Chapter 71

Jaxon

Scarlett, I whispered, locked up inside my wolf, who had taken over the minute we couldn't find her. Following word from the guards at the gate, we had traced Thiery's car at the mall, but he and Scar were nowhere to be seen. I had gone berserk; my wolf had broken within seconds inside the mall, and shit hit the fan.

It took a dozen men to stop my wolf from hurting more people as he looked for his mate. The metal door creaked from afar before Astra's scent hit my wolf's nose. He stood on all fours, snarling at the woman as she stood before us. It had taken her magic to incapacitate me, giving warriors enough time to lock me inside a cell in the dungeons.

"Alpha." She bowed, a roar from the deepest part of my wolf sent the bars almost rattling.

"I can't talk to you in your wolf form; you need to shift." My wolf wouldn't listen; he was set on sinking his teeth into anyone to get his mate back. I pleaded with him to allow me to shift into our human form, but he only snarled. Astra