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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."

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

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

''We should bring her back."

"I agree, we should-

had commanded me to escort her out of the territory.

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

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

way, Lily. Or I'll

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

I sniffed the

surely busy last night all into the wee hours of the morning.' Eli mind

no time to joke around Eli. This is

gets worst.'

brother Chris with me instead,

was a clown

it get on the barks of the trees? Must've been flexible wolves- 'Eli!' I growled, turning to stare at his wolf that bowed down and whimpered. Growling in frustration, I walked away from him, sniffing the ground

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

wolfsbane into her bloodstream would have been on her or beside her. This

going

head, confused by the ringing

I snarled.

Something wasn't right.

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 made the pounding i n my

hell is happening t

Did you really think I would allow you to let her go so easily?' He growled, pushing at

as I shook my head, hoping that it

I whirl around, unsure of what I was

the bond will grow. Were you really that dumb to think that

is something wrong?’ Eli bounds over to my

That sleazy

her go easily! Go to her!' He roared until

said in a panicked voice. But the more distance Aurora seems to place between us the more intense the pain gets.

too late. ' Reckon hisses, clawing at the restraints. Every second of pain is another second closer to

you?" Eli shifts into his human form, still on his knees and hands as he looks me

I needed her.

Aurora.

Xavier.

voice. It lures

is impossible to

yells behind me, seconds later I hear the cracking of his bones before the sound of his

the dirt as

over bushes, 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 pushes the

I roared, trapped inside my mind and I'm forced to look behind a barrier. "You were too slow. Too weak. I'm going to claim

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

how he was trying to keep up. Feel his

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