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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."

to have

in front of me is no longer Xavier's but that of his sister,

over my shoulder again. ''We should bring

"I agree, we should-

but is cut off by a loud angry growl that came from the Beta. "The Alpha had commanded me to escort her out of the territory. Not

rises to her feet and glared at the Beta. "That alpha is my brother! And he

command from my alpha!" Beta Samuel growled loudly,

Lily. Or

to my left to see that it was Chris who took a warning step forward, his eyes trained on Beta

: Xavier's pov:

the end of the border

Eli as I sniffed the ground. There

the smell of sex, then no. I have to say the wolves we placed here to guard this area were surely busy last night all into the wee hours of the morning.' Eli mind links, chuckling. If I could roll my eyes right

around Eli. This

before it gets

brother Chris with me instead, at least

a clown most of

it get on the barks of the trees? Must've been flexible wolves- 'Eli!' I growled, turning to

no paw marks, no signs of feet. There were no signs of anything. It

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

the ground intensely, my gaze suddenly going cloudy. I blinked, my head lifting

confused by the ringing

I snarled.

Something wasn't right.

worst until I couldn't even hear the rustling of the leaves as the

What the hell is happening t o

go so

into the earth as I shook my head, hoping

roared, gasping as I whirl around, unsure of what I

more painful the bond will grow. Were you really that dumb to think that the bond wouldn't be against this absurd idea

wrong?’ Eli bounds over to my

casted her out. Didn't you?’ I growled at Reckon. That sleazy

She's ours and I wouldn't let her go easily! Go to her!' He

the more distance Aurora seems to place between us the more intense the pain gets. I growled, roaring when I

' Reckon hisses, clawing at the restraints. Every second of pain is another

with you?" Eli shifts into his human form, still on

I needed her.

Aurora.

Xavier.

It

growled, shaking my head before the urge to go to her is impossible to fight. I turn around only to bound in the direction I

of his bones before the sound of his paws hitting the

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

the birds that scurried away when they heard me.

look behind a barrier. "You were too slow. Too weak. I'm going to claim her!' He snarls,

already take the scent of Aurora. We were close. And that alone makes Reckon more untameable. He growls, his paws

trying to keep up. Feel

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