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The somber mood hung around our heads as we ate. Mari’s gentle perfume of freshly falling rain had brought me back from the brink of the anguish that was trying its damnedest to pull me under, but I was at a loss for what to do now.
An echo of the frustration my beta had experienced during the heat of the skirmish radiated through me, but I regrettably couldn’t tell him about it with his absence.
I was trying to figure out where to go from here, but the only thing coursing through my mind was my need to shift and patrol a perimeter around my other half until I figured out what happened to my pack.
One thing I knew for certain was that they were alive. I’d felt the connections sever when the males I found earlier had passed, that was part of the pain that had crippled me when I was in the South with Ryker. Yet, I couldn’t get a feel on where the remaining members were through the pack bond.
Nothing was making sense, and m
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