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He broke through the group of wolves and raced to her. They met, arms immediately wrapping around each other and lips pressing together. She couldn’t stop the tears that fell from her closed eyes as Adam held her tight, a growl rumbling in his chest.
He cupped her cheek, his eyes the bright amber of his beast. “Are you hurt?”
She swallowed the lump in her throat and blinked at the tears that obscured her vision. “No. Are you?”
“Don’t worry about me.”
“Can’t help it.”
He pressed his forehead to hers. “It was my dad. He gave you up to get out of a debt.”
“I know. He’s here, in the barn.” She burrowed against him, opening his coat and sliding her arms around him.
He went very still, and she lifted her head and peered at him. His face was stony, but his eyes were blazing the amber of his wolf. “Is he alive?”
“No.”
His arms tightened around her and his expression darkened. “We were on the way here when you called. My grandparents had put a tracker on their car, and my dad took it.”
Releasing his hold on her with one arm, he traced her jaw with trembling fingers. “I was scared out of my mind, sweetheart.”
That made the tears spring back. “Me too.”
He kissed the tears from her cheeks and hugged her close. She could have stood there forever, but she knew they needed to leave.
A throat cleared and she lifted her head. “You must be Adam,” Liam said.
“You helped my mate?” Adam’s arms tightened around her a fraction.
“We were looking for our sister Tesli, and found her with Dani.”
“Where are the people who were running this place?”
Liam’s eyes narrowed slightly, but then he nodded. “They’re in the main barn. We waited until you arrived, but we’re planning to torch this place. Before we killed him, one of the humans who was instrumental in both Tesli’s and Dani’s abductions told us that this place is no longer in use, and their gang took it over as a way-station for abducted shifters.”
Adam frowned. “Why were they abducting shifters?”
“From what we were told, it was a new venture. They were looking for rare shifters to sell at an underground auction. Whether they would have become brides or sex slaves or who the hell knows what else isn’t certain, but we were very close to losing Tesli forever.”
She pushed against Adam’s weight when he moved to release her. “What are you doing?”
“I need to see my dad.”
“He’s not alive,” she reminded him in a low voice.
He stared at her for a long moment and said, “I still need to see.”
She rose onto her toes and kissed him, his fangs pressing against her lips as he growled, his chest heaving with emotion. “Go see. I’ll stay with the pack.”
“Jeremiah!” Adam barked. His friend joined them, and Adam said, “Keep her safe.”
With a final glance at Dani, Adam followed Liam toward the barn where she’d been kept captive. Acksel joined them, and Malachi came over to stand with her and Jeremiah while the two uniformed guards went back outside the gate.
“It hasn’t even been twelve hours,” she said.
“Feels like an eternity, doesn’t it?” Jeremiah asked. “When Honey and I were kidnapped, time felt like it slowed to a crawl. It felt like days, but it had only been hours.”
“Dani?” Tesli called from behind her.
