Total pages in book: 47
Estimated words: 45970 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 230(@200wpm)___ 184(@250wpm)___ 153(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45970 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 230(@200wpm)___ 184(@250wpm)___ 153(@300wpm)
He dropped the gun, and his hands covered hers where they wrapped around the cage. Amelia screamed as he squeezed them, almost crushing them. She felt some of her bones break, and the pain went to the next level.
“Do you have any idea what that’s like?” he asked. “Killing things you don’t want to?”
“Milton, stop this. This isn’t who you are.”
“Oh, but it is. It is exactly who I am, and I am going to see how much you can suffer.”
She didn’t want to die. Nor did she want to hurt him, but there was no way to stop him. He was on the warpath.
With the strength she had left, she squeezed the bars tightly and then shoved hard.
Chapter Twelve
Wolfe had picked up her scent easily.
Tipping his head back, he inhaled and followed where she was going. At some point, exactly where Buster was bitten, Amelia’s scent changed.
He couldn’t recall ever smelling anything quite like it.
“Do you smell that?” he asked, turning toward Alpha.
The club brothers were on high alert. It was a scent they couldn’t quite detect.
“I’ve smelled this before,” Enzo said. He breathed in again. “I’ve smelled it all over the fucking forest.”
“Me too,” Draco said.
Gunnar, Gray, Ryker, and Rocco all agreed.
“It has a human … twinge of a smell to it,” Alpha agreed. He breathed in again. “It’s mixed with Amelia’s.”
They followed the smell for a good hour, and then came to the edge of their forest.
They had no choice but to head on the main road.
“Split into groups,” Alpha said.
They were all packing. It was rare for them to take guns, but now they were going out into the open, there was a higher risk of them interacting with humans, and clawing them to death didn’t bode well.
With his gun locked and loaded, he slid it back into the back of his jeans and then walked side by side with Alpha. The guys were at their back, with Ryker and Gunnar taking the lead.
“She’s never going to forgive me,” Wolfe said.
“I doubt it.”
Wolfe shook his head, turning toward his prez. “Are you kidding me, right now? Where is my guy? You know, the one that is supposed to have my back?” he asked.
“You want me to lie to you. Fine, Amelia, is going to look at you and see the man she loves. You’ll mate, have lots of babies, and live happily ever after.”
“Now, you’re laying it on thick, man. Geez. I was just hoping for…”
“What? Me to coat it in fairy tales? You told her to her face that she lied. You convinced the club that she lied. Then, of course, I’m not even getting started on the fact that she’s … supposedly weak.” Alpha shook his head.
“Come on, you’re telling me that you’d still mate with a woman who is weaker than you?” Wolfe asked.
“Yes.”
“I don’t believe you.”
“Believe what you want to. You’d think after seeing Draco’s pain, you would’ve gotten it by now.” Alpha chuckled. “I’m guessing not.”
They continued to walk for several miles, which didn’t make this any easier for him.
“I didn’t mean to fuck anything up,” he said, admitting the truth.
“Okay.”
“Dude, you’re not going to help me out?”
“What can I do? What can I tell you that is going to make any of this okay for you?” Alpha asked.
Wolfe gripped the back of his neck. “I don’t know. Be a friend.”
“I am being a friend. I’m not going to allow you to live in the clouds.” Alpha slapped him on the back.
This wasn’t any comfort to him at all. Not even slightly. In fact, this was starting to piss him off. He didn’t say anything though, just kept walking until they came toward the smell that intensified.
Wolfe froze as he saw a veterinary practice up ahead.
Ryker and Gunner had moved on a bit but came jogging back toward them.
“Her scent is coming from the vet’s,” Ryker said.
Wolfe continued to stare at the building, wondering if she had lost track of time, when all of a sudden, they heard it, a scream.
Amelia’s scream, mixed in with a growl unlike anything Wolfe had ever heard.
They didn’t have a plan, but right now, they didn’t have time to make one. They all took off, he and Alpha taking the lead and crashing their way through the door.
There was no one around. Everything was clear. Not a damn thing out of place.
Then, he heard it. Amelia’s sobs. His woman was crying.
Alpha headed around the back, and they came to a locked door. One tug, and it was open, leading them down into a basement, and then he saw it, the carnage.
There was a cage with the door hanging off the hinges.
Blood was inside the cage, coating the walls, and then he looked down. Amelia was in a puddle of it. Her leg was at an odd angle. More blood came from the wound in her shoulder.