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CHAPTER1
Kiara
Welcome to the shit show.That’s about the only thing that comes to mind. Well, the only thing that I can come up with as I blink through the headache. It’s better than letting the panic creep up. But then again, I’d already lived through the worst. Or maybe not. But that wasn’t the pep talk I needed right now.
Fishing around in the fog of my mind, I search for my wolf. I don’t let out the audible sigh that I so badly want to. They can’t take away the relief I feel at least.
I don’t want them to know that even with all their efforts, the fear they want me to feel is lessened by the relief of knowing my wolf is still here. Now if only I could be free of this damn net. No such luck, though. The net weighed heavy over me and reminded me that my life wasn’t going well. Again.
I pushed up at the net again, just in case it would move. It didn’t, and it burned. At least I was alive, and so was my wolf. Breathe. I need to just breathe. My head hurt a lot though and every time I tried to open my eyes, shots of pain zinged straight through my head and my stomach threatened a revolt.
Devon?
Through a squint, I still can’t figure out where I am and the pain is so strong that I’m not actually sure I’m making it to him.
I swallowed the bile that was proof I was not superhuman. Wolf or no wolf, I didn’t know much about being anything more than a broken human. I should have had more time to figure myself out. More time to be a wolf. More time to know my mate. Just more time.
And yet, the longer people mulled around and the more voices and shouts and no response from Devon, I suddenly wanted less time. I tried to retreat back inside my head.
I took in the scents around me. Metal. Blood. Dirt. Exhaust. Wolves, but not the scents of my own pack.
My wolf’s energy danced along my body like a million little bugs itching along my skin. I wanted her to calm down, but I didn’t know how to connect with that part of my soul at the moment any more than I did with my pack.
My pack.
I had a pack, and that still brought me a strange form of comfort.
I could let the fear seep inside me and soak into every inch of my soul in the paralyzing power it used to have. But back then I’d been alone.
“Let go of me,” said Nessa.
I would have jolted, or at least turned my head to her voice, but the net was too heavy. It wasn’t just heavy; it burned against my exposed skin. There was no comfort in her voice anyway.
I tried to shift and pull my arms into my shirt.
Silver.
Fuck these assholes.
“Let me go. Take your hands off me.”
She was screaming, but behind her words was a new waver that I’d never heard her overconfident voice hold.
“That wasn’t the deal. You get the female who escaped you and I’d get a cut of her cost,” Nessa bellowed.
The shrieks made me regret waking up now.
“She’s not a virgin anymore, is she?”
Nessa cried out in pain, but I didn’t look.
“Not Nessa’s problem that someone caught the female and fucked her. You should have been better at keeping her in control.”
This wasn’t Nessa’s voice; this was the familiar tenor of the old beta. Him, I hated more than her. He was dumb. He followed her around like a puppy and was so stupid that he’d never seen how she used him. Used anyone that would let her.
The truck bumped and my head flopped up and back onto the metal flat bed. I heard Nessa scream, and then a thud. The thud was not on the metal bed of the truck. It was muffled, like something had just hit the ground.
“You bastards. You betrayed us.”
