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Mia frowned and turned. Three males wearing military fatigues stood in her kitchen. There was something vaguely familiar about them, and she scented the air and found the same scent that Lucian had. Not his naturally spicy scent, but the same layer of dirt and metal that overlaid it.
“Who are you?” she asked.
“We’re friends of Lucian’s,” the third male said. “I’m Simon. This is Neil and Isaac.”
“How did you get in here?”
Simon’s brow arched. “You keep a key under the pot by the door. Which is like the second place that criminals will look, by the way.”
“What’s the first?”
“Fake rock in the flower bed,” Isaac answered. “But that’s not important. Lucian needs you.”
Her heart clenched in worry. “He does? What’s wrong?”
“He killed an entire nest of ravens, for one. Our bosses sent hunters to get him, and he’s not doing well in captivity,” Neil said.
“He saved my life by killing those ravens, and not to point out the obvious, but they were criminals.”
“Yeah. But he still has to account for his actions. When the hunters showed up to take him in, he went nuts,” Simon said. “Will you come with us?”
“Let me grab some socks.”
“Hurry,” Neil said.
She rushed past the males to her bedroom, where she toed off Brynn’s boots. Hurrying to the dresser, she pulled out socks, put them on, and then raced to the bathroom to pee. She noticed her reflection in the mirror and groaned. She’d give anything for the time to take a shower. Her hair was a disheveled mess, and she had dark circles under her eyes.
Grabbing a hair tie from the drawer, she ran a brush through her tangled hair a few times and pulled it up into a ponytail. After brushing her teeth, she turned to flip off the light and noticed a strange mark on her neck. Tilting her head, she leaned toward the mirror and inspected it, touching the raised marks with her fingertips. Her wolf wiggled in her mind as Mia’s fingers ran over the scar, and goosebumps rose on her skin.
The mark on her neck was from Lucian – a berserker mating bite. Instead of two fang marks like he had from her, she had a series of white marks that looked like little stars. Two lines of star-shaped scars rose above her skin just slightly, and were a pale cream color against her skin. There were five stars on the top arch of the mark and four on the bottom curve.
“So this is what a berserker does to their mate?” she murmured. It was pretty and unique, and large enough that any supernatural creature who saw it would know that she was mated, even if they didn’t recognize the bite itself.
Turning off the light, she headed out of the room, shoved her feet into her tennis shoes, and grabbed her coat from its hook at the front door.
“Just so you know, I don’t usually look like a nightmare,” she said.
“You can take all the showers you want when Lucian is okay,” Simon said.
Neil opened the front door and reached for his gun. “Who the fuck are you?”
Mia peeked around the door and saw two of the pack protectors, Zander and Gabe.
“Put your gun down, it’s my pack. Zander, did Mal send you here?”
Zander didn’t ease from his defensive stance. “He said you were at his house, but we were to watch for a guy named Lucian.”
She looked at Neil with a smile. “They were here when you guys broke in and they didn’t see you?”
“It’s our job to be sneaky.”
She bit back a laugh. “Lucian isn’t here. I’m leaving with these guys.”
“We need to check with Malachi,” Gabe said.
“Help yourself, but I’m leaving whether he likes it or not.”
Zander stiffened with a growl. “You’re not in control here, Mia. You’re an omega. We’re ranked males. You will wait in your home until Malachi comes to get you.”
