Eli.
My foot stomps on the gas to speed past the intersection, but it is too late. I watch as Samantha's body rag dolls around my car as it flips down the road.
I involuntarily shut my eyes, glass exploding around us like a confetti bomb. My face stings as they hit me. I feel my arm break against the car door.
Despite the physical damage I am enduring, I am not concerned about it. I am a fucking Alpha werewolf. These injures will heal up like cuts and bruises but for my human mate, I can't imagine. My wolf wimpers in my head for her. The way her body flung around the car and what about Alex?! I am praying to the Moon Gddess he is ok.
The car finally makes it's final flip and, surprisingly so, lands perfectly on all four wheels. My body sloutches against the door. I huff for air and the pain in my chest and lungs tell me that I likely broke a few ribs and at least punctured a lung.
"Samantha.." I weeze out. I remove my seatbelt and throw myself into an upright position.
My heart sinks when I see that she is no longer beside me. All there is is glass and blood, her blood. My fear is that she flew out the windsheild. I fight against the pain in my neck and back as my head shoots up to look around. The street is covered in glass and debree. The burgundy van is stagnent at the end of the road, the passenger's gone.
"Alex!" I whip around to the back seat, and much too my horror, he is gone as well. In his place is a sight that will forever haunt me.
Crumbled and broken in the back seat, is my mate's body. Her upper body is slung over the booster seat, her legs dangling halfway off the back seats, clearly broken. Her hair covers most of her face, and only her nose and lips are visible, both bleeding. My wolf howls in pain as the tears leave my eyes. I reach out for her, but as I do, my car door flies open, and a pair of hands grab me firmly by my shoulders and violently throws me out of the car and onto the ground. Next thing I know, a foot connects with my chest, and I feel another rib crack. Punches and kicks keep coming, and I do little to nothing to defend myself. I can't even register what is happening, my eyes avoiding my attacker and straining to find Samantha.
"Got you now you fucking bastard!" The recoginition of his voice catches my attention and I immediately look at him.
Jared stands over me, glaring down at me in complete disgust. He's bleeding slightly from his forhead, an injury I'm assuming he got from the crash.He pulls his phone out and makes a call as I am still looking at him in disbelief.
"Just like you said. I got the Alpha fucker." He runs his fingers through his hair. "Where are you?"
"The Alpha fucker", what the fuck?! He knows what I am. Is he a hunter? Is he the hunter we were looking for? Realization hits me harder than his truck did. My eyes turn black with rage, and he kicks me again.
"Uh-uh, you rabbied stray.. Don't make me kill you. God knows I want to." He spits down on me.
The kick leaves me breathless, knocking all air out of my lungs that I am already struggling to collect.
"Samantha.." I gasp out.
"Don't you bring her into this more than you already have!" He kicks me again.
"Samantha," I force out. "Car....Alex!"
He looks at me like Im speaking another language. Confusion is clear as day on his face as he attempts to decifer what I am trying to say. Suddenly, his face pales with shock. He backs up slowly, his head shaking side to side.
"No.." He turns around and rushes to the back door, swinging the door open desparately. "NO!" His scream breaks into a sob as he crawls into the back seat with Samantha.
I growl possessively, and I struggle to climb to my feet. He comes out as quickly as he goes in, holding Samantha's limp body in his arms.
"Alex?!" He shouts desperately, "Alex?!" He spins in circles searching his surroundings, and so do I.
Alex is sadly nowhere in sight. Can he be somewhere up the road? I don't want to imagine it.
"Was he in there?" His eyes search mines, silently pleading for me to say no.
"Yes.."
"No, FUCK!" He falls to his knees crying with Samantha still in his arms and even though I want to snatch her from him I refrain myself because of the state she is in.
"Give her to me." I mumble.
"My family.. It's all your fault." He cries.
"You did this! Give her to me. You don't deserve to hold her." His face shifts into a look of regret and shock.
"She's so...pale." He forces out between sobs. The words make my heart sink further.
He lifts her up towards me, and I carefully peel her away from his arms. I hold her the best I can even with mine broken.
"I have to find him. He can be hurt." Jared solemnly speaks. He went from hysterically crying to showing no emotions at all.
He stands up from the road, and just as he does, a loud howl can be heard from behind us. It's the familiar howl of my Beta. I swirl around to see Tristian's large sandy brown wolf, followed by a group of eight warriors jetting towards us in wolf form. Tailing them is Gabe and Madeline in Tristian's black BMW.
"Fuck.." Jared hisses.
"Go."
"But Alex.." He objects.
"I will find him... I want to kill you myself."
He looks up the road and at our surroundings, then back at my warriors who are still sprinting to my aide. He doesn't stay long before he is running back to the van. As Tristian shifts mid sprint before me, Jared and the burgundy van speed off in the opposite direction.
"What the fuck happened?!" His eyes are black with anger, but also watery. "What happened to you?"
It takes me a moment to realize he isn't talking to me but to Samantha. I look down at her for the first time up close and my wolf begins to whimper again. The sight of shards of glass imbedded in her cheeks and a large gash across her forhead pushes us off the edge. I push my face into her neck and sob like a child. I can care less about the expressions on my confused warriors faces.
Jared was right she is very pale.
"Im so sorry.." I cry to her.
"Give her to me." Tristian demands and I growl.
"GIVE HER-" His eyes widen just as mines do.
"Sh-shes breathing!" I shout. Samantha lets out a very low gurgle. I push my ear to her face and sure enough I could hear her shallow breathing. I am so distraught I must of missed it before. I am such an idiot.
"Lets go!" I shout to Tristian as I limp past him and towards his car. "I need everyone to look for a small human boy. Caramel skin, brown eyes, 3 years ....and 1 day old." I choke out. "His name is Alex. Find him, that's an order."
I am conflicted. I want to stay out here and look for him myself, but I also want to be with my mate. Once I get Sam the care she needs, I will. If they haven't already found him by then. Hopefully they do.
"What happened?" Gabe growls as he and Madeline step out of the vehicle. I ignore him.
"Help them search." I order as I hop in the back seat, still holding onto my mate.
Madeline doesn't say a word nor does she look at us. Her gaze stays fixed on the floor. Gabe can't take his eyes off Samantha. It is irritating, but not important right now. Tristian follows suit, climbing into the driver seat and wasting no time taking off to the pack hospital.