killing people not in their right mind or who did something against their will. The clear example was Wesley versus someone like Sinclair. Wesley was obviously under magic, and it had to be against his will. Sinclair did something dangerous and went crazy with the intent to kill us that night.
One deserved to die, one didn’t.
“Is there anything you need before you leave?” Korey asked, still blocking the door.
“Was there anything strange or off-protocol going on here at the prison before the breach? And I don’t mean yesterday. I mean in the last several months or years if that gets me an answer.”
Korey’s mouth pursed tight, her lips thinning in anger.
“No, nothing was going on,” she said with a bite.
“What about the team that helped with Wesley? Can you tell me about them?”
“He’s not an inmate, therefore not your—”
“Korey, I’m trying to keep more people from dying,” I snapped, stepping up to her. We were a similar height, making staring her down easy. “I understand you are a new Alpha, and your instincts are telling you to no longer allow anyone to order you around, but this hostility has to stop. I need to know everything.”
“Then give me something,” she growled back. “You’ve walked in here and told us nothing. No one here believes you’ve told the Tribunal everything.”
“Wesley was spelled. Did they tell you that I suspect that? That they believed me? Who the fuck could get to Wesley and spell him, Korey? Who? And for that matter, the inmate who attacked me? He was clearly under some sort of magic. His eyes were blank while he tried to kill me. I know what that means. Now, someone has come into your prison and spelled your inmates to kill me. Either cooperate or get the fuck out of my way.”
She stepped back, her eyes wide. She seemed shell-shocked, her mouth working for a moment before she formed a proper sentence.
“I didn’t…They…They didn’t tell me about Wesley.”
“Now you know. They’re still looking for him.” I searched the werewolf’s face, hoping I finally had her. I was glad none of her wolves or Eliphas had come with her to meet me. Getting her alone like this was better. There was no one for her to try to impress.
“Tarak and Eliphas picked the private research team who helped Wesley,” she finally said, looking away. “I didn’t know anything about them, and I never got their names, but it wasn’t the same group the Tribunal initially had working on Wesley’s case. They would meet Eliphas and Tarak outside and come in with them.”
I wanted to groan.
“Mygi?” I asked, trying not to sound pissed off.
“No, no. More private than that. Tarak didn’t want some big corporation coming in. He doesn’t like them. This was like a single healer and his team or something. A guy who works on lost cause type of things? That’s all I know, but I can ask Eliphas about it. I’ll also try to learn why they didn’t use the team the Tribunal originally hired. I think it was because that team made no progress, but…”
“Please do and send me whatever you find. Now, I need to get out of here. There’s a witch trying to drown Phoenix, and the local coven might have his location soon.”
“Good luck with the Leviathan,” Korey said, stepping out of my way.
“His name is fucking Levi,” I muttered, walking past her.
Deeper into the mystery I go. Now there’s an unnamed healing team, hired and brought in by two of the Wardens. If that’s not fucking suspicious, what is? And Tarak didn’t bring his second in on it? What kind of Alpha does that?
“Kaliya?” Raphael was speaking softly as we walked back to the BMW. “Are there private healing teams and stuff, or was she blowing smoke up your ass?”
“There are,” I said, sighing. “Makes everything harder. Mygi is the only big name in supernatural healing. The pharmaceutical company is the research side, and they have a hospital under different management, which is considered a neutral zone for supernaturals. They’re the same company but not run by the same people and they haven’t worked together in a long time, becoming more their own entities then branches of a single one. Beyond that, there are no other hospitals that cater to supernaturals. If people want professional care without having to travel, they have to hire concierge doctors and their teams. A witch, fae, or whatever other things that have a healing ability. There are a lot