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“Fucking busy!”
“She escaped!”I yell through the link when I start to give chase. My shoulder is throbbing, burning violently when Zyan whimpers as pain slivers through me. My vision blurs, and Zyan stumbles as he is forced to shift back, leaving me naked in the dirt.
“Eziah…”I choke as I try to get up. My entire arm feels like it is on fire, and I stagger forward, looking for her white wolf.
“Eziah…”I call through the link.
“On my way!”
“No, I think… I…”I choke, collapsing on my knees as I peer over at my shoulder, which is turning black.
“Casen! What’s going on?”
“She bit me…”my hand clamps over my shoulder, and blue tendrils sliver down my arms. I throw up and struggle to catch my breath.
“Gemini!”I rasp out.
“If she were a Gemini, you’d be dead already.”
“She’s fucking something!”I choke out.“I’m not healing.”
“Hang on!”Eziah replies, and my surroundings spin violently, and the next thing I see is the ground coming toward my face.
ChapterTen
Eziah
I’m barely three minutes from reaching the packhouse when Casen screams through the mindlink that she escaped. The makeshift town is nearly in view when Malachi stops. His head whips from side to side as he fights with himself whether to go destroy the ones who hurt her or go after our runaway mate. Satish’s pack will know I am here by now, and our element of surprise would now be gone.
Yet when I feel the mindlink crackling like static and the forced tether sizzles, panic slivers through us.
“Casen! What’s going on?”I demand.
“She bit me…”his voice cuts out, yet he sounds like he is in a tremendous amount of pain.
“Gemini!”he rasps out, and I barely catch it before the link drops again. Malachi takes off back through the forest toward him, and I hear the howls ring out as Satish’s pack also darts into the trees, looking for the unwelcome intruder.
“If she were a Gemini, you’d be dead already,”I tell him.
“She’s fucking something!”Casen panics, his voice growing weaker through the mindlink.
“Malachi faster!”I yell at him.
“I’m not healing,”Casen tells me. Yet if she were like Marabella, we wouldn’t be having this conversation, and wouldn’t I have picked up on it when I found her?
“Hang on!”I tell him, urging Malachi faster. The sounds of paws on dirt and the snapping of twigs tell me Satish is on his way to me, but for now, I need to get to Casen and then find my mate. Malachi won’t lose her again, and I won’t be able to live with myself if I lose her. I didn’t give up for four years. Now that I finally have her, I’ll be damned if I lose her again.
Low branches hit us as we tear up the forest floor, shrubs whipping us when I see the headlights of the car breaking through the trees. Malachi skids along the dirt road as we break out of the woods, claws scratching dirt as we try to slow. Malachi drops his head, nose sniffing for Calen’s scent, and he follows his nose. Her scent is faint, and so is his as we follow it into the woods in the opposite direction from which we were going.
Snarls and fighting rip out into the woods, and Malachi groans. I have to fight him to stop him from going after her. Casen is close. Picking up Casen’s scent, we find him face down, sprawled in the dirt. Blue veins cover his naked flesh, foam comes out of his mouth as he gasps for air, his body twitching.
“What the fuck!” I whisper in horror. Her bite mark on his shoulder is black as coal. He’s right. She is poisonous, but this isn’t a Gemini bite. Those are very distinctive, but she is something else, something I’ve never seen before.
We hear a loud yelp in the distance, Malachi shifts, wanting to get to our mate. I am thrown on top of Casen. My hands grip his face and I snarl, not exactly wanting to pucker up for this big brute.
“Hurry up!” Malachi snarls, and I growl, pressing my lips to Casen’s head.
Whatever she did to him slivers through me, and moves in waves as I take it from him.
