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‘Don’t be too harsh on them. It makes it easier for me.’ Somewhere, a door opened and closed. I could hear footsteps.
‘Finn, someone is coming,’ I told him.
‘Listen to me, Red. You don’t do anything stupid. All you have to do is keep yourself safe and I will find you. Don’t be a smart ass and provoke my brother,’ Finlay said. He knew me too well.
‘I will do my best.’ The door to the room opened and let in sharp, white light that momentarily blinded me. I turned my head away from the light and closed my eyes. I didn’t want to lose my dark vision.
“Well, looks like she is awake,” someone said. I recognised the voice. I squinted in its direction and saw the door had been shut. I opened my eyes fully and looked at Finlay’s brother and his former Beta.
“Are you two insane? How stupid can you be? Did Finn get all the brain cells in the family?” I asked. Then I remembered my promise to Finlay and sighed. At least I had kept it for half a minute.
“Shut the fuck up, you bitch!” Karo, the former Beta shouted. I looked at him. He looked like he was about to pop a blood vessel any moment. I switched focus to Ryder. His anger was just under the surface, bubbling, seething, and it made me ten times as nervous.
“Didn’t you like my way of inviting you to some family time?” he asked with a wicked grin. “We are family now, aren’t we? You being mated to that brother of mine and even expecting his pup.” His words made something click in my mind.
‘Finn, you can’t come here. The reason your brother has made it so easy for you is because he wants you here. He has something planned. Stay away,’ I mindlinked my mate.
‘Not going to happen Red. I’m not leaving you there with him. I don’t care what he has planned for me. I will get you and our pup to safety,’ he replied. I cursed in my head. He was going to be stubborn and come rushing into this without thinking. I had no one else to mindlink, no one I could ask for help to at least make Finlay think it through before he acted. We should havebrought Sam, I thought. We could have let him stay in a camper some distance from the hotel. I just hoped our friends and my brother would help him.
Chapter 92
Finlay
Iwas ready to kill someone, anyone, as long as it got me Amie back. Most of all I wanted to kill my brother. I knew he was behind all of this, I had known it from the moment Jonas and I wondered what took them so long in the bathroom and tried to mindlink our mates. And failed. The panic I felt in that moment surpassed anything I had experienced before. Barging into the women’s bathroom to find Beatrice out cold on the floor and not a trace of Amie had set my world spinning. The roar that had been torn from my chest had the windows shaking and the council’s warriors flocking to the bathroom. As Jonas had tried to wake his mate, I had done my best not to destroy the bathroom or shift into my wolf. Amie needed me and I couldn’t turn into a mindless beast. As the head of the council had understood the situation, one Luna injured and one missing, he had mobilised every resource the council had to find Amie. Elder had not left my side since he learned what had happened. All our allies had offered their support, but what could they do? We were all here without warriors. Luckily, the council had theirs. A virtual army was put in my hands to direct as I pleased. Ijust didn’t know what to do with them. I had no idea where Amie was. When she mindlinked me after two hours, it was like pulling air into my lungs after being underwater.
“I need to know every building within a two-hour radius of this hotel!” I demanded in the conference room that had become the command centre in the search for my mate.
“Yes, Alpha,” someone called back.
“Amie?” Elder asked. I nodded as I was occupied with mindlinking her.
“She is mindlinking me,” I told him. His relief was visible.
“Finlay, over here,” James called out. He stood at a large monitor. As I walked over to it, I saw it was a map over the area with the hotel in the centre.
“There are five buildings you can get to within two hours,” a warrior explained and five dots showed up on the map. “Four of them are guest cabins the hotel guests can rent to go glamping. The last one is a warehouse,” he explained.
“Not the cabins. Amie said the room was made of concrete,” I told them.
“That rules out the warehouse as well, it is made of corrugated metal,” the warrior said.
“What? But that leaves us with nothing?” I said. Amie had confirmed the one who had taken her was my brother and she had asked me to stay away. Fat chance of that ever happening. I would get her and our pup to safety. I would leave her for a couple of minutes with Elder while I killed my brother and then we would go back home and she would never leave our pack land ever again. The last part was maybe something we needed to talk about, and I was almost certain I would lose the argument, but I would do my best to win. I just needed to find her. It hit me in an instant and I felt like an idiot.
‘Amie, tell me if you can hear this,’ I mindlinked her. Then I channelled all my wolf’s fear, panic and frustration and let out another roar.
“Alpha, please, you will trigger all the alphas in this hotel and that would be bad,” the head of the council told me.
‘That was one mighty roar, love. I think Karo just wet his pants,’ Amie linked back.
“She is still in the hotel!” I shouted.
“What?” Elder said.
“But I can’t scent her,” James objected. I didn’t even bother to growl at him for trying to scent my mate out, because he was right. We had all tried to get a trace of Amie to follow and since we didn’t get one, we had assumed she had been taken from the hotel. At least I wasn’t the only idiot.
“Does the hotel have windowless rooms?” I asked the head of the council.
“Yes, we have storage rooms in the basement which have no windows,” he said. Basement it was. I sprinted towards the door.
