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"Think we might make it back?" Lino asked asked Kayden as he jammed the rock into the sharp edge of the sword.

Kayden shrugged, staring up at the sky. "I have no choice. Ayla will throttle me out of the afterlife if I do not."

Lino smiled. He could think of a couple of things Cassy would also do to him for leaving without her. He had better make it back home. He had no other option.

Night had fallen and they had chosen to make camp. It was more like...laying in wait and resting while the enemies rode toward them. Lino wasn't the type of Alpha to move things in a rush. He would wait for her. Sasha.

And by the spies he had dispatched a few moments back, he knew that they weren't far off any more.

And leading them his way was the hybrid, Julian. Whether or not he would fight on their side when it mattered, Lino couldn't tell, but he had seen the hybrid and looked in his eye.

He had seen the hatred for Sasha and even if he trusted nothing else, he trusted in those