Page 58 of Bait Wolf
“She’s being kept in an apartment in Steam Harbor.”
“Is she okay?”
“She seems to be. She’s fast asleep. I’m looking at her right now.”
My heart was racing, imagining her fast asleep in some random bed in Steam Harbor. God, it was so close. Less than ten minutes in my car and I could be there with her.
“Send me the address.”
“I’ll text it to you now.”
Alvy hung up.
For a moment, I stood there numbly before my phone went off with Asha’s location.
I looked at it, then lifted my face, inhaling Ember’s quickly fading scent. I wasn’t sure exactly how long ago he’d left. Long enough that I couldn’t be sure I would find him right away.
It felt like I was being torn in two, but in the end, only one thing made sense.
Iknewwhere Asha was right now. I couldn’t leave her with her captors for a moment longer.
Lifting my phone, I wrote into the group chat I shared with my closest friends. I’d called each of them while locked away in my office yesterday, to make sure they were on board. They were all at the ready, waiting for me.
Buzzing with adrenaline, I typed and sent a quick message.
I have Asha’s location. It’s go time.
ChapterTwenty
Coal
I stood in the shadows as the sun set over the harbor, staring up at the building that overlooked it.
It was tall, nondescript, just like all the other apartments in the area.
Asha was on the first floor. I could see the window that Alvy had been watching her from. It was dark, and, from the angle I was at, I couldn’t see inside.
Everest and Seymour were on one side of me, Aspen and Aurora on the other.
My heart warmed at the fact that my friends had answered my call without a question. And Seymour and Aurora both had mates waiting for them at home, yet they’d still come.
The four of us, all big, intimidating alpha fighters at the top of the fight league, were a formidable sight. I hoped anyway.
We were willing to use as much intimidation and force as necessary.
“Someone’s coming,” Aspen said, voice low.
Finally.
Without a word, the four of us walked to the front confidently just as a woman reached the glass doors. She tapped the fob and opened it without looking up, then stumbled when I grabbed the door, keeping her from shutting it.
She was a beta, slight in form, and, despite the sign that readDo not hold door open for strangers. SECURITY cameras in effect, she only glanced at the four of us before deciding not to get involved and hurrying toward the elevator.
Room one hundred and seven was only a minute’s walk in the stuffy hallway. A light flickered at the end of the hall, but there was nothing sinister about the place. It was just a fairly new building in an upper middle-class neighborhood. The perfect place to hide a kidnapping.
My skin itched as we came to a stop in front of the door. I didn’t know what we would find inside. A pack of alphas guarding Asha? Maybe just Kai himself?
I hoped for the latter.
