Chapter Fifty-One

Marcel’s POV

The phrase ‘you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’ comes to mind as we make our way back towards Pine Lake at a snails pace. I have always been fast, even for a Vampyre. Training and patrolling with the pack has been interesting, they aren’t as quick as I am but their endurance more than makes up for it. Travelling with these women is slow and frustrating. I know they can’t help it and I could run ahead and be back with Liberty in no time at all. It is at times like this that I really appreciate my genetic advantages.

Nobody back home has any idea where we are. They don’t know we have Christian or that Zander and I are out here together. The witches insist that there are Katasan all the way up and down the coast in both directions and the only way back is through the mountain range. Fortunately we are passing through one of the narrowest areas and the valley is wide and as even as one could hope for. There are boulders in our path and an occasional fallen tree to