Page 67 of Alpha's Redemption

Ava moves to the ledge of the building and I follow her, checking over my shoulder to make sure the kids don't follow. Together, we look over.

The city is in utter chaos and ruins. Buildings in the distance are on fire, screams ring out loudly, and a frenzied battle can be seen on the main street even from here. Warriors are trying to hold the forsaken back from their borders.

Valen is right—there are hundreds of them. They just keep coming. The street directly below us is a scene from a horror movie as our men try to keep them back. Two forsaken are dragging another wolf off, and I don't want to think about what they’re doing to him as he yelps loudly.

“Her tether?” Ava asks me, and I swallow.

“Not broken yet. She’s fighting,” I whisper, staring out blankly. I notice from up here that not one of those forsaken are trying to get into Nixon's pack directly across from us. They’re targeting ours and Slasher pack.

“How is the city outnumbered?” Ava gasps when an explosion goes off down by the café on the main street.

Carnage.

There is no other way to describe it, and the pack warriors are outnumbered. Slasher pack’s men are trying to stop them from getting in, but a few slip through, and just like our men, they can't hold them back—they just keep coming. It should be impossible that so many could go unnoticed!

One of the high-rise apartments across from us catches on fire and more screams ring out from the apartment building as forsaken get inside. I just hope our roller shutters and the locked stairway doors hold.

The mind-link opens up, and I hear Zoe.

‘Is Casey alright?’

‘We’re on the roof,’I answer while peering over my shoulder to look at the children. She sighs before sobbing through the link.

‘And Marcus? Is he there yet? I’m being blocked out. I can't get a hold of anyone,’she asks, but I can't lie to her.

‘Not yet, but.… Zoe, the city…’I don't finish. The place looks like a battlefield.

‘As long as Casey is safe,’she says.

‘Are you safe?’I ask her.

‘I'm in the basement with some of the younger workers. But Macey, she…’

‘Macey what, Zoe?’I ask, panicked.

‘She heard the sirens when I opened the doors and bolted out. We tried to stop her,”Zoe says.‘She has no phone. We have no service in here, and–’

‘She has no pack link,’I finish for her. My heart beats faster at her words.

‘We think she went to warn the rogues at the reserve and homeless shelter. This side hasn't been hit yet,”Zoe tells me.

Yes, because they’re all over here trying to access our pack and Slasher’s, while Nixon's remains untouched. That isn't a coincidence.

The mind-link is stretched when I feel Valen force it open and Zoe is shoved out.

‘We’re trying to get to you. You just need to hold tight a little longer,’he tells me, though pain radiates through the bond and I know he’s hurt.

‘What about Marcus? Zoe is trying to get a hold of him.’

‘No idea. Everyone is blocking the pack link so we don't become distracted. We–”

The mind-link cuts off abruptly, only for Zoe to reopen it, having felt the connection from Valen override hers.

‘Marcus?’

‘They lost sight of each other. Marcus is fine, Zoe. Valen would have felt the tether break,’I tell her, though I have no idea if that will remain true. I feel helpless as I watch our pack getting slaughtered on the streets below while I’m holed up on a roof, unable to help them.

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