“What do you think his plan is?”

“He could be coming for you and it will be a bonus for him because he will find me too. Or he could want the female Alpha. I don’t think Cooper ever really has a plan. He just rolls with the situation and takes advantage when he can.”

“Do you think he will attack Black Shadow?”

She puffs out her cheeks. “Without a doubt.”

More Wolves and Lycans are going to lose their abilities because of me. Especially if he was already here. I would be the reason our kind falls.

I tell Sammie that I’m turning in for the night and she asks me if I’m okay.

“Just tired.” I lie. Guilt was weighing so heavily on me that I thought my lungs were going to be crushed.

I wait for hours after Sammie has gone to bed, just to make sure that she is asleep. Quietly I pull on a jacket and slip out of the house, being extremely careful to not make any noise.

Standing at the end of the drive. I weigh up my options. To go left to Black Shadow and hope for an easy and quick death, or go right and disappear for good and live the rest of my life as a Human. Neither options were ones I wanted.

Checking my pockets, I feel for the rectangle that is my credit card. I had found it stashed in my vanity table. Planted there when I first moved in as a just in case card. There was more than enough money on it to set me up with a new life, far away from any of this shit and somewhere where no one could find me. I had grabbed it just in case I turned right.

“Where are you going?” Sammie steps up next to me.

I close my eyes, I hadn’t heard her. I hadn’t even heard the door of the house. “You weren’t supposed to know.” I murmur

“I knew something was up when you went to bed at seven. You never go to sleep that early. Even when you were recovering from what that asshole did to you.”

“It’s too dangerous to be here.” I whisper back, her face is lit up by a single street light. It gives her grey eyes an eerie look. “If Neah found us, I’m certain Cooper can. Cooper could be watching us right now and neither one of us would know. Black shadow is a few miles that way or…..”

She places her hands on my shoulders and spins me around to look at her. “Who gives a shit if he is watching! He can’t do anything else to us. So I will ask you again, where are we going?” Sammie slips her hand into mine. “I will go wherever you want to go.”

“This is not who I am.” I mutter. “I don’t go to someone asking for help. I am the help. People have paid me to do their dirty work.”

“Okay.”

“Okay?” I whisper back.

She nods. “I thought I knew how I could help you. But this has to be your choice, Blair. If you want to leave, we leave. If you want to speak to Neah, we go to Black Shadow.”

“Why have you changed your mind?”

“Because I see you. I am not a Lycan anymore but I see the guilt you carry. The sadness that is evident in your eyes.”

I start walking, tugging Sammie with me.

“Are you sure?” She questions

“Yes. And if I am killed, don’t fight back because it will be everything I deserve and more.”

Her hand squeezes mine.

As we walk, she asks me a few questions about the inside of Black Shadow’s pack. I tell her that I never made it further than just inside the gates Jenson had given me some information but not much, though I was never really interested.

We come across two burnt out cars. The one at the back looks like it had crashed into the one in front and the one in front looks just like the one Abraxas had hurried Neah into when they left us.

“Is that?” Sammie asks

“I think so.” I mutter, hurrying forward.

There are tyre marks on the ground.

A trail of blood leads from the windscreen of the car Neah had been in, to the grass verge. Another pook of pool of dried red sits just outside the passenger door of the same car.

“What do you think happened?” Sammie whispers as though someone might be watching.

“I don’t know, but they burnt the cars to cover any trace of DNA.” I whisper back. “I would have done the same. I have done the same.”

“Do you think they’re dead?”

“No, because Dane would be knocking down my door. I’m certain of that.”

I look around and grab Sammie’s hand, “Come on, I would rather not stick around here.”