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I looked at theputer disying the security cameras. This was bing too much. How can
one pack be expected to hold back so many rogues? Wolves from all directions. Rabid wolves… I
was sure of it… Where were they alling from? This random attack hade so unexpectedly,
all the wolves had been called to fight. Sending our entire pack into turmoil. We trained for this, yet
when it came to it, nobody seemed to remember a thing about the training.
Ash, stay back, we cannot risk you or Caleb my Dad mindlinked.
My Dad was the current Beta of the pack, and I know he was right, but it was an instinct to want to
fight. To protect our pack. But I know why he was saying what he was. Caleb would be the next
Alpha, they did not want him risking, and me, as the nert Beta, was viewed in much the same way.
But, that did not stop me wanting to be out there. We had to protect our people!
“Dad, please. I urged him. We can help.”
‘No. Alpha’s orders. He tells me, and I look across to Caleb, already pacing the office, where we
had been instructed to wait,
“Not happening, you know that, right?” Caleb told me as he looked at me, noticing the tell-tale signs
of the zing of a mindlink had faded from my eyes.
“Why do you think I am already moving toward the door?” I grinned at him as I spoke. Neither Caleb
or I had ever been good at following instructions, and we had both been keen fighters. Besides, I
wanted to get this situation dealt with, I had a new mate I wanted to get home to!
Literally moments before the attack was announced, I had been getting settled in my house with my
new- found mate, I. I had only just turned 17 a matter of months ago, and I had been visiting a
neighboring pack for training, when I came across my mate. A daughter of their lead Warrior. A fiery
red-headed warrior queen. A true beauty. And she had blown me away. Some men wait years for
their mates, yet I had been lucky enough to find mine within weeks of me shifting and gaining my
wolf. And da mn, had I been blessed.
She was currently safely with the women and children within the safe rooms we have within our
pds. Yet, I was so desperate to go to her, already craving her scent and the need to be with
her. This da mn rogue issue needed dealing with. It was bing out of hand. Caleb and I ignored
the orders of our fathers and headed out of the door, to join our pack members in defending our
pack. We will not leave them fighting
alone.
My wolf pushed forward the moment we left the packhouse doors, my bones twisting and cracking,
altering shape and position to form therge and strong shape of my Beta Wolf, Zion. He took off
after the strong Alpha wolf of Caleb, Thor, toward the area we knew many of our pack were.
The breeze rustling through the thick, ck fur of Zion as he ran at speed, his paws pounding on
the grass. My mind was focused on the fight ahead of us. I was desperate to get back to I, but I
needed to be focused on the fight, of that there was no denying. We need to end this…
Suddenly, a tan-coloured wolf lunged at Zion at full speed with his ws out. Zion fell, but soon
steadied himself. He was more than used to fighting and getting out of unexpected tackles. Zion
aggressively grabbed
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looked around through his eyes I had lost sight of Thor. He had to have already gone and joined the
others fighting.
“Go and find them.’ I told my wolf, desperate now to go and help defend my pack. The way it should
be.
“Where do you think I am going?’ He responds, and with that he is running again, his movements a
little more cautious this time after being attacked unexpectedly before.
The
As we came around the edge of one of the many storage buildings on the pd, I could see a
flurry of wolves, some I recognized, others I did not. All attacking one another. It was a free for all by
all ounts. rogue wolves we had seen on the security cameras were out to do as much damage
and destruction as they could. I could see dead bodies littering the ground, and sadly many of them
I recognized. Zion too recognized them, causing a small whimper to slip from him, before he began
to move closer to the fighting when suddenly the most painful sound came through the mindlink.
Asher!”
My name was almost a shriek of pain. So much so, I could not recognize who it was. My heart was
pounding as I thought of I. She should be safe in the safe rooms. That is where the women and
children went when our pack waspromised. So they were not in any danger. Surely she had to
be okay? The rooms were
secure.
“I?’ I mindlink, hoping that the scream had not been hers, though I don’t like to think of anyone in
that pain.
