Page 45 of Redeem Me
I chuckled. “Yes, I know. You pick them with everyone.”
Knox shrugged as he got out of the car. “They just can’t handle the heat I’m packing.”
Tracey grumbled something under her breath as she joined us. Micah had stayed behind and I had only permitted that because Mav had stayed with him. Taking all of the Guardians and the Alpha off of the Pack Lands wasn’t smart. They needed to have defenses still. Mav and Granny would protect my people until we returned.
“If that wolf led us to a trap, I’m going to be the first to rip his throat out,” Archer whispered.
I ignored all of them. There was no point in getting worked up over how aggravating they were. I had known how they were when they swore to live and die by my side. I just had no idea how much worse it could get.
I blinked and my night vision took over. It was time.
Knox took up the front of our party and Gabriel took up the back. I walked beside Tracey but not because I felt like I needed to protect her. We walked side by side because we worked the best together. When my friends had left for Guardian training, Tracey had stayed behind. Not because she didn’t want to be a Guardian, no, she wanted that more than anything. She stayed behind because she was a woman and women weren’t permitted to be Guardians. They were too valuable. To give her empowerment back, I asked her to train with me. Every day we had woken up before dawn and trained as wolves and as humans. She fought just as well as the Guardians did. I had seen her challenge them when she thought I wasn’t around. I watched as she bested almost every single one of them. The only one she couldn’t get down was Knox and he loved to gloat about it.
We lost count of the time it took to get to the building the children were in. As we got closer to the perimeter, Gabriel broke free and went to take out the guards waiting. He was back just as quickly as he had left with just a slight scent of blood on him. He grinned in the dark before he gave me a thumbs up. He was usually the calmest of the group but tonight, he was living for the fight.
Tracey shivered beside me as we continued forward.
Gabriel spoke through my Alpha link. I could mind speak to anyone in the pack in or out of my wolf form. My Guardians could communicate with me and with each other through a special bond.Six down.
I communicated with Tracey down the Alpha link and she nodded. She was ready. I could see it in her fluid stance. Knox ran ahead of us and spoke down our bond.Three more down.
This was our first mission together since they had returned and I was excited but also nervous. There should have been more guards, magic, something. But so far it was too easy. Was this Damian guy this stupid? He was using these kids as leverage but he wasn’t protecting them better than this?
When we made it onto the main grounds and I could see the building in the distance, my heart rate picked up. I didn’t usually get nervous. I hardly ever had much to lose, but now? It was all different. My mate was involved.
Shots blasted through the night and my first instinct was to run toward it. Knox ran backward for a second as he grinned at me.
Tracey spoke down our bond.Show off.
All I could do was snicker in response. The guns stopped shooting a second later and then Archer was beside me. He tossed one of the guns in the air and Tracey rolled her eyes.
