“Doctor Wayne, how is she?” Were the first words out of Alpha William’s mouth as soon as he entered the bedroom and saw Anna seated with the doctor putting his equipment back into the medical bag.Anna still had her shades on and had managed to convince the doctor that he didn’t need to check her eyes. The lie had just slid off like nothing was wrong, and she found it was easier for her to stomach being around werewolves. Even though she felt a little homicidal, the feeling wasn’t intense anymore like before.Doctor Wayne turned and bowed to William, before becoming his verbal report.“Alpha William, I’d say she has made a full recovery,” the doctor started. “Her vitals are perfect and she hasn’t had any complaints, at least regarding pain or discomfort.”Anna listened to the doctor and watched William’s behavior. He didn’t seem very convinced, the redhead thought grimly. If this wasn’t a serious matter that could mean her safety and the safety of her children she might have just been

“Welcome sir,” the Hunter in charge of the lower ranking men greeted Damon with a low bow as the golden eyed Erikson heir stormed past them, entering the darkened warehouse. As soon as he was far from the sunlight he removed his sunglasses with a flick of his hand.“Where are the captives?” He turned and asked the man in charge, while placing his sunglasses in the inner pocket of his suit jacket.Then he removed his suit jacket, and handed it to another of the men who took the designer jacket gingerly.“The ones we have interrogated are in the cells in warehouse B,” Damon’s subordinate rushed to give his report in tandem with his boss’ large strides down the dimly lit hallway. “There are some that were brought in just this afternoon.”“Let me see their names,” Damon demanded and quickly he was handed a sheaf of papers detailing the list of all werewolves that had been captured and all details known about him.His eyes scanned the papers within seconds, only to stop when he took in a n

Ethan could see how Anna’s expression morph from a pained one to a stoic one. He knew she must be feeling numb by now, as all the hits he had verbally dealt her would affect her psyche.He didn’t care; if there was one thing Ethan did care about, it was his ties to one of the strongest packs in the country. And he would rather his pack succeed than William find happiness with her. If his brother was going to be a good Alpha, Anna shouldn’t exist beside him, mate or not.“I know what you must be thinking. That I am trying to scare the shit out of you,” Ethan ventured to which Anna pressed her lips together.“You’ve tried that before, haven’t you? I know your type by now. You use people just to get what you want, however much you can. You might not be telling me the truth,” Anna replied slowly, letting her feelings be known about him.“Listen, Anna. I may be a lot of things, but a fucking liar isn’t one of them. At least when it comes to things like this,” he sighed, shaking his head at

The next afternoon, Anna held the phone in her hands. It was a newer model too, to her surprise.“Thanks,” she told Ethan, still staring down at the phone in her hands. “At least now I have something to hold onto,” she added softly.“Don’t forget, Damon could still be keeping an eye out for you. You should be at least be a little careful not to lead the Hunters to your location,” he stated brusquely, and she couldn’t help but shiver at the thought.It was still surreal how things had changed for her.The man she thought was an okay, if not a little eccentric boss, turned out to be her worst nightmare.And yet, Damon Erikson was the only person that could help her now, to undo whatever was done to her by that injection he gave her.However, she didn’t tell Ethan that and merely nodded in response to the werewolf. The less he knew about her plans, the better. Anna still didn’t trust Ethan, no matter how right he was about her staying in the pack to be a disaster.“Where’s William?” She

The car ride was going so smoothly that Anna’s mind had settled into a lull, pulling her to sleep.It was only the fact that she hadn’t yet gotten to her destination that stopped her.Her thoughts went to her children, and how they might react to her absence. Would they be okay?And William?Her fingers clenched into tightly balled up fists. Already she was missing them, but she knew she had no other way to stay.This was something she could only do by herself.“Uh-oh,” her attention was caught as soon as the man said that.That was when she noticed the checkpoint which made her brows raise as the driver slowed down. A couple of cars were lined up before them and Anna spied men checking each one.She wondered when a checkpoint had existed on this road. To her memory, it hadn’t.Was this Damon’s doing?As one of the men began to walk down the rows of cars walked towards their vehicle, Anna didn’t waste time in making the connection that this could be the work of the Hunters.What coul