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“You can’t go rogue like this,” said Ash. “We’re a pack. We do this together.”

“If I do this alone, there’s more chance of us staying a pack. We can’t risk losing any more wolves.”

“I’ll help,” Tamaska said.

“No, you won’t. Take her the fuck out of here, Ash, now.”

Ash grabbed her by the arm, the grip bruising her skin.

“No,” Tamaska said, but she wasn’t strong enough to stop Ash from pulling her outside.

“He’ll be fine. You’ll see him back at the clubhouse before nightfall,” Ash, said but her words weren’t reassuring.

“I better fucking see you later, Kodiak,” she yelled as Ash dragged her towards Kodiak’s parked car.

Pack members in various stages of scrambling out of their swags and dressing exchanged looks of confusion as Kodiak hurried out of the hut.

“The vampires are coming! We need to leave!” Kodiak said. “The morning light should be enough to keep the vampires away, but apparently it doesn’t. Not any longer. Daytime no longer offers protection from the enemy. So you must always be on alert. Now go.”

Voices rose as panic spread like wildfire.

“Everyone, back to the clubhouse now! Onai, you’re in charge until I get there,” called Kodiak for all to hear. Then he transformed and ran into the scrubland. His wolf form racing out of sight.

Heart hurting and fear threatening to drown her, Tamaska got into the car, even though she wanted to stay and help Kodiak.

She couldn’t shake the thought pounding through her head—what if she never saw him again?

CHAPTER 17

Kodiak

He smelled the vampires. That vile scent that burned its way in to all parts of him. They were closer than he’d like. He moved through the scrub, quietly but quickly. He hoped to ambush them, fight them long enough for the pack to escape, then get the fuck out.

It was a bad plan.

Possibly suicidal.

But it was all he had.

He just hoped it would work.

He would not ask any of his pack to stay behind and help him. That’s why he hadn’t told them what he planned to do.

His ears pricked as the pack’s cars rumbled to life and began to leave. He hoped Tamaska was safely inside the car with Ash, getting far away from the vamps.

He wanted his whole pack to leave, to avoid more deaths. But it was most important for Tamaska to leave. He didn’t know exactly what the vampires wanted her for, but whatever their purpose, it would certainly cause problems for everyone. It was his duty as a wolf shifter to prevent that outcome.

And his duty as the man who loved her.

But right now he needed to focus on the duty as pack leader, as a shifter.

It kept things clean, and he could think.

So, once he sorted this—and he would, he had to—he’d head back to the clubhouse and plan an attack on the vampires that they would never forget.

Slowing, he sniffed the air. The vampires lay ahead.

Moving to their left for a side attack, he stayed alert.

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