to mean home to every instinc

SLOANEI leave the patrol crisis in Kieran’s hands, which tells you something about how much I trust him, and how little patience I have left over for anything that isn’t Roan’s sickness or the reason his numbers are dying the same slow way his body is. Corvin wanted me to stay and run the search myself. I told him Kieran could find three missing wolves without me standing over his shoulder, and that I had somewhere else I needed to be first.Nora’s house looks the same as it did two years ago, right down to the pine trees blocking it from the road, and some stubborn part of me still expects to feel like a frightened girl the moment I step inside instead of an Alpha who could level the place if she wanted to.She doesn’t seem surprised to see me. Nora is rarely surprised by anything, which used to comfort me and now, for reasons I can’t quite name, makes me uneasy in a way I don’t examine too closely.“You found something,” she says, not a question, already moving toward the kitchen