A Race To The Prize.

Chapter 6

Gabriel's POV.

“She's a healer, she can't possibly trick us after taking my Obsidian dagger. It's my prized possession,” I tightened my clenched fists, banging it hard against the edge of my chair.

I had thought the healer would get rid of her supposed curse. I was assured the healer was legit and Anna would certainly become her true self.

Before I saw Anna, I was… incomplete. I felt something was missing but as I laid eyes on her in my dungeon, I felt a tweak. It felt like my heart was throbbing to covet her.

She had rags for clothes, her body was labeled with markings from tree branches and her skin seemed so pale like snow but none of these could hide her beauty.

She was ravishing.

My wolf growled to let loose. Every fiber of my body jerked to have her. The feeling was almost impossible to explain but I knew what I had to do. I wanted to make her mine, I knew there was more to the timid figure that cowered before me.

The healer seemed like a certain way to make her free around me, but it only ended up making her sad.

She felt like a disappointment.

I did not want to disturb her in her room, knowing she must have been sad after having her hopes high.

“Alpha,” Marcus called out as he flung the doors open with a heavy breath. He bowed his head and tuned his voice down to a chill whisper. “I checked her…”

“What is it?” I stated, my voice cold and rigid.

“It's her, alpha. Anna, she's no longer in her room,” he reported.

I jolted up as quickly as my head processed his reports. The veins on my neck bulged on my skin as I hardened my gaze at Marcus.

“What do you mean? Don't tell me she's missing, I left you in charge of her?” I thundered with a menacing growl.

“I… I… she told me…”

“Don't you dare stutter right now! I gave you a job and you failed to carry it out,” I warned, pointing my fingers at him threateningly.

At that moment, I felt a sting in my guts, hot and burning. It wasn't like anything I had ever felt. My heart pulsated and I could feel my insides boiling up in anger mixed with worry.

Something was weird.

The mind link!

“We must have been mind linked when we signed the contract with our blood.” I whispered.

Anna was in trouble. I could sense it like she was right beside me.

“Quick! Gather a squad of six. We are heading towards the woods right now,” I commanded, rushing to check her room for my own confirmation.

“Shit!”

It was empty.

Her window was open, leaving the curtains to wriggle like they were feet in a flowing stream of water. I could still feel a connection and that meant she was close by at least.

Her smell was wrapped thick in my nose but I sensed it turning fickle with each passing second. Without thinking twice, I raced into the woods with the scouts I had ordered for.

Following her trail deep inside the woods, I wondered how she was able to get this far without being scared of the dark. We stopped as I noticed some ropes laying on the floor. They appeared chopped like they had struggled to tie someone.

“Anna,” I muttered.

She had been taken away.

Judging from the fresh tracks of her footsteps, she was abducted a few minutes before we got there.

Feeling frustrated, my wolf howled at the moon, picking up the weak sound of a honking car. It had to be her! It was the only car that I sensed driving on the road in the turgid night.

Without waiting to alert my squad, I raced in the direction of the sound, growling in preparation for the limbs I was going to tear to pieces.

I was going to make whoever tried to poke me right under my nose pay.

With the speed of my wolf, I saw the car in sight. It appeared like two flickering bulbs struggling to give off their last sparks.

It was an easy task to catch up to the car until the bends became too sharp to maneuver.

One of us had to quit but neither of us was letting up. I could hear Anna's frail heartbeat, I could feel the pain on her wrist and ankle as they tied her up too tight and forced her to fit into their tiny trunk. Even her weakest whispers were loud enough to get me furious.

Who were these people? Were they oblivious of who I was? I thought to myself.

They had to be rogues. Nothing else because no one in their right mind would ever have thought to get on my bad side, the Alpha of Sage Moon pack.

With every swift move of my limbs, Anna’s mutters lingered around my ears. If I didn't stop them, it was going to be tough finding her again.

I knew there was another sharp bend incoming, I had to take a dive towards the car, trying every possible attack to stop them without hurting Anna.

With Marcus beside me, I pounced forward expecting to land a quick hit but they pumped the gas to the highest, making me miss by a slim chance.

I continued racing behind the car, unfazed by this “I'll get them in my next try,” I said to myself.

My wolf ran it's fastest and with our mind link, I tried to assure Anna that everything was going to be alright.

However, I couldn't feel anything anymore. It suddenly felt like a void of dark, blank spaces. My heart began racing in concern.

“Anna! Anna?” I called out but no response.

What had happened?

Just a few minutes I could feel her struggling but now it was nothing. I couldn't pick up her presence nor feel her anymore. I had lost connection.

My worries quickly turned into hurried desperation as I realized she had passed out inside the trunk. I couldn't stop myself from thinking about the putrid reeking stench they had boxed her into.

Heinous and inhumane.

“Alpha, it's too dangerous. There is an…” Marcus tried to talk to me but I lost his voice as I charged forward with a deafening speed.

I knew he tried to warn about a danger me but my Luna was right before me and even though we were contracted, she had her roles to fulfill before I could let her get stolen away.

My wolf launched forward, feeling the cold air of the night sky graze through my furs. My claws thrust out to grab hold of the metallic trunk. Everything was looking good, I was a few minutes from saving her but the next second took me completely by surprise.

“Alpha!” Marcus thundered, raising his brow and pointing forward, his expression laced with worry.

Suspended in the air and looking straight ahead to dive towards the speeding car, I heard a sound, loud as an incoming truck with full speed ahead and too close to even try to react.

“TOOT!”