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I turn, wondering if it is the boys, when I see her waving a phone in the air.
“It’s Luke!” she calls out, and my eyes widen as I race toward her.
Lexa shoves forward with me in a panic. Luke knows never to call the house phone. So the fact he did tells me it must be important.
“Luke?” I ask, taking the phone, my heart skipping a beat. I hear crying coming from the other end of the phone and hiccups.
“Elena?” he chokes.
“Luke, where is Mom? Why are you calling this number?”
“I ran away, I had no choice,” he whimpers.
I look around at the women crowding around me, wanting to know what is going on.
“Where are you?”
“I climbed out a window in the bathroom, and broke into the school to use the phone,” he sobs.
My heart breaks, hearing the fear in his voice. “Luke, where is mom?” I ask him, and he breaks down.
“Please, Elena, you have to help her,” he chokes out.
I look at Sondra; she must have heard him because she stalks off toward the house.
“What happened?”
“Dad found out about her filing for divorce. He locked her in the basement.”
“He what?”
“He let her out today because he needed help at the pack meeting,” he hiccups, and I press the phone harder to my ear.
Lexa presses closer, enhancing my hearing, so I can hear through his choked sobs and hiccups.
“Are you safe?” I ask him when I see Sondra walk out the doors.
“No, he is looking for me. Elena, Mom humiliated him at the pack meeting. She… she…”
“Luke, what did Mom do?”
“She rejected him… in front of everyone.”
“Mom, can’t reject dad, Luke. They have marked each other.”
He sobs harder. “She did, and it worked. Dad collapsed, but when he woke up, he dragged her out by her hair, and I took off. But I don’t know where he took her.”
My brows furrow. My mother could reject him? How is that even possible? I’ve always believed that once you are marked and mated, there is no way out of a bond.
“Luke! I know you’re in here!” I hear my father yell out in the background.
My breath lodges in my throat when I hear Luke whimper.
“Hide!” I hiss at him, and I hear him running.
I move to Sondra, and she tosses me her keys just as I hear Luke drop the phone and scream.
“There you are!” my father snarls.
