Page 54 of Moon Cursed
And perhaps this was how I could mend it.
“Stop!” Althea snapped as she reacted with a wave of magic. Ice-hot heat strapped around my neck and my ankles from the chains she had placed on us to keep us secure, but it didn’t work on me this time.
I didn’t question why. Instead I yanked the other alphas with me toward the last place where I had felt our mate alive.
“Left,” Vern instructed, indicating a path where the pull was the strongest.
Moving with him, I took the lead and the others followed.
Ryker.
Dash.
Vern.
Myself.
We made up the composition of the four major packs.
And when we burst through the door of a mansion, we faced the broken fifth member who didn’t resemble an alpha at all.
Instead he clawed at the ground and dug through tile and wood, scattering debris aside as he roared and burrowed into the dirt.
“Kane,” I snapped, using his name for the first time.
Because we were connected now. I couldn’t deny that.
He had punished us by Claiming our mate in front of us and preventing us from joining, but now he had lost her.
And he was going to need our help to get her back.
The entirety of the pack of Outcast wolves had shifted into primal form. Seeing their alpha so distressed had forced the shift whether or not they wanted to.
It only happened under moments of intense grief and fear. The alpha’s emotions would require his pack to fight, but it didn’t seem that there was anyone to fight.
I didn’t see any of the Hunters he had single-handedly fended off before. Only a scorched and torn pit in the ground in the center of an otherwise luxurious room.
“He took her,” Kane said, looking at me with his wild white eyes, the golden rim around his irises blazing hot with magic. “My Kaitsja. That fucking Hunter took her,” he said, disbelief turning to rage as he roared and slammed his claws into the ground.
Althea burst into the room a moment later. “They got away from me Kane, I’m—” She stopped her apology short when she took in the scene. “What happened?”
Vern ignored her as he approached the broken pit in the ground. His movements sent his chains clattering across the floor as he crouched. He drew his fingers over the broken edge where scattered petals of torn Moon Blossoms glowed with faint power.
Vern looked up at me. Given I was the Midnight Pack Alpha, it seemed this sort of kidnapping would require my expertise.
Kane stood, no doubt sensing Vern’s intent. “You’ll help me find her,” he instructed.
It wasn’t a request.
It was an order.
He showed his teeth. “All of you. She chose to spare your lives for a reason. Now it’s time to return the favor.”
Dash frowned and Ryker didn’t seem amused, but I kept my features neutral.
It didn’t matter how I felt about the situation. It was obvious that we would have to find her. Our wolves had abandoned us out of disgust. It would require her forgiveness to bring them back.
Because now that I had experienced something I’d never had before, I wasn’t going to let it go.
