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I put my hand on her shoulder and squeeze. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
She nods and swallows. "Let's burn this fucker down.”
Ax
Wielding a guard’s rifle, I run through the physician's ward. There is no one in fucking sight. There’s nothing in the room, spare some broken glass, liquid, and a squished bug.
"Anna!" I scream.
She’s gone. No trace of her in sight. My heart thumps, far too rapid for me to calm. Sweat pours down my face, and every muscle in my body strains and aches. I can’t stop thinking that I’ve lost her for good.
A voice comes from behind me. “Calm yourself. She is safe. For now, at least.”
I turn to see a halfling doctor kneeling behind a counter. Slowly, he rises. A tranquil look graces his face, but I can’t understand how.
He holds a needle. “Sedatives. You look like you could use one.”
I growl and wind my arm back to sock him in the face. “You stick me with that, and I’ll be forced to shove it up your ass. Where is she?”
The doctor puts his hand out in defense. He drops the syringe and clenches his eyes tightly. “Did you hear me? She is safe. You should be thanking me for my efforts,” he says.
My mind is racing so fast, it’s nearly impossible to listen to him. “Where is she?” I ask again.
The doctor opens a door, revealing an underground shaft that leads to God knows where. He takes a deep breath and points. I have a feeling I’m not going to like what he’s about to tell me.
He says, “Back to Elysa.”
I have to hold back from screaming and destroying everything in sight. “Elysa? But she’ll be tried for treason. I’ll never see her again,” I say.
“It was the only option she had. She made a choice between life or death. She chose life,” he says.
I twist my head and brace my heels against the ground. The world feels like it’s spinning. It feels like my heart is about to implode. “She can’t fend for herself. She needs me,” I say.
Panic turns my blood cold. I stumble back and brace against the small metal surgical table, but the pressure causes it to collapse underneath me. I fall and slump against the ground, reeling from the news.
I can’t believe what I’m hearing, but it shouldn’t shock me. She has grown so much. I should have known this would happen. Once she made the call to Clara, our life together was over.
The doctor’s medicated eyes look unnaturally tranquil. “I know how difficult this must be to hear, but she is strong and intelligent. She will survive,” he assures me.
I wish I could be as calm as him, right now, but I can’t. I just fucking can’t. Anna is a diamond in the rough, the only human I could ever love. Now, she’s gone.
“Gone forever,” I whisper.
The little halfling physician lends me his hand and helps me get onto my feet. “Do you really love her that much?” he asks. “I have always assumed Syndicate alphas cannot love.”
I lower my head and try to hold back the tears. Alphas don’t usually cry for their women, but if a bond is broken, the pain is excruciating. “You assume wrong.”
“Then you must find her before she gets to Base Elysa,” he says. “If you don’t, they will attempt to reintegrate her. If she does not pass the test, she will be executed.”
My sadness burns my throat, but he is wrong. “She will not return to Elysa.”
The man raises a brow. “Where else can she possibly go?” he asks.
Anna wouldn’t just give up. That’s not in her nature. She is much stronger now. If she was caught, she would go down fighting. “The Syndicate facilities. There’s a port that rests along the river. Fuck, of course... She’s going to free the women,” I say.
The enslaved aliens. The ones she left behind. She didn’t talk about them much. Is it possible she is going back to face the Syndicate?
I hope not. But it seems logical.
