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Only females that can shift will be allowed to fight: if you want to fight, shift into your wolf form, I instructed through the mind-link.
I watched as the females from my pack began to shift. I was astounded at how many shifted into their wolf forms. Only a handful of females remained.
You protect the children,I instructed to them. Someone needed to stay behind to keep the kids safe.
Take the children to the bunker.
It was built into the main house. I looked to one of the females that was to remain with the children. Her name was Sue.
Tell Curtis to move Scarlett into the bunker and take Gary with you.
I had to do everything I could to keep her safe. If she were in the bunker with the kids it would give her added protection, although nothing would keep her safe if we didn't win this fight.
We can't hold them off much longer,Jake informed me desperately through the mind-link.
Open the gates,I instructed to a couple of fighters. Adrenaline began to pump through my veins as I watched the big iron gates swing open.
My fighters were outnumbered but they were doing their best to keep the attacking pack at bay. They'd formed two lines of fighters that surrounded the gates, and as the wolves attacked they fought them off, keeping them from breaking the line of defense.
I looked back quickly to the members of my pack.
Attack!I commanded.
I turned to start running toward the middle of my line of fighters. They allowed us to pass as I led the rest of my pack against the vicious aggressor pack. The gates closed behind us, giving the weaker members of our pack added protection.
In that moment, I gave in to the animal inside of me. When the first wolf attacked me I ripped into its throat and it was dead before it hit the floor. One by one I tore into the attacking wolves with no mercy.
Blake was taking out as many as I was. His jaw locked around a wolf and he tore its throat out. The wolf slumped to the floor. But as hard as we were fighting I feared it wouldn't be enough.
Scarlett is missing.
The thought came to me through the mind-link from Sue, the female I'd instructed to tell Curtis to move Scarlett into the bunker.
I hesitated for a moment. A wolf I hadn't seen coming because of the distraction leaped into the air and was about to take me down.
Blake shot in front of me, taking a hold of the wolf by its throat. He threw it down on the ground. It whimpered but it never got back up.
Where is Curtis?I asked Sue, feeling a franticness I'd never felt take over me. I wanted to rush back to the house and look for her but I couldn't leave my pack.
I can't find him,she answered worriedly.
Every possible scenario flitted through my mind but nothing I came up with made sense. Why would Curtis and Scarlett be missing? Had he moved her somewhere else?
At that same moment, I don't know if it was fate or just pure luck but I smelled the scent of another pack. I looked up to see Kyle and his pack surround Victor's pack from the opposite side. Relief and fear flooded through me at the same time.
I need to go and find Scar,I said to Blake.
Go!he replied as he growled at a werewolf about to attack him.
I didn't waste another moment, and I ran back into the compound. It was only when I reached the main house did I shift back into human form.
It had to be a mistake. She had to be somewhere. True to Sue's words, though, the cell that had held Scarlett was empty.
Fuck!
My heart was beating so fast I could hear it pounding in my ears. I was living one of my worst fears. The only option that seemed to make sense was that Curtis had betrayed me and taken Scarlett. He was human; so I had no idea why or where he would take her.
It made no sense.
