Page 67 of Betrayed By the Alpha Wolf

I nodded. “Yeah. This way. And…I think we’ll need those supplies.”

Her eyes flared, but she quickly schooled her expression, and we were navigating the hallways in the next second. I listened to that voice, following my child’s instructions toward her father.

The entire building was a huge maze, a deeply underground cement maze with many doors. If I didn’t have this guidance, there was no way we would have found him. And something about the place felt…off.

“This place is fucking wrong.” Cade stifled a growl, and I could see how ruffled he was.

I knew the guy didn’t appreciate being closed in, and I wasn’t a fan of this kind of “compound” either, but there was something different about it. It was so damn quiet, and it seemed way too big to just be a handmade bunker. It was professional, military-like, but no one here was wearing uniforms or looked like they were actually part of the human army.

Militia? What are these hunters?

“It’s the absence. There’s so much of it here.” Rowan whispered, his accented voice making my hair stand on end. “I can…sense it. So much death. So much pain and anguish has been created within these walls.”

I had to ignore that for now. There was no time to dwell on the fact that my stomach was on edge from being in here or that my baby agreed with Rowan, also sensing the blood this place was responsible for spilling.

“We need to find Gray and get out of here. Now.”

Moving quicker, I listened when the baby told me to pause or hide, avoiding several rounds of stalking humans. I heeded her words as she told me where to go, and before long, we arrived at another door. This one was labeled “Extraction Chamber.”

I really don’t like that.

The door was locked as I pulled on the handle, but it was easy enough to give it more force and just break the knob. When I pushed the thing open and stepped inside, I nearly fell to my knees.

Grayson was strapped down to a table, various tubes and electrodes running all over his body. He was barely conscious, and the entire space was filled to the brim with strange medical equipment and devices that I didn’t recognize.

“We’ll keep watch. Get him off there.” Rowan nodded at me, and I returned the gesture, grabbing Willow’s hand and running to Gray’s side.

Willow and I worked as fast as we could to pull out the IV lines that fed Gods-knew-what into Grayson’s veins. The straps holding him down looked like something out of a mental health institution, and my fingers trembled as I got them off of him. I pulled the electrodes away, and Willow reached into her bag.

“He’s been drugged. I need to rouse him if we’re going to get him out of here.” She pulled out a vile and a sterile needle that she’d packed in a hard case. “Here you go, Grayson.”

She injected him with whatever that stuff was, and within a few seconds, Gray jerked away on the exam table. His eyes went wild, searching the room frantically as he surged up. I held out my hands, steadying him.

“Hey, hey. It’s us. It’s me. We’re here to get you out of this place.”

He met my eyes, and tears immediately welled to the surface. Gray wrapped his arms around me, pulling me to his chest. When he leaned back, Grayson looked panicked and began to scramble to get off the table.

“Kenz, it’s so much worse than we realized. It’s torture. There are other wolves. I saw them when I was brought in. These humans…they’re doing something to us. Kenzie, it’swrong.”

I put my hands on either side of his face. “You’re safe now. Okay? We’re getting out of here.”

Cade cleared his throat, and I turned to see him stepping in from the hall. “We need to move.”

“Kenzie, they can’t keep doing this.” Grayson sounded so weird, so…terrified.

“There’s some pretty weird shit, MacKenzie. I’ll tell you that.” Willow added, but then Rowan came over too, grabbing Grayson and helping me get him to his feet.

“We don’t have time. And as much as it pains me to say it, we can’t be noticed.”

My heart broke even as the words left my mouth. I wanted these hunters to pay, but if we didn’t go now, we’d all be dead.

Cade and Rowan met my eyes in turn, nodding. Willow looked upset, clearly wishing to do more, and Gray was already losing strength.

“I know, Willow. I’m not saying never. I’m just saying not now.”

After a moment, she relented, and I hauled Gray up on my shoulder, with Rowan taking his other side. And we got the fuck out of that horrendous place.

Chapter 24 - Grayson

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