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“Ezra!” I yell through the link. As Kora is tackled, she sinks her teeth into the brown wolfe’s neck and shakes her head viciously before tossing it off with her back legs. It gets to its feet blood coating its fur when we feel sharp teeth sink out our back leg and Kora spins biting its tail as it grabs us. Teeth sink into our side, Kora whimpers before turning trying to fight the two wolves as they keep attacking, giving her no rest.
My mother’s growl coming from the side of us as she too was drenched in blood before she barrels into the brown wolf and Kora manages to take down the other. My eyes scanned our surroundings as rogues kept coming and Jackson’s two pack warriors standing on the edge waiting for us to be taken down when my fathers wolf attacked one of them, jumping him from behind as he rips into his side. Maddox also came running from the front of the packhouse and up the side of the house jumping into the fray as our pack warriors fought them back.
Kora whimpers in pain spinning around before teeth sink into our shoulder and neck tearing a junk of flesh away and she staggers before being forced to shift back.
I clutch my neck trying to stem the bleeding before getting to my feet.
“Kat, get inside and lock it down” Ezra says and I look for Maddox to see him fighting three wolves, my father still fighting the man I saw who had now shifted. Yet I don’t see the other one and Angie and Jasmine shift back also running for the packhouse. Jasmine grabs my arm, dragging me upright, and forcing me to run toward the back door. When I hear my mothers voice scream above the fighting. “Kat!” She screams through the link when I hear the first shot fired, echoing off the trees just as Maddox kills the last of the three wolves. Jasmine jerked me out of the way and I felt the breeze of the bullet skip past me.
“Maddox growls, tearing off to the side and my eyes dart toward where he is running to when I see the other man with a gun in his hand aimed directly at me and Jasmine. It was like time slowed down when the next shot rang out loudly just as Maddox ripped into him. I closed my eyes and there was no escaping it, when I heard a scream from behind me. I waited for the impact only it come from the wrong direction, sending me flying and knocking the air out of my lungs as I smacked the ground with a thud before hearing a thud behind me and a gasp of air being expelled.
Rolling over, I groaned before looking up. My mother had a stunned look on her face and at first I didn’t understand why she was looking at me like that. I felt dazed until she coughed, blood spewing from her lips and she looked down. My eyes follow hers to the blood pouring from the centre of her chest, just as I hear a horrid wailing sound, the sound so deafening it hurts me just to hear it as it clawed at my heart. Mother gasps her hand clutching at her chest before she collapses in a heap on the ground. My entire world just stopped in an instant. My heart shattered into a million sharp pieces.
“Mum!” I scream, pushing off my hands and rushing toward her when I am tackled, my father grabbing me and forcing me back while she lay motionless bleeding on the grass only metres away.
“Let go, let go. I can help her” I scream thrashing and trying to get out of his arms “She is gone baby, she is gone you can’t save her” father cries refusing to let go.
“I can help her please, she is your mate” I scream trying to break out of his grip.
“And you’re my daughter” He chokes out when Kora forces the shift and we break out of his arms, Kora running to save her, we can bring her back. Her howl agonised as we got to her before I felt arms wrap around our torso ripping us backwards.
“No, Love, you won’t heal” Ezra’s voice says next to her ear and she bites into his arm but he doesn’t let go, instead pulling us away before falling as she thrashes trying to get to mum. Rogues were dead everywhere and Jasmine was cupping her mouth with her hands in shock when I saw my father get up, walking over to her body before he bent down picking her up. Taking her away from us and Kora shifts back.
Ezra’s arms tightening around me. “No, no, no please” I scream after my father but he just looks at me, tears streaking his face before he turns.
“I can’t let you sweetie, I’m sorry” He says before running off with her.
“No” I scream, my chest twisting painfully as I scream. The sound so agonised and foreign I couldn’t recognise it as my own. I couldn’t breathe, I felt like I was choking on my despair the further he got from, the further he took her away. All I could feel was pain, pain like I never thought possible, like a piece of me just broke off, a piece I wasn’t sure I could live without, she was gone.
