Kirsch's POV As always, I went to check the patrols and directed them to clear a path for Taran to sneak out. We couldn't be seen together, and I needed people to see me as much as I can before midnight came. Taran would go ahead to the beach and wait for me. Though he denied that Willa was his mate, his action was speaking louder. They were basically together now, and I knew he never mess around, not even once. But that wasn't why I was bothered. I looked into his lousy excuse about how he killed Willa's parents five years ago at Scarlet Creek. I thought it would be an easy lie to expose as I looked into Willa's past. The findings shocked me. I expected that she wasn't at Jason's pack five years ago. Scarlett had told me that they moved around a few times. But when I started looking into it, I found that I couldn't quite pin down their route in their past. They were like ghosts, flowing around packs with little traces

Kirsch's Pov [Where are you going?! This is the pack's direction!] I shouted at Cerberus as I ran along his side. [Close!] He growled, not even looking at me as he sped up right at the center of the town. [Cerberus, no! You can't be seen by the pack! They are already suspicious!] I shouted as I chased after him, [You always run AWAY from the pack, what's got into you?!] He didn't even bother to answer. The cliff by the coast ran down right to the east end of the forest, which was only a few miles away from the town. I have to stop him before he dashed into the town! I caught up to him barely when he was already halfway down the slope behind the cliff, and I jumped before I bit on his leg. Thank God I reached him. The momentum of his leg pulled my body to the front. I felt my teeth loosen up at the dragging force but I didn't let go. Cerberus roared in anger as he stomped on my chest before he jumped back

Willa's POV "Good to have you here!" I never imagined I would say such a thing to James, but at least he was loyal to Kirsch. He could take Kirsch to a hospital. "What happened to the Alpha?!" James lunged toward us before he knelt beside Kirsch, shaking his body. Yeah, shaking a severely wounded man, that would help. "Stop it! He's badly injured! Are you crazy?!" I pushed James on the arm, but I had no strength left to really make a difference. "Did you do this?!" James suddenly took me by the wrist before he pulled me off the ground. "I'm wolfless! You moron!" I swung my arm, trying to get rid of him, "Why would I hurt him even if I could?!" "Maybe because you are the cursed wolf, and you hurt him last night when you went in rage." A cold sneer reached us. It was Natasha. She glanced at Kirsch before she fixed her eyes on me with fire burning in those cold eyes. Granny growled, pulling her lips back over her teeth as she step

Willa's POV "She wouldn't kill us!... Why would she?" I muttered in shock. Why would she be so hell-bent on killing me? Sure, she hated me, but Jason was dealt with and I didn't do anything to Rachel. There wasn't even any reason for her to hate me! "Reasons or not, she hated us. If we stay, we will die." Granny sighed, still shivering from the wolfsbane. This was the first time I didn't want to leave a pack even when I had to. [Kirsch! Kirsch...] I tried to mind link Kirsch, hoping that maybe he could wake up. I knew it was a long shot. He was badly wounded. It was already a miracle that he didn't die. There was no way he could wake up any time soon. I couldn't mind link Al. "So, you want a prison break? Can we come back after?" I asked granny. It would be fine. We could come back after Kirsch wakes up. "We can, but...the teleport mark I set this time is very far away..." Granny sighed, looking at me with a sad look, "I set it

Kirsch's POV When I opened my eyes, it took me a while to realize I was back in the Alpha's house. I hadn't been living here for a while. I was in Taran's room. Guess it was some pack member who took me back. They didn't even know I never slept in the master bedroom. It would always be Taran's. But it meant he wasn't back yet. I tried to move my body but everything hurt. I could barely look down at my own body, but I could feel it was wrapped in bandages. I let out a slight groan in pain as I closed my eyes and laid down again. It would still take days before I could fully recover, and that was actually a better result than I had expected. I really thought Crebreus would kill me. I could barely stand up in the end as I tried to stop him from dashing into the pack. I managed to force him to go through the woods as I mindlinked patrol and cleared a path so we wouldn't run into anyone. He was in a complete rage and