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Then, he pulled his cell phone from his pocket, programed their destination in, and mounted it in the bracket above his radio. He still hadn’t taken his hoodie or mask off, but she couldn’t take her eyes off his phone. She couldn’t figure out the destination, so she focused on the cell phone itself. It was the hardest thing in the car. With a quick swipe, she grabbed it and started smashing the corner against the glass window with all her strength. Three hits, and it cracked, but her kidnapper had also started swerving and grabbed her arm, dragging her away from the window. On her back, she lifted both her feet and slammed her heels into the cracked part. She felt the window give way, shattering and cutting her ankles and calves with the protruding glass.
But his grip strengthened, and he pulled to the side of the road, slowing down to try to keep her in the truck. All her training with Ajax and Ava, and all her years of sparring combined with the rage of her wolf, and she lost her shit on him. The phone still in her hand, she slammed it down on his face, his head, his groin. Anywhere she could land a blow.
“You fucking asshole. Pull over! Pull the fuck over!” He had slowed considerably, but as soon as he put his hands up indefense, she jerked away, pushing herself through the broken window and landing hard on the side of the road. They were still going about forty miles per hour by the time she hit the ground, so she covered her head and rolled, hoping for the best.
When she came to a stop in the tall grass on the side of the highway, she was fairly certain things were broken. She was in pain, but she was alive and conscious. That was step one.
Blinking rapidly, she pulled herself to all fours and watched the truck screech to a stop about fifty yards away, dirt and gravel flying. She didn’t wait for him to get out, and she didn’t care who saw. She shifted into her wolf, her clothes ripping off, but her necklace still hanging in place. Her wolf would heal her, and she could run a hell of a lot faster.
Immediately setting off in the opposite direction, desperate to get back to her friends, she didn’t look back. As an Alpha, despite a fifty-yard head start, he would catch up to her easily in wolf form. But she had to try.
She had gone maybe a quarter of a mile when she felt him closing in on her, his growl and the heat of his breath snapping at her heels. Desperately, she made the call to run headlong into the traffic of the highway, hoping her smaller frame could maneuver better than his larger one. Keeping focused on the incoming cars, she ran from lane to lane, and he struggled to watch her and the incoming cars as they blared their horns at them. Several cars careened off the road, narrowly missing him, and then she heard a small yelp. Glancing back, she saw him tumbling across the road, skidding to a stop, lying motionless in a heap. Someone must have clipped him.
Don’t stop. Don’t stop. Don’t stop.
She chanted to herself, knowing how fast Alphas healed. How he would be on the move again in seconds. She couldn’t say how much longer she ran alongside the traffic, weaving in and out of the grass, but it was probably only a minute or two before sheheard a howl in the distance ahead. Then Travis’s voice filled her head when he mindlinked her.
“Where are you? Tell me you got away.”
His voice was desperate and breathy, like he was running too.
“I’m headed back your way, but he’s right behind me. I’m not going to make it away again. I’m not going to make it, Travis.”She was practically sobbing, so it took her a second to realize that if she could mindlink, then they were close.
“Keoni is way ahead of me, and you should be able to see him soon. Don’t give up, keep running, Bai. Think about how Ava is going to kill me for letting you get taken. You have to be alive to see my punishment. Push.”
Up ahead, the flash of black wolf barreling towards her didn’t slow down, only flew past her. And only when she heard the snarling and snapping of a wolf fight did she slow and turn around. Gio’s penny colored wolf passed her just then, joining in the fight, and she knew she was safe.
Relief flooded her, and she collapsed to the ground, whimpering at Travis when he skidded to a stop next to her. He stood over her, keeping her hidden from the fighting, and she leaned into him, burying her face in his fur.
It didn’t last long though. Keoni was a Tuisa wolf, with as much, if not more strength than her stalker, and the viciousness of their superior fighting style was apparent. Gio circled them, snarling and snapping, ensuring that the stalker never got a break, never got the upper hand anytime Keoni fell back. Eventually, they all pulled apart, everyone bloody, and the stalker’s tan wolf stumbled backwards into a lane of traffic, hurt but still holding his own. A car blew by him, barely missing him, horn blaring. Skittishly, he tumbled down the small ditch towards the grass, and mid-air, shifted back to human form. He was only there a second before he pulled at the necklace hanging from his neck. Locking eyes with her, he ripped it from his bodyand threw it to the ground. It exploded in a wall of dark purple smoke, but when it cleared, the stalker was gone.
Chapter 5
Monday, November 1
7:55 p.m.
Keoni handed the phone to Travis, locking eyes with her as her heart sank. Nobody had wanted to make the call to their Alpha, and in the end, Keoni did it himself.
Ava had listened in silence to Keoni start the story from last night, explain the notes, the emails, and then the attempted kidnapping. She hadn’t asked to talk to Bailey first, which didn’t surprise her because Keoni repeated himself several times, saying she was safe, and everything was fine.
She smirked slightly when Keoni handed the phone to Travis, knowing he would get in more trouble than she would. When Travis paled and looked panicked, she knew her best friend was pissed, and most likely describing everything she would do to him.
“Yes, Alpha. Yes. Yes. Please, I swear, as soon as I knew…Well, I wasn’t there…there was a girl…yes, Alpha.”
He handed her the phone, and she was suddenly nervous, her mouth dry. “Hey.”
Ava sighed. “First. Tell me you’re actually okay. Not what you want me to know. I know you’ll heal physically, but…”
“I can be.”
“Bailey Ann.”
“This doesn’t change anything for me, Ava. You know—”
“And you know my top priority is your safety. Period. Everything else is secondary, and we can figure it out. Now, tell me what I should do. Not what you want. As your best friend and your Alpha, I need to keep you safe, Bailey. Above all else that is going on. I need you to think of yourself in my place and our roles reversed.”
She let the silence hang in the air, knowing that she was right, knowing what her best friend wanted to tell her, but couldn’t and wouldn’t force her.
