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Hunter draws a sharp breath that’s double loud in the empty silence after my heart stops beating.
“We’re not forcing her to do shit,” he snarls.
“We’ll stall until you can finish out the mission and get back.”
Finish out the fucking mission?
I can’t fathom why she’d do that to herself, and a feral creature snarls inside me at the thought of our mate running to another pack.
“Why was she in such a rush?” I thought we had months to nurse her back to health and prove that we deserve to be with her.
Time to prove we’re not total fuckups.
I was counting on it, otherwise, even when Lilah banned us from her room, I wouldn’t have agreed to put our pack on a plane.
We’re supposed to have time.
“Her heat schedule’s off because—well, you know why. Med report says her heat’s due in two to four weeks. You need to claim her now.”
Hunter and I freeze.
Two weeks.
Two weeks to apologize.
Two weeks to win Lilah back.
I growl like a rabid tiger, blood boiling, my heart churning with whitewater rapids.
“Find Dominik,” Scorpio insists. “We’ll hold her until—”
“Fuck that.” Hunter hurls my phone. It shatters against the breezy tile.
“We’re going back,” I grit.
“No shit,” Hunter spits. “Then what?”
“Whatever’s best for Lilah.”
“At. We’re not following whatever bullshit plan the dads—”
“I know. I know. But we can’t have her in rotation either. She deserves so much better.”
Better than me.
I haven’t begun to figure out how to apologize to her.
Hunter’s eyes flash. “Lilah deserves to do whatever the fuck she wants to do.”
Tension builds between us, only cutting when Finn stalks into the office, red dots blending with the spray of freckles across his nose.
Jett follows, hair in a frantic tangle and his natural cedar drowned by the scent of blood. “What was the call?”
Hunter pushes. “We have to—”
“Enough.” I force Hunter into submission. “We don’t have time to argue.” Have to get to Lilah, have to speak to her before she checks into the OCC. Then we’ll need special permission just to see her face. “Did the guy tell you anything we can use?”
“Five million to kill either omega,” Jett says. “Ten and a bite into the Redfang pack if they’re alive. Offer’s not just to his people. Anyone who delivers gets the cash, pack membership, and a stake in the cartel.”
