Killian felt something get lodged in his throat. He wanted to tell her that he was only doing it for her safety, but when he noticed the trace of vulnerability in her eyes, he knew that he had done some really heavy damage to her.
At once, he thought about how Inez had to live under the close scrutiny in her previous pack and all of a sudden his heart felt a bit choked up. He was one stupid bastard.
"...I am sorry." he lowered his head and apologised, realising that he might have crossed a line without knowing it.
Inez looked at him through her lashes before nodding. "You should be."
"Was he a lone shifter?" Killian asked Ajax, who gave him a nod and then said to him, "He was. I made him confess his identity. He went by the name Brendan."
"Never heard of him." Killian did a quick check of the list of names that he had in his mind, the lone hunters with whom his mother had been in talk in the past, but never used.
