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== Enna’s POV ==

The woods were surrounding me, everything was dark. I blindly ran, my hands extended in front of me, hopeful that I would stop quickly enough in case a tree stood in my way. I could feel my skin getting cut by the underbrush, my face hit by branches and leaves. I couldn’t hear anything else but my ragged breath and my breath but I could feel it, like a little inkling which made my hair stand up, like the feeling you get when you climb stairs in the dark. Behind me, he lurked, he followed and I didn’t know what my salvation was going to be. If there was one to have.

After a long time, I came across a small river, shallow enough to cross, but with enough to mask my scent. I jumped right it, the water only coming up to my knees, biting my legs with its cold grip like a million of little needles. It slowed me down, but it also concealed me. For all intent and purposes, I would rather die from hypothermia than in the hands of that sick bastard. Simon’s face came into my mind but I tried to push it away. He will be fine, and I won’t die. He would be mad if I just let myself be captured.

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== Simon’s POV ==

I saw from the corner of my eye Enna slipping outside, hopefully, out of Collins’ rage path. The Alpha lunged a few times at us before crashing through the door, we followed him, running halfway across the pack under the surprised eyes of the people running their business as usual, until we came face to face with Cassandra, who was just coming out of the small clinic.

“COLLINS!” she screamed at him.

He stopped abruptly, his tail going between his legs like a grounded puppy.

“WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE MOON ARE YOU DOING?” The Alpha backed up a little while Cassandra marched on him. She hit his snout with the medical documents she was holding up. “YOU ARE THE ALPHA OF THIS PACK AND YOU CAN’T JUST SHIFT OUT OF RAGE AND RUN ACROSS ALL OF THIS LAND LIKE A RABIED MUTT! AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU…CAN’T…MAKE…A PREGNANT WOMAN….MAD!” Each pause in the last part of her rather loud statement was met by a swift hit on the Alpha’s snout who started to puppy cry at his mate. “UNSHIFT IMMEDIATELY!” she ordered him.

His own freewill seemed to have been taken away as the Alpha immediately found himself stark naked in his human form on the sidewalk, surrounded by a group of wolf, but most importantly, his fuming mate. “AND STOP BEING NAKED!”

Conveniently, a wolf came bearing a stack of shorts, which allowed me to shift into my human form as well. James and Martin arrived shortly after the fiasco, they both looked at Collins and Cassandra, the tension in the couple could be felt all over the place and Collins was trying to persuade his mate to go back to the pack house.

“Did you see Enna?” I asked directly James. He handed me my shoes, my wallet and my phone, the rest of my clothes had been ripped to shred.

“I saw Nathalie take care of her” intervened Martin with a shrug. His face said honesty, but his shoes said that he had been deep in the woods. I frowned but unlocked my phone to call Nathalie. She had already texted me.

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I tried to call anyway but the call didn’t get through.

“Let’s go to the pack house” I said as the SUV was pulling up to us.

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== Enna’s POV ==

The water was icy and I started to shiver, slowly making my way downriver. I had no idea which way was the pack, so away it was. 30 long minutes after I started walking in the stream, I walked out, on the other side of the river. I was wet, and I was pretty certain that my toes were blue, but it was way to dark to see anything by now. I sat on the floor, my back against a tree, listening to the sounds of the forest and praying for Simon to find me.

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== Simon’s POV ==

The sun was setting when we finally arrived at the pack house. Collins was apologizing the the 300th time in the car, promising he would also apologize to Enna who had to run away. Cassandra was still furious at him, even more when she heard that my mate had to be evacuated through the window, and the old maid to hospital, due to the shock. She still didn’t know why he got mad, and I’m pretty certain she would take pity on him right after the argument took place.

As we entered the house, Cassandra dragged her Alpha mate inside his soundproofed office. Both Martin and James laughed, but I could guess they wouldn’t find it as funny once they would find their own mate.

“Enna?” I called from the entrance but she didn’t appear. James shrugged at me, “I’ll look in the kitchen” he said. Martin had gone already and I started up the stairs to our room.

The place was empty, maybe she was in Nathalie’s? I tried to remember where my pack member was staying at before I remembered that most of my men were in the other wing, where she was probably staying to. I started to lightly jog down the stairs. James appeared before I could go in the other side of the mansion.

“She’s not in the kitchen” he said, biting a huge chunk off a sandwich.

“Do you know where Nathalie’s room is at?”

He nodded. “Second floor, third door on the left” he said.

I started right away, I could hear him following me in the stairs. I took me less than a minute to reach her room, I didn’t knock, I threw the door open, almost breaking it off. The room looked empty, until I saw a shape moving on the bed.

Nathalie was laying there, attached to her bedframe, a huge open gash on her forehead and a pool of vomit next to her. Her breathing was shallow and she moaned in pain when James, who had dropped his sandwich, tried to shake her. One of her hands was placed at an unnatural angle, one of her foot as well.

“Nathalie!” called James but the young wolf didn’t wake up from the nightmare she seemed to be having. My breathing became shallow as well, it tasted like fire and blood and warmth engulfed my head as I let out a huge scream. I ran down the stairs, sending the first other wolves I met to find the pack’s doctor.

As I reached the ground floor, I was met by Collins and Cassandra, who seemed worried over angry this time. “What’s going on?” asked Collins.

“Someone took my mate” I articulated though my teeth, clenched under the anger who was soon to consume my Human body.

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Sorry, it's more of a situation than action chapter but I will post the next update tomorrow ^^