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“She’s intelligent,” Briist as well She would choose a place she feels she knows, one she thinks she can control”

Oh yeah, that helped a lot He’d be damned if he knehere Anya hen she went to town

“Team three” He contacted the team that had served as her primary security off base “List known locations your coya traveled to in town”

The list was like a fucking map of the town

“What the hell was she doing in every fricken bar in the da at Brim

Bried “I ith you Wasn’t my fault Alpha Gunnar was supposed to supervise that”

He plowed his hands through his hair as the vehicle surged through the snow that had begun falling again, and headed into the town outside Haven

He could feel the tension tightening inside hiht of her out there alone, arranging s with Council scientists without his protection

Why hadn’t he paid more attention to her insistence, her fear for the people she called her own? His arrogance and ignorant pride were cutting at him now He should have never stripped her of her title, her authority He should have listened to her

Hell, she had contacted a ghost when she was sixteen, and walked into a bar filled with the worst humanity had to offer She had done it bravely, with confidence and courage, and faced hi to kill her

He should have known that courage hadn’t been extinguished He should have seen her determination to ensure a stable life for the Coyotes For him and their children

“We’ll find her, Del-Rey,” Brim repeated “You can fix what’s been wounded”

“Can I?” he asked his brother then “Is there any way to repair what I’ve done to her, Brim? I didn’t just strip her of her status, I stripped her of her pride”

“And still she caed “Reance, and it will bring you back fast She’ll forgive you”

It was a good thing forgiveness wasn’t linked directly to whether or not that forgiveness was deserved Because Del-Rey knew he, least of all, deserved it