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The office door stood open. Four hand-held radios lay smashed on the floor next to the desk. I shoved up from the floor and limped into the room. The ham radio sat on a table to the left of the door. The tiny red power light was dark, unlit.
The radio is off.
The radio is never off.
I flicked the switch. Nothing. Nothing.
The unit sat cockeyed from its normal position. A quick glance at the back told me what I needed to know—a three-inch tail of power cord was all the rogues had left behind.
We’re utterly alone.
If this storm was as big as predicted, we’d be completely snowed in by morning. More isolated than at any other time.
My lungs seemed to seize, making it difficult to take even shallow breaths. I rubbed at my chest and grimaced as a panicky feeling punched me in the stomach.
Nereida? Arteisma?
A familiar tingle raced up my spine.
Not the twins.
Decker.
My twin brother.
He’d feel my intense emotions even in Washington. He’d know something was wrong. Knowing there was no phone reception here, he wouldn’t try to call. Whether he’d alert his Alpha was another thing. He had ignored what I’d gone through with Tillman and laid all the blame for that failed relationship on me. Consequently, I had zero faith he would do the right thing.
I was on my own.
At least until my parents returned.
If...
Don’t. Don’t even think it.
The low rumble of a car engine floated up through the valley.
Mom? Dad?
No. That wasn’t the truck.
The rogues. They’re coming back?
I stood frozen, listening, waiting.
Maybe the injured rogue had died.
Then...I...killed him.
Would his brother leave him? Dump him out into the forest? Would he turn his car around and come back to finish what he’d started?
I couldn’t stand there and wait for the one uninjured rogue to hunt us down.
I should have killed him when I’d had the chance.
No mercy. Kill on sight.
I sprinted out of the cookhouse, jumped the wooden deck railing, shifted into my wolf, and landed on all fours.
