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My heart nearly leaps out of my throat before the phone goes dead.
“We need to get home,” Lexa says, shoving forward with me.
Adrenaline courses through my veins when Sondra looks at me while I try to figure out what to do.
“Go, we’ll watch the boys.”
I fumble with the keys, the party long forgotten, and race toward her car. Yet one thing is certain: Axton will know the moment I step into that city. But I can’t abandon my brother, not when he needs me, and not when he and Mom are in danger.
Chapter
Fifty-Seven
My heart doesn’t stop racing until I reach the city limits, then a new fear rolls over me. Axton! I am risking so much coming back here, and I am not naive enough to believe I can hop the border unnoticed. That assumption is correct the moment I am met with border patrol, and I am forced to stop. Bright lights shine down on me as I approach the barricade.
Why such extremes? I wonder. This is a crazy amount of security for Nightfall City. One of the men on patrol walks over to my window and taps it, wanting me to roll it down.
Lexa growls in my head. “I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all.”
If we reverse out, they will chase us. We don’t roll down the damn window, they will attack us.
“Elena, we need to… Fuck!” Lexa curses, knowing that if we run now, we may be too late to help Mom. Yet if we stay. I have a strange feeling it will be hell getting back out of this city.
My hands shake on the steering wheel, and I suck in a breath as I crack the window just enough to see his eyes.
“Pack and name?” the man demands before he sniffs the air.
He can smell I am a rogue. Fuck!
“Ma’am, I need you to step out of the car.”
“I’m visiting family,” I tell him.
“Until we verify that, I need you to step out of the car,” he tells me when I see more patrols come over as back-up.
I grit my teeth and grip the gear stick, about to throw the car in reverse when I spot none other than Eli, Axton’s Beta, walking over.
“Issue, Malik?” he asks before glancing in the window and staggering back. “Elena?”
I keep my eyes ahead.
Eli grabs the door handle to rip the door open, but it’s locked. “Elena, unlock the door and get out of the car.”
I glance at him. “I’m not here to see Axton. Tell your patrols to stand down.”
“Axton has been looking for you everywhere. Are the boys in there with you?” he asks, trying to peer through the blacked-out windows.
“Elena, we haven’t got time for this,” Lexa reminds me.
“Eli…” I turn to look at him. “Grant me access and let me into the city.”
“Elena, get out of the car!” he growls, my hands gripping the steering wheel tighter. “Get the Alpha!” Eli tells the man who originally stopped me.
The man scampers off, and I hit the gas. Men shout and scream, and Eli grips the door handle, but I don’t stop, making him fall over and the rest of them jump out of the way as I plow straight through their barriers.
“Hope you have sharpened those claws, Lexa. We are going to need them to get out of this shit,” I tell her, speeding down the main street, headed toward my father’s pack territory. The moment I hit the first exit to the first pack, cops start chasing me.
I watch them in the mirrors, light flashing and sirens blaring, but I don’t stop, knowing if I can cross the border into my father’s pack, I will be officially his problem. No longer on neutral territory.
