My wolf is pacing, and I can feel his rage burning my senses.
We need to leave; we’ve lost too much time already.
I can’t sense Blair at all, and it breaks me. A growl leaves my lips as I stumble into the packhouse, wincing from the bright lights.
“Calix, wait,” Luna Marie pleads with me, but I don’t wait.
I don’t havetimeto wait.
I shift into my wolf, leaving them behind. Instantly my vision is perfect once more, my senses heightened as my wolf takes over.
Thank fuck.
Leon took Blair, but he’d said if he didn’t kill her,theywould.
It dawns on me that Leon is helping the rogue pack. He has to be—why didn’t I realize this earlier? When I saw Leon, I didn’t sense a wolf, but they must have turned him.
This is so fucking confusing.
We’re at least a day away from the other wolves.Our warriors,my wolf tells me, and I groan inwardly.
They don’t even know where Blair is—none of us do! We need to find her,I tell my wolf, my mind racing.
We go back to the scene of the crime. We go to the garage to see what we can find out.
What are the warriors thinking? Where are they heading and why? Do they have any idea where Blair is?
I mind-link Cox, and he responds instantly.
Tell me what you know, Cox.
Not much, Calix. We’re combing the area. Are you alright?
I don’t bother to respond—he will only worry, and right now, I need to find Blair. My wolf was right—we need to go into town.
I change paths, heading back to the town. Usually I’d drive, but I’m too angry. I need to run, to feel the ground under my feet, the air in my lungs.
Fucking bastards.
Stealing my mother and now my mate. Then they tried to kill me with wolfsbane! Too many lines have been crossed.
I’m going to end them.
I just need to find them first.
My body is still recovering from the wolfsbane, but it is getting easier. I still can’t reach Blair, though, which means she’s nowhere nearby.
Fuck.
I try not to imagine what they’re doing to her—I can’t, for my own sanity. Otherwise, I’ll explode with anger, and I can’t risk losing it. I need to stay focused—I need to get to Blair.
As I run, my mind drifts to Leon once more, and I wish I’d have killed him when I had the chance. I wasn’t to know he had fucking wolfsbane though—not many humans know about it.
Soon I’m in the town, and my senses are heightened. I shift back into my human form, grateful for the random clothes left in the woods. We often do this so we can blend back into society after running, and luckily most of the clothes are huge.
Still panting, I step out of the woods and stare around me, checking the expressions of people passing. They all seem normal enough, but I’m not buying it. Leon seemed normal enough until he wasn’t.
Fucker.