Someone in my pack would surely spot Alex and bar hispath.
I tried to keep my eyes on the two Alphas, but I peeked past their bodies. Alex had disappeared, but August was stillthere.
Where had Alexgone?
A burst of yellow materialized in the darkness behind the thin row ofBoulders.
Alex hadshifted.
Ibarked.
Still, August didn’t understand. The groove simplydeepened.
No Boulder looked over their shoulder. All of them too focused on what was happening in the duelingring.
The yellow shape loomed larger so terrifyingly fast that I locked my gaze on the shimmery blue cord that connected me to August and pulled so hard my belly button almost burstopen.
Augustjerked.
His arms fell out of their bind and extended to steady his teeteringbody.
I’d moved him, but only byinches.
August finally looked away from me, but only to stare at hisabdomen.
Over your shoulder,I barked.Behindyou!
When he looked back at me, wonder lit up his entiredemeanor.
He didn’tunderstand.
I raced toward him, hoping Liam had Cassandra under control, hoping that by choosing one wolf, I wasn’t sacrificing theother.
When Alex dropped into a crouch, I was still too faraway.
I don’t know if it was the panic lighting up my pupils or my mad dash toward him, but August finally spunaround.
Toolate.
Toolate.
Alex was alreadyairborne.
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Iclutchedthe blue rope with my mind and poured all of my hatred for the boy who’d driven my cousin off the road and into his grave into mygrip.
August lurched forward, several feet this time. He fell, hands smacking the ground before his head could make contact. Alex’s lids hitched up as he landed on grass instead of flesh, and the shock made himstumble.
As he righted himself, his narrowed violet gaze locked on August’s kneeling form. Before my mate could stand, Alex galloped toward him. The rope escaped my invisible grip and swung so chaotically it blurred, thwarting my attempt to latch ontoit.
I came to a screeching halt, and the rope stabilized some. I clutched it, and this time, closed my ghostly fingers hard around it. I pulled just as another wolf barreled out from behind the blockade of human legs and jumped on top of Alex. At first, I thought it was a Boulder, but the wolf was small and slender, not male. And its fur waswavy.
Sarah.
Alex flung her off, and her small body arched through the air, slamming hard into theground.
Alex growled and darted toward her just as another wolf appeared, this one gray andlarge.
