38. Tavas
TAVAS
Viv’s angry cry slammed into us as we battled for our lives.
If it hadn’t been for Orion, we wouldn’t have been able to survive even this long.
Pausing for a brief second, Vadik glanced up at the sky, making my heart sink, knowing that Viv had been taken.
Her anguish flooded my body as I felt her fighting, only to feel her fade away.
“I will fight with all I am to come back to you, so you better fucking stay alive. I love you all.”
Hearing her goodbye sent me in a tailspin.
All the pent-up anger and sorrow I’d kept locked down all my life came flooding in as I realized we’d lost Viv.
I ripped from my wolf, shifting into my own version of a half-form, claws extending as I bellowed my wrath.
Red coated my vision, and all I wanted was to feel blood on my claws in retribution.
Charging at Vadik like a linebacker, I bent my shoulder and checked him right in the ribs, sending him flying back into the sea of fighting wolves.
Orion snarled at me for stealing away his prey and I growled in return, wading into the fray, slashing left and right, taking out any wolf that got in my way.
A howl erupted, causing all of Vadik’s wolves to scatter.
They’d gotten what they wanted—Viv. Anger still thick in my veins, I hunted down as many wolves as I could before they escaped in their waiting helicopters, causing me to let out a roar of frustration.
Turning, I punched a large oak tree, shattering it in half, but it did little to relieve the overwhelming despair.
“Tav, return to the castle,” Darius demanded.
Shifting back into my wolf, I ran back to the scene of the battle, where I found the rest of my mate brothers back on two legs, wearing sweatpants but still covered in blood. Pulling my wolf back, I resumed my human form and marched up to them.
“How the HELL did we let this happen?” I barked.
Darius turned on me, clutching my throat in his hand. “You don’t get the right to be mad at us, Tavas. This falls on all of us equally. Now what we need to do is get her the fuck back.”
As much as Darius was being a bastard, he was right. We needed to set aside the blame and figure out how the hell we were going to get our mate back. I took a deep breath and raised my hands in surrender, and Darius let me go.
“What’s the plan?” Koit asked, crossing his arms.
I looked all of them in the eye before I spoke. “We find the traitors in our pack and make them fucking tell us where he took her.”
The End