I try to get up, but Ezra doesn’t let go, instead his grip only tightening when I see Mateo step out of the tree, Jasmine stepping toward me, tears slipping down her cheeks as she stared at me but didn’t help. I hated them, hated them all. She didn’t have to die, I could have saved her.
“No, I won’t let you, your father won’t let you, kat” Ezra says and I turn in his arms smacking into him.
“I hate you, I Fuking hate you. She is my mother, I Fuking hate you” I scream at him, hitting him trying to make him let go. When I see his eyes bleed back.
“Sorry kitty” Maddox growls before he sinks his canines into my neck, my movements becoming sluggish as I hit him, my surroundings going dull, his teeth sinking into my bone.
The pain was terrible and all I could think was, I couldn’t save her, she gave her life for me and I couldn’t save her, she was dead. They were the last thoughts that slipped through my head before all I see is darkness.
Ezra POV
After putting a passed out Kat to bed, we walk back downstairs to deal with the clean up. Mateo and the back warriors were removing bodies as I walked out, dumping them in a pile.
”Jasmine” I waved to her, motioning for her to come over, she dropped the leg she was carrying and jogs over to me.
“Yes Alpha?” She says stopping beside me.
“Did you guys tell anyone where you were all going” I ask her, it was a little too convenient that Jackson would attack while I was dealing with rosters and Mateo was on the other side of the town on duty, also why attack directly near the river, they would have had to have known we were not with her. Jackson was daring but even he knew it would be a death sentence to his men if we were close by.
“No one, we left the cafe where we met her parents, went to my place and Angies to grab our swimmers and came straight here” She says thinking.
“So you didn’t tell anyone?”
“Only my mate and my mum” She answers before looking at Angie. I follow her gaze and Angie looks over at us before walking over.
“What’s going on?” She asks looking at Jasmine, Mateo also wanders over.
“Did you tell anyone where you were going?”
“No, of course not and Kat was with me and Jasmine the entire time, we know better than to just leave her alone by herself without you or mateo” Angie explains. I nodded yet something was off.
“So you didn’t see anyone or stop to speak to anyone, not even while out?”
“No, we went to the cafe, met her parents there and had lunch. Kat had an argument with Ms Taylor then we all went home to get our swimmers and came straight here” Angie says and I nod. Wait, did they mean Madeline?
“Wait Ms Taylor?” Mateo says asking the question I was about to ask. They both nod.
“As in Madeline Taylor?” I ask and Jasmine answers.
“Madeline the teacher from school, she bumped into Kat and had a go at her, so Kat put her in her place”
“Alex!” I call waving one of our pack warriors over. He was in his mid twenties and had longer hair, a bit of a hippy but a loyal member.
“Go grab Madeline for me”
“Okay Alpha she should be on duty soon anyway”
“What do you mean on duty soon, she isn’t on patrols at night and not on the northside” Mateo says, stepping around me and looking at Alex.
“Oh, I must be mistaken then she was on the other night, I will go get her” He says turning around to go retrieve her when Mateo grabs his arm stopping him.
“When was she on duty and where, you know Alpha Ezra doesn’t let women patrol at night, you didn’t think to question it?” Alex stops looking at me before turning to face us.
“She has been doing patrols along the borders and the back of the river, she has been on every night for the past month, I didn’t think anything of it because well you know” He says motioning to me.
“We are not involved, Kat is my mate you know this”
“Yeah well not now obviously because of Kat, I just assumed you said she could because that’s what she said”
“Find her and bring her to the Packhouse” Mateo tells him and he nods, running off into the trees.
“You think Madeleine had something to do with it?” Jasmine asks.
“Not sure but we will find out” I tell her and she nods before grabbing Angie and going off to help clean up. Mateo walks over toward the two men and their mutilated corpses.
I go over to the one laying next to the packhouse first, the one who shot Shirley. Crouching beside him. No doubt it was one of Jackson’s men, I could smell their Pack scent on him when Mateo called out.
“Ezra he isn’t Jackson’s” Mateo says, making me look over at him standing next to the other one.
I get up walking over to Mateo and look down, no he wasn’t jacksons man, he was Andrie’s.
“Great, just what we need” I tell Mateo who nods.
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