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The car screeches to a stop, but not before the hard thud is heard. Pain rattles through every part of my body, and Malachi howls loudly in my head. This is a reaction we usually only get from our mate when she is badly hurt.
The burning pain slivers over every inch of me. I feel like my skin is burning when the car stops and Casen, cursing in panic, shoves his door open.
“What was it?” Casen says, and the dust starts to settle, the lights lighting up the road to reveal the girl has been tossed about 20 meters down the road. Casen whimpers, seeing it is a girl. I glance around, looking for the other person I am sure I saw as I climb out of the car.
Malachi tries shoving forward as the scent of her blood reaches my nose, setting him off.
“She came out of nowhere! Where did she come from? Fuck! Eziah, I didn’t see her. Can you save her?” Casen asks, but I stand in shock, my mind refusing to work as I stare at the girl. Malachi shoves me from within, and I stagger toward her, my eyes still scanning for the other person I saw.
“Eziah?” Casen yells at me while my heartbeat grows louder in my ears, her scent overwhelming me. Temperance…
“Eziah?” Casen repeats, but my mind is slipping away like the dust in the cool breeze.
“We found her,” I murmur, more to myself than Casen.
“What are you doing? Help her!” Casen yells as I grab her and roll her over. Sparks dance up my arms and her scent floods my system and Malachi growls menacingly.
“Mate!” barely audible slips past my lips, yet loud enough for Casen to hear.
“Wait, what did you say?” Casen staggers back, his hands up in the air realizing who he hit. Only then do I realize Malachi is half in control.
“It’s her. It’s Temperance,” I tell him, shoving Malachi back who wants to kill him for hitting our mate.
“Shh, I got you, Temperance. You’re safe with me,” I tell her when I catch another scent. One I have smelled before, Satish!
“Wait, that’s her. I hit your mate?” comes Casen’s frantic voice, and my canines elongate.I will fucking kill him.
“Shadow….” my mate whispers, snapping my attention back to her healing body, her wounds becoming mine, setting me on fire as I heal her. A name I haven’t heard for years spoken. I heard it once, only once, when my mother let me see. It was the girl she spoke to, another prisoner of that pack.
That must have been who pushed her. My head turns, looking into the darkness of the forest before I scoop my arms under her lifeless body.
“Shadow!” I call out loudly, looking into the darkness.
“Huh?” Casen asks, stepping closer to Temperance. Malachi snarls through me and Casen jumps back.
“Shadow!” I yell out again, hoping the girl will step out of the darkness.
Casen turns, looking into the woods. After a few attempts, I guess she must have gone home to that pack.
Tugging her closer, I bury my nose in her neck, inhaling her scent. She is skinny, broken, and frail, as if she hasn’t been fed or seen sunlight in, well, years. “Eziah you’re…you need medical attention,” Casen murmurs.
Lifting my head, I look at Casen. “No, what I need is for you to take me back to her pack.”
“What?” Casen asks, stepping closer while stripping his shirt off. He tosses it over her naked body before sniffing her.
“Alpha Satish…” he snarls before I turn toward the car.
“Wait, Eziah, you're hurt,” Casen calls out.
Ignoring him, I move toward the car with my sleeping mate. I wasn’t leaving her only friend there, and now I know where she came from. They will all pay.
With their fucking lives.
ChapterNine
Casen
My hands tremble as Eziah drives back up the mountain. I refused to drive him, insisting he ring his mother to deal with this situation because, with his temper this bad, he’d wipe out their entire pack, even those who are innocent.
