"I didn't—"
"Denny, Anni saw you."
"Sneaking old cow,” he muttered, then sniffed. “What if I did? It was only a joke, like."
"Did you read it?"
"Yeah."
"Then you know it was no joke, but a threat."
"No, it weren't. She told me—” He stopped abruptly.
Something in her stomach clenched, but before she could say something, Cade said, “She who?"
Though his voice was flat, there was an undercurrent that suggested violence. Denny swallowed and went white, which was not an easy thing for a brown wolf to achieve.
"I don't know. Never saw her before."
"Was she young? Old?” Cade snapped.
Savannah crossed her arms and resisted the temptation to tell him to cool it. After all, he was getting answers quicker than she usually did.
"Young,” Denny stammered. “Late teens, maybe even early twenties. She said she'd meet me later tonight and pay me, like."
"Where?” Savannah asked, relieved that the person behind the threat wasn't old, so it couldn't have been Nelle, as Cade had undoubtedly believed.
"At Club Grange."
"A local rave room,” she said, for Cade's benefit. And it was a place that had caused more than its share of drunken behavior over the last few months. For some strange reason, people seemed to think out of town meant safe from the rangers. “Give me a description, Denny."
"About my height. Blonde hair. Blue eyes. Big tits.” He shrugged.
"Wolf?"
He snorted. “When they look like that, who cares?"
"You'd better start caring,” Cade said. “Because you're in it deep this time."
"For a note?"
"Threatening an officer of the law is a chargeable offense."
"But I wasn't—"
"But you did.” Cade paused. “Of course, if you were to go to that club tonight and point her out to us, I might consider letting you off with a warning."
"And miss out—"
"Would you rather have sex or a firsthand view of a jail cell?"
If the kid's expression was anything to go by, it was a close run race between the two options.
"All right,” he muttered eventually. “I gotta be there to meet her at ten."
"In the main room or the moon room?"
He half-sneered, then his gaze shot beyond her and his bravado fled again. “Moon room."