Once Rejected, Thrice Accepted
Chapter 84

I shifted back looking around us letting Moonlight enhance our senses. Someone coming after us for something we didn't do? Why is this a recurring thing?

"Matilda is out." I stated making everyone pause from their playtime with Rose. "And Cass doesn't think she will be trying to escape so we need to get back to the pack house especially with us having Rose out here."

My mates ran off coming back shifted with shorts on and an extra long t-shirt for me. I guess they didn't want anyone to see the goods, as they call them. It was hard not to smile at their loving crazy boy ways. "How?" Duncan asked putting his front to my back and pushing his nose into the side of my neck.

"I didn't ask. I am apparently the hunted so that was all I was focused on." Leo and Lucas had started to crowd me. "No, someone needs to protect Rose."

I looked around to tell her to shift but I didn't see her. Lindy had been standing by Tiberius when I mentioned a lost prisoner so he had pulled her into his chest blocking her view of her sister. She was going to be so pissed at him for that shit.

"Rose?" I started to yell as everyone joined in. "Let's split up into groups and search her out. Duncan stays with me and the others in groups of three. I am who she is after so I can keep her busy if we haven't found Rose by then. No arguing." Britt, Cherry, and Lucas went one way while Tiberius, Lindy, and Leo went the other. Duncan and I stayed put. Moonlight had an idea which I was all ears for.

'You know how we learned we have other powers?' She asked. I nodded eager to get to being helpful. 'I think I know what another might be. I have been feeling a bit off when we are talking about people who aren't here and that we have a connection with. Like when we are speaking, I can feel them with us even if they are far away like Jackson and Erin. I can see their faces and feel their wolves!

'So if we talk about Rose you can see where she is and feel how she is feeling?' Holy shit we might be able to replace her and practice a new ability. This sounded amazing.

'Yes. Now help me concentrate!

I hