Chapter 57 

My heart didn’t stop racing until I reached the city limits, then a new fear rolled over me. Axton! I was risking so much coming back here, and I wasn’t naive enough to believe would skip over the border unnoticed. That assumption was correct the moment I am met with border patrol, and I am forced to stop. Bright lights shone down on me as I approached the barricade. 

Why such extremes? I wondered. This was a crazy amount of security for Nightfall City. One of the men on patrol walks over to my window and taps it, wanting me to roll it down. Lexa growls in my head. “I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all.” She panics. If we reverse out, they will chase us. We don’t roll down the damn window. They will attack us. 

“Elena, we need to…fuck!” Lexa curses, knowing that if we run now. We may be too late to help mom. Yet we stay. I have a strange feeling it is going to be hell getting back out of this 

City 

 

My hands shake on the steering wheel, and I suck in a breath as I crack the window just enough to see his eyes. 

“Pack and name?” the man demands before he sniffs the air. He could smell I was rogue, fuck! “Ma’am, I need you to step out of the car,” 

“I’m visiting family,” I tell him. 

“Until we verify that, I need you to step out of the car,” he tells me when I see more patrols come over as back up. I grit my teeth and grip the gear stick, about to throw the car in reverse when I spot none other than Eli. Axton’s Beta walking over. 

“Issue, Malik?” he asks before glancing in the window before 

keep

had locked it. “Elena, unlock the door and get out of the car.” | glance at him. “I’m not here to see Axton, tell

for you everywhere, are the boys in there with you?” he asks, trying

to look at him. “Grant my access and let me into the city,” I tell him.

of the car,” I growl, my hands gripping the steering wheel tighter. “Get the Alpha.”

handle, but I don’t stop making him fall over, and

you have sharpened those claws Lexa, we are going to need them to get out of this shit,” I tell her, speeding down the main street headed toward my father’s pack territory. The

chasing me. 

blaring, but I don’t stop, knowing if I can cross the border into

I jump the island into oncoming traffic. Thankfully it was the dead of the night, no cars at this hour. I quickly go

forty-five minute drive from one end of the city to the other was done in a quarter of that and the car becomes airborne

before giving chase as I smash straight through the boom gate, sending the wood splintering to pieces and cracking the windshield. Glancing in the mirror, I see the six men on patrol shift

up at the pack house and my father is waiting, prepared for the intruder as pull up into the driveway, running over his mailbox that was a mini replica of the two story pack house. His manicured lawns ruined as the tires tear up the grass. My father stands all imposing on the top steps, unperturbed by my entrance into his pack.

a mask of shock when I toss the door of the car open and climb out. Lexa presses beneath my skin, ready to try to take on his Aura that I know he will use to make me submit. So this element of surprise was my only

across his lawn, coming up behind me. I glance over my shoulder as they close in, and

shock transforms to anger.

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