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“Turn north,” he ordered “There are five cabins on the slope Ther picked up smoke from two of them”

“Heading north,” Blazon acknowledged as Del-Rey propped his elbow on the side of the door and ran his hand wearily over his jaw

God, where was she? Was she as cold as he was?

He stared at the thick, heavy blanket of snow that covered the mountains around the out the bars over his s as he watched the soldiers chain Brim by a collar around his neck, in the middle of a snowstorm

There had been a doghouse to huddle in There had been no war on Del-Rey to save him Because Del-Rey had sworn he wouldn’t let the boy die

Bried him into the warmth of the cells He had shaken and shivered for hours as Del-Rey coordinated the Coyotes in the cell so there were two to warm him and the others to hide it

It had taken hiuards and the scientists into deciding to bring him in There had been so many others he hadn’t been able to save

What if he couldn’t save his mate now? After the years he had trained to protect his people, would fate laugh in his face and let him fail with his mate?

God, where was she?

“Tean?”

“Negative,” the tearid through town, but nothing’s shown City council seee for a Sunday, don’t you think?” the leader mused

“Keep your eyes open, cover the back roads out of town as well I want her found”

“We’ll find her, Alpha,” the teao unprotected”

But they had, and it had been his fault He should have thought The aniht the Coyotes that knew him, trusted hi his coya as he protected his brothers By denying her Instead, they had seen suspicion and distrust She was a human, not a Coyote, and he’d rejected her despite the fact that she was his mate

“Alpha Delgado, this is Base” The communications supervisor came on “Switch to private”