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He stared at Joshua. Joshua shifted uncomfortably, looking as if he wanted to run, but there was no point in running from the alpha.
Then I realized Stone was staring at a man beside Joshua, at a tall man with sandy blond hair.
“Hunter,” Stone said, “do you want to explain to me why you’ve been plotting with the Longroad pack?”
Hunter looked terrified.
Then he turned and ran.
Stone sprang after him, and in the second that he leapt forward, his clothes burst off his body as he transformed. It was an enormous black wolf who landed on his paws and streaked after the running man. It was the smoothest, most beautiful shift I’d ever seen, and it was terrifying.
Stone chased the man into the trees. The man screamed once, then stopped.
I felt sick. If Stone knew I had a cell phone I was using to communicate with my pack, I didn’t know what he would do to me. He’d killed Joshua’s mother.
“Easy,” Shaw said, resting his hand lightly on my shoulder. He gave me an encouraging smile though lines of tension stood out around his eyes. “It’s all going to be okay, Amelia.”
But he didn’t know what I’d been up to with Joshua either.
I had to stay calm and pretend until I had the chance to get Dylan and get out of here.
“Amelia.”Joshua’s voice broke the darkness as I headed toward the house. He glanced around before he indicated the shadows, and I stepped into them, casting a glance back at the warmth of the house.
“You need to escape tonight,” he said. “Before Stone realizes what you’ve done.”
I stared at him in confusion. “I haven’t done anything. Stone should understand…”
I trailed off. I couldn’t even convince myself that was true.
“Focus,” he chided. “Aiden’s on his way now to rescue you.”
Terror still squeezed my chest, and I shook my head to clear it. It didn’t help. “I’m not ready.”
I couldn’t just carry Dylan out of here like a thief in the night, away from the family who had loved Brennan too.
“Look at your phone,” he told me. “He texted us both.”
“It’s hidden in my room,” I told him. I wasn’t going to risk being caught with the phone.
“Good, you can get it when you get Dylan. He’s already on his way, Amelia—and once he enters pack territory, there will be a dozen wolves catching his scent.” His lips twisted. “Teresa and Cole have more guards up than ever before. You’ve really thrown a wrench in my plans.”
“Whatareyour plans?”
“If you don’t meet them,” he said, “then the wolves will converge. How long do you think Aiden will wait for you? Long enough for the King pack to rip them out of the car? What do you think Stone will do to Aiden?”
Joshua’s eyes were lit with malice that seemed to glow in the darkness.
“What are your plans?” I insisted again, an edge of fear cutting into my chest, darker and more intense than when I had just been afraid for my own life.
“And when Stone reads your text messages…and sooner or later, he will, if you don’t get out of here… he’ll find out Aiden is the one who told the Longroad pack where to find Brennan.”
The world turned to a hot blur. “He didn’t…”
It was a question as much as it was a statement.
Joshua glanced at the house. It was bright and welcoming and it felt a hundred miles away even though it was just on the other side of a handful of trees. Stone, Cole and Teresa were deep in conversation not that far away. I could scream, and they’d come running.
But Joshua had laid some kind of trap for me.
