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This tied for the last ti it sharply It yelped a couple of ti out around the freshly dug earth She felt defeated, heartbroken, and wasn’t sure ould become of her now

The crowd above her dispersed Was there an interhts? Would she be taken out, killed, or forced to fight again? Would they send the bear in next? What would she do in that case—save herself or kill a shifter?

Heather curled up in the corner of the pit, wishing she were any place but here Every tih her body This wasn’t her She craved peace, connecting with her inner wolf, tradition, and fa forced to become wild and kill to survive

As she cowered in the corner, she heard it, a wolf howled in the distance

Chapter Nine

David was so pissed off He hadn’t even noticed when his woman left, and now her scent had almost faded from the forest, and he was terrified

“We’re going to find her,” Caleb said

He wasn’t convinced

Sout, and he just knew Heather wasn’t safe She needed hi to happen

The wolf inside him wouldn’t be quiet, nor would he be still

Without a glance at Caleb, he changed into his wolf, inhaled the air, and ignored all the warnings going off inside his head as he charged through the forest a final ti here There was no way Heather would just leave hi

He had to have missed her scent, or not understood his mate

Heather would have co for the she-bear She had to have been

So why did her scent get to a certain point and then just vanish?

David stopped once again in the last-known scent location

She must have rested, but then what the hell happened?

Changing back into a huure out what happened There was no scent of blood No indication of a struggle

The fallen tree Heather had slept near was hundreds of years old, and many moon cycles into decay This made no sense

As a twig snapped, David succumbed to his wolf and turned toward the direction of the sound, his hackles up and a lol ru in his chest

Through the narrow gap between the thick tree trunks, he saw him Joe, and the bear wasn’t alone He came with a woman

The she-bear

He growled and showed his fangs