Total pages in book: 47
Estimated words: 44044 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 220(@200wpm)___ 176(@250wpm)___ 147(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 44044 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 220(@200wpm)___ 176(@250wpm)___ 147(@300wpm)
Chapter Fifteen
Sienna was not afraid. She couldn’t explain why, but for some reason, her shyness vanished as soon as Leah clasped her hand. There was a power sizzling through the nine of them. She wasn’t just holding Leah’s hand. She was holding all of their hands. They were linked in a chain, staring into the distance, watching things unfold.
Although Sienna didn’t understand her role or her power yet, it didn’t matter. She absorbed everyone’s power, and she knew the same was true for each of them. She could see what Amber saw, smell what Rylee smelled, hear what Molly heard.
Their attention homed in on a large cage that was holding a man. She understood from the women’s collective thoughts the man was Drow. He was a bear shifter who had recently killed another bear—Firat. He was being held until the council of bears could decide what to do.
But things were about to change. The cage suddenly opened. No one touched it. No one unlocked it. The door simply swung open. Drow turned around and stared at the opening for a few seconds before darting out of the cage and racing into the forest.
The two men guarding the cage didn’t seem to notice his escape as if they were temporarily blinded to that event. They gave no indication they saw or heard the door open, nor did they pay any attention to the rogue bear as he shifted and took off.
A loud roar seemed to shake the mountain, causing the women to almost lose their footing, but they held on to each other.
Sienna wondered if the Alphas had also heard the roar, but she couldn’t break her concentration to turn and look at any of them, not even her own mate.
The roar did not come from the bear. She squeezed Leah’s hand as she acknowledged that fact. She was certain they all squeezed each other. The roar came from a lion. She’d only heard that sound one other time, in her latest vision.
But where was he? Why couldn’t they see him? They could see the bear now, running hard in his shifted form. He kept twisting around, looking for the source of the noise because he, too, could hear the lion. But he couldn’t see him. None of us could.
Was the lion even in the vicinity? How far did his voice travel?
Sienna scanned the area. She had taken on Amber’s ability to see long distances. No lion. Only the bear.
Another loud growl sounded and then another and then several more. When Sienna shifted her attention back to the open cage, she was aware of several bears bounding around the area. They were shifted. They were also angry.
On top of that, shocking Sienna further, they were communicating telepathically with one another. Wolves could not do that. But Olivia had the ability to understand them. She could also speak to them in her mind if she needed. Now all the women were listening to the bears.
“How did he escape?”
“What were the two of you doing instead of watching him?”
“Which direction did he go?”
“We need to go after him.”
“What the fuck was that sound? A lion?”
They all paused, their gazes darting around as they heard the roar of the lion in the distance.
Sienna switched her attention back to Drow. He was running as fast as he could. Bears could apparently move with great speed if they needed to. But how long could he keep it up?
Drow was in a panic, his distress apparent as he kept jerking his gaze in every direction. The roaring continued. It seemed to come from every angle around him, taunting him, driving him mad.
It was apparent that Drow was running out of steam. Another loud roar came from behind him, seemingly closer, tormenting him so that he twisted around, his huge body awkward, his eyes wide with panic.
Sienna saw what was about to happen in slow motion. The cliff at his back as he continued to retreat from the noise coming from something the wolf mates could not see. Sienna was pretty confident Drow also could not see the source of the loud noise.
And then he was right there on the edge, teetering for a moment, a whimper coming from him right before he twisted and realized his fate. He went over the cliff, making Sienna and the rest of the women gasp in horror.
Drow was not a good being. He’d broken many societal rules. And now he was paying. But who had pushed him to his death?
Sienna knew it was a lion. She didn’t even think it was more than one. Just a single being who’d somehow masked himself from every sense. He was there as though omnipresent. Seemingly everywhere at once, or perhaps he simply moved so fast that he could taunt Drow from multiple angles.
The roaring stopped. The urgency lifted. The sizzle in the air lessened but didn’t disappear altogether. There was more to understand, but Drow was gone.