“Give it to me, Nash, or I will kill them. Slowly.” Dekker pulled back the second bar. The thump resonated over the smoked glass.
“Whatever you think I can do, I can’t.” Nox could only watch helplessly as Dekker reached for the last bar.
“And I don’t believe you. I saw it on the video feed after Dr. Echols opened those doors. I saw your Alpha give it to you. I saw youtakeit.” And the way Dekker saidtakeprickled Nox with sorrow, but it didn’t change the fact he had no idea what Dekker meant.
“All right then, we do this the fun way.” Dekker started to pull back the bar.
“He’s telling you the truth.” Dr. Dante flicked a look at Nox. “He doesn’t know.”
“Don’t lie to me, Dr. Dante.”
“You said you can smell a lie. Do I smell like I’m lying?”
Dekker huffed a breath. The arrogant mask he wore fell. “You believe what you’re saying, nothing more.”
“He doesn’t. He wasn’t aware Koda did it.”
“Your proof?”
“I saw the video too.” Reese swallowed several times like it hurt. “He had no idea.”
“Not good enough, Dr. Dante.”
Reese looked at Nox. “How did you get out of the Utah facility?”
Nash ran the question over in his head, but the words fell flat like a foreign language.
“How did you get out, Nash? Tell him.”
Nash opened his mouth, then closed it.
“For god’s sake, tell the son-of-a-bitch how the fuck you got out of the Utah Facility before he hurts Luca.”
The only thing Nox could do was stare.
To Dekker, Dr. Dante said, “He can’t answer because he didn’t act on his own free will. Koda ordered him.”
“Or maybe he just doesn’t want to say.”
Which wasn’t true. If Nox knew, he would have told the man. He would have told him anything to protect Luca.
“Prove it to me,” Dekker hissed.
“I can’t.”
Dekker raised his eyebrows. He didn’t have to say it aloud; the lie tainted the air.
“Tell him,” Nox said. “Just tell him what he wants to know, whatever it is.”
Agony twisted Dr. Dante’s expression.
Dekker gripped the slide bar again.
“Tell him, Reese.” Nox’s voice cracked with desperation.
Tears filled his eyes.
Dekker inched the slide bar back.