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.

her screams becoming louder and the sounds of snarls and fighting reach my ears.

 
 

 she tried to shift, Racing along the fence line, I try to find a way out when

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

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

as I hit the ground mid-shift.

and my eyes went to Everly, who was trying to crawl away. One of her legs was broken, her shin bone jutting out past her skin and I couldn’t see a clear speck of flesh that wasn’t

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 I tore into the brown one’s neck and

killed the first one before pivoting

wails and screams echoed when I felt his jaw snap and pop. I let go, turning on the other and ripping into his rear hind leg, the bone cracking between my teeth under pressure, and

howled as I ripped his leg off just as the other one hit me from the side, he had no control of his jaw as it hung limply, I tore into his neck, slamming him down into the ground before

its jaws around the forsaken’s

come from everywhere. Blood drenched me, my wounds weren’t healing quick, but I had one aim, and that was Everly. Rushing toward her. I find her leg was indeed broken, her side torn open severely, and a chunk from her thigh was gone. I started licking her wounds, and she pushed my face away. “Stop, you‘re injured,” she

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

and I snarled at him before scooping her up i n my arms. He also shifts back, looking everywhere but at his daughter’s naked body in my arms. I tuck her

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