Asher’s pov "One more time, Marco. What did you do with our daughters?" Marco smirked, but behind his fake smile I could see he was scared. "I burned them in that house." He lied, and I was done playing games with him. He was going to die anyway, so like a villain in a damn movie, I would tell him all my secrets and hope he would reveal his. "You’re not the villain." Logan said. But it kind of felt like I was. I didn’t like beating up a man when he wasn’t able to defend himself. It was important that Marco would pay for what he did, and I needed to be the one to do it, but I didn’t enjoy inflicting pain. I wasn’t some psychopath who liked torturing or killing people. That’s why I was the one to clean up after myself after I killed Alpha Braxton. He deserved everything he got, but people didn’t need to see that side of me. Look at what I was capable of. I didn’t even want to see that side of me. It was the "Iron Alpha" side that people would call me. The killer. But that wasn’t a

Rain’s povI thought it would go faster. Maggie and I want to finish this, but in a year's time, Aeryn will be eighteen, and I’ve only now managed to get a meeting with the Goldacres. I’ve spoken to them before; we’ve actually been working together, but I still haven’t met them in person, and as much as I am good at business, I really need Maggie for the spy crap.And today is the day. We’ve got an invite for the whole family to this big party being hosted at the Goldacres, and we’ll finally meet in person. Since it’s not that close to home, we’ll also be staying for the weekend. It’s a chance for us to do business and for our kids to meet. although that’s what we’re pretending it’s for."Stop being nervous, Rain. We’ll be fine." Maggie said."And the kids?" I asked. "We’re going to hang around people that sell kids."Maggie winked at me, "then it’s a good thing our kids are not that cool. No one will want to steal them."I laughed, "our kids are super cool.""Maybe they will be. But n

Riker’s pov "All isn’t lost, we might be able to go to the school." Rain said, but his words meant nothing to me. This was my opportunity to help my family and see and save my nieces. I didn’t just feel bad for them; I felt bad for myself, which made me feel guilty, and that didn’t help me feel better either. This whole thing was crap. I had spent almost two years training for this; I have been pretending to be Rik for a year now, and it was all for nothing? And most importantly, Aeryn and Elora were still stuck there, or in the case of Aeryn, things were probably even worse for her now. "Maybe they’ll have some files at the school that keep track of who bought who?" Maggie said when we came home. I didn’t answer her and went straight to my room. This was supposed to be it. We were going to save Aeryn and Elora, and now we are no further than we were before. I looked down at my arm, seeing their initials. We had all gotten the same tattoo at one point. Everyone who knew the truth

Sierra’s povLuna Kyra was leading the charge against a buyer near her. Alpha Eddie was going after another, and other allies were standing by to attack the rest of the buyers and sellers we had found. But it was my job to get to Bertram Goldacre and get him out alive, so Asher could question him.He had several houses, but our intel said he was staying at the large mansion Rain and Riker had visited. They had given us feedback on what the place looked like and where most of the security would be.We didn’t want to leave our pack vulnerable, and we already sent a bunch of soldiers to help my honey and her brother. So Gamma Talia had put together a small team that would be able to finish this job without any problems. She even accompanied her soldiers, because it would be her last mission before she handed her pack over to her son Rayan, who would take over.Zayn and Talia would still work as soldiers, but they both decided that once we found the girls, they would only work from inside

Leia’s pov"We knew this could happen, and it did. It's pointless to point fingers; we just have to deal with it." Asher said.We had rescued the girls a week ago, and what was supposed to be a happy reunion was actually a really hard fucking time. Not only did most of the girls need therapy, but we were in the middle of a fucking war.Whatever caused that fucker Goldacre to know we were there, it led to the truce being broken. A lot of the people that were at that auction were from our enemy packs, and when our allies tried to kill them, they were stepping into enemy territory, which was against the rules Asher and the rest had set in place. We knew this could fucking happen, but what was the alternative? Not getting everyone out of that fucking school? Not going after the basters who wanted to buy people?Some of our attacks had been successful, but those that were warned by Victor or Betram Goldfucker had either fled or had attacked with full force like Betram."I should have paid m