112 Chapter 112

112 Chapter 112

Damien’s POV 1

The soldiers lifted the unconscious woman from the ground, her limp body hanging between them like a broken doll. Her matted hair fell forward, completely obscuring her face, creating a curtain of filth and

tangles that made it impossible to make out her features. But something about her size, her frame-

The way her head tilted at that angle. The curve of her shoulder, even beneath the torn and bloodied fabric.

I slammed my eyes shut for a moment, forcing myself to breathe. I was seeing Sera everywhere now. In every shadow, every stranger, every fucking female form that crossed my path. My desperate mind playing tricks

on me, torturing me with false hope when I needed to stay focused. When I needed to find my mate, not chase ghosts.

This was just another rogue. Another piece of garbage that might have information about Sera’s whereabouts.

Nothing more.

“Move her to the jeep,” I ordered, my voice hoarse from three days of shouting orders and calling Sera’s name into empty forests. “Carefully. I don’t want her dying before we can question her.”

My throat felt raw, stripped bare from the constant ache of loss. Every word scraped against my vocal cords like broken glass.

Lucas nodded, signaling to the soldiers with sharp, efficient gestures. They started toward the vehicles, supporting the woman’s dead weight between them, her bare feet dragging through the dirt and fallen leaves.

I watched them move, my silver-blue eyes tracking every step. The woman’s head lolled back, exposing the pale column of her throat. Even from this distance, I could see the dark bruises there. Someone had tried to strangle her. Recently,

My wolf Alex stirred uneasily in my chest, but I pushed him down. I couldn’t afford to lose control. Not now.

Not when-

That’s when it happened.

A sound so soft I almost missed it. A whisper barely audible above the wind in the trees, carried on a breath

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from the very

“Adrian…”

My entire world stopped.

ice water, then immediately to molten

might burst. Every muscle in my body went rigid,

it felt like being struck

aching longing

crushed in

name. No one outside our pack,

the kind of monsters that might use a child as leverage against an

Pure, incandescent rage

outward like poison.

knew my son’s

I snarled, my alpha power exploding outward so forcefully

hit by an invisible wave.

heads bowed, their wolves cowering

“Put her down. NOW.”

carried such raw command that even Lucas flinched. The soldiers holding the woman released her immediately, confused and terrified by my sudden transformation from controlled leader to barely

discarded toy, her body hitting the earth with a

that should have

it just fed

been sent here. Sent to hurt my family. To finish what her

started when they took

been watching us? How long had they been planning this? First they steal my mate, probably torture her, maybe kill her. And now they send this

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like some kind of sick psychological

vision went red around the edges, a crimson haze that made

as they tried to shift

roared inside my mind, a sound of such primal rage that it made my skull feel

wanted blood.

he snarled in my mind. *RIP HER APART. SHE THREATENS OUR

crossed the distance in two massive strides, my body moving with the fluid

reached for her throat before I even fully realized

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