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Damien’s POV 1

The morning sun beat down mercilessly as I led Lucas along the eastern border patrol route, but I barely felt

the heat. Every step forward was torture. Every breath was agony.

*Sera.*

Three days. Three fucking days since we’d returned home to find her gone. Three days of search teams

coming back empty-handed. Three days of my world slowly crumbling apart.

“Alpha,” Lucas’s voice cut through my spiraling thoughts. “The thermal drones picked up movement about

two miles north. Could be our search teams, but-”

“But could be rogues,” I finished, my voice rough from lack of sleep. My silver-blue eyes scanned the treeline

ahead, searching for any sign of movement. Any sign of *her*.

Alex, my wolf, prowled restlessly beneath my skin. He’d been agitated for days now, pacing and snarling

inside my mind. But it wasn’t just impatience. It was something worse.

The bond was breaking.

I could feel it happening. Slowly. Like ice cracking under pressure. Each hour that passed without contact,

without even the faintest whisper through our mindlink, the connection grew weaker.

The silence was killing me.

“How many teams do we have out there now?” I asked, forcing myself to focus on the present.

“Twelve, Lucas replied immediately. “Every available warrior. Plus the helicopters and drone units. We’ve

a hundred-square-mile radius around where she was last

*Nothing* Always fucking nothing.

into fists. The urge to shift, to let Alex

patrol. Not when rogue activity had

borders.

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more cautious. “Maybe

word came out like a whipcrack.

his hands in surrender. “I’m just saying, maybe we need to expand the

If she was

taken, I’ll burn down every rogue,” I snarled. My

menace. “I’ll tear apart anyone who dared

toys scattered across the floor where

left. The note she’d written-a simple explanation that she was going

worried.

my chest. “Our baby,

Hurt. Scared. And I can’t-”

finish. The rage and helplessness were

rigid inside my mind.

*Something’s wrong.*

because his hand moved instinctively to his weapon. “You feel

my enhanced hearing. In the distance, voices. Shouting.

confrontation.

sound through the dense pine forest. My heart hammered

exertion. From hope. Maybe-maybe they’d found something.

in a tight formation, weapons drawn. Between them and us lay a figure on

A woman.

I barked, my alpha voice cutting through

to attention. “Alpha! We found this one about

She was unconscious now.”

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