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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

hundred-square-mile radius around where she was

*Nothing* Always fucking nothing.

urge to shift, to let Alex

Not when rogue activity had been increasing

borders.

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changed, becoming more cautious. “Maybe we should consider that

like a whipcrack. “Don’t you dare

saying, maybe we

If she

was taken, I’ll burn down every rogue,” I snarled. My alpha power flared involuntarily, making

with menace. “I’ll tear apart

scent lingering on the sheets. Adrian’s toys scattered across the floor

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

worried.

pregnant,” I whispered, the words torn from my

Hurt. Scared. And

finish. The rage and helplessness were

suddenly went rigid inside my mind.

*Something’s wrong.*

felt it too, because his hand moved instinctively to his weapon. “You

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

confrontation.

the sound through the

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

a tight formation, weapons

A woman.

going on here?” I barked, my alpha voice cutting through the

“Alpha! We found

She was unconscious now.”

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asked, moving closer to examine the

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