Chapter 24..-2
“He’s alpha of the Wolfspire Pack.”
“Pack? There are no packs here.”
“You really aren’t from around here. Who the hell wants to come here? There are four packs here
on the mountain.”
“Is Gideon’s one of them?”
“What? No, Gideon has a camp. I’m talking hundreds, maybe even thousands of wolves. Troy has the biggest pack. London has the smallest pack, but they have an awesome brewery. You were drinking some of his beer at dinner. Snake River. Um…there’s Indigo Peak, but I heard their alpha died recently. She was this insanely old and powerful wolf. And there’s Blood Moon Pass. Their alpha is Morven Tiggs.”
This time, I was the one who stopped short. “Morven,” I growled. “Are you sure?”
Victor tried to ease away from me, but I grabbed him and pulled him closer before he got himself killed. “Yes,” he said slowly. “I’m sure. Why?”
“Morven is an alpha on Shadowed Moon Mountain?”
“Shadowed Moon Mountain? Is that what you call this place? Whatever, dude. Yeah, he’s an alpha. I was going to try to make my way to him when I was older. He has a reputation for taking in rogues.
This changed everything. “How do I get to him?”
“Uh…I guess the way we’re going is the best way. He’s over the peak, but I think we’d have to go more west than east. Troy is east.”
Every bone in my body screamed to go east, but something didn’t add up. “Does everyone know about these packs?”
“Sure. They’ve been around for ages. You can’t really explore the mountain without having to deal with them. Why?”
“What about the humans who aren’t humans?” They’d been awfully vague about going to see Troy.
If everyone knew of the packs, then so should they. Why didn’t they give me directions straight to
Morven?
“Probably.”
My amulet went white-hot, and I stopped. “Shit,” Victor muttered. “A lot of magic ahead of us and
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to the left of us.”
“And to the right?”
“Still magic, but not as much.”
I turned right. The fog was still so damn thick. “Get behind me,” I muttered. “Form a single line. Duke, bring up the back. Nyx and Tessa in the middle.”
Nobody argued, and I turned right. A few steps in, the hair on my arms started to rise, and electricity tickled at my skin. A wet drop hit my nose, and I looked up.
Chiarn
The fog disappeared just as lightning streaked from the sky and hit a tree next to us. “Forward,” I roared over the thunder and surged ahead. Hands grabbed my waist and everyone cussed as we
barely got out of the tree’s way. The ground shook behind us as it cracked and fell.
Another bolt of lightning hit a tree to our left. We weren’t this unlucky. No way was this random.
The storm was hunting us, but the amulet wasn’t heating up against my skin.
“Left!” Victor shouted. “Go left!”
Praying the kid was right, I banked left and started to run, pulling the group behind me. Rain poured
from the skies, and the ground under us turned to mud. One false move, and we’d slide right down
the embankment and into another spell trap.
Although this was no spell trap. Someone was doing this.
The amulet burned in my hand. “Hold,” I barked, and stopped.
“Rhyson,” Tessa screamed, and I turned to see her rising up into the air. Nyx and Dante were
desperately clinging to her, but they were losing their footing.
Taking a chance, I held the amulet out. “We mean you no harm. We were told we could pass safely through by the witches of the south.”
The lightning died, and I held my breath. Tessa dropped like a stone, and Dante managed to catch
her in time. Slowly, the rain stopped, and to my shock, the air started to shimmer around us.
A mirage dropped, and I realized in horror that we were a mere four feet from a large stone
building rising up into the air. A wooden door hung sideways on its hinges, and the windows were all broken. Part of one side of the building had completely crumbled, and the room was exposed.
Standing on the top floor with her dark hair whipping in the wind, a woman stared down at me, her hands in the air, and her eyes blazing with fury.
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