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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

longer Xavier's but that of his sister, Lily who looked

again. ''We should bring her

"I agree, we should-

starts but is cut off by a loud angry growl that came from the Beta. "The Alpha had commanded me to escort her out of

"That alpha is my brother! And he needs her just as she needs him

NOT disobey a command from my alpha!" Beta Samuel

way, Lily. Or I'll force you

causes the birds in the trees to scurry away into the sky. I looked to my

: Xavier's pov:

end of the border

I sniffed the ground. There must be something

guard this area were surely busy last night all into the wee hours of the

no time to joke around Eli. This is a

gets worst.'

Chris with me instead, at least

was a clown most of

literally sprayed on the barks of the trees. Hard to miss actually. What I'm wondering is how the hell did it get on the barks of the trees? Must've been flexible wolves- 'Eli!' I growled, turning to stare at his

marks, no signs of feet. There were no signs of anything. It was as if

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

intensely, my gaze suddenly going cloudy. I blinked, my head lifting as my ears

head, confused by the ringing in

I snarled.

Something wasn't right.

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?' Eli mind links in curiosity. But his voice only

happening t o us?!

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

shook

do?!' I roared, gasping as I

anything. This was all your actions. Your fault. The farther she gets away from us, the more painful the bond will grow. Were you really that dumb to think that the bond wouldn't be against this absurd idea of yours?' He growls, pushing more

something wrong?’ Eli bounds over

when I casted her out. Didn't you?’ I growled at Reckon. That sleazy dog. He would do anything to

to be taught a lesson. She's ours and I wouldn't let her go easily! Go

in a panicked voice. But the more distance Aurora seems to place between us the more intense the pain gets. I growled, roaring when

' Reckon hisses, clawing at the restraints. Every second

his human form, still on his knees and hands as he looks me

I needed her.

Aurora.

Xavier.

voice. It

shaking my head before the urge to go to her is impossible to

me, seconds later I hear the cracking of his bones before the sound of his paws hitting

dirt as I take up speed. I needed to be beside her. I needed

and cared less about the birds that scurried away when they heard me. I was growling, losing a battle with my wolf as he quickly

mind and I'm forced to look behind a

We were close. And that alone makes Reckon more untameable. He growls, his paws digging into

how he was trying to keep up. Feel his confusion

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