Again, the toneless voice moved through the dark. “He has a temper. I don’t think you would survive a conversation with him. Fortunately for you, whether you tell me the truth or lie, I have no intention of ending your life tonight.”

Eyes wide, Corday looked over his shoulder. With so much shadow, he could barely make out the shape of a man—an outline armed with an assault rifle pointed right at him. “What is it that I know?”

“You don’t know anything but what we’ve fed you. There is no single fact squeezed into your brain that is wholly correct... And yes, before you ask, Claire is alive. Shepherd has nursed her back to health. Four months from now, she will give birth to a boy.”

Nursed her? The man in the dark made it sound as if Shepherd were some sweet lover, not the monster who murdered men with his bare hands. Corday did not even try to hide the look of disgust from his face. “After she was captured, Claire exposed the resistance. You’ve come here to gloat.”

“Is that what you believe?” Twisting his smirk with an evil chuckle, Jules took a step out of the dark, exposing his face to enough light that the Enforcer might grasp just who had come. Recognition was instantaneous: Shepherd’s second-in-command, the harbinger of death. It was more than the flat expression and lifeless voice. It was the outcast’s intention. “She would be so disappointed to hear such a thing from a man she admires as much as you.”

The Beta looked heartbroken. “I know she’d never have done it if he hadn’t forced her.”

“Shepherd’s mate has never once offered even a hint of information about you or your pathetic resistance.” Face suddenly blank of expression, Jules stared forward with a pair of strangely focused eyes. “It was you who betrayed her.”

Confusion darkened Corday’s voice. “I would never betray Claire.”

Without breaking eye contact, completely aware of how threatening he was, Jules lowered his weapon. “It was you who led me to Claire, you I followed right to the Omegas’ hiding place.”

Corday knew his eyes were filling, that he could not hide the effect the Follower’s words had on him. “Does she know?”