Heat ripped through my body as the car raced down the highway. I had kicked off my heels and turned the ac on full blast in an attempt to soothe the fire coursing through my body. It hadn’t worked. I was panting, fighting against the urge to strip my dress off in the confined space of the car. Tristan, for his part, looked as distressed as one who wasn’t experiencing it could. His nostrils flared and his knuckles were white from gripping the steering wheel. Somehow, he had managed to cut the hour drive in half.
Jax jumped out of the backseat before the car had even stopped. By the time Tristan had put it in park, Jax had raced to my door and scooped me up in his arms, hol
Nausea washed over me, and my head throbbed even with my eyes closed. I silently cursed myself for over-indulging in alcohol at the party. I wasn’t old enough to legally drink, but Taylor had managed to not only secure booze, but hired caterers that didn’t ask for id. I groaned as my bladder expressed an urgent need to relieve myself. I didn’t want to open my eyes; I knew the headache would only get worse. My bladder threatened to release on its own, forcing me to open my eyes anyway. I gasped as I realized, I was not in my apartment. Instead, I was on a mattress on the floor of concrete cell lined
I woke to the morning light streaming through the window. I stretched slowly, feeling a pleasant ache in my nether region, reminding me that Tristan had finally and fully accepted me as his mate. Smiling, I rolled to my side to find him watching me. “How long have you been awake?” I grinned. “Long enough to wonder if you are a cat instead of a wolf.” He chuckled.
Panic ripped through me as I picked my phone up off the floor and read the message again. I raced to the bathroom, phone in hand, to splash cold water on my face in the hopes of shocking my system into normalcy. I had learned a lot about pack life and controlling what I shared over the mind link, but I needed to regain my composure before my panic overrode my ability to keep the message to myself. I needed to think clearly and plan my next move, the message had clearly said to come alone, or they would kill Toby. I decided to take a shower. It seemed the most logical thing to do to maintain an outward sense of normalcy. Tristan would be busy dealing with the Taylor situat
Something had seemed off about Hannah. I had made her promise me, at least three times, that she wouldn’t leave pack grounds on her run, but I hadn’t been able to get a read on her. Everyone I knew that was mated said they could feel their mate’s emotions as strong as their own once the bond was complete. I felt nothing from Hannah, not since her joy had washed over me after our bond was sealed. Part of me hoped it was because she had spent so long as a rogue, that it was interfering with our connection, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was seriously wrong for her to cut me off like that. “I’m such an idiot.” I murmured to myself.
I sped down the interstate in the car Mack had secured for me from his pack house. I wasn’t sure how long our temporary connection would last, but I ordered him to wait until nightfall to inform Tristan that I had taken a Blood Rose car. I knew I couldn’t take it all the way to the address plugged into my GPS, all pack cars had tracking devices. I would probably need to ditch my phone with the car when I stopped to run the rest of the way. It was nearly dark when I pulled off the interstate and parked the car in the back of an empty truck stop. I looked at the remaining directions on my phone before clea
I had been waiting at the border for hours when Alpha Owen and his Gamma Mack, finally arrived. They shifted, tossing me a pair of basketball shorts as they pulled on their own. Nudity wasn’t an issue for our kind, but I was grateful for the clothing. “What brings you here?” Owen asked, eyeing me suspiciously. Our packs had a tenuous truce.
I watched Barb pace nervously as my eyes adjusted to the dark. Toby had remained quiet, lost in his own thoughts. He had asked me about Taylor, but I had left before Cam had made it back to the pack house with him and had no news to share. Barb’s nervousness was beginning to rub off on me and I stood, wrapping the sole sheet I’d been provided around myself toga style. I needed to find a way out of here. I had been an idiot to come alone, now our captors were most likely going to kill all three of us.
We had managed to find the car just as the sun broke over the horizon. There was no sign of Hannah anywhere. Her phone had been tossed in the passenger seat without the battery. My wolf whimpered and paced inside my mind as thoughts of my mate leaving me raced through my head. I paced anxiously around the car waiting for Jax to return with the right battery for her phone, hoping once we powered it on, we would find a clue to her whereabouts. “Found one boss!” Jax grinned as he jogged to where I was pacing. “Lucky for us they had a phone place inside.” I fumbled with Hannah’s phone for a moment