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093 | The awful truth
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Caleb’s POVI paced around our shitty little camp, doing loop after loop around the fire and feeling two sets of eyes on me the whole time. I was pointedly ignoring Stephen, but I met Foxy’s gaze whenever I went past him, curled up in a mound of Rhiannon’s clothes in one of the tents.All I wanted to do was mindlink Rhiannon – but how pathetic was that? The girl was a powerhouse in her own right; she could handle anything Amelia threw at her.Knight whined. ‘But she’s not well. She passed out not long ago. And Maeve is strong, man. Really strong.’‘Rhi is right,’ I said on a sigh. ‘Ames wouldn’t hurt her. She never agreed with what I did to Marcella, even though Marcella had poisoned half the pack. She wouldn’t touch Rhiannon over something none of us can control.’I hoped, anyway. I knew them both well, and that meant I knew they both had fierce tempers. One comment taken the wrong way could end up in fireworks.“What are you pacing for?” huffed Stephen. “She’ll be fine. Although I d
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Caleb’s POVPanic gripped me. Its cold, unforgiving claws dragged down my spine as I stood up and started towards her tent. My eyes roved over the area frantically, searching for any sign of her.Ever since she’d been hurt, I hadn’t been able to think clearly when it came to Rhiannon. Now I’d seen her collapse, too, it was like my nervous system had been replaced by a live wire – one always a fraction of a second away from shocking me. It was too easy to picture her hurt when I'd seen it in reality so many times.My knees locked as I bent down in front of the tent she’d shared with Stephen. I scanned the snow for tracks, but fresh had fallen in the night, covering any sign of her. My heart thudded so fast it was almost painful.Knight let out a low whine. ‘I can’t smell her,’ he said.The cold claws dragging down my spine grabbed me tight. I yanked their tent open.Two sets of wolven eyes looked up at me angrily. ‘So that’s why I couldn’t smell her,’ Knight huffed, disgust prominent
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Rhiannon’s POV“Fuck!” Caleb grunted, slamming an arm up just in time to hold up a rock. His eyes were alight with a wild sort of panic. “That almost hit you,” he bit out.He shifted his stance, pressing both of his arms and shoulders back against the wall of rock to hold it in place. The tendons in his arms stood out and his muscles flexed. Despite the situation, my core throbbed at the hazy sight of his naked body demonstrating his raw strength.My gaze flicked past him. The offending stone was shuddering with his trembling arms, threatening to crush us both in an instant if I didn’t do something.“Shit,” I hissed, forcing the word out through chattering teeth. Cold air whipped through the cracks in the rocks.I started assessing the way the stones had fallen. Caleb strained to hold them back, but there was no way even the two of us would be able to hold them off for long. We had to think of a way out of this, not come at it with brute force.“A bit of help might be nice,” he said,
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