PACK UNDER ATTACK

. “Anna, your pack is under attack, The Ethan men did”

I feel like a tea kettle point five seconds before it sings. Anger, fear, sadness, panic boil inside me in one terrible concoction so perfectly blended I don’t know which to focus on. I freeze on the mattress, but it feels like my insides are screaming and chasing one another in rapid circles. Thoughts zip through my mind at the speed of light.

Lucas and Asher listen in and for them it’s all new information, but Max nods like he already knows. “They’ve taken some of your pack.”

I sit upright. “What do you mean, they have taken of my pack? Hostage? Who do they expect to solicit a ransom from?”

He shakes his head with a look of consternation.That’s not good. I don’t like the way he looks back at me, like he pities me. It’s worse than fear or suspicion. Those I can handle. “Not hostages,” he says. “Slaves.”

“ Why couldn’t the Alpha do something? I asked.

“He got killed while he was trying to save the kingdom and the next Alpha