Kash’s pack capture of Nick

Kash Montgomery’s pack capture of Nick turns a violent encounter into evidence of a larger threat: Nick’s attack on a girl was not simply his own choice, but an alpha’s order to make her a werewolf. The capture brings the attacker under guard and places the pack’s methods of interrogation beside Romy’s growing involvement in a world of wolves and magic.

Capture and Interrogation

In the aftermath of the attack, members of Kash Montgomery’s pack work to conceal what happened. A half-dozen men clean the scene, while the unconscious gray wolf and the girl are carried away in a white creeper van at the edge of the trees. Lynch takes responsibility for checking on the girl and ensuring the prisoner is secure; Romy, who says she stabbed the attacker, insists that she is as invested in what follows as Kash Montgomery is. Her insistence meets his protective resistance, but the immediate business of dealing with the prisoner draws the group onward.

Kash Montgomery leads Romy down a short hallway and into a dim stairwell, with Lynch joining them to help. At the bottom, a guard opens a closed door, revealing Nick chained by the wrists to the opposite wall. Back in human form, he is bruised and bloody, dressed only in ratty cotton shorts. The scene does not establish when all his injuries were inflicted, but his chains and the guard outside the room make clear that the pack has taken custody of him. Kash Montgomery offers to take Romy back upstairs if the sight becomes too much; she stays, gripping his hand as Nick snarls and strains against the iron restraints.

Lynch questions Nick about his pack, using repeated blows when he refuses to answer. His interrogation is practiced enough that Romy recognizes a familiar routine between Lynch and Kash Montgomery: Lynch looks to Kash for silent permission, and Kash’s small shake of the head checks what comes next. When Nick finally gives his name, Lynch asks why he bit the girl. Nick’s first answer—that it was an alpha’s order—stiffens Kash Montgomery. Pressed on what the order meant, Nick distinguishes biting from attacking: he was told to bite her, and thereby turn her. His admission breaks the expected rhythm of the questioning. What began as custody of a dangerous assailant becomes a revelation that an alpha is using command to compel the transformation of a human girl.

The Attack as Evidence of a Wider System

Nick’s answer changes the meaning of the attack. He does not describe a command to kill or injure the girl, but an order to bite her—to make her a werewolf. The distinction alarms the interrogators because it points beyond a single assault toward deliberate, compelled transformation. His admission is not yet a full account of who issued the order or why, but it establishes that an alpha can direct violence through a subordinate and that the victim’s new condition may be imposed on her.

Later revelations give that order a broader context. Romy tells Danielle that Brody is turning missing campus girls and forcing them to mate with males so they will become pregnant. Missy, who dated Brody before college, recalls that his insults grew into threats when she refused to let him turn her. These accounts connect Nick’s stated assignment to a pattern in which transformation is used not as a gift or chosen bond, but as a means of control. The interrogation’s revelation therefore anticipates the discovery of Brody’s coercive breeding operation without, on its own, explaining the whole scheme.

The consequences are visible in the women and children later found in captivity. The rescued women are pregnant, their short hair and matching neck tattoos marking the reach of Brody’s control; one infant bears a tattoo too. Kaitlyn insists that, although she loves her son and would make the same choice to keep him, neither her pregnancy nor the abuse that produced it was voluntary, and the perpetrators must answer for their actions. Set against that testimony, Nick’s apparently narrow admission becomes the first clear sign of a system extending from an alpha’s order to forced transformation, reproductive violence, and the marking of the next generation.

What the Capture Reveals—and What It Does Not

Nick’s answer exposes the existence of an alpha’s magical control without yet identifying the alpha behind the order or explaining its purpose. That distinction matters: the questioning establishes that the attack was directed, but the scene leaves Romy and the reader with an urgent gap between knowing that someone can command a transformation and knowing who is wielding that power. The capture therefore functions as evidence, not a complete account. Nick’s battered condition and the pack’s practiced questioning make custody feel immediate; his answer makes the unseen command behind the attack the larger danger.

For Romy, that gap also marks a threshold in what she understands about the world around her. After learning that Nick had been spelled by his alpha, she challenges Kash for using the language of magic as though its reality were already familiar to her. His response—that he could not have known Nick’s alpha had spelled him—underscores that even Kash did not anticipate this particular form of control. The episode thus enlarges Romy’s knowledge in a disorienting way: the assault was not only supernatural, but governed by a force she had not been told existed.

Later evidence sharpens the political stakes without changing what Nick himself disclosed. Brody threatens that Kash will not remain alpha long enough to stop him and declares his ambition to rule the Northeast; elsewhere, Romy explains that Brody is turning missing campus girls and forcing them into pregnancies. These revelations make Nick’s compelled bite legible within a struggle over power and bodies, but they do not retroactively supply a name or motive in his interrogation. That limit preserves the scene’s shape: a prisoner’s brief admission cracks open a system whose reach becomes clear only through later testimony and discovery.

Protection and the Mate Question

The confrontation over Nick also sharpens the personal tension between Romy and Kash Montgomery. Romy rejects the idea that protecting her is Kash’s responsibility; his forceful response makes clear that he does not accept that boundary. Lynch steps away to check on the girl and the prisoner, leaving the two to face the disagreement without him. Romy then tells Kash Montgomery that she believes he has a mate somewhere. His visible surprise shows that she has touched a subject he did not expect her to raise, and she holds up a hand to keep him from interrupting while she gathers the nerve to continue. This exchange places the interrogation’s danger alongside a different uncertainty: Romy is trying to understand what she means to Kash, even as he insists on taking responsibility for her safety.