Chapter 123: Theo

I was racing down the freeway. Weaving through traffic. Driving on the shoulder when necessary.

“Ayla, don’t go inside,” I begged. “I’m twenty minutes away.”

I heard a car door shut on the other end of the line. I knew she was going into the house.

“Ayla, stay out of there,” I yelled.

“Ma! Kylee!” I heard Ayla calling through the house over and over.

“Ayla,” I kept trying to get her attention.

“Theo,” she finally responded, “they’re not here. Something’s not right.”

“Okay, baby, I need you to get out of the house,” I urged. “I’m almost there.”

Ayla cried out suddenly. I heard struggling sounds on the line.

“Ayla,” I yelled.

The call went quiet before cutting out.

I gunned the engine, pushing as fast as I possibly could without ensuring I crashed on the way there. Twenty minutes may have been generous, but I made it. Skidding into the yard on two wheels. Launching myself out of the car and sprinting into the house. Something in me knew she wasn’t there, but I ignored it. Calling out to her as I checked every inch of the house.

There was no sign of her.

How could the Waar Pak have found her?

out to the car

demanded when Pierce answered. “I don’t want a war, Pierce, but he just fucking started one if you don’t tell

Theo,” Pierce said, “if you mean Ayla,

followed her. He took her and you’re going to

Ayla’s been

to her when

he replied. “He has been

mind didn’t want to believe him, but my gut

the truth.

address,” Pierce insisted.

hung up before I could protest. That’s

wiper of the car Ayla was driving

it off, pulling the card out.

she was mine.

would come for her.

Give up.

never find us in time to stop

true mate.

message to pieces

a team to Marie’s

Pak find her?” he asked.

not the Waar Pak,” I said. “It’s her stalker. The bastard took Kylee and Marie,

message.

isn’t working with

entirely,” I replied. “But the Waar Pak want Ayla dead. This guy just wants her. He’s infatuated with her.” The next thought

happen, man,” Briggs insisted. “Keep your head, Theo. Start looking. We’re coming.”

scents in the air. Ayla’s was the first my mind registered. My senses honing in on her instinctually. I followed her path through the house. I found the phone she had been using on the floor near the dining room. I bent down to pick

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