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Either way, he has each of us alone. Mason in one direction heading north toward the state line, me in the mountain where it takes time to climb and descend, Brandon at my house, and Derek and Roper somewhere on their way. I don’t like this.
We’re spread too thin.
I pick up speed once again. The house is suddenly too far away. Wherever he went, he’s long gone by now. I’m halfwayback, speeding across the mostly flat field when a rage-filled howl cuts into the sky, carrying for miles for all of us to hear no matter how far away we are.
That’s Brandon.
Panic fuels me as I pick up even more speed to get home. My long legs eat the ground like an Olympic sprinter. Mason is soon by my side as we link up and get to the backyard where Derek and Roper are trying to settle a shifted Brandon.
Fucking, fuck, fuck!
He’d only shift if something threatened him or—
“What the hell happened?” Mason commands as we slow, but I don’t stop.
“Alexa!” Shouting for her as I rush into the house and search every inch for her does me no good. I already know what’s happened.
How did the fucker get past Brandon?
I’m snarling, foaming at the mouth when I head back out to the others.
“We just got here,” Derek offers, giving up on calming our enraged friend. Instead, everyone, Brandon aside, turns to me.
Brandon is just as ready for a fight as I am.
“How the hell did he manage to double back on the two of us, sneak up on Brandon, and take her without Derek or Roper noticing?” Mason barks into the night.
None of us has the answer for him and stand silent as we all regard our shoes … or paws. Even Brandon has stopped trying to find something to tear apart. My chest begins to heave as my werewolf side does its best to break free. The need for hismate has a feral anger boiling to the surface, and it’s about to burst.
But I need to be rational. I need to be logical if I have a snowball’s chance in hell of rescuing Alexa before it’s too late.
“What road did you take?” Mason continues to growl, but now he’s pacing, another general briefing.
“The south entrance. We didn’t see any lights as we came up.” Derek offers. Roper must have picked him up because Roper would have been coming from the north unless he wasn’t home.
“Brandon was out when we got here, and it took a few to get him to come back.” Brandon is huffing next to Roper as the quiet man explains.
“They left on the north road then. Let’s go.” I don’t want to waste any more time, and neither do the others. We hit the road, Mason with me, Derek with Roper, and Brandon running alongside us. Mason could easily command him to shift back, but that would mean we’d have to get him some clothes. None of mine would fit him, and we don’t have any time to waste. No one can see out here, so he’s safe to be in this form.
We kick up rocks and spew dirt into the night air as we rip away from my house. “He couldn’t have gotten far with her.” Even as I speak, I know the likelihood of finding her on the property is slim.
“I don’t know, Miles. I just don’t know.” From the corner of my eye, I watch Mason scrub his face. “I just came this way with Brandon. There wasn’t a vehicle out here I didn’t know.”
My grip tightens on the steering wheel as I take a sharp corner around the hill that acts as a halfway point from my house to Mason’s.
“What the hell?” Mason leans forward in his seat, his eyes focused on the beaming lights up ahead.
It doesn’t take long to reach the truck to find it’s my dad with Rylie and … Thea?
“What the hell is she doing here?” Mason growls.
“Let’s find out.” Slowing, I don’t even need to get out to hear Rylie laying into Thea.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing out here?” Our alpha female is snarling.
God, she’s getting as scary as a pissed-off Ma.
It’s the alpha emerging from her.
