Chapter 39

::Before you tell them,:: Cole said, ::how do you know we can trust them? What if they were outside so we’d see them and…take it from there, I guess.::

::Good point,:: Ky agreed. “Jenna, Venus, would you please drop your shields?”

“Don’t you trust us?” Jenna said in apparent dismay.

“Would you, if you were us?”

She smiled. “Probably not. There. Better?”

Cole couldn’t read her thoughts, but he was certain Ky could, since he’d done the same to him often enough—at least the surface ones. Ky had assured him that he wasn’t a deep mind-reader and Cole believed him.

Ky concentrated on Jenna, then Venus, saying, “Think of anything but Marsham.”

Venus snorted. “That’s an old trick.”

“One that works, however,” Ky replied. “You hate him that much?” he asked quietly, a few moments later.

“Ido,” Jenna replied. “He thinks there’s only one reason to have females in the pack—to increase its size. We’re chattel, to be used by any male in the pack as he wishes.”