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Lana POV I knew I had said too much. The anger on Sam’s face told me he would not keep quiet. I had to leave now and warn Lucas. Turning away from Sam I had a moment of sadness. I would miss seeing him and wished things had been different. Not that we were mates, we were not. I had known this when I met him in that small town on my retreat from Luna duties. Lucas and I had an agreement. Hell, we had so many agreements it was likely a complete farce what we were trying to accomplish. But so far, nobody knew differently. Even his Beta and Gamma were in the dark about his secret. My retreats had kept me sane. I felt guilty admitting that. The fact that I had not ever met my mate was a blessing. I am not sure what I would have done had I met my mate. My draw to Sam was nothing I have experienced before, and we were not mates. I could scent him. Like an identifying scent. But not the type of scent where you felt wrapped up in that mate
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Josie POV I was frozen laying here with this thin blanket covering my body. It reminded me too much of being at the Red Pine Pack when I had first arrived and ended up in their dungeons. Sarah had stopped crying hours ago, but she still would not speak to me. Food was brought down for both of us. I did not hear Sarah get up to inspect the food. I did and quickly walked away from the slop on the platter. As I lay there shivering, I plotted my revenge against Tim and his merry band of torturers. I would avenge whatever Sarah had endured and take her with me when I escaped. I just needed an opportunity to escape. I decided to act like I was still affected by the wolfsbane the next time I see Tim. I needed him to be complacent about my strength. He might be calling himself the Rogue King, but I was the true Rogue Queen. If he wanted a fight, he picked the wrong woman to fight with. I knew I was stronger than he was. He might feel powerful
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Adam POV Something was going on between Jack and Sam. I could feel the tension between the two of them, yet I could not pinpoint what exactly was wrong. Everything had been fine prior to the Gala. The Gala had been a huge success with many unmated wolves finding their mates. And a lot of positive feedback from the various Packs who participated. No, something happened during the event. Some unprecedented. In all our years as best friends, I have never known them to have an issue between each other. As we sat down to discuss getting Josie back, Sam sat down in front of me while Jack chose to stand by the wall at the door. Like he was ready to bolt at the first chance he got. After briefly discussing the successes of the past couple of days and the lengthy meeting we just endured with the Alphas and their mates, I looked between both men. “What the hell is going on with you two?” I ask before we start to strategize how we will find Josie.
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Sam POV As the warriors arrived, they also did not recognize the scent. I now realize it was the scent of the witch that had be drifting over to our territory. I had not scented Lana because she was in the open so briefly and she could have been using her descenter. The warriors continued to search around for a short amount of time before I encouraged them to go. They agreed to keep a closer eye on this area of our territory. I could not help the distrust that rolled across me. I walked further down the bank toward the river, wanting to get a moment to myself. I had to consider the conversation Jack and I had a short time ago. It bothered me that he had been rejected and it played on my mind whether I should give Josie a second chance. I did not want to take lightly what Jack had shared with me. How would I feel if I gave Josie a second chance? How would I feel if I did not give us a chance? I had no answer and until we got her back, I would not be
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Josie POV I had been waiting in this cell what felt like forever. Yet I knew it had not been long. Certainly not as long as Sarah had been here and all that she had endured. I still got very little out of her. They had left her alone. I was not certain why, but I welcomed the reprieve for her. I had been annoyed that Tim had not been back since he was called away. Not that I wanted him. I simply wanted the chance to get the hell out of here. I was strong again. I was still not interested in the food here, but I made an effort to eat it. I needed to keep up my strength. Any messages I could get to Sarah, I would remind her to eat. I would tell her we were leaving soon. She made me promise and I did. I knew I would die trying to escape. I knew now I wanted to have a life. I hoped that would be with Sam, but I knew I had a lot to do to try and convince him to trust me. I could not focus on that right now. Now I had to focus on one st
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Sam POV I had still been feeling off since seeing Lana yesterday. I was certain she had done something to me, but I could not put my finger on what it was. It was like the memory of seeing her was becoming distant and my recollections were shifting. Like I am left wondering what was real and what was my imagination. “Are we ready to go, Sam?” Adam asks as he walks toward the black SUVs with Jenna by his side. “Yes, we are - the last of the warriors are loading into the fourth SUV and with you that means we are all here,” I reply. Jenna looks at me with a sour look on her face, “You better bring my sister back to me all in one piece,” she mutters still upset that she would not be joining us. “You know why you cannot come with us,” Adam says to her with a sigh. “Don’t you think I would be safer with all of you, then here on my own?” she says trying to guilt Adam into changing his mind. “You are hardly on your own, Jenna. You have a team of w
