No Wolf's End (Book 3 Of Mckayla Series)

Chapter 21

Mckayla

"Something on your mind?" Sam asked me for the fourth time.

Something was on my mind; bothering me. I thought grimly of the last several hours and the fight that broke out at the council meeting. Seeing so many die around me due to someone else's selfish reasons riled my hybrid inside. I was ready to fight and the thought of waiting another night didn't sit well with me.

The thought of Elena waiting another night now seemed impossible. In her shoes; if my pack was in immediate danger, I wouldn't be waiting an extra night.

"Kayla...what's wrong?" Sam asked more sternly.

I sighed. Standing, I paced around considering the chances. "I told Elena if she left there would be a chance her mother would go after her."

"Yeah...so."

"She diverted my statement,
distracting me...but she never responded to what I said."

"So you think Elena is setting herself up as bait to get your daughter?"

Was that a rhetorical question? "What do you think?" I frowned. Elena would give herself up for me. "Stupid."

"Let's go..."

I looked up to Sam as she stood ready to head out the door. Lani came down stairs at that moment. "You come back safe."

Sam kissed her mate with promise lingering at the end and faced me. "Get your ass up. Why are you hesitant?" I looked up toward the stairs as I found Nina standing at the top.

It felt like I was leaving her off to play hero. I should stay to make sure she was safe. But she was safe and didn't need my hovering. I only hoped she understood why I had to go.

"Come back with Kaylee...if you two are right." I nodded at Nina and headed out with Sam.

We ran through the woods following Elena's scent until I could no longer find it.

"Use your connection." I frowned not following what Sam meant. "You two are linked. Close your eyes and feel her. Your hybrid will guide us to her."

There was a lot I was learning within myself. And a lot I was realizing were the same. Closing my eyes I took a deep breath concentrating on my bond with Elena. There was so much in my mind and so many connections from through my pack that obscure my link to her.

"Don't listen for her thoughts. Vampire bonds are different. Search for her feelings. Think of one word that bonds you mentally and focus on that."

I listened all while I thought of one word that connected us. Blood. My mind was highly webbed but soon something flooded within and somehow I knew where she was.

She was at the home I was planning on heading to in the morning. "Found her."

Neither of us needed no word exchange. We ran towards the home that belonged to a guy I once called associate. I never claimed to have friends and he, Peta was more of Blair's friend than mines.

After nearly twenty minutes we were a few hundred feet from his home. There were trees hovering over his home, full of weeping looking leaves as a black bar fences block off free entrance to his entire home.

"Welcoming," Sam said, solemnly.

"I lived a dark life back than so I never noticed his own darkness. Till now." I'd come to this home so many times and it looked practically the same but different. It was because I was seeing his home with new eyes.

My hybrid simmered through my eyes, narrowing at our ambiance. The grass was thick, not cut in the last few months. We were off to the side of Peta's home and I felt a gush of adrenaline push into my bloodstream as my muscles tighten. Sniffing the dark night air, no wind to help pick up a scent, I searched for any suspicious movements. My hybrid could feel it. The entire scene felt too eerie and unsettling, like stepping into one of those horror flicks, without the fog.