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Stone’smournful howl split the night and sent a chill racing down my spine. My legs moved even faster, adrenaline surging through my body, one thought pounding through my brain.
Protect.
One beat in my heart.
Amelia.
The sound of someone racing through the greenery beside me rose, branches crackling and breaking, and then Liam pulled ahead of me. His silvery gray coat shone under the moonlight. He was incredibly fast, reminding me that he had once been meant to be the alpha. By birth order, it had been his right.
The two of us reached the road. Stone was racing down it. Teresa emerged from the forest closer to the car, a sudden small flash of white. She transformed back as soon as she reached the road, staring at the rear of the car as it vanished, as first Stone, then Liam, then me rocketed around her in a blur. For a second, I wanted to snarl at her, to ask why she wasn’t running too. The thought that Teresa didn’t care about Amelia and Dylan made me want to tear her apart.
But that brief flash of fury faded as soon as it had come.
My fury toward Stone was entirely another story.
My brother finally turned back, limping. Blood poured from his side, and my anger was tempered with fear. He shifted back, and the three of us met on the rough, moonlit road.
“What happened?” I demanded.
“Those were Longroad pack,” Stone answered. “The rogue slowed me down.”
“I see.” The rogue had to be powerful to have managed to stop Stone.
Especially when he was pursuing Amelia.
Stone let out a sudden, sharp sound. “Don’t look at me like that, Shaw.”
“Like what?”
“Like you want to hit me. Unless you’re ready to do just that.” There was a testing tone in Stone’s voice.
I almost always kind of wanted to punch my big brother, but I raised my hands. Stone was looking for a fight, but I wasn’t going to give him one.
He could sit in his misery instead.
“I’m not interested in hitting you,” I said. “I just want to make sure Amelia’s safe. If that’s her family… maybe we should let her go.”
Stone whirled on me. “She’s not safe out there!”
“She doesn’t feel particularly safe here,” I reminded him.
“But sheis.”
“No, Stone.” My voice had gone as cool as his was hot and dangerous. “You made sure she didn’t feel safe here. You ruined her home.”
Liam paced across the road, threading his fingers through his dark curls and twisting them uselessly. “With family. She’s with family.”
Stone glanced at him, then away, clearly not trusting anything Liam said.
I patted Liam’s shoulder. “That’s a relief, then. She’ll be safe with them.”
“The same people who let Nathan do that to her?” Stone demanded.
“As opposed to the people who tortured her?” I demanded.
Stone shook his head, rejecting my words.
Teresa walked back toward us, just as Cole emerged from the woods. Cole went straight to Teresa.
