Page 60 of Omega's Triplets

Maddy looked distressed. “They must have seen me,” she said. “They must have been in town when Jamie and I went to get the baby supplies. We gave our address to the clerk at the store. I’m sure the Death Fangs wouldn’t have hesitated to threaten her to get our information...I hope she’s all right.”

“I’m sure she’s fine,” Jamie said, although he wasn’t at all sure. “They wouldn’t have wanted to leave a trail behind, would they? It’s us we’ve got to worry about.”

“How are we going to get seven wolves out of here without being seen?” Harley asked.

“Slowly,” Mark said. “Slowly and carefully.”

“What do we do?” Maddy asked. Her face was pale but her voice didn’t waver.

“Harley, you go first,” Mark said. “You and Piper and Reese. I want you to do your best to reach the highway without being spotted.” He turned to Piper and Reese. “Do you remember when we practiced stealth, out in the woods? How to move without being detected, and how to minimize your trail?”

They nodded, both looking very nervous.

“This is just like that,” Mark said.

“What if they catch us?” Piper said.

“They don’t want you,” Mark said. “The Death Fangs only take omegas. You two will be fine. I just don’t want you anywhere near the house if they attack. So, go with Harley and do everything he says, all right?”

They nodded.

“What do we do when we reach the highway?” Harley asked.

“At that point, if no one has caught your trail, you run,” Mark said. “It’ll be harder to track you on the highway. Don’t go to Boise. If Maddy’s right, they’ve already tracked us there, and they probably have a presence in the city. Go to Meridian. There’s a Ranchero Inn on the edge of town. Get a room under a false name. The rest of us will be behind you.”

Harley nodded. He shifted into his wolf form, and beside him, Reese and Piper did the same. It comforted Jamie a bit to see them in this form. They were stronger as animals. They could withstand more, could protect themselves.

Of course, the Death Fangs were likely to take wolf form too, once they realized the Hell’s Wolves had ran...

Mark opened the back door of the garage, and Harley, Piper, and Reese slipped away into the night.

“We’ll wait ten minutes,” Mark said. “That’s all we can spare, I think. Then, Jamie, you and Maddy follow them.”

“Can she run?” Jamie asked. “She’s pregnant.”

“She’s going to have to,” Mark said.

“I can do it,” Maddy said.

They passed the ten minutes quietly, not even speaking to each other, and then Mark opened the door again. Jamie closed his eyes and allowed the strength and calm of the wolf to flow through him. When he opened his eyes, Maddy stood beside him, a tawny wolf with a tufted tail.

He stepped through the open door, and she followed.

Side by side, they picked their way through the woods. Jamie fell in behind Maddy, so they’d only leave one set of tracks. The first time he did this, she stopped and looked back as if waiting for him to catch up, but when he didn’t pull even with her, she seemed to understand and continued walking.

They moved slowly. Jamie was itching to run for the highway, and he could see by the tension in Maddy’s shoulders that she felt the same way, but he didn’t dare. Right now, it was more important to step softly than it was to hurry. In a footrace, they were only as fast as Maddy could run, and Maddy was five months pregnant. Wolves carried more easily than humans, but she still wouldn’t be able to outrun the Death Fangs. There wasn’t a chance in hell.

The journey seemed interminable. Jamie kept looking over his shoulder, convinced at every turn that he would hear the footsteps of the Death Fangs behind him, or see them approaching. Just when he thought he couldn’t take another minute, they came upon the highway.

There was no sign of Harley and the others.That’s good,Jamie reminded himself.You don’t want them to have left signs. It means they got away clean.Still, he couldn’t help wishing forsomeevidence that they’d made it this far, that they hadn’t been grabbed in the woods.

Maddy stepped up onto the road behind him, her eyes gleaming in the darkness.

Jamie jerked his head in the direction they needed to go and, together, they set off in a run.

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HARLEY, REESE, ANDPiper had reached the hotel without issue, but now, it felt as though they’d been sitting here for hours waiting for something to happen. Harley glanced at his watch again as he paced the room and was surprised to see that it had only been fifteen minutes.

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