Chapter Twenty Five- Critical

There’s pin drop silence. The air in the room is thick with tension. Gabriel and his beta work tirelessly to finalise a plan.

One thing is certainly clear. I was not being delivered to the rogues, no matter what. There’s an urgency regarding the threat but I still couldn’t get rid of the way Gabriel held rage in his eyes.

It was due to the mate bond. That’s all.

But then why is the intensity of the bond shading ever more?

There wasn’t much to discuss. Or maybe I couldn’t focus on any of the information that was being discussed.

We soon leave the room and I followed after the beta and Gabriel. Although this wasn’t my pack that I had been born in, this was my pack now.

I’d do anything to protect it.

As the two made their rounds around the darkening pack grounds, I couldn’t help to notice the way my mate’s eyes kept hovering over me. We couldn’t ignore it, no matter how much we tried.

Unfortunately, we just had to.

The stars hung high in the sky and I just wish Gabriel and I could esc