Tracked: A Valkyrie Saga Book 2

Chapter 18 - Small Dirty Room

Unlike the rest of my wolves, I was still unconvinced that this chick wasn't pulling our tail. I was sure that any day now, her nice girl act was going to drop and she was going to demand something devastating. I was only eight when Florance ordered for the next born wolf to be given to her as payment because her guards had stepped in and saved a small group of us from rabid vamps. My father had refused, pleading with her to ask anything else from us instead. The queen had sent my father away and he had thought that gotten through to her. The next month two of our women gave birth, one boy and one girl. We found the girl dead in her crib and only a note in the boys.

My decisions are not to be questioned.

Luna and the others kept telling me that Ray was different, but I had learned this lesson the hard way. When a female Valkyrie tells you to jump, you jump with everything in you and hope that it is high enough. Or the ones you love will pay the price.

--Lawerance Lopez

Blake parked the limo directly in front of the ER entrance and I ran inside. The large group of about ten Shifters wasn't hard to miss and I headed straight for them. Most of them looked at us in shock and I remembered that I was still wearing the ridiculous ball gown and heels. Lawerance stepped from the group but I couldn't read anything off of his hard features.

"Amy?" I asked in a whisper laced with fear.

"The nurses took her back as soon as we got here and someone was just here a minute ago to give us an update. She overdosed, but they think we got her here in time. They gave her medication, pumped her stomach, and are flushing her system with fluids. She is still unconscious, but the doctor sounded hopeful," Lawerance said in an official tone, refusing to show any emotion.

I don't know what came over me but as soon as Lawerance stopped talking my knees gave out and it was only Connor's quick reflexes that kept me off the floor. Amy was going to be okay. The doctors were hopeful. Amy was going to be okay. Where was Jack?

Jack needed to be here. I turned and looked up into Connor's concerned eyes and said, "I have to find Jack. He is not picking up his phone and he needs to be here. I have to find Jack and I have a bad feeling."

Connor's features hardened when I told him about my bad feeling, but it was true. In my gut, I just knew that something was off. "Okay, let's go find Jack," Connor agreed.

I looked over at Max and he knew what I needed before I even asked. "I will stay and make sure Amy is okay. If things start to look bad, I will figure out some way to help," Max said and I widened my eyes at him. It was our number one rule, the unbreakable law. Never expose the supernatural world to humans. Max must have seen my confusion because he explained, "I am not going to let you lose a protected. Not after yesterday. You are strong, Ray. But no one is that strong."

"I don't think you should stay here alone," I said back when I couldn't think of a response to his words. He was right. If Amy died, I would be lost.

"We can stay with him," Lawerance said from behind me and I turned to blink up at him. "If you are expecting trouble, I and some of the others can go with you too." I swallowed down my fear, feeling the seconds tick by, and nodded my head. I gave Max one last hug and then walked back out the doors. Lawerance and three other wolves, including Luna, followed us. I got in the front seat so that I could tell Blake where to go while everyone else piled into the back. I closed my eyes, thought of Jack, and willed myself to find him. I felt the now familiar tug in my chest and told Blake to turn right.