Chapter 0319
‘She’s ours.” Louis roars in my head as he jumps on top of her, his canines sinking into her neck.
I immediately feel the mate bond kick in. I can feel her fear and just before she loses consciousness, | hear her
screaming my nin her mind. Maia goes limp. | pump more venom into her while she’s out, making sure that
her scent changes to include mine before Louis pulls his canines out.
Louis turns, standing over top of Maia who is now shifting back into her human form. He snarls at the four
remaining wolves. She’s marked, but that doesn’t mean that they won't try to killand remark her.
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| watch as they look at each other, then at their dead Alpha and the other one I just killed. | see them mind
linking each other before they turn and run off. I'm not foolish enough to think that we're out of the woods yet. |
saw the others back at their makeshift camp and they’ll be angry that | killed their Alpha and what I'm guessing
is another ranked wolf. Knowing I have the Guardian will only make them more intent on killing me.
| turn, shift quickly, and run back to where | saw Grace's bag before grabbing mine, pulling on a shirt and shorts.
| sling both bags over my shoulder then pick Grace up and | begin to run.
When we get close to the next town, | grab sof her clothes and dress Grace. | find a place to leave her,
tucking into an empty field right outside of town. | go into town and find a bus station, getting us tickets for the
next bus heading east. It leaves in a couple of hours. I'd rather get out of here sooner, but this will have to do. |
will somehow have to sneak an unconscious Grace onto the bus without it causing any raised eyebrows. On my
way back to get her, | grab sfood and sbottles of water. | know she must be starved by now and when
she wakes up, she'll need lots of water.
| find her right where | left her and | pick her up, carrying her toward the bus depot. | take the back roads as
much as possible until we get to the depot. There, | find where our bus will be leaving, and I sit her next to me,
wrapping my arm around her as if she’s sleeping until the bus comes. When it does, | wait until the bus empties
and the driver goes inside. | hurriedly pick her up and carry her onto the bus, finding seats for both of us in the
back.
We take this bus overnight and into the next day. Grace still hasn't woken up and I'm getting nervous. When we
get to the outskirts of a larger town, | decide to get a hotel. | need to check in with Rik and | need to make sure
my girl is okay.
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| wait for the bus to empty before picking Grace up and carrying her off the bus. There's a hotel about a block
away, so | quickly walk down the street carrying Grace. I'm getting sweird looks, so | try to make it look like
skind of romantic thing where I'm carrying her and whispering in her ear.
When | get to the hotel, | set her in a chair in the lobby and get a room. When | finally get her into our room, |
change her clothes into one of my shirts and tuck her into bed. I lock up and go in search of food and supplies.
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Yay Eli marked her