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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come from the very depths

“Adrian…”

My entire world stopped.

my veins turned to ice water, then immediately to molten

so hard I thought it might burst. Every muscle in my body went

felt like being

with such aching longing that it made my chest

crushed in a

outside our pack, our family, our inner

the kind of monsters that

followed immediately by fire. Pure, incandescent rage that started in my

outward like poison.

knew my

my alpha power exploding outward so forcefully that the very

trees around us swayed as if hit by an invisible wave. Every soldier within fifty feet dropped

their wolves cowering before the fury of

“Put her down. NOW.”

that even Lucas flinched. The soldiers holding the woman released her immediately, confused and terrified by my sudden transformation from

discarded toy, her body hitting the earth with a

have

it just fed my

son’s name. She’d been sent here.

they took Sera

mate, probably torture

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like some kind of sick

a crimson haze that made everything look like it was

My teeth ached as they tried to shift into

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

wanted blood.

my mind. *RIP

the distance in two massive strides, my body moving with the fluid violence of a

hands reached for her throat

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