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But suddenly he yowled and whimpered as every nerve went haywire and a horrendous weight pressed down on him. His footing faltered and collapsed to the ground. The silver net stretched across him, and he’d been captured again.

“Fuck, that was lucky,” Lazi said as he rushed up to Kodiak.

“This time, lift him so the silver doesn’t fall off,” Damon said.

“How? We need to put a muzzle on him,” Lazi muttered. “Wrap him up tight.”

Damon kicked him “A silver muzzle?”

“Hang on, I’ve got an idea.”

The vampire lifted a thick branch, ready to strike. Kodiak braced himself, too weak to fight back or even move. The silver claimed and bound him.

He’d been captured, well and truly.

Kodiak had failed himself and his pack. His capture could mark the end of Shadow Pack, and he hated to think of what the vampires would do after his wolves were gone.

One thump to the head sent him spiraling into blackness.

CHAPTER 18

Tamaska

Ash’s lead foot on the gas made good time as they returned to Sydney. The farther she rode from the hut, the more she ached for Kodiak and feared she’d never see him again.

Something was wrong.

She sensed it in her heart, her gut, in every fiber of her being.

“We shouldn’t have left him there alone,” she said as she shifted in the backseat of Kodiak’s car, wishing he was there with her.

“You really struggle with the whole, “Do whatever the alpha says” thing, don’t you?” said Ash, looking at her through the rearview mirror.

Tamaska pressed her lips tightly together, biting back a retort. Surely, the pack didn’t blindly follow everything the alpha said. That didn’t make sense to her, but she didn’t want to discuss the technicalities of obedience right now, anyway.

Then again, it really seemed they did. So much of their lifestyle was difficult to wrap her head around and it didn’t help she had a pushy nature she tried to quell. She was in their world now, not the other way around.

Ash…she knew the problem and couldn’t let it go. Not the fact she’d taken the shifter’s computer but no one listened to her. And now…well, now they were in the car on the long drive and the worry for Kodiak at at her and she needed to do something.

Tamaska took a breath. “I’m sorry. I didn’t look at anything other than the research on my family and the opal. I was only trying to help. I know It was wrong.”

That was a little harder than it should have been, mainly because the tension in the car was pointed at her and apart from that faux pas, she hadn’t fucked up—this time.

She’d sat and kept out of things, and okay, Kodiak locked her up, but then…

She blew out her breath.

“I’m sorry.”

“I heard.” Ash stopped talking. Then right when Channing started to twist about to look or speak to Tamaska she continued. “I’m not going to say it was fine; it wasn’t—”

“We’re territorial,” Channing said.

Ash sighed. “But tensions are high, emotions. And I get it’s hard, but you need to just do what you’re told. Like we all do. It’s how things are done. It might seem stupid to you, but you’re not one of us.”

Yet, she almost said. Tamaska swallowed it down. For now.

“We all have a tough time with the order and rules here and there, but they exist for a reason.”

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