Page 93 of Fated
“You’ve left me no choice,” I told him calmly, even though on the inside I was already feeling the guilt of my actions. “You’re my friend and I have to make sure you don’t do something stupid.”
“Don’t do this,” he whispered when he realized I wasn’t going to back down.
I shook my head and he turned his attention to his sister.
“Scarlett,” he pleaded. Scarlett held his gaze.
“Your emotions are clouding your judgment,” she said, trying to explain why she wasn’t going to help him. “If I—we—let you go, you might end up getting killed and I can’t let that happen.”
Kyle began to fight against the hold of the guards and tried to pull himself free when he realized we weren’t going to release him. Cade grabbed Scarlett away from Kyle so she wouldn’t get hurt while he fought to break free of the guards.
Lock him up, I informed them.
“I’llneverforgive you for this,” Kyle promised me as the guards dragged him away.
It felt like a knife had been plunged into my chest and I struggled to breathe, the pain was so bad.
“You’re doing the right thing,” Blake assured me as he took my hand into his. Even our connection couldn’t ease my guilt.
“Then why do I feel so crappy?” I asked, looking up at him.
“Sometimes doing the right thing isn’t always easy,” he said, trying to comfort me.
“I’ve been in his shoes. He will get over it,” Scarlett added as she came to stand beside me. “We just need to get her back safely.”
Cade had sedated her when he’d suspected that she was about to hand herself over to my father to save them all. Getting Crystal back was easier said than done. There were so many things that could go wrong, but I had to believe that we would bring her back alive.
Curtis, I called out through the mind-link,meet us in the meeting room.
The sooner we sat down and discussed the best way forward, the sooner we’d be able get Crystal back for Kyle.
As we walked to the meeting, I tried to ignore the nagging voice in the back of my mind that kept telling me that he might not forgive me if he knew that I’d kept the fact that she was his mate from him. I tried to keep the emotions that were swirling inside of me from breaking free. I needed to keep calm so I would make the correct decisions, otherwise they wouldn’t be any better than the decision I was trying to keep Kyle from making.
“How sure are we that she went to the rogue pack?” Scarlett asked as soon as we were seated and Curtis joined us.
“Pretty sure. My tracker told me that he gave her the details of where the rogue pack was. He had no idea we’d called it off,” I informed her.
“Is the pack still in the same place?” Scarlett asked.
I shook my head. They’ve already moved and we are busy tracking them again.
“Did any of the trackers see Crystal?” Cade asked.
I shook my head.
“So there is a chance that she isn’t with them?” he said.
I nodded. He leaned back in his seat as his eyes went to Scarlett and he reached for her hand.
But if she wasn’t with them, where was she?
We were in quite a predicament. We had no way of knowing if Crystal was in the rogue pack. If she were, we would have to play it out like we’d initially planned and wait for her to give us the details of the pack that the rogues planned to attack first. If she weren’t with them, we were back to square one and it left us vulnerable to the rogues. We also had no idea where Crystal was.
“What are we going to do?” Scarlett asked.
“There isn’t a lot we can do,” Blake explained, rubbing his chin. “If we wait for her and she isn’t in the rogue pack, we are screwed because we will be sitting ducks. If we managed to pinpoint the position of the rogue pack long enough to attack, we run the risk of endangering Crystal if she is with them and we’d be leaving our packs open to an attack.”
Scarlett looked visibly worried. “We can’t attack them if she’s there,” she said.
