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“Ouch!”Igasp.Whatis this “auction” they keep talking about?BeforeIcan ask anything,Kaneis stuffing his cock back into his jeans and rising to pull me off the floor.

“Get up, you little slut!” he snarls. “IfIcan’t fuck your pussy and fill it full of my cum,I’mgonna sell it for a shit-ton of money instead.”

“What…what are you talking about?”Igasp.Buthe pays no attention.Hejust lifts me likeIweigh nothing and slings me over one hairy shoulder.

“Come on,” he says to the goons.

And he carries me, naked, out of my house and shoves me in the back of a black van.

“What are you doing?Whereare you taking me?Help!Help!”Iscream at the top of my lungs.

“Take care of that bullshit,”IhearRealKanesay to one of his goons.

“You got it,” comes the answer.

And then a big hand is holding a rag over my mouth and nose.There’ssome kind of liquid on it that smells sickly sweet.Ifight to get away but he grips the back of my head with his other hand, crushing the rag against my face.

Slowly the world around me turns gray and begins to fade.Mylast thought before everything goes black is howIwishIwould have listened toFakeKane.Hewas right—my brotherisdangerous.

And nowI’mgoing to pay the price for not heeding his warning.

35

CONNOR

“What do you mean,Sunny’sgone?”Idemand, hearing the panic in my voice. “Whatthe actual fuck,Branson?Shewas there yesterday—Itexted her!AndIknow she got my text because she blocked me.”

“I’m sorry,Sirbut this morning she didn’t show up for work at the diner,”Bransontells me. “Ihad our informant go check on her and she found the door wide open andSunnywas nowhere to be found, though thereweresigns of a struggle.”

“What signs?”Idemand. “Andwhat else did she find—anything?Weneed to know what happened, damn it!”

Branson details the fact that there was popcorn spilled all over the living room floor, which isn’t likeSunny—she keeps everything neat and tidy at all times.

“There were scents in the air too—the scents of three males, from what our informant could smell,” he says. “AndI’msorry to tell you this,Sir, but she’s certain that one of them was aRogueAlpha—most probably the girl’s brother.Hewas in the diner earlier and she smelled him there.”

I groan and rake my hand through my hair.Ishould have gone after her yesterday as soon as we got word thatKanewas inSingingRock.Butlast night was the full moon andIcouldn’t risk driving whenIknewIwas going to have toShift.

The night of the full moon is the only timeMaleWeresareforcedtoShiftto ourWolfforms.Andonce in that form, we can’t change back again for hours.SoIhad stayed home andShiftedand roamed the woods on the edge of our property, asIalways had growing up.

But all night long myWolfwas worried.Hewasn’t joyful and excited to be out hunting asIhad thought he would be whenIfirst got out of prison.Allhe could think about wasSunny.

Danger!Ourmate is in danger!he informed me over and over untilIthoughtIwas going to go crazy!

By the timeIwas finally able toShiftback to human form,Iwas worried to fucking death for her.Sometimesthe animal side of me knows things my human side doesn’t.Iwas praying myWolfwas wrong but almost the minuteIgot back to the mansion,Igot the call fromBransonthatSunnyhad disappeared.

“Kane must have taken her somewhere,”Isay, raking a hand through my hair distractedly. “Butwhere?”

And what had he done to her?Ifelt protective fury rising inside me.Ifhe’d touched one hair on her headIwas going to fuck him up beyond all recognition and then fucking kill him!

I could feel myWolfgrowling his agreement.Sunnywas our mate—no one else was going to touch her and live!

“Well,Sir,Iknow that the night after the full moon is generally the time when theEliteBitchAuctionis held,”Bransonoffers.

“TheEBA?Fuck—Iforgot about that!It’sstill going on?”Iask.

“The authorities shut it down for a while but it’s made a comeback, from whatI’veheard,” he says blandly. “IfSunnyreally is aRecessiveOmega, like you believe her to be, she would fetch a pretty penny at a place like that.”

“Where is it at?Whereis it being held?”Idemand.

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