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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT
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“We need to come up with a plan, and quickly,” Orsina says. “They want to execute us when the Ursa Major constellation is high in the sky - and that will only be a few hours after sundown, this time of year.”Jasper stands up and starts feeling his way around the trailer. It’s dark, but my eyes have adjusted enough that I can see shadows and shapes, and I know what he’s doing.“Maybe there’s a way out,” Jasper mumbles. He bangs on the metal walls, only to have them banged on from the outside. We hear shouts from the guards, telling us to knock it off.“Probably won’t be too easy to escape, even if we could find an opening in this thing,” I say. “They have at least three of their toughest men outside,” Orsina says. “No way we’ll get past them.”“Then we need to think of something else,” I say. “Some way to trick them, or convince them, or something.”We talk for a while, offering various ideas and suggestions, but nothing comes together. Soon, the sun goes down, a
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Once everyone wakes up and Orsina and I are back in our human forms, I gather everyone together to tell them about my idea. It seemed to crystallize in my mind as soon as I awoke from my dream, and I want to get it out of my head as soon as possible. “Orsina was right,” I whisper, leaning in to draw my head close to everyone else’s. “A good night’s sleep was exactly what I needed to come up with something.”“What’s the plan?” Zach asks. He looks much better this morning, though the bruises on his face will take a long time to heal.“The bear clan keeps talking about the Whismore line, wanting to end this specific wolf pack and family, right?”Jasper and Zach nod.“Well, I’m not a Whismore. I’m not part of the line.”“But you’re Jasper’s mate,” Zach says, tilting his head with confusion. “That means you join the family line.”“We’re not mated yet,” I say. I tug down my shirt collar to show them, in the gray morning light of the trailer. I don’t have a claiming mark
The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE
“Alright, girl, what’s your deal?” Barrett pushes me down, hard, making me sit on a fallen log near the campfire.“Could I have some breakfast first?”“Someone give the wolf some bacon,” Barrett commands. The bear clan is all looking at me with distrust, but someone passes me a plastic plate piled with bacon, sausage, and potatoes. I dig in hungrily, feeling guilty knowing that Zach, Jasper, and Orsina are still locked in the trailer without food.But they’re counting on me. I need to be strong and clear headed if I’m going to be able to manipulate Barrett into letting me take the upper hand. I finish the meal, then set the plate on the ground. “Now tell me what’s going on here,” Barrett demands. “I’m actually from California,” I tell him. “But I’ve been having some issues with a local pack. They were trying to steal things, magical things, from me and my sister. I’m a Star Twin, actually. It’s a wolf shifter thing.”“Uh huh.” Barrett doesn’t seem too interested, bu
The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO
JASPERAs soon as Ayala leaves the trailer, I feel a deep sense of loss and longing. My heart is aching. It feels like something has been ripped away from me.I can’t live without her. I’m worried about her. And we’re not even mated yet. I never realized what it was like to fall in love with someone. Now that I have, I don’t know what to do with myself. I pace back and forth in the tiny trailer, jumping up and down occasionally to stay warm.Zach and Orsina are huddled up in the far corner, their arms wrapped around each other. They’re whispering and giggling to each other, but I can’t hear what they’re talking about.I can’t focus on anything but Ayala. I hadn’t realized just how badly I would miss her when we were separated. I haven’t been away from her since we admitted to each other that we’re in love, and that we want to be mates.Part of me wishes that we had already mated. I shouldn’t have held her at arm’s length for so long. I tried to keep my distance,
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Barrett thinks I’m on his side. He thinks I’m willing to work with him to trick Jasper into telling me where his family’s ancestral cave is. He also thinks that I trust him and fully expect him to guarantee my safety, as well as that of the other wolf shifters, once he gets this information.Of course, he’s being played, even while he thinks I’m playing him. I have to stay calm and focused if I’m going to prevent him from figuring out what I am up to. The next thing I need to do is make sure I can get cell signal. If I can let Layla and Sarah and Nash know what’s going on, then I can get the San Diego pack to come up here and help. Once they’re out here and on our side, I know we’ll be able to get out from under this awful situation.I have to convince Barrett to let me go down into the town of Serpent Creek, where I’ll be able to use my phone to get ahold of the San Diego pack.“He mentioned the lawyer having some maps and papers,” I tell him. “Maybe if I could get those,
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Once back at the bear camp, the plan is for Barrett to “toss” me back into the prison trailer, shouting at me for being “useless.” That way, he thinks, I’ll be able to rejoin the prisoners as one of their friends, and talk about the ancestral cave’s location with Jasper and Zach.It would be a stupid plan if it was real. There’s no way that wolf shifters would just welcome back someone who had abandoned them like that, let alone let slip important information around them.But Barrett doesn’t seem like the sharpest fang on the jawbone, so to speak, and since I’ve presented myself as a helpless, lost, weak little girl, he isn’t paying much attention to my machinations. He does, annoyingly, seem to take a bit too much pleasure in tossing me back into the trailer. I fall on the ground, skinning my knees and collapsing on the hard metal of the floor.“Ayala!”Jasper is by my side as soon as the door shuts behind Barrett. “What happened? Are you okay?”“I’m fine,” I mumble
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Sure enough, someone brings us plates of dinner. I share mine with the rest of the group, knowing that they didn’t have a chance to take a break from this awful prison trailer like I did.Jasper refuses to let me give him any of his dinner, though, pushing the portion back toward me. His eyes are filled with love, and concern, and a twinge of fear. The sun goes down. Barrett will want to complete the executions tonight, if possible.One of the guards opens the door and orders me out. I stand outside in the freezing cold while Barrett saunters up to me wearing a thick fur coat.“Well, girlie? What did you get for me?”“I’m close,” I tell him. “Really close. One of the Whismore boys even thinks I have a crush on him.”“Close,” Barrett repeats. “Does that mean you still don’t know where that grave is?”I shake my head. “I’m trying, but you know, if you push someone too hard to tell you something, they get suspicious.”“Are you sure you know what you’re doing?” Bar
The Alpha's Mate CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX
I watch out the window as the stars rise in the sky and dust clouds billow from the trucks and all terrain vehicles all heading toward the location I’ve given them.The spot where Barrett thinks he’ll be able to finally eliminate the Whismore family line. The spot where he intends to kill my beloved Jasper. The spot where, if my plan has worked, my San Diego pack will be lying in wait to ambush the bear clan and rescue me. I can hardly breathe.Barrett pulls up at the spot, the rocky ridge I gave as a landmark rising high above us into the dark Montana sky.He jumps heavily to the ground, then comes around to help me down out of the truck. I’ve played myself up as a weak, helpless, lost little girl, so I have to keep playing along for a while so he continues to trust me.I see Jasper, Zach, and Orsina all being roughly led to stand near the ridge. Their hands are bound behind their backs. Their eyes follow the bear clan members who are carrying armfuls of explosives
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