Chapter 138-2
Chapter 138-2
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Whimpering, she rested her forehead against my chest while we captured our breath. “Better?” I whispered as I kissed the top of her head.
“My Goddess, I think you’ll have to carry me back.”
That was exactly what I wanted. Sated and relieved.
Unfortunately, as I lowered her to her feet, I felt something inside me tense.
Pack bonds.
Something was wrong.
Kiana’s eyes widened, and I knew that she was feeling it too. I plunged my hands into my pocket and pulled out my phone just as the security alert went off.
Someone had breached our perimeter.
She didn’t even ask any questions. Clothes tore as she released her wolf, and I was right there with
her. We turned and ran.
Seven wolves were dead, and two of them were ours.
I didn’t bother containing my fury as I shifted back to human. The fight was already over. Jenson’s fangs sank into the last wolf, and I watched the light die in his eyes.
I walked over to the two grew wolves closest to the border. “Jay and Michael,” I murmured as my heart sank. They were young. Mid-twenties. Strong and loyal. For a moment, I let grief wave over
me as their bonds dimmed and dusted.
“What happened?” I asked slowly as rage grew from their darkened bonds.
“They were killed instantly,” Alanna said quietly. “They were posted here at seventy-six. I was posted at seventy-seven. My alarm went off when their section was breached. I…I did what I was supposed to do.” Her voice broke. “I secured my perimeter. I was alone in the quadrant, and I didn’t
want to leave. They were dead before I arrived, and I was here within minutes.”
“You did what you were supposed to do. This is not your fault,” I assured her as I pulled her under
my arm. The contact seemed to calm her, and she relaxed against me. “There were eight total. Quadrant seventy-five showed up just as I was attacked, and then Jenson and the rest of the
guards.”
She hadn’t stayed in wolf form for long. Her injuries were still healing.
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Jenson’s wolf moved from body to body, sniffing and snarling before he shifted. “Rogues,” he spat. “Why would they do this? It’s a suicide mission.”
Kiana’s wolf slowly approached Alanna, and the female guard didn’t have any hesitation as she let me go, lowered herself to her knees and wrapped her arms around Kiana. I could see the hesitation in my mate’s eyes, but she stayed and lent the comfort so desperately needed.
Jenson and his wolves were barely scratched. “Skyler, Peter, if Jenson doesn’t need you, I’d you to take over quadrants seventy-six and seventy-seven until the next shift.”
Skyler immediately disappeared into the darkness to relieve Alanna, and Peter began to prowl the perimeter. “Alanna, Kiana will escort you to the infirmary. I know you seem fine, and if the healer says you can go home, then you can go home.
Everyone else, if you came from a quadrant, return to your station. You three, I want the rogue bodies dragged out of our territory and left as a warning for anything else thinking of pulling a stunt like this. The rest of you, full perimeter check. I will join you as soon as Jenson and I get Michael and Jay’s bodies back.”
Wolves scattered. Alanna took one last look at the fallen bodies of her comrades and turned to follow Kiana back. I turned to my second. “You got here quickly.”
“I was heading to Irene’s,” he admitted as he glanced down at the ground. “I’ve been spending my nights there to make sure the witches were safe.”
I doubted that was his only reason.
“We’re running some training exercises at quadrant fifty, so I had extra guards there. They came without prompting. I shouldn’t have had Alanna alone, but her quadrant is fairly inaccessible from the outside. Still, if we hadn’t arrived when we did…”
There would be three of our dead instead of two. “I want all the on-call guards at stations for the rest of the night. No one guards alone, and at our weaker points, I want three to four wolves. We’re
on alert red.”
“You don’t think this was a one-time thing?”
Rogue attacks weren’t all that rare, but eight wolves attacking? And during a time like this? “You said it was a suicide mission? I can’t help but wonder if there is another wolf out there watching.”
“And timing our reaction,” Jenson completed grimly as he stared out in the darkness. “You are expecting this to happen again.”
“For right now, I’m going to always expect the worst. If Claudine is sending rogues to test us, then I want them put down hard and fast. Jay and Michael died to protect this pack. She should know
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that every wolf here is willing to do the same.”
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