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.

and come up with a plan to find him,” I say cautiously, knowing she is right on

deal with this mess, and now we are

there, or I’ll jump, I can

in the ground. She could make it, she’d possibly break her ankles, but she would survive it

take us down there, D, she isn’t going to rest until she sees for herself he is not there,” Mason

as the rest of us watch. I’m not sure what they think they will achieve by doing this. If

reach out to Luke through the bond again, but there’s nothing. Just an empty void where I should feel hin My heart rate begins to 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. Axel

is it?” Theo asks as we walk towards them.

whatever was in it smells toxic. I don’t like how this looks,” Axel responds in the

sure enough, there is a syringe with a needle attached to the end. It looks empty, but there must be a trace amount of whatever

I say, even though I

to let him know what Josie Has found, and he tells me he is already

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wait for him to get

smell like?”

It’s nothing I have ever smelt before, but it’s acrid,” Axel says, shifting back to his human form. ” There’s also a faint scent of Luke here,” he adds as Josie

injected with whatever is in the syringe

and history is repeating itself,” Mason growls, his fists

shifts back to her human form so fast that I barely register it has happened before she shoves Mason in the chest. “Don’t you fucking

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