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Josie POV Sitting there trying to quell the nerves in my stomach, I sit back as the omega pushes the food to me. I look at her with a frown and shake my head no. “You have to,” she whispers. “Why?” I ask confused as to why she would care. “If you do not eat, he will punish me,” she continues to whisper. Looking at her I simply sit in shock. What has he come to? Tim was never this way before. He tried to be intimidating at times, but overall, he was always a happy go lucky kind of guy. I remember when he had found his mate. He was completely in awe of her; however, she quickly told him she had other plans. Wendy had been his mate. But she was involved with my brother at the time. She wanted power and Eric had it as the Rogue King. Tim took a backseat but never gave up hope she would eventually accept him. She tried to reject him, but he refused the rejection. He would have suffered with her having affairs with other men. Particularly
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Sam POV We had been running in our wolf forms for what seemed like longer than a couple hours. The terrain was rough. I could not imagine them carrying Josie all this way to secure her away from being found. There must be a road access that was not shown on the maps I had researched. We were almost to the location I hoped to find Josie at. I felt more anxious the closer we got to the site. I did not know why. I never faltered when it came to combat. I embraced it and excelled at it. I toyed with the idea of sharing the concern I had about Lana injecting me with something; however, every time I went to share the information with Jack and Adam, I was met with resistance. Like something invisible was holding me back from releasing the words and concerns I had from my conscious mind. I started to wonder if there was not a spell or some type of command that was released when it entered my body. I was getting angrier at the thought of being co
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One Year Later …Sam POV As I look around, I see the most important people in my life surrounding me. I smile as I watch Dylan, our pup, try to stand with Josie holding his hands, protecting him from falling. I see Gracie, and Maryse, Jack and Sarah’s little girl, playing on the blanket in the grass. Their parents keeping a close eye on the girls. Miranda and Rick had joined us with their pups. Their four-year-old Brandon and their pup, Lexi were with them. It was not often that Miranda and Rick trusted to bring their children just anywhere, but we had all grown so close after what we went through almost a year ago our trust with each other had grown exponentially. Lexi was also on the blanket playing with the girls … as much as pups can play. They mostly roll around and slobber at this stage, I think with a chuckle. Daniel and Lucas had also joined us. Among all the couples, they struggled the most. Daniel had post-traumatic stress disorder from wha
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Sarah POV The entire hospital is complete chaos. So much is happening, so many injured warriors. I was grateful to the Moon Goddess every time someone came in and it was not Jack. I felt on edge as warriors kept being sent in. Some would return to the battle, but others lost their fight.Before I can move to comfort a lost warrior’s mate, my heart jumps in my throat as I see Colby run in with Jack. He was wounded. I scream as I see him passed out and not responding to my calls. As I turn to look to Jenna she starts to move forward until the next person to run in is Rick with Adam and Kate.“We have lost him twice on the way in, we need to get him to surgery now,” Kate demands as she runs to see which operating room is free. Jenna moves forward slowly to Adam trying to heal him of his ailments. “Jenna, we need to move now. There are too many to fix and he is going to bleed out if I do not get him into the operating room now,” Kate says to Jenna.Jenna looks at me,
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Sam POV As we take off out the front door of the Pack house, we agreed that Adam and Jack would go with Colby and Kate to the north and we would take Drake and Maddie with us to the south. Sarah was contacting Miranda to organize her witches. Before we hit the forest to shift, Miranda and Rick were beside us. We tore off clothes as we shifted. Paws kicking up the dirt as we raced to the borders wanting to reach our panicked warriors. They were outnumbered and were quickly being overpowered. Suddenly everything went quiet through the mind-links. We were stunned into pushing harder to get there to see what was happening. I reached out to Adam but quickly learned our mind-link abilities were broken. Slowing down I shift quickly as everyone slows around me. “Our mind-link channels are broken with the Pack. We need to proceed with caution,” I say before quickly shifting back into my wolf, Chance, and taking the lead to get us to the southern bor
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Daniel POV I was never so scared as I had been when I had been tortured. I knew I was not long for this world when they punctured my lung. When I saw Miranda, I was blown away. That this courageous woman would take a chance for a man she barely knew was beyond my comprehension. There was so very little I could do to thank her for being there at the right moment. I recognized Jenna but I did not recognize the other woman. As if understanding my confusion, she steps forward, “Hi, I am Kate from the Silver Crescent Pack,” she says as she introduces herself. “We are very pleased that you have woken up. It was a little touch and go there,” she adds. “I am sorry, did you say the Silver Crescent Pack?” Daniel asks. “Yes, I am the Luna and a doctor,” she replies wondering about my question. “I am sorry, I heard your Pack name mentioned at the Council. Most recently there was something about watching a girl more closely,” I share with them.
