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"Bond?" Beta Samuel's voice is thick with confusion.

But I can't seem to focus much on their words, my gaze growing hazier by the second, the air whooshing out my lungs harsher by the second.

I take a staggering step forward, intending to perhaps steady myself on the bark of a tree, but there was no bark but air. I topple to the ground, my knees hitting the dirt as I gasp.

This was painful.

"Aurora!" Lily screech. I could feel her fingers wrap around my upper arm, maybe trying to steady me before I ungracefully fall to the ground fully.

"Xavier-" I moaned in pain as I looked around aimlessly at the thick foliage around us.

All I could make out was green and brown.

Green and brown.

My ears rang and I groan, my hands reaching up to cup them. "Stop. Please stop." I whispered hoarsely. Aurora.

Suddenly the ringing stops and I freeze. That voice. The voice I now crave to hear. His voice. Xavier's voice. But surely he wasn't here.

Surely he'd not come to take me back? "Aurora," a soft touch to my arm nearly has me flinching, but I recognize Lily as she kneels before me and looks at me in worry.

Those eyes.

That color.

"I've heard of this happening to mated couples who haven't been rejected yet and are forced to stay away from each other. The bond doesn't allow them to part. It forces them to get back to the other's side. Even if it means pain."

This was Sarah's voice right?

I couldn't tell, my mind a little slow to understand anyone else's voice other than his.

" But Aurora and Alpha Xavier's case is rather different. He casted her out but did not reject her. This makes the bond now more painful as it sorts for answers. " She continues.

Lily turns to look at Sarah over my shoulder. "Answers?" She asked in confusion.

"The bond seeks for answers that Xavier alone can give. Either he rejects her, or he accepts her. But she can't go out of the border. If she does, I fear that may very well be the end of her. And him." Sarah whispers.

"What bond are you talking about!?" Beta Samuel snarls in frustration. "Beta Samuel, I know you were

always a bit slow but never did I ever imagine you to be a fool." Lily sighed heavily before looking at me.

My gaze was still hazy but I could see the deep concern in her eyes. "Aurora. Can you stand up?" Lily asked.

I blinked, staring at her blankly as her face merges into the face of her brother. My breathing grows and my heart thuds. "Xavier?" I whispered. I'm coming to you.

There goes his voice again. The rough sweet sound that sent shivers down my spine.

"Aurora."

A firm shake to my shoulders and Lily's loud screech seem to have done the job of bringing me out

me is no longer Xavier's but

looks over my shoulder again. ''We should bring her back." She rushes

"I agree, we should-

a loud angry growl that came from the Beta. "The Alpha had commanded me to escort her out of the territory. Not bring her back. I will

the Beta. "That alpha is my brother! And he needs her

disobey a command from my alpha!" Beta Samuel growled loudly, the sound of his

Lily. Or I'll force you

the birds in the trees to scurry away into the sky. I looked to my left to see that

: Xavier's pov:

the end of the border where

I mind linked Eli as I sniffed the ground. There must be something we missed yesterday. There must

have to say the wolves we placed here to guard this area were surely busy last night all into the wee

is no time to joke around Eli. This is a

before it gets worst.'

with me instead, at least

was a clown

did it get on the barks of the trees? Must've been flexible

There were no signs of anything. It was as if one would think it

wolves weren't cowards and if it were indeed Mary, the syringe she used to push the wolfsbane into her bloodstream would have been on her or beside her. This was a very confusing situation that I indeed

suddenly going cloudy. I blinked, my head

confused by the

I snarled.

Something wasn't right.

try to somehow move the haziness in my eyes. The ringing in my ears gets worst until I couldn't even hear the rustling of the leaves as the wind tickled them. 'Alpha?'

hell is happening

you really think I would allow you to let her go so easily?' He growled, pushing at the restraints I hold him in. Shit. He was trying to take full control of

as I shook my head, hoping that it

I whirl around, unsure

do anything. This was all your actions. Your fault. The farther she gets away from us, the more painful the bond will grow. Were

Eli bounds over to

you?’ I growled at Reckon. That sleazy dog. He would

ours and I wouldn't let her go easily!

between us the more intense the pain gets. I

clawing at the restraints. Every second of pain is another second closer

what the hell is going on with you?" Eli shifts into his human form, still on his knees

I needed her.

Aurora.

Xavier.

voice. It

is impossible to fight. I turn around only to bound in the direction I could

the cracking of his bones before the sound of his paws

I snarl, digging my paws into the dirt as I take up speed. I needed to be beside her. I needed her.

cared less about the birds that scurried away when they heard me. I was

me back control.' I roared, trapped inside my mind and I'm forced to look behind a barrier. "You were

scent of Aurora. We were close. And that alone makes Reckon more untameable.

still hear Eli just behind me. Hear how he was trying to keep up. Feel his confusion and panic as

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