Page 78 of Bound

Gage picks up the note and reads it through the bond so Bain and Chase will hear it, too.

“Your fur is red, your eyes are blue, I will kill them to get to you. Yours forever, Blaze.”

He looks at me and frowns, knowing this isn’t a good sign.

“What the fuck was that? Is there another note?”Bain asks through the bond.

“Yes, with a rose, they were left at the front door,”I tell him as Hunter rejoins us and the two of them go inside to make sure it’s safe.

“As if we don’t have enough shit to deal with right now,”Chase seethes through the bond.

Thirty minutes later, I’m seated on the couch, with Red in my lap and surrounded by everyone but Bain, who’s currently downstairs questioning our human prisoner.

“We should get a doctor,” Chase says with a frown, breaking the silence.

“There are no doctors in Westgrove,” I remind him. “Wolves heal on their own.”

“Then why isn’t she healing?”

“Maybe she is,” Gage says as he stares at her. “Remember how long she was unconscious after she regenerated?”

Chase’s eyes widen in horror. “You don’t think she died again, do you?”

I look down at her and move my hand along her neck until I find her pulse, making sure she’s still breathing. “We found her so fast, and she was definitely breathing when we caught up to her,” I tell him.

“I agree, I don’t think there was time,” Gage adds. “I’m just saying that being unconscious seems to be a way she often recovers, and we don’t know what he did to knock her out.”

“Come on, little wolf,” I whisper as I stroke her cheek. “Time to wake up for us. Show us those beautiful blue eyes.”

I sigh when I don’t get any response, not that I really expected that to work.

“How’s it going?”I ask Bain through the bond.

“You should get down here. Our new friend has some interesting things to say.”

I glance at the others, then gently pass Red over to Gage, who’s on her other side. Hunter takes my place, and Chase takes a seat on the ground in front of her so he can also touch her.

I don’t want to leave her, but I need to find out why she was attacked and kidnapped.

Downstairs, I find Bain and the human in our usual holding room. We’ve never actually had to use it before, but it’s the only place in this house with a lock on the outside for situations just like this.

As I step inside, the man’s eyes widen in fear from where he’s cuffed to a chair in the middle of the room. “I-I already told him everything!” he says quickly.

“I want to hear it from you,” I tell him calmly as I move to stand in front of him with my arms crossed over my chest. Bain leans against the side wall, rotating a knife in his hand and eyeing the man with the ease of someone who knows he has the upper hand.

I take a second to look the man over; he doesn’t look injured, other than the bleeding nose and puffy eyes that he no doubt received when my packmates first caught him. He must have crumbled pretty quickly, considering Bain hasn’t been down here for very long.

“Tell me, why did you take the red wolf?”

“Someone hired me to do it. I-I didn’t realize she was someone’s pet, I swear!”

“Did you release that other wolf?” I ask, ignoring his description of Red, and he quickly nods his head.

“Yeah, the guy who hired me told me where to find that wild wolf. He was already caged and everything. Then he told me where and when to let it go. Said there would be a small red wolf that wasn’t dangerous and to capture her.”

I glance at Bain, and he nods, confirming he had been told the same thing.

“What were you going to do with her?” I ask.