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Chapter Forty-Three
Lita
SnakeandIbothnibble on carrots as we start the walk along the edge of the forest to the back yard of the nursery. Fox pulls a face when we offer him one. Scar thinks about it before he shakes his head.
Scratch tries a bite of mine and decides to wait for the meat to be cooked.
All the more for me and Snake, I guess.
I finish the one I’m eating as we get to the side of the nursery.
There’s a streetlight pretty close to where we are, and people are coming along the path from the cafeteria, heading home for the night.
We stay silent where we are, hidden in the darkness, until they pass.
Then, we move on.
The back of the nursery building looks out into a fenced off yard.
We stop halfway along, and Fox jumps over the fence, darting over to one of the windows.
It doesn’t look as if the lights are on inside, but Fox seems to know where he’s going.
Scar shakes his head. Clearly this wasn’t what he’d agreed to when he told Fox we could stop here.
The woman who comes over to the window is slender and pretty, with thick auburn hair.
She climbs out, and Fox catches her before she can drop to the ground.
They hug, but then her face turns serious, and Fox takes her hand, bringing her over to the fence where we’re standing. She smiles at me, but she shakes her head a second later.
Her lips move so quickly that I don’t know what she’s saying, but I can tell when I look at Scar’s face that it’s something bad. I touch Fox’s arm to get his attention.
“I can’t tell what’s being said.”
He nods, before he takes my hand in his and starts to calmly tell me what I’m missing.
“She said one of the new Alphas’ appeared and took one of the children away.”
I blink at him. “What? That doesn’t make any sense.”
“I know. They’re dead. But she said she saw him herself.”
How is that possible?
Unless …
Unless one of them didn’t die.
Shifters can heal from a lot of different injuries, so I guess it’s possible.
“Who was it?” I ask.
“Orion,” he tells me, frowning. “It doesn’t make sense. Scar ripped out his heart. There’s no way he should still be alive.”
I look at Scar, and he turns to his brothers before he drops the food he was carrying and takes off into the woods with Snake. I turn to follow, and Scratch puts his hand on my arm, shaking his head.
I look back at Fox, eyes wide with panic.
