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But I don’t wait. I sprint as hard as I can for the back exit.
And they chase.
But they aren’t being careful. They’re blundering through the shop, sending perfume bottles smashing to the ground, shattering one after the other.
“Piper!” Teddy howls. “Please, wait!”
“Piper!” Erain calls, his voice sounding like a fucking skeleton rattle.
What the fuck is wrong with them now?
I hear a terrific crash behind me but I don’t look back.
Well, if I know one thing about my boss Mrs. Godric, she’s going to get every dollar they broke and more and good for her. It’s not like they can’t afford it.
Dribbling the perfume behind me out the door, I sprint outside and throw myself into Mario’s busted-up truck.
He’s got the mirror down and meticulously straightening each one of the gelled dark spikes on his head.
“Give me that cigarette and get us the fuck out of here,” I ordered. “We’ve got to get out of town now.”
There was only one place I knew of that might keep me safe from Alphas and we’d have to drive fast to get there.
CHAPTER15
Teddy
Iwas not prepared for how it would feel to see Piper and have her turn away and run from me.
The mate bond was pounding through me, urging me onward, and I stumbled gracelessly toward her, my eyes locked on her lean, slim body.
“Piper!” I croaked, like I hadn’t used my voice in 100 years, and I shook Rook off, who was trying to restrain me.
I don’t even know if she heard me, because almost immediately I stumbled into a big display case of perfumes and they all smashed up, sending waves of unpleasant-smelling scent into the air.
There were shrill shrieks everywhere and I tried to roll out of the mess, all the broken glass pieces of the perfume bottles jabbing me in the stomach and chest.
Rook was shouting back his name as if they didn’t possibly know it, telling them to send the bill to us, but I was charging back to where our Omega had burst out the door.
Erain and I both tried to exit the door at the same time, which was designed for the much smaller Betas, and we crashed painfully into each other, pushing and shoving to be the first one out.
“Where did she go?” I howled, startled to hear a lupine whine in my voice, something animalistic there.
“There,” Erain pointed. “In that direction.”
“How sure are you?” I whimpered. “I don’t want to lose her.”
“I’m fucking sure,” he snapped, dragging me toward Rook’s Jeep. “You smell awful, by the way.”
“Go!” Rook ordered, and we leaped back into the car, Erain rolling down the windows so we could be sure to catch her scent.
She smelled amazing, and I gulped huge lungfuls of Piper as we headed after her.
I thought she might lead us to wherever she was staying, but the truck she was in headed straight out of town, hugging the boundary lines and then into the forest.
“Shit,” Rook said. “She’s headed for the Enclave.”
“The Enclave?” I asked stupidly.
