Rejected Mate and Following Fate

Chapter 107: The Frequency

We know. Vampires are trailing off and heading your way. Get inside the manor and find the control room to try and disable it.

Colton’s fast response is ragged and strained and I can tell they are really in the thick of it and not doing so well. I can feel his fatigue, hear his stress levels in just one link. Without seeing what’s going on, I can tell the valley must be a bloodbath right now. They are fighting hard to stay in control and god knows how many have died already.

Are you okay? I reply in panic, not knowing how to feel with the way things seem to have suddenly combusted and are no longer in our control. Our plans have gone to hell and I feel useless and somehow cut off from what’s going on. No sense of what to do or how to help.

We’re holding on and pulling villagers with us. We’re coming to you as soon as we can but just do as I ask. There are more of them than us and half of the Valley wolves are weak and sick.

We shall Alpha. Be safe… Luna…. He’s right. We need to disable it.

Radar breaks into the link, which Colton sent using the sub pack bond before I can formulate a response. I’m still rooted to the spot as I let this sink in and try to think. The urgency around us hemming in on me so I feel instantly suffocated and my brain doesn’t want to cooperate. It’s spiraling.

Take care of her for me. Colton ends the link and goes back to fighting to save his people with one last commanding order.

“He wants us to go inside and disable the tone that’s making the wolves weak.” I relay to those around me who weren’t part of the pack link.

“Get these boys up, they’re coming with us. Move. We don’t have time to wait around.” Leyanne’s commanding voice comes at us from behind, startling me, and it’s only now I realize she wasn’t with us. She’s moving fast, followed by a high-flying stream of crows as she paces at us, her robes flapping in the speed of her own motion. I have no idea where she went but she’s good at doing the disappearing and reappear act.

“The manor?” I ask with uncertainty and am caught by the wrist as she passes and tugged towards the house with hurried force. “What about Juan?” I yelp in fright with the sheer strength of her maneuver.

“He’s not important right now. The wolves are losing because of his damned weapon. We need to turn it off but leave the defense intact so they vampires don’t use theirs. My magic can’t do a thing with technology.” She for once sounds ruffled and majorly annoyed. Dragging me from the center of my pack and with her towards the stairs. My guards seem momentarily shocked that she would haul their Luna this way and then scramble to follow while dragging our prisoners with them. Carmen doesn’t question but hops behind me, Sierra on her tail and I can tell that like me, they are now uncertain and worried. It’s only a matter of time before the frequency affects us too and we don’t know how long that will take. Like a slow poison invading our systems.

“The control room for the cameras used to be on the ground floor near the sub common room.” Carmen flits to human form, pushing in front of us with speed as we get to the door of the manor and halts before she grabs the handle. The door isn’t boarded or blocked but she hesitates and holds up a palm behind her to stop us moving forward.

“What?” I blanche in irritation.

“Wolfsbane…can’t you smell it.” She leans in and around the door, her nose inching close, scrounging up her face in disgust and then moves to the handle with caution.

“Really?” I snort in amused disbelief “He would swoop as low as tainting handles with wolfsbane. What’s wrong with him?”

right with him?” Carmen retorts with gritted teeth and moves aside to let the witch try the door. Wolves are harmed by wolfsbane even with the simplest touch. It’s one of the few poisons that merely grazing our skin can burn in

wolf form tense slightly. His eye scar came from a combo of using a silver dagger and wolfsbane and I know it’s one of the few things in life that still makes him nervous. Even in the grimoire library we banned it from the house as it’s so potent against us we cannot be around it safely. It’s our Kryptonite and yet Juan has smeared his own front door with it. It sums him up

Leyanne observes and one of our

Juan only takes the likes of us in, and we don’t come back out.” Taemin snarls and then slumps against Radar, who is still holding him tight as though he doesn’t even have the energy to hold himself up anymore. They have been exposed to the frequency for god knows how long and I’m

Leyanne shoves the heavy door open after a few taps on

and empty for months. The air is stale, and the lights are all out, leaving an eeriness in as Leyanne lights the way with the glow from her hand to cast some illumination. It’s too still, too empty. We know Juan and his minions are inside this manor, but it

let go of the prisoners and flank around us in a semi-circle immediately. Realizing they pose no threat when we are literally walking into the lion’s den. Aiden moves to the nearest couch and sinks down exhaling heavily and seems to instantly pass out. Taemin and the last wolf edge back to the door and stay there seemingly afraid to come in.

over as we move further in, tiptoeing, and yet

out with a nervous waiver in my

moves in against my other side and takes my free hand. Squeezing it tight as though needing assurance

for others. To our once loved common room and place as a sub pack we liked to be together. For a second I long for Meadow and Colton beside me to go through with this and

Leyanne moves in behind him and lights it up with both her palms glowing bright white. That room of monitors and keyboards and endless wires and tech. This used to be manned around the clock and now it sits here ticking on its own, like some lonely forgotten entity. A dark empty and airless space with only small red lights blinking quietly to themselves to indicate some things are running.

out there.” I ask quietly remembering one of them was operational and trailed our movements. Someone

bringing illumination to the room and scans the space to be sure

across the desks with his fingers, clicking buttons here and there and trying to

of the way while she too starts pressing buttons and brings a seemingly dark monitor to life. “This is the main system to access the audio feed to the perimeter speakers. It’s on a loop and comes from a frequency recording they made at the lab. I

she had. I know Radar was familiar with the security and the feed as he was a sub pack captain and often came in here, but

Radar reads my mind and nods at Carmen, making me blush at my stupidity for a moment. I forgot that all wolves at some point got switched around to cover almost every chore we ever had in this manor.

guard wolves pipes up behind

door being vacant, and the grounds outside. Maybe Juan has really lost his mind and up there hiding in the shadows like some

some space.” Carmen enters bossy mode and yanks a seat out so she can slide in

weird calm to her and a hint of fire that was always lacking. I wonder if this is how Luna Sierra of the past was and how she managed to run to save a child when she was on the verge of being ended. Seeing her this way, a silent strength and

around. Try to make sense of what’s going on here. Alora’s right. Something’s off

the entrance until they get here.”

that why he’s here? Look around, does this seem like the set up a sane Juan would have?” She splays one palm wide to gesture

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