Chapter 154 There Is Only Him

Jane’s POV

It was my worst nightmare made manifest. ‘Nina, we have to find them. Is there any way we can track them without their scents? They must have been taken from here.’ I shook my head to myself. ‘But why were they out here? Was it training? I have to talk to Hunter.’

I hated that, hated it more than anything. I didn’t want to rely on him, but I had to know more before I ran off, half-crazed, high on hope and desperation but with no plan in place. I’d wasted too much time already; my next move had to be deliberate, purposeful.

Nina didn’t reply.

‘Nina?’ I frowned. ‘Are you listening? We have to go, we have to find them–’

Her loud howl eclipsed my words.

‘Nina?’ I tried talking to her again, but then I felt it, too.

It was more potent than anything I’d felt in years. The faintest trace of an old smell, long forgotten but immediately remembered, filled my nostrils and then filtered down into the belly of my soul. It was woodsy, like pine sap and dew-damp moss, like the fresh sce