Chapter 303
** Deacon’s POV **
The minutes tick by at a snail’s pace as every inch of the underground network is uncovered.
Only the section my bond group had been in had collapsed, or more likely, had been purposely destroyed. We only find one more teen, who was not buried but had been trapped in one of the small cut–out rooms by the collapsed earth.
“There’s no one else down there,” one of the guys with a molecular gift I’d brought in calls over to us.
“There is! Keep looking!” Josie demands as she moves more earth, going way beyond the original tunnels.
The guy looks at me and I give him a subtle nod to stop searching. It’s clear that Luke is not here, now I just have to convince Josie of that too.
I slowly approach Josie, with Axel and Theo beside me, and Mason starts making his way towards us from where he had been searching.
“Josie…” I start.
“Take me down there,” she demands, cutting me off.
sorry. Let’s get back to headquarters and come up with a plan to find him,” I say cautiously, knowing she is right on the edge of how much she can
here to deal with this mess, and now we are already thrown into yet another crisis, another
jump, I can make it,”
make it, she’d possibly break her ankles, but she would survive it
herself he is not there,” Mason says, and I nod
and Axel joins her, shifting to his huge wolf too. The pair begin sniffing around as the rest of us watch. I’m not sure what they think they will achieve by doing this. If they do pick up Luke’s scent, there’s no way
pick up, and I look over to Josie’s wolf as she focuses on something in what remains of one of the bedrooms. She paws at a blanket on the ground and then lets out a yip.
is it?” Theo asks as we walk
was in it smells toxic. I don’t
needle attached to the end. It looks empty, but there must be a trace amount of whatever its contents were still inside the
even though I know none
my phone to call Raff to let him know what Josie Has found,
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wait for him to get
it smell like?” Mason asks.
it’s acrid,” Axel says, shifting back to his human form. ” There’s also a faint scent of Luke
thinking Luke was injected with whatever is in the syringe and taken?” Theo
Tristan and history is repeating itself,” Mason growls, his fists clenching as he speaks the
register it has happened before she shoves Mason in the chest. “Don’t you
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