Walking up the steps to Everly’s apartment, I push the door open and call out to her, “Everly!” I got no answer, and Valarian ducked off to his room, and I could hear Zoe coming up the steps behind me. Walking through the place, I walk into her room to find her uniform on the bed. As I walked back to the living room, Zoe walked in, dumping Casey’s stuff on the table.

“Have you seen Everly? She didn‘t answer when I rang on my way here,” I asked her.

“No, she was in the restaurant earlier; I thought she would be here.” Zoe shrugged.

“Maybe ask Tatum, wasn’t he on guard duty today?” Zoe asked while flicking the kettle on

“No, he had to go to a border patrol meeting today,” I tell her when Zoe picks up her phone. “A h, she has gone on a run at the reserve,” Zoe says, and I walk over, snatching the phone from her fingertips. The text message was sent two hours ago. My heart skips a beat, knowing the borderlines aren’t secure.

“Watch Valarian,” I tell her, taking off and jumping over the guardrail on the balcony. Landing on the ground, I raced toward the back end of the Hotel. I had been ringing her for over two hours. She shouldn’t have been gone that long, she told me herself. She can’t last long in her wolf form.

I ran for the back of the property and heard Zoe call out to me, but I didn‘t stop. Instead, I hit the gate that hard it flew open and smashed into the fence, Sniffing the air for any sign of her as I run. I find her scent coming to a log before reaching into it and pulling out her bag. I opened up the mind link, ordering all my men to this side of the border to find her as I frantically looked between the trees.

“Everly.” I scream out to her. My chest squeezes painfully as something feels like it is tugging, goosebumps rising on my arms, and I just know something terrible has happened. I didn‘t even get three steps before the shift took over, and I was racing through the forest, looking for any sign of her. Cursing myself that she wasn’t marked because I would have found her in seconds. Partway through the woods, I heard a scream, and my stomach dropped.

snarls and fighting reach my ears. I skidded into the fence, my paws digging into the earth as I slammed against

 
 

 as she tried to shift, Racing along the fence line, I try to find a way out when she yelps, shifting when a brown matted one rips

 I look at the fence, coils of razor wire wrapping around the top. I shift back before backing up further and running at the fence, grabbing the

before jumping over the top. The wire tangled around my arms, torso, and legs. Tearing at my flesh, I felt it drag across my entire body before my

I hit the ground mid-shift. My paws hit

sound more of a roar. They freeze, all spinning towar intruder, and my eyes went to Everly, who was trying to crawl away. One of her legs

me, snapping and snarling as they tried to circle around me. Not giving them time, I attacked, ripping into one while the other two ripped into me. I barely felt their bites as I pulled them apart, utterly numb with my rage as

men getting closer as I killed the first one before pivoting and sinking my teeth into another one’s face, tearing his ear

wails and screams echoed when I felt his jaw snap and

jaw as it hung limply, I tore into his neck, slamming him down into the ground before tearing a chunk out just as snarls echoed through

wolf lock its jaws around the forsaken’s neck-snapping it in one bite before he repeatedly slammed

Rushing toward her. I find her leg was indeed broken, her side torn open severely, and a chunk from her thigh was gone.

 Emily,” Everly cried, and I lifted my head from her hip to see her point toward the fence line. Tatum rushed over, and I saw my men help him rip at the panel to get to her. Everly’s hand dropped, and so did the rest of her as she passed out, almost as if her body just gave up on her

come over. He sniffed her neck, and I snarled at him before scooping her up i n my arms. He also shifts

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