Page 87 of Rejected By the Alpha King

Bridget and Dean were working together? Jenson had come up behind me just in time to hear Finn’s words. His shock rammed through our pack bond and nearly set me back on my heels.

No. Not a chance. It wasn’t possible. It just wasn’t fucking possible. There was no way Bridget betrayed me, was betraying me, and I didn’t know. Her bond was right there, next to Jenson’s. I could close my eyes and see it. Feel it.

I would know.

“Office phone. Call Saul. Now,” I snapped at Jenson. “And stay with him. When I get back, he better be fucking alive.”

“He’s lying,” Jenson said hoarsely. “He has to be.”

“Then when Saul has fixed him, I’ll kill him.”

Finn’s eyes rolled to the back of his head, and he went still on the tile floor. Leaving the restaurant, I ran, one eye on my phone until a signal came in, and I called Amelia first.

“Alpha,” she answered, and relief swept over me. “We have a problem.”

“Why did you leave your post? Where the hell are you?”

“Bridget sent us to Irene’s. She said the guards were dead and Irene had been taken.”

“Fuck. What?”

“No, Irene is fine. Her guards are all accounted for.” Her voice wavered. “I’m sorry, alpha, but I can’t reach Bridget or Finn or Anna.”

“Stay off the main security line, but alert everyone else that Bridget is not to leave this territory. No one is to let her pass. Then get Irene and the other witches to the compound. I want at least a dozen guards on them at all times.”

“Yes, alpha.”

As soon as she hung up, I called the main security office. All the vehicles had trackers on them, but if Bridget betrayed us, she would have disabled the tracker. She would have also disabled the location services on her phone, and she’d probably dumped Anna’s phone by now.

I’d just made it impossible for her to leave with a vehicle, but there was still plenty of places she could hide Anna, not to mention ways to leave the territory on foot.

Was this why Emerson hadn’t arrived? He was meeting them somewhere else?

God damn it. There was a hole the size of a mountain in my security. I had two other alphas and three vulnerable witches to protect, not to mention my own pack.

I couldn’t just drop everything and go after Anna.

But I couldn’t lose her. I couldn’t.

Most mates could communicate with each other. It was different depending on the wolf.

Some could actually communicate telepathically. Others could send images or songs.

When I close my eyes and focused on the mate bond, it just led to endless darkness. There was nothing on the other side. I couldn’t do anything with the bond because it didn’t go anywhere.

I still remembered the night it fell into place. Caked in blood and sliding through the rain, violence and fury surging through me, and there was Anna. A shivering slip of a thing, and when the lightning cracked, and the bond fell into place, everything felt right.

I felt at peace.

At least, until I realized who she was and what she’d probably done.

She’d felt it too.

She’d felt it too.

I froze as I replayed that memory in my head again. Shit. I was an idiot.

A complete fucking idiot.

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