“Baby, help us! They have got in.’ She screams, and at that moment I felt like my heart had stopped.
Zion turns his back on the pack fighting and speeds toward the packhouse. The speed at which he
reaches is likely the fastest I have experienced him run, darting and dodging between the trees and
buildings as he moves. A few short sharp kicks to the asional wolf we pass along the way that is
within our path…
Zion knows his mate needs him. He needs to be with her. He needed to save her. As we reach the
doors, Zion gives me control back, but the stench of blood is overpowering and my stomach churns
with nerves. Zion is still present despite giving me control, his presence rippling beneath my skin,
and he is whimpering within my mind. Scared for our mate….
The state of the area around the safe room is not good. It looked anything but safe now. Where is
she? I allowed my body to dislocate and shift back to my human form as quickly as possible, not
caring at that moment I was naked. I needed to get to my mate, and I dashed through the
underground passage to one of the safe rooms, the safe room I had sent I to before going to the
offices to meet Caleb. A safe room that I believed would keep my girl safe…
The corridor is littered with bodies… the walls stained with blood… I feel tears filling my eyes as I
begin to run, stepping over bodies as I do. Needing to find I. A sense of desperation filling me….
“I?!” I called. “I, where are you?!”
I entered the room, and I saw so many wounded pack members, a mixture of children, elderly, and
women all trying to tend to one another. But there were many dead bodies too. The rogues had
clearly done their damage and left the room, likely to find another to attack… My eyes darted
around the soul-destroying vision of a room, searching for my mate, hoping beyond all hope she
was still okay. Only for my eyes to settle upon her. Her beautiful fiery red hair stained with blood, as
she leans against the wall. The beautiful features of her face grimaced in pain. As I looked down to
see gaping wounds to her chest and lower stomach, it made
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My heart feels like it is crumbling at the sight of my injured mate, as I rush over to her, having to
ignore the many pack members reaching out to me for help. “I!” I so b, as I drop to my knees,
and gently pull her to me. her eyes are open but the look within them is so vacant I fear she is
already gone.
I am sorry baby.” She mindlinks, telling me she isn’t strong enough to speak. I tried to help. But they
kepting.”
“Let me mark you again, me doing that, along with your wolf trying to heal you may help?” I
suggested, seeing that her wounds did not seem to be healing. I fear they are too much for her wolf
to heal.
She slowly shakes her head, just a slight movement. I don’t think it will work, Ash. The wounds are
deep. It hurts.”
“Let me get the Dr’I told her.
Ash, people with stronger chances of healing need their help. I think I will struggle.’ I see her eyelids
keep flickering as she mindlinks me, like she is struggling to maintain consciousness and tears are
flooding down. my cheeks.
I reached for her hand, as I pulled her closer to me, gently kissing her head. ‘I please, we need to
try.”
Ash, I am tired. I am hurting. I am sorry. She links, a lone tear trickling down her face, though her
link sounds so weak, and I can feel the link fading. I cling to her as I gently stroke her hair.
“Okay beautiful, you go to sleep. You will stop hurting then. There is nothing to be sorry for. I love
you.”I whispered, knowing she was already going. She was likely already going the moment she
screamed my name. And the pain filling my body is the worst pain imaginable. I was her mate. I was
supposed to protect her and I had failed. I had failed in my duty as her mate, and it had cost my
beautiful I her life. I had lost my mate… my other half…when we had barely been given a chance
to build our lives together. Zion is howling within my mind, as tears flow from my eyes, mixing with
the blood upon the floor.
My heart is pounding within my chest as I sit up, sweating, tears dripping from my eyes as I wake
up. That dream…. no…. more nightmare, again. The same one… reliving that day… over and
over… it is what turned my life into a living hell. It is what makes it impossible to sleep. Fate blessed
me when they gave me I, then cursed me by sn*tching her away. Cursed me to a life of misery
and loneliness.. reliving the pain of losing her. How was a man meant to live with that? Or his wolf?