Page 140 of Knot my Alphas

I glance up at Raiden.

“Yes,” I reply, keeping my gaze on my brother.

“Free my master or I’ll kill your mother.”

Raiden’s eyes widen, mirroring the shock I feel. “What?”

“Take a look at the screen,” the stranger says.

I look down at the phone and see that a video chat has opened up.

A darkened room comes into view. The camera shifts and focuses on a figure that’s sitting in a chair. A middle-aged woman in an elegant dress stands nearby, aiming a gun at the seated person.

“Take a closer look,” the first woman instructs. “It’s your mother.”

To my horror, I see that the person seated in the chair is really our mom. Her head sags into her chest, telling me she’s unconscious. Tight ropes bind her to the chair but that’s not the thing that chokes me with fear.

A packet of explosives with a tiny clock is stuck to her chest.

“Mom!” I shout. “Mom, wake up!”

“Bring our master to the front gates of the estate within the next ten minutes or she dies,” the stranger threatens.

“Mom!”

She doesn’t respond. Before we can say anything else, the call gets switched off.

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Iris

Ice flows through my veins.

Damon calls for Caroline but she doesn’t stir.

“Fuck!” Raiden curses, raking his fingers through his neat dark hair and making a mess of it. “What are we going to do?”

I look toward Damon and Julian but they both look just as anxious and scared as me.

Dark chuckles erupt in the room. “You thought you won against me,” Callahan says, drawing my gaze on him. “Free me this second or you’ll lose your pack’s matriarch.”

“We need to act fast,” Julian says, checking the watch on his wrist. “We’re losing time.”

“What if we could get to Mom?” Damon says desperately. “These women stand no chance against us.”

“Do you have any idea where they’re keeping her?” I ask. “Can you track Caroline through the cameras?”

Julian shakes his head. “It’ll take longer than ten minutes to go through the feeds of over five hundred cameras to locate her.”

I glance toward Damon and Raiden. Utter defeat and anxiety swirl in both their gazes.

“Is there no other way to find her?” I ask.

“No,” Raiden replies through clenched teeth.

“What if they’re bluffing?” says Damon. “Our security is tight enough to stop anyone coming in with explosives. There’s no way these women could get inside so easily.”

“Did you see the clothes they were wearing?” Julian says. “They definitely came in with a pack leader. That could’ve helped them get in without any suspicion.”

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