Chapter 80

Elena POV

I groan as I come to, my head pounding to its own beat, and my limbs ache and feel heavy. “Elena! Psst…” I hear someone calling out my name, and I lift my head, turning it in his direction. The moment I move my head, blood trickles down my face from where Cane hit me. I squint. Even the dull lights down here are hurting my eyes. Peering over, I realize it is Soyer. My vision clears enough for me to see him still strapped to a chair not far from me, with a worried expression on his face.

“Can you slip out of your restraints?” he asks urgently while glancing over his shoulder and then past me in the other direction the tunnel travels. He inclines his head at me, motioning towards the metal cuffs that bind me to the chair.

“See if you can get out of your cuffs. Try to shift. You’re our only

chance,” he tells me, and my eyes dart to the floor where his mate lay. “Is she…”

yet anyway. But if he feeds on her again…” he doesn’t finish, and I nod, letting out a shaky breath while trying to feel for Lexa when pain courses through my stomach, making me scream. I double over in the chair, my breath stolen by the searing pain that leaves me gasping for breath. Only it is not mine but Axton’s, which instantly has my mind going to the

but they are too tight while calling for Lexa to wake up. Just when I thought all hope was lost, one of the cuffs suddenly snaps when Lexa shoves forward abruptly, feeling our mate, my entire body jerks forward, and we nearly fall face forward in the chair, my hand slapping the ground is the only thing that stops us. Lexa forces my arms and wrists to break, allowing my other wrist to slip free of

still strapped, my legs are twisted awkwardly, and my claws slip free. cutting through the rope that binds my legs

got here. I finally opened the

tunnel we are in. Looking at the cameras, I can see the council chambers and the streets where pack members are

finds us?” I ask him.

tells me, then nods toward the screens covering the walls. I turn to see cars racing into the council chambers

was a loud thud in the distance, followed by shouts and yelling from somewhere deeper within the tunnel. This makes me glance over my

bench is filled with tools and miscellaneous crap. Staggering, I get to my feet, trying to find something, when pain

the metal arm of the chair he is strapped into. Then I

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