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I needed to breathe. Training. I could beat at least one to get away. Except in water, it wasn’t so easy. Still, I stopped trying to swim away and allowed myself to be pulled against an unwanted firm chest, and it made my skin crawl. Never had I been more happy to have had the sense to leave the shirt on.
As I felt his hot breath against my ear, I channelled the strength of my wolf and slammed my head into his face with a satisfying crack.
He swore and let me go.
I was stopped by another body and two sets of stronger hands.
“Let me go,” I said.
They laughed while the other swore.
“Sarah?” I cried.
One of them leaned closer, but not close enough that I could break his nose this time.
“She deserted you. Go figure.”
Breath. I could do this. I could. But I shouldn’t, not alone. I wasn’t alone. My wolf had been trying to tell me that.
Devon, help.
My skin crawled as one of them traced his finger down my arm to my thigh.
“How did we miss such a pretty little thing when you belonged to Cripple Creek? Where had our dear old alpha hidden you?”
I shivered.
“He didn’t hide me. I was in plain sight. Not my fault you were blind, you freaks.”
One of them growled, the one holding me, because he slammed me up against the boulder behind me.
My head thudded against it, and I saw a blinding white for a moment.
“We aren’t the freaks. We had a home. A pack. You were the freak, you bitch. Was he keeping you to himself?”
One of them pulled aside the neck of my shirt, tearing the fabric.
“Only the one mark. Interesting. Did this alpha mark you because ours wanted you? Should we honour his wishes then? Mix your blood with that of the Cripple Creek.”
I yelped as one of them grabbed my breast with far more force than was necessary.
I closed my eyes, trying to block out everything. Trying to forget the fear. Trying to forget the dread of being seen and passed off as a breeder. There was always a far worse thing than being a slave. I needed to breathe.
My wolf growled at each touch that wasn’t our mates. I needed to focus. What had Sarah taught me?
It didn’t matter though, because a roar I’d never heard before echoed off the canyon walls and drowned out my panic.
Wolves yelped in pain, and the hands quickly disappeared from my body. They were leaving. I needed to escape.
One. Two. Three. I quickly turned towards the rock and opened my eyes, scanning for the shore. There was no shore. This was a crevice near the base of the main waterfall. Shit. Shit. Shit.
A strong hand reached for me, and I wanted to scream, but fear paralyzed my voice. I wasn’t going to make it. I wasn’t going to get back to Devon. I wasn’t getting my happily ever after. I wasn’t going to ever know if I could ever love him.
Calm, mate.
He pulled me into his solid, hard chest and the warmth of him enveloped me. His scent was everywhere. My wolf calmed, knowing exactly who was here. My brain took an additional second to catch up with what our soul knew.
Devon?
