Gabriel’s POV“Come on, Aria, focus,” I grunted and squeezed her hand.“I am tired, Gabriel,” she sighed. “We have been at it for hours. We can try again later.”“It’s only been an hour and a half,” I said. “One more time and we can stop.”She rolled her eyes and sighed. “Fine. One more time and we are done for today.”I nodded and let go of her hand.After breakfast, Cassie asked Annie to help her pack. They were both crazy about clothes, so Annie accepted her offer with so much excitement that I thought she was going to burst. Nick decided to walk Jacob and Blake through our plan of finding Patricia. So, while everyone was busy, I dragged Aria to the guest bedroom, and we started practicing. We have been trying to find her power, but no luck so far. I felt a small spark of her power a few times, but she couldn’t catch it. By the way, she was as powerful as I am.I made sure to cast a small spell so nobody outside the house could feel us doing magic. It wasn’t as powerful as the spel

Warning: description of violence.Gabriel’s POVShe was saying goodbye to us.No.No fucking way.He was not taking her away from me! Not now, not ever.My whole body was shaking. I wanted to do something, but I was terrified that the knife would cut her before my spell hit him.I watched him lean in and kiss her cheek.“You taste amazing,” he said. “I can’t wait to try more of you.”That pushed Nick over the edge. Before I could blink, he shifted into his wolf. I had never seen him this angry. He terrified me.But I couldn’t let him attack. Not yet. He will kill her.I grabbed his fur with my hand and held him back.He turned his head toward me and snapped his huge canines.“Don’t you see a fucking knife under her throat?!” I whisper yelled at him. “Don’t fucking move, Nate! Not yet!”His black eyes snapped back to that fucker.“Minnie?” I heard Jacob’s trembling voice call out to her.What the fuck was he doing? My eyes went from him to the fucker holding my sister. His eyes narrowe

Gabriel’s POVI stepped out of the shower and sighed contently. I was happy that I was finally able to wash that fucker’s blood off of me.I quickly dried myself and put on clothes.I walked downstairs and saw that all the guys were already in the kitchen. The girls weren’t here yet.Blake and Jacob were sitting down at the table, looking around the kitchen. Nick was making coffee, his back turned to me.“Where is Aria?” I asked as I sat down at the table.“Shower,” Nick said, not turning back to look at me.“Nice house, man,” Blake said. “And the protection spell is awesome.”“Thank you,” I said, with a huge grin..“Are we safe here?” Jacob asked me.Nick walked over to the table and gave Jacob and Blake their cups of coffee before walking back to the counter.“For now,” I sighed and ran my hand through my hair. “We didn’t leave just to find Patricia. We also ran away because of the hunters. But I couldn’t think of a safer place for Aria right now.”Nick sat down beside me and handed

Gabriel’s POVI was driving behind Mike and Jacob. Nick was sitting beside me. Aria and Annie were in the back seat. We left my house early and we should be getting to Mike’s cabin pretty soon.With all the moving around we have done in the past couple of days, none of us had to pack much. Most of our stuff was already packed, so we managed to leave the house quickly.Aria was angry at me and Nick. She was sitting with her arms crossed over her chest, and she was hardly speaking to us.“Will you please talk to me?” I said angrily.I watched Aria through the rearview mirror. She had barely spoken to me the whole morning.“I am talking to you,” she said quietly.“That’s the longest sentence I’ve heard from you since yesterday,” I said, frowning.“What happened?” Annie interrupted. “Why are you fighting?”“We are not fighting,” Aria said, turning to look at Annie.“We found out about Ian,” Nick said, growling.Annie’s eyes snapped to Aria, but she didn’t seem surprised.I narrowed my eye

Gabriel’s POVWe were sitting in the kitchen, chatting with Annie while she made dinner.Nick was frowning.“What’s wrong?” I asked and took a sip of my beer.“I don’t know,” he sighed. “My feelings are a mess.”“It is probably because of everything that is happening with Victor,” Annie said and turned to look at him.“I guess,” Nick said as he ran his hand through his hair.“Do you need help?” I asked Annie.“No,” she smiled and turned back to continue making dinner.Suddenly, Nick bolted out of his chair and his eyes went black.“Nick?” I called him quietly.“Aria,” he growled and started running upstairs.I ran after him and followed him to Cassie’s room. He opened the door and growled loudly.Aria was sitting in Jacob’s lap, his arms wrapped tightly around her. She was crying.“What the hell is going on?” I said angrily.“Get your fucking hands off of my mate,” Nick growled.Why the hell was she crying? And why was she sitting on his lap? Nick was going to kill him. He was seconds