Things couldn't get anymore chaotic. Loz had a cast on both his arms, both of his legs had pins and screws in them to keep the bone aligned, and broken ribs that pierced his lungs. He looked broken.

Taylor was going to be vengeful when she saw the condition he was in. If she didn't already want to put her hands on Nora she definitely would now.

I don't blame her.

Even I wanted to put my hands on my own sister. The words should have been like poison to say but they weren't, my wolf agreed with me, wanting nothing more than to rip her to shreds.

How could she do this? Why? I had been nothing but loving, caring, and supportive of her. So why try and tear me apart?

"I just got a hold of Taylor." Alex said bursting into my office in briskly pace. The door slammed behind him causing a picture frame to tumble to the floor. I narrowed my eyes at his unhinged conniption.

Raising an eye brow at him he approached my desk laying his hands flat against the top. His chest rose and fell as he took in deep breaths.

"What did she-"

Normally I would correct someone if they'd cut me off but his rush of words kept me stunned; unable to find any words to say.

"Eve was taken. Taylor and Naní were attacked by hunters. I have no doubt that Roy was involved, the measly cockroach."

"And her niece?" I asked the growing uneasy feeling building inside my chest. Eve would lose it if anything happened to her niece; she was al she had left as family.

"With Naní and Taylor."

I couldn't let out a sigh of relief knowing that Eve was now in the hands of someone else. Someone that had her so petrified that she mistakenly stabbed me. He was unpredictable and arrogant, and he had her in his hands.

"Where are they now?" I asked jumping to me feet and rounding the desk. My eyes never left his face as Alex heavily lifted his face to look over at me.

"Taylor just loaded Eve's niece and Naní in the car. They left about an hour ago." He explained glancing at the clock on the wall behind me. "They should be here around eleven."

"They didn't go after them? They didn't go after Eve?! Why are they coming back here?! They needed to go after her, they needed to rip that little bastard to scraps." I growled out throwing my fist down on the desk. The force was more than I had originally anticipated and my fist ended up breaking through the thick wood.

The smell of blood filled the air further ramping up my wolf inside. He wanted blood, he wanted to tear Roy apart. He want to watch as he begged for mercy and didn't receive it. He wanted him to suffer as he had made Eve.

"Caleb-" Alex said catching my attention. My eyes were fiery hot with rage as my wolf forced its way to the forefront. I had no doubt my eyes were obsidian black. "Naní is hurt pretty badly from what Taylor was shouting over the phone."

I watched as Alex face fell. Naní and him weren't mate's but they were inseparable nonetheless, they loved each other.

"She's bleeding out. Taylor couldn't dig out the silver bolt in her chest." He continued only leveling up the bad new to an unfathomable height.

Everything was falling apart. I couldn't preform my duties, I couldn't lead, fuck I couldn't even protect.

Taking in a deep breath I closed my eyes. My racing thoughts wouldn't to anything. It would reverse the past. It wouldn't bring back the dead. It wouldn't change a damn thing.

"When she gets here you are free of your duties. In the mean time I need you focused with me, I've lost Loz as my wingman since the basement collapse." My hand combed through my grease strands, I hadn't showered in days, too stressed to take the time to wash up, and too stressed out to care much about myself. How could I when Eve was so far away and in willing to let me comfort her?

I was in the midst of a constant battle with in my head between physically dragging her back with me and letting her go. How could I pull her away when all that I've done is proven her that I wasn't able to protect her and those she cherished.

I was an utter failure and I had nothing prove otherwise.

"How was she able to plan this all out? She was so focused on the pups." Alex said sitting on one of the chairs. His confusion was the same as mine.

"There's more traitors in my pack than I first thought." I growled less than pleased that so many of my pack chose to throw their loyalty to the side for a cause that seemed so selfish to anyone looking in. "I can't trust anyone."

I muttered stepping towards the door. I had to go after Eve on my own. I had no one to trust than my inner circle. How could so many turn their backs on me? Was I not a good alpha? Was I not a fake alpha? Was I not preforming?

Fuck! I was a failure to give so many a good enough idea to turn their backs on me.

