Chapter 136

Chapter 136

“That was stupid,” he panted. “Now I’m angry.”

Panic consumed me completely. This was it. This was how I was going to die. Not from my condition, but here in the dirt with this monster.

I opened my mouth and screamed with everything I had left.

“Alexander!”

Alexander

“Take her to the hospital,” I told Liam as I helped Lilith into his car. Blood was still trickling from the gash on her temple, and she looked ready to collapse. “Make sure they check for a concussion.”

“What about you?” Liam asked.

“I’m going after Ella.”

“Alexander, we should call the police-”

“There’s no time.” I slammed the car door. “Go.”

Liam’s car disappeared down the street, leaving me alone outside the restaurant. I pulled out my phone and called Gabriel.

“I need you to call the police and put out the word,” I said without preamble. “Sophia’s red convertible is heading out of town. I need to know which direction it went.”


“What’s going on?”

Find

my own car, my hands shaking as I started the engine. Someone had taken my

rang as I pulled out of the restaurant parking

saw a red

was

the forest

I floored the accelerator.

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Chapter 138

roads with no streetlights and nothing but trees on either side. I’d managed to track the convertible this far through a combination of Gabriel’s contacts and sheer luck-a farmer had seen it turn onto Old Mill Road, and a jogger had spotted it near

the trail had

car, trying to think Where would someone take a kidnapped woman out here? The old logging roads crisscrossed through miles of forest, leading to dozens of abandoned


search for hours, even days, and

Suddenly, my wolf stirred.

caught the faintest trace of Ella’s scent

and vanilla

scent trail deeper into the forest. It led me off the main road and down a narrow dirt track that

stronger as I drove, so I knew I was getting closer. But whatever

I saw it—an old barn mostly hidden by overgrown bushes,

gap in the barn’s broken boards, I

camera.

a

was

I didn’t think.

I just shifted.

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