Meg
Somebody do something. My beast snarled and thrashed, ready to tear through my skin if it meant finding her mate.
“That gun.” I pointed at the big weapon attached to the top of the vehicle. “Does it work?”
One of the younger men leaned over to whisper to the man next to him. “I think she wants to shoot the sky.”
“Well, we need to do something!” I growled.
The men shrank onto the bench seats in the back of the vehicle, and Katrina gave me an exasperated look as Charles pointed in my direction.
“Look, Mommy. Grrr.” He showed his teeth.
Right. I bit down on my fangs, realizing I had to play nice if I expected them to let me shoot the big gun at the…
Screw it.
I wanted to shoot the sky.
With tears burning my eyes, I turned back to study the horizon where a giant god-sized fist had taken my mate. I had to save him.
But how?
Was this how humans felt all the time? This powerless and blind? I couldn’t track his scent. Couldn’t see where he’d gone. All I felt was the tug in my chest, our mate bond still there despite the distance of wherever he’d been taken to.
I’d tear this city apart until I found him.
The men in the back of the vehicle were calling on the radio, asking if anyone had seen any strange unidentified flying objects, and possibly the lieutenant with them, as I stood outside in the rain, rubbing the ache in my chest.
Lightning flashed across the sky, cracking the night into fractures, but that wasn’t what caught my attention.
I peered through the darkness, watching as a building lit up in the distance. Just a flash and it all went black again, but somehow… I knew.
Crow wings blocked my field of vision.
“I’m getting really tired of you disobeying me, alpha.” Morrigan’s voice echoed from the crow.
I batted her away, seeing the outline of ghostly shapes that floated behind her. A Viking woman with a giant sword and an Egyptian beauty wearing a red deshret and carrying a bow both glared at me.
“Who are they?” I grabbed the door of the military vehicle, seriously thinking about that big gun.
The crow flew in my face again. “Friends of mine. Where is the soldier?”
“They took him,” I growled.
Morrigan’s caw rattled my bones. “Who took him?”
“A giant fucking fist!”
“I should’ve known. He’s never going to stop.” The crow flapped harder. “Wait, where are you going now?”
“To get my mate.” I slid onto the passenger seat. “The big building with the antenna on top. We need to go there.”
“The media department?” Marcus asked.
“Whatever it’s called,” I said. “It’s where Roman is. I can feel it.”
The vehicle lurched forward, moving faster than it had any right to move, but knowing how Marcus drove, it made sense.
Thankfully the guys in the back helped keep Katrina and Charles secure as we bounced along the streets.
The skinny, taller male tapped Marcus on the shoulder. “Uh, Staff Sergeant, there are crows and some angry women following us.”
“I’ll drive faster.” The vehicle roared under his coaxing, metal grinding as my heart pounded harder, feeling that tug in my chest.
We were getting closer.
We’re going to save him.
I couldn’t let myself focus on any other outcome or think of the odds stacked against us. Roman was my mate, and he’d come back for me. Now it was my turn to be there for him.
This wasn’t a romance novel, that much was true, but I’d still be the heroine if I had to. Now that I knew what was missing, I couldn’t go back to the way things were before. I needed my mate.
Even if that meant giving up my pack.
The realization dawned on me that I’d already done as much, choosing to return to the human city with him instead of staying in Cerberus.
What did that say about me as an Alpha?
Maybe Kera was right, and I wasn’t ready to lead a pack. But I belonged here in this moment. I wasn’t backing down from the fight. Not while I still had breath in my body and the will to protect what was mine.
“You’re sure this was the building?” Marcus asked as the vehicle slowed to a stop.
I nodded. “You guys stay here. I can save him.”
“Ma’am?” One of the men said. “With all due respect, who will save you?”
I laughed as I stepped outside. The breeze blew back my hair when the crow and warrior female deities rushed past.
“Don’t worry about me,” I told him before I slammed the door shut. “I’m still an alpha wolf.”