The Loner (Daughters of Destiny Book 1) by K.R. Grace

Author:K.R. Grace [Grace, K.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liaison Publishing
Published: 2015-01-14T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

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Drake

I screwed up big time by bringing Star to my house and Mack was pissed.

I shifted in midair, landing on my haunches in front of him. My lips curled back into a snarl as a warning growl rumbled deep in my chest. The pack circled me, gnashing their teeth. I kept my eyes trained on their alpha. My subordinate. His gold eyes sparkled with rage as foam dripped through his exposed canines.

When were you planning on telling me the Falcons were back?

I fought back the urge to smirk at his use of the Alpha voice on me. The pup seriously thought he could usurp the Supreme? I rose to my full height, staring him down.

“If your guys were on the East end last night like they were supposed to be, you would’ve known. It’s not like you to slack off.”

Last night had sucked royally. Meliena sent out the alert that two teenagers had disappeared off the Ramsey Cascades trail. I’d spent two hours scaling the entire mountain until I finally found one of their backpacks ripped to shreds and covered in blood. A quick sniff told me the owner of the bag hadn’t made it.

Whoever had done it wanted it to look like an animal had torn the person limb by limb, but no animal touched that bag.

I’d followed the scent from the bag to a deep ravine and found two dismembered bodies lying beside each other, their dead, lifeless hands linked together. Like they’d clung to each other in the face of death, prepared to cross over together. I recognized the boy as one of the teens from the Reservation. The girl had black hair and pale skin, but I hadn’t allowed myself to get any closer to take in the rest of her features.

Someone had left them for me to find. The resemblance between the two teenagers and Star and me didn’t go unnoticed. It was a warning.

What little food I had in my system had made a second appearance before I sent a message out to Meliena to let her know where to lead the search party. I wanted to find the bastard that killed two defenseless teenagers and make him pay with his own life.

It looked like a scene of a brutal animal attack, but it’d been a long time since an animal larger than a rabbit was in the vicinity of where the unfortunate couple was found.

In the midst of my angry pacing as I’d waited, I caught a strong whiff of leather and cinnamon. The only souls alive with that smell were Falcons.

I climbed to the highest point possible and looked down in the valley below to spot two human-sized Falcons feeding on a deer. Thankfully, the wind had been blowing west, carrying my scent away from them. Otherwise, it would have been a two-against-one fight, and I wouldn’t have stood a chance.

By the time Meliena arrived, I was nowhere to be found. Instead, I went home and called Star, desperately needing to hear her voice.

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