AARON

The slaug hter I find at the cabin is worse than the carnage I left behind at the factory where we fought Tobin and his men.

All of the guys I left behind to protect the property are dead.

Every single one of them.

Starting with the guys manning the gate and outer perimeter, all the way up the mountain to the cabin itself.

I can’t even imagine the number of wolves it must have taken to overwhelm and defeat my most highly-trained men.

My heart feels like it’s being slowly torn out of my chest as I desperately run into the cabin, only to find more of the same.

My dead men, and their last line of defense.

Worse, Lillian wasn’t spared.

I know in my heart she would have done everything to protect Ethan right up to her last dying breath.

I st agger a little as I walk through the cabin

I don’t know if I can bring myself to walk into Ethan’s nursery.

know if I see

my infant son in his

in the world will

to carry me the rest of the

is pristine and completely untouched, as if the tide of violence didn’t quite reach this

and there’s no sign of blood

I start noticing a few odd

teddies, a blanket that’s usually on the rocking chair and a number

room of the

kitchen, while Ethan’s bottles of milk are made up for the day, Labeled and still stored in the

so acute, I have

bunch of stuff with

least now I know he’s not dead, and maybe they

the immediate need to get him back as soon as possible, I know

her sooner,

would’ve happened

as bait today at the factory instead of my mate, and my son

to do with Ethan’s abduction. That he thought I would be dead by now, and had organized to have my son snat ched at the very same moment he was

But to what end?

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