Kids from One Alpha

Chapter 66: The Dead of Night

Hands shaking and cold sweat down her spine, Serena woke up in the dead of night. The entire house was quiet, but Serena’s breathing filled her ears, along with the pounding of blood. Her heart raced in her chest, and no matter how much she tried to calm her nerves, her hands kept trembling. Something was wrong. It writhed in her gut, a warning that something bad had happened, or that something bad was coming.

Getting out of bed, Serena threw a robe on. She headed to each of the twins’ rooms to check on them. They were fast asleep in their own rooms, snoring and drooling on their pillows. Serena sighed, but she didn’t feel any relief! The knot in her stomach intensified. Checking the rest of the house, Serena made sure that the doors and windows were locked, not that she had to worry too much about crime within the pack. Still, with the attacks from Moonshine, she wondered if she was feeling some kind of residual warning to an attack, or maybe she was just anxious. She checked her cell phone and her answering machine. There were no urgent messages from the hospital that would indicate any kind of emergency. Normally,

Adriana would call the house phone because Serena kept one in her room with the ringer on so that it would wake her. A necessity in emergency situations.

Rubbing her temples, Serena did another sweep of the house. There was nothing! But the pain in her stomach and the tremors in her hands hadn’t subsided. She felt pain in her neck, lots of pain through her whole body! She didn’t understand where the pain was coming from, but it was coming and going. Clearly, it was another symptom of whatever premonition she was experiencing. Serena tried taking deep, soothing breaths, only to find her breathing labored. Shaking her head, she went to the front window in the living room. She looked out into the streets. Nothing was happening out there. The streets were empty, street lights flickering with old bulbs.

The entire territory was quiet.

Serena sighed again, trying to force herself to relax. She wasn’t sure she’d be able to get back to sleep, but she thought that if she could get her mind off what she was feeling, she could at least make the shaking stop!

Making herself some soothing tea, Serena sat down on the couch. She grabbed a book and tried reading. Every few pages, she would realize that she was stuck reading the same sentence over and over again because her mind was wandering and the feeling in her stomach hadn’t abated. Distraction wasn’t working. Gottina un again. Serena checked out the back window in the kitchen to the back

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of Night yard. There was nothing out there either, no wolves moving through

whoever had come calling this late couldn’t possibly be bringing good news! She turned the porch light on, hugged her robe around herself, and stepped out into the night air.

break out on her brow. Between what she was feeling and the look in Carson’s eyes, she couldn’t

barely came through because he was so far away.” “What was

the patrol wolves…” he trailed off and Serena’s heartbeat was the only sound

to go to him,” Serena said urgently.

on?” Olivia asked, standing in Serena’s bedroom doorway. She was rubbing her eye and yawning. “Olivia, you should go back to bed,” Serena said. “Something is wrong” Olivia said. Serena picked up her daughter. “Someone is hurt,” she explained. She didn’t want to say

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already asleep again. Serena laid her gently back in her bed, kissing her

about a pack medical emergency. She left it on the counter so Dana would find it when she went to make breakfast for the kids in the morning. She didn’t want to disturb Dana’s sleep to tell her she was leaving, but she knew

rejoined Carson on the

said, shaking his head. He climbed into the driver’s seat of the truck and Serena got into the back to analyze the stocked medical supplies. There was a gurney,