<b>Chapter </b><b>419 </b>
<b>I </b>blink several times, trying to clear my vision. I’m starting to focus better when Jamie <b>turns </b><b>back </b><b>to </b>me<b>. </b>I know my time with the girls hase to an end but Madisyn is being persistent <b>about </b><b>not </b>
leaving.
“Jamie, can you pick Maddie up so I can talk to her?<b>” </b>
He does as I request without question.
“Hey sweetpea. I know you’re afraid and I am too but Jamie is going to help me while Mica gets the two of you back to the house.”
“No. I’m not leaving.” She whimpers.
I take her from Jamie, cuddling her close as I speak.
“We are right behind you. I promise, Jamie will keep me awake.”
“No, Cole. Please. I can’t leave you.<b>” </b>
“I promise we are right behind you. I’m sorry Madisyn. I ammanding you to go with Mica. You cannot ignore a directmand from an alpha.”
I try to use the oldest parenting trick in the book.
“Please?” She whines again as I hug her tight.
“No. I need you to go. I’m right behind you but very slow. You need to get your dad moving on
getting me to general.”
“Yes sir.” She finally hups.
Jamie gently takes her sobbing form out of my arms, walking her over to Mica. He kisses her gently before speaking but I’m too far away to hear his instructions.
She nods easily as she takes Madisyn’s hand and starts walking quickly down the path gently tugging
a very resistant Madisyn alongside her. Jamie waits until they round the curve of the path before
heading back to me.
“I’m sorry. I wanted to make certain that Madisyn didn’t break away from her.”
I nod my head as I push myself off the tree I’m leaning on. Jamie <b>walks </b>around <b>to </b>my <b>left </b><b>side</b>, wrapping his arm around <b>my </b>waist.
“Good thing <b>I </b><b>got </b>a little taller. <b>This </b><b>wouldn’t </b><b>work </b><b>otherwise</b><b>.</b><b>” </b>
<b>Chapter </b><b>419 </b>
<b>He </b>chuckles lightly as he grabs the waistband of my pants. I wrap my left arm around his <b>shoulders </b><b>as </b>I take my first steps since his arrival. He stops each time I stumble through a step but <b>it </b><b>doesn’t </b>take long for us to develop a working rhythm, something I don’t have to think about as the excruciating pain causes me to ck out.
(Demetri’s POV)
It’s been five hours since I got a call from Jamie about Coleing across something suspicious <b>in </b>the field bunks on the south western edge of the territory. It was as my security group was approaching that they barely saw what appeared to be a nude she–wolf darting into the tree line. Two of them tried to follow her while the other two continued to the cabins.
I was angry at their report. Not only did they fail to capture the she–wolf’s assants but they failed to stop a brutal attack on Cole. They only figured out which cabin all the
in after everyone left prompting me to write a note to implement testing ar
the security team.
was going on training for
I ce my head in my hands inplete disbelief as to the failures, so many pic failures that urred today. I can’t even begin to contemte the disciplineing to the ones unable to track the three males and single female involved in an orgy.
Cole managed to find them first, only things had gotten a whole lot worse by the time Jamie got back to me with a new location, not that we couldn’t hear the brawl going on inside the pack house.
<b>I </b>used my broadcast link to lock everyone down. No one was toe outside until I gave the all clear and if you were outside you were to get inside. The growls, yelps and screams were deafening as we converged.
I arrived in time to witness Cole take two bad hits, one to the side and one to the back of his head. I honed my focus on them and made certain they were ced in my jail cells. I thought for certain he was dead until he rolled out of the way of me taking down his second assant.
Even I failed today. How can I punish any of my pack members for their failures when I failed too? I failed to recognize my own daughters‘ voices. To recognize that they followed me out to the brawling male prospects and they ended up in the river. Shortly after their fall I’m helpless to watch Cole dive in after them.
By the time I subdued the wolf in my hands they were gone. I’m ashamed to say I took my anger out on the prospects that were left. There were three dozen prospects that got involved in the brawl. I hurt into submission the highest dozen before the rest finally submitted to my demands.
<b>The </b><b>Son </b><b>of </b>Red Fang