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"What are you doing?" Erin deuys can’t get hold of Liam, then what else can we do? Do you plan to just sit here and do nothing? If this turns out to be where Kat’s being held and they move her in the meantime…" She didn’t finish because it was pointless She didn’t care what they said

She was going

Erin touched her arrabbed her coat from the rack "Hold on a sec," she murmured, and looked at the other wolves "Noah and Jacob are checking out other leads in town and we can’t ask the others to leave the ranch unprotected…but we can go"

Aiden nodded and motioned to Decelared at the tall shifter who spoke as if she weren’t even in the roo " The three of theround "My brother’s a cop I don’t own a gun, but I kno to use one Give me a weapon and I promise to stay out of the way Besides, if you don’t takeanyway"

Erin and Aiden both cursed, but the she-wolf nodded tightly "You stay out of the way or I will knock you out"

"Deal Now can we leave?" Every second they spent here was a second wasted Her heart pounded ht not haveheld, they had to help her

December wiped clammy palms on her jeans as they drove down the barely for the road thick and slushy, but Aiden didn’t seem to notice as he drove She sat in the backseat with Erin and so far everyone had been quiet

They’d ured it out by calculating the longitude and latitude Or so like that She didn’t really understand or care how he’d figured out where they were going She just wanted to find her friend

"We should be there soon," Ryan h the forest down the dirt trail for a while, though it probably seeer than it actually was

A few ine in the o on foot fro here," he said to her, "so stick close and keep your weapon on hand at all tiet rid of the nervousness threading through her "Okay"

When she stepped out into the snow, she sank nearly a foot into the powdery softness

Instantly Aiden knelt in front of her and turned so that his back was facing her He glanced over his shoulder at her "Lia to carry you We can move faster that way"

She didn’t care one way or another how they got there Quickly, she slid onto his back and held on as they began the trek down the trail He was a little taller than Liam and she was thankful for his added warmth Even with her thick coat her face was already frozen The farther they went, the thicker the trees got, but there was still a distinct--if smaller--trail that was probably used for snowmobiles

After a few minutes all three shifters slowed in unison Dece or someone

"We’re close," Aiden said as if he read hercompletely, he bent down and let her off his back

Adrenaline pu Kat She didn’t kno she knew, but she did This was it It had to be Kat was likely scared out of her mind

Suddenly, the trail thinned and opened to a ses was a small, dilapidated barn Not for anih whoever owned it hadn’t kept it up well

Erin sniffed the air and glanced at them "You smell that?"

"Dead bodies Really old ones," Aiden said