CHRIS'S POV "Get away from me," I snarled. Killian had sent me one of his supposed healers as if I was some sick pup that needed attention. But I was okay. I just needed to be released and allowed to return to where I belonged. Instead, I was stuck in a cage, being coaxed by some middle-aged female shifter to come closer so they could look at me in the eyes and see something. They didn't need to look in my eyes. They didn't need to look at anything. They just needed to get the fuck away from me and let me out of this cage so I can see Sam. Smart, beautiful Sam. Her name felt like a vice grip on my heart. I ran to the bars, gripping them and screaming at the healer, "Let me out of here before I tear your fucking head off!" She backed off, her eyes wide. She turned towards the guard who had stood neutral beside her until now but kicked at the bars. "Get the fuck back. You act like that, and I'll send her away, and you can die i
VIVIAN'S POV Marcus stood there staring at me, waiting for me to respond. "I don't get what you're saying." Marcus rolled his eyes. "Killian wants you to go see your friend with him." "Did you have to say it so weird the first time?" "All I did was say that the Alpha wished you to join him in the cell house." I nodded. "Yeah, that. That's weird. Use normal people's words, Marcus." He spun around. "Just come on. I don't have time for your games." I stuck my tongue at him, hurrying to catch up. I'd tease him more later. I might not like him, but if this had to do with Chris, I should hurry and let teasing Marcus take a backseat. I started walking in stride with him. "Did he say what this was about?" "Are you done goofing off now?" "Are you done talking like a pompous jerk?" He ignored me. I started jogging, knowing the path to cells. I didn't need to be escorted. I ign
CHRIS'S POV Running. Running. I must get home. 'Go back,' Rock pleaded. 'No.' Rock whined and kept pushing forward. Running. Then I scented her. Sam. She was near. I stopped in my tracks. But we were far from home. I looked around, trying to figure out where the scent was coming from, sniffing the air. She was nearby, though. I could tell. I targeted the direction and started running again. Breaking into a clearing, a squeal and a growl greeted me as the sight of Sam and Zeke came into view. I shifted, falling onto the ground in a sweaty heap. "Sam, you're here." She rushed over to me, grabbing my shoulders. "Chris! What are you doing here? Where's Vivian?" I looked up into her beautiful green eyes. "She's with Blackmoon. I escaped. I had to get back to you. I tried to take her with me, but she refused to come with me." Zeke stepped forward. "You idiot. We were coming to save you both." Sam
KILLIAN'S POV"Welcome back, Sarah."Sarah turned from where she stood in the cell, her look of annoyance quickly morphing to innocence when she saw it was me. "Killian, I'm so glad to see you. You came to set me free." She reached through the bars as if to embrace me through them, but I stopped short. The last time I'd been near her, she'd whisper one of her spells in my ears, wiped my mind to put me in a daze for a week, and left the compound to run off and be a rogue or whatever she was doing. And now she was back. "Nice try. I'm not letting you touch me." She lowered her arms, looking me up and down. "I take it you're not here just to free me and let bygones be bygones." "I'm very interested in letting bygones be bygones, but first, I want to know where you've been," I said, crossing my arms. I couldn't give in to her too quickly. But I did need to seem interested in taking her back. "I was with the Greywood Pack. They to
VIVIAN'S POV "What are you going to do with me, Sarah?" Sarah remained silent, guiding us through the forest. We'd been walking for well over an hour, it felt like, and she hadn't said a word. "Sarah. You could at least say something." "Could you at least call me Sam in front of the boys?" She finally spoke. And it was to ask me to call her by her fake name in front of her boys. Ha. "As if." She shot me a look. "It'd be better for Chris if you did." "Are you going to keep playing that card?" "Of course I am. As long as it gets me what I want." "You're pathetic." "I saved you. You don't know what kind of life you were about to have with Killian." Did she even hear herself? She saved me by putting a knife to my throat just to bring me back 'home' to torture me in some weird way she wasn't telling me yet. "You didn't save me. You have some ulterior motive."
KILLIAN'S POV "Where is she?" I said calmly. Marcus looked down at the ground, not wanting to meet my eyes. "She was in her cell when we left her, but she's vanished." "How did she get out? We have them barred with magic." Marcus was in charge of our guards, so this fell on him, and he could tell I wasn't taking this lightly. "The last thing James remembers is hearing someone singing." "Someone singing?" Divinity, the strongest witch we currently had, stepped forward. I had asked her to come with me to meet with Vivian to start teaching her but had been stopped by Marcus with news of Sarah's breakout. "Alpha, I believe I know what happened.” We both turned towards her. She continued speaking. "It's called a siren's song. A witch can use it to get her victim to do her bidding. Only a powerful witch can learn the song, and it sounds like Sarah used it on James if the last thing he can remember is a song.
KILLIAN'S POV "We're going to Greywood." Marcus laughed. "You can't be serious. They're not going to welcome us there." "Then we'll make them," I argued. "That's where Sarah took her. I'm sure of it. And whatever she has planned for Vivian, I'm sure it's not good." Marcus stared at me. "You're serious." I nodded. "And I'm coming with you. We're not just sending patrols. I'll meet with the Alpha, and we'll demand they release Vivian from their pack." "Are you sure Vivian will like being torn from her pack?" "I'm not giving her that choice right now. She can hate me later." He patted me on the shoulder. "Okay, let's go save our Luna." I grinned. "Knew I could count on you." "You're the Alpha. Like I have much of a choice?"*****VIVIAN'S POV "One, two, three," Sarah's voice echoed down the hall. I groaned. Not the visitor I wanted right now. But
CHAPTER 46KILLIAN'S POV "Tell me what you found out," I demanded. We'd all been waiting for the scouts to get back with information from Greywood since we'd breached their territory and laid in hiding, wondering if we should arrive diplomatically or covertly. But based on the grim expressions of my scouts, I was expecting it would be the latter now. Vin nudged Glenn forward, who glared at him. He stuttered, looking at my feet. "It's not good news, Alpha. They have our Luna imprisoned. Rumor is...she killed their Alpha." I sucked in my breath. She wouldn't. "How and why would she do that?" "They think she did it on our orders with witchcraft." Sarah. And now Zeke was their Alpha, and he certainly was going to put Vivian to death. "Where do they have her? And what did you do with the informants?" Vin and Glenn looked at each other. "They won't talk." I didn't need to hear any more about thei