Fuck.
Where is she? Is she stuck in one of the traps? Have the government agents found her out here? What will they do if they find a lone wolf?
Alpha?Alex speaks through the pack link.Any sign of her?
No, I can’t catch her scent through all the fucking snow.
Fuck. This is all my fault. The traps were set to capture us, so what do they want with us?
I can’t either,Alex snarls.
There has to be a way to get to her—to warn her of the danger she’s in. I reach out to her through the mind link, but something’s wrong. Is she blocking me, or did they already get to her?
I can’t get to her through the link either. Fuck.
What if they have her and are long gone already? What if I never see my mate again because the government have taken her?
I was such a bastard to her, again. Why do I keep fucking ruining things with her?
We’ll find her, alpha, no matter what it takes,Alex says.
John and Patrick, circle the perimeter. I want everyone searching every single part of this forest until we find her. Alex, check the traps that we found and update me on what you find.
I race through the woods with no actual direction. I spin in circles as the sky darkens and the temperature plummets.
What is she thinking being out here in the frozen forest at night all alone?
Has she made it back to the village, or is she holed up somewhere trying to stay warm? I hope she’s back at home, but I’m not optimistic.
My luck lately hasn’t been very good, and that would be too much to fucking hope for.
My wolf howls as we wander in circles, and I curse in my head.
If the humans are in the forest right now, they know damn well we have shifted wolves out here. I try to rein him in, but he wrestles control back.
He’s angry at me for putting our mate in danger like this, and I can’t fucking blame him because I’m angry at myself.
I race past several cameras, but I don’t give a fuck. I’m not stupid enough to think they don’t already know what we are. They have bears working with them.
They’ve been studying us for months. They know what we are and what we can do, but why abduct my people?
It doesn’t matter why; I’m going to get them back as soon as I make sure my mate is safe.
Jara, it’s not safe.I try the pack link again, but it’s nothing but static on her end.
Gods, I hope she’s just blocking me and it’s not something worse.
Think, Archer, where would you go if you planned to spend the night in a frozen ass forest?
I rack my brain as I run through the woods on swift paws, and I sniff the air with every breath to see if I can pick up Jara’s scent.
It’s just snow and pine.
My wolf howls again into the night. The sound mournful and haunting.
Why won’t she answer his call? Is she that upset about Angela, or was it the things I said to her in anger and fear?
I’m a terrible fucking mate. She was trying to stand up for her friend, and I lashed out at her, again.