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Josie POV No matter what anyone said, I knew they were all putting themselves on the line for me. I was eternally grateful and eternally feeling guilty at the same time. I was learning this is what family did but having never experienced it before it was a foreign concept to me. And it was hard to accept the help that I knew they would force on me. It overwhelmed me in a good way. Looking around the conference room table, we had Colby, Kate, Sarah, Jack, Sam, Adam, Jenna, Miranda, Rick, and myself. Alpha Jared had rushed home to his Pack after the implied threat over Luna Lily and the children she was looking after. Lucas would not leave Daniel’s side – not that I had blamed him. And Alpha Thomas had errands to run in town so he would join us after. “We need to split up when they come. They have already indicated each border would be at risk,” Adam says to the group. “I want to propose that we all go to the first location. If they attack al
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Lucas POV I have been sitting by Daniel’s bed since they finished operating on him. I cannot bear to look at my mate without rage taking over my mind. Seeing the abuse Daniel withstood breaks me. I do not know how he survived but I will be forever grateful he had the strength to do so. I watch the consistent blip on the machine indicating he is alive. It has been one day since he came out of the operating room. One day I have had him by my side. I have held his hand. I have spoken with him even though he is still in a coma. I have not left his side. One day that has given the medical team a reason to breathe a semi-cautious sigh of relief. The longer his body kept going, the better chances he had of making a full recovery.His boss has stood by as well. So far nobody but me and the medical team have visited Daniel. That is the way I have wanted it. I needed to know he was safe. And as Colby had reminded us, we did not know who we could trust.
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Kate POV I had witnessed my share of injured warriors, but I have never seen a wolf survive this level of torture. There were so many things happening at once it was hard to keep up with them. Even with the Pack Hospital’s doctor, Jenna, and myself – it felt like we were fighting a losing battle. I could hear this man’s mate yelling in the hallway. It was a distraction we did not need. Jenna asked Adam through their mind-link to try and remove him. I understood how hard it was to leave your mate, but right now we needed to focus one hundred percent. As I heard the yelling fade away, I was able to focus more intently on what was happening in front of us. Daniel was crashing as Jenna jumped up trying to stem the blood flow. The gunshot wound was causing us the most worry at the moment. While the other injuries would have to be fixed, the gunshot wound, with the wolfsbane and silver, continued to ooze blood. I needed to get in there and remov
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Josie POV It was taking too long. We all knew it. Nobody was saying it, but we knew. She should have returned by now. It had been ten minutes since she had broken her connection with Sarah. Ten long minutes of Rick pacing, everyone watching their clocks. “She will come back. She promised,” Rick mutters. Before anyone could say anything there was this goddess awful sound of something falling. And then suddenly before our eyes was Miranda and Daniel. Both of them full of blood. Rick is the first to reach Miranda, “I am okay, Rick, I am okay,” she says as she passes out. This is normal, I remind myself. Whenever she uses her powers, she needs Rick to help bring her back. Jenna is there to try and reach for Miranda, wanting to check her head wound. From what I could tell it was something Jenna could easily mend as she brushed her hand over it, and it stopped bleeding. Wanting to do a thorough check of Miranda, Jenna murmurs to Rick, “Let’s
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Sarah POV I finally had an opportunity to help support this effort. I knew it was minimal but at least I could keep track of Miranda. I would feel when she would have to cut the attachment to me. Me sharing my powers allowed her to extend the use of hers so it would give her an extra ten minutes at best. Rick stands and starts to pace. I say nothing. Nobody offers any words of platitude. There is nothing that can be done or said to make this any better. Kate and Jenna are discussing strategies quietly for when Miranda arrives back. Strategies that include if she is compromised in any way. Jack moves towards me, but I shake my head no. Anything could break our connection and it was not going to be me being distracted. The longer I could hold the connection, the longer she would have support. We did not know what she would encounter when she arrived, but my added powers would ensure her success. I wish I could see what she was seeing. I wi
