My Secret, My Bully, My Mates

"We have a problem." My dad grumbles, "And it can't wait." "Someone had better be dying!" Dakota almost yells at him.

"Possibly. We don't know what's happening, but we think Skylar, Gentry and Elena should go together. Which means all eight of us are going to need to move. Now." My dad says.

"Eight?" I question doing the mental math. "What happened that we need to go and our mates need to be present?"

"You act like we would let you go anywhere near something so magically bad that all three of you would be needed without us." Dakota grumbles in my ear.

I roll my eyes and ignore him. “We have done magic so many times together, what's changed?"

I try to move, but Dakota won't let me go. I turn awkwardly in his arms, hold his face between my hands and look him in the eyes.

"Dakota, I know that you want to protect me, but I need to stand next to you, on my own two feet. I promise, I won't be more than a couple feet from any of you and I will hear you if you tell me your instincts say it isn't safe. I need you to treat me like an equal right now, okay."

him. I'm sure if he opened his mouth a whole string of profanities would come

my dad.

"Mike is glowing."

next to me, lacing our fingers. "What do you

thought his wolf and whatever magic was being controlled." Oliver

to him or herself at this point. I really don't want any of you anywhere near him, my gut tells me this is a ploy to get to you, but Elena and Gentry have insisted. As a Beta, my instinct is to protect

don't know what we are getting into and we need to preserve our wolves' strength just in case this is some kind of set up. Our group traveled to the south eastern border of the in several vehicles. Everyone seemed to decide the four of needed to be on our own, since no one joined us in Cam's truck. The twins and Oliver are fuming over being interrupted again. I actually agree with them this time, and regret needing to train right at this moment. Once we get to the bunker where Mike is being held, our

is off somehow too. Elena and Gentry

he done anything else? Spoken? Moved? Anything?'

have been giving him. This has to be the work of Adrielle, but we don't know how she's doing it or why." Elena supplies. "We don't feel anything unusual about him right now, is there anything off that you feel, Skylar? Because

I need to get closer." I move