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.

louder and the sounds of snarls and fighting reach my

 
 

 I try to find a way out when she yelps, shifting when a brown matted one rips into her

 top. I shift back before backing up further and running at the fence, grabbing the mesh

and legs. Tearing at my flesh, I felt it drag across my entire body before my weight ripped me

pieces as I hit the ground mid-shift. My paws hit the dirt, and

all spinning towar intruder, 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

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 I tore into the brown one’s neck

and blood flying everywhere, including mine, coated the ground. I could feel my men getting closer as I killed the first one before pivoting and sinking my teeth

wails and screams echoed when I felt his

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

gasped when I saw John’s giant gray wolf lock its jaws around the forsaken’s

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

 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

before shifting back when I notice her father come over. He sniffed her neck, 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 closer, shielding her

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