"Watch over the pack." I ordered pulling the door open. It was immediately slammed shut from the weight Alex throw against it. Narrowing my eyes a threaten growl seeped out of my curled lip. What was he doing? Didn't he understand that the longer we wait the more time that bastard had to toy with Eve?

"Add where do you think you're going?" Alex challenged his eyes searching my face as if it gave any hint of my intentions. There were none.

Closing my eyes to keep myself from snapping I huffed out the hot air and in a low voice I warned him. "Alex, you are my best friend," I opened my pitch black eyes my wolf clawing for a way out and throwing him out of my way. "But if you don't move out of my why I am going to strangle you."

"Wait! Hear my out... please!"

"No! You're taking up my time-" I gritted. I was a mere ten seconds from tossing him but a voice I hadn't heard from in weeks interrupted my sentence.

"Caleb Austen Pierce! I raised you better than this."

My mothers face peered around the edge of the office door her eyes glaring in my direction. How was I the bad guy? How was I "out of line"? Eve was taken! How did my mother even come to my office? She never came in here.

My head snapped in Alex's direction.

"I knew you wouldn't listen to any reason and she's the only person besides Eve that you'll listen to reason. You aren't thinking straight. Your thinking on emotion only." Alex hissed pulling me further away from the door. "You can't just go on your own. If Nora is doing all this to get to you then you're just giving her what she wants."

My teeth ground against each other knowing he was right. Nora was settling everything up and she was using anyone at her disposal. I couldn't help but wonder what she promised Roy if she succeeded. She had probably promised Eve.

My wolf snarled in my head darkening my already shadow black eyes.

"Alex is right." My mother spoke up her voice suddenly carrying authority, an authority she had given up. She hadn't used it in years, finding it to difficult to use as it reminded her of her mate's passing. "If you are leaving now to go after Eve, as you should, you need to plan it out. Roy and his father's band of hunters were never stupid. They'll be sure to have everything planned out if you were to chase after her." She moved to sit behind my desk taking a quick glance at the hole in it before shaking her head in shame. "I swear I'm going to have to start a go fund me page for new furniture at the rate your breaking everything."

"How am I supposed to plan out something when I have no one to come with me that I can fully trust. How am I supposed to place my life and Eve's in my pack, a pack that seems to be divided?"

"I'll go with you." Alex interjected making me turn to look at him.

"No, you should be here for Naní when she gets here." I demanded not willing to tear him away from his partner. She meant everything to him and he meant everything to her.

"You know Naní, when she wakes up she'll be furious I didn't go with you." He mused rubbing the back of his head nervously. "Besides I don't think I want to be on the receiving end of Taylor when she gets back here. I can barely stand her on a good day, I don't even want to imagine how she's going to act when she gets here. All hell will break loose."

I looked between Alex and my mother who was watching us intently from where she sat. Her fingers twiddled with one of the splintered pieces of wood waiting for a response.

We both knew that it was better to go with Alex than alone, even if we would be significantly out numbered. The odds were against us.

Groaning I gazed back over to Alex, he was staring at me intently waiting. With a sigh I shut my eyes. "This is still a suicide mission." I explained dragging my hand down my face in distress.

We were going to get ourselves killed but if it meant that it would take Eve out of the little bastards hands than I would be satisfied. The images of how terrified Eve was to the point that she stabbed me told me everything I needed to know about what kind of man, or rather what kind of boy, Roy was.

"It might not be as much as a suicide mission as you think." Alex muttered thinking off into the distance.

"What do you mean? We can't have anyone in the pack-"

"We can't have anyone in the pack come with us but that doesn't mean we can't get help and numbers else where." Alex explained. He grinned as he pulled out his phone.

I was confused at his sudden change in demeaner. "I'm not following, we don't have anyone else but Taylor and she won't be able to come with us. She has Naní and Jozy to take watch over, not to mention Loz."

Alex's fingers tapped quickly against the screen, dialing a number I couldn't see.

"Who are you-"

Alex raised his finger in my face causing me to give a quiet growl in contempt. I was about to swat his finger out of my face when I heard something that stole my furious attention.

"Druscilla,"