I Regret Nothing - JB Trepagnier Page 0,8

your yard time.”

She closed the bracelets around my wrist, and I didn’t feel any magic drained. I had to stop myself from straight-up laughing and giving myself away. Demons had spent so much time away from Earth, I didn’t think there were any in Silverhold. They weren’t even entertaining the notion I was a Kitsune. Were they rare or something?

Still, I didn’t want them to know that. I’d especially take it since they keyed these cuffs for shifters and not demons. I hadn’t tested it, but I could still feel my fox and every single ounce of my magic.

I could have some fun with this and make sure Venus didn’t come near me for my seven-year stint here.

Another guard came in and glared at me.

“Welcome to Silverhold, cupcake. Now that your magic has been neutered, I’ll be bringing you to your cell.”

I just smiled sweetly.

“Can’t wait.”

Chapter 6

Faust

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ew inmates were a dime a dozen and didn’t interest me, but it wasn’t every day I was to be CO to someone on that many most-wanted lists. If you were evil enough to be that wanted, they usually threw you straight in Scorchwood. I tried to get on as a guard there, but nothing I tried could even get me a fucking interview. After it hit the news the Warden of Scorchwood was corrupt, it made sense. She wanted criminals as guards. She could have had one, but I didn’t leave evidence, so I didn’t look good on paper to her. It was pretty fucking ironic I was lording over all these criminals in Silverhold when I should have been here right behind bars with them.

I could smell the Silver Fox before I saw her. My wolf let out this little growl. I knew fox shifters. I’d hunted and killed a few of them. And she wasn’t even remotely a fox shifter. My curiosity was definitely piqued. I’d followed the news when it broke they had caught her. She left a silver hair behind at a crime scene that was identified as a fox. They clipped her hair when they knocked her out at the scene before she shifted back and compared them—same fox.

I was a shifter, even if I was superior to a fox. No one in the supernatural community left hair behind of an animal unless they were a shifter. Witches had been trying to figure out how to assume animal form for ages. At most, they had familiars. That fox wasn’t her familiar because they had caught her shifted.

I knew my nose. The Silver Fox was not a shifter. Color me curious. She just got a million times more exciting, and whatever she was, it smelled good to my wolf. It smelled a little like prey, but prey that would make the hunt a lot of fun.

I perked right up when she came into view. Yes, I was definitely hunting this creature in Silverhold. She was tiny and maybe one hundred pounds soaking wet. The Silver Fox had skin the color of coffee with a lot of cream and beautiful almond-shaped eyes. Her long hair was pure white, and I could tell her eyes were violet. She definitely wasn’t a shifter. I’d met Japanese shifters before, and they looked nothing like her.

She was fucking gorgeous, and my cock stirred at the idea of stalking her through this prison. I rarely got turned on by my prey, but most of them weren’t that pretty. Still, I wouldn’t kill her unless someone paid me to. I had this job for a reason. Sometimes, people didn’t think jail was enough for criminals. I was a trained assassin, but after I left my pack, I had specific rules about the jobs I took.

My old pack killed anyone they were asked to kill. I was raised since I was a pup to do the same. My pack didn’t care about feelings or what children might need. I had alpha blood, so they shipped me off to apprentice with our pack alpha. I was beaten and molded until I became the perfect killer. My alpha fully intended for me to challenge him in a fight and take over for him.

But I wasn’t stupid. Everyone liked to pretend shifters were slaves to their instincts, and wolves were beholden to the moon. I made my own decisions. I was a slave to no one, and nothing made me do something I didn’t want to do. And I had issues killing people who didn’t have it coming.

I broke away