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He crossed the room in a heartbeat and pulled her tight into his arms. “I promise. It also pleases me to hear you call thishome.”
He guided her out of the doorway and then picked her up and carried her out of the cabin, tucked in his arms and his warmth. He put her gently in the back seat of Ava’s truck and kissed her again.
“Wrath. Wait. What if Jeff comes back? Or the other man? Is it really safe to go into town?”
“I wouldn’t be sending you if I didn’t think it was safe. I promise you. We have people trailing the man in the SUV. He’s an hour away in the ski town south of Mystery. The community center is public. All the women will be there. I will be back soon.”
Rylee nodded.
Wrath kissed her again and then shut the door.
“Be safe,” Ava said to Wrath and looked over his shoulder at her husband. “Love you.”
“Don’t be stupid,” Dawn called to Tor.
Tor chuckled and blew Dawn a kiss from the cab of the box truck before he climbed inside.
“We’ll be in touch as soon as it’s finished,” Wrath said, speaking to Ava this time.
“We’ll be at the community center until you get back. Katherine’s got food and everything prepped for us to stay late if we need to.”
He nodded and stepped back from the truck.
Ava slid the truck into drive, and it lurched forward, sliding a little in the snow before the tires caught a grip. A few seconds later, they were on the dirt road leading out of the tribe’s large property.
Rylee turned and looked out the back window at Wrath. He stood there for a few moments with Ryder, and then they both ran to the truck and joined Tor.
Now she had to get through the day, waiting for Wrath and the others to get back.
ChapterTwenty-Two
Wrath
Everyone was outside when Tor pulled up and parked the box truck next to Col and Naomi’s cabin. Every single male member of the tribe, except the three younger wolves who were busy tracking Jeff’s lackey.
“You aren’t planning to fly are you?” Tor asked, opening the door to the truck and climbing out.
“No.” Wrath looked at the clear sky. “Maybe if it was dark. But there’s no way Col would want to risk it in the middle of the day like this.”
Ryder climbed out first, and then Wrath followed after him, closing the passenger door behind him.
“Listen up,” Col’s voice rumbled across the open driveway in front of the cabin. “Ryder and Knox, you will lead the group. The tribe lions will shift as well and spread out to protect against a surprise attack. Wrath and I will follow on foot with Tor and Owen. Stay hidden. Everyone takes a rifle. We don’t know what we’re walking into.”
Ryder walked to the deck in front of Col’s house and took one of the rifles Penny had set out before leaving. He slung the rifle over his neck and then took a few steps and shifted into an enormous black wolf, his back was easily up to Wrath’s chest.
The wolf snarled and shook his head back and forth.
Knox followed suit, and shifted into his white wolf.
The tension in the air for the wolves was palpable. Tai had nearly killed Knox’s mate Katherine. Ryder was feeding on Knox’s energy. Wrath hadn’t been in Mystery when everything happened with this wolf, but he wanted justice for his tribe and safety for the town he called home.
Today Tai would breathe his last.
Kann, Saul, Aarav, and his brothers all armed themselves and then shifted into their lions–equally as large as the wolves. The group of large beasts moved around to the back of the cabin where the wolves had emerged from the forest yesterday.
Wrath wished he was flying. Wished he could shift. His senses were better and his vision sharper as a dragon. Unfortunately, being the size of an eighteen-wheeler didn’t lend itself to trudging through the forest tracking without calling a lot of unwanted attention.
It was going to be a slow hike through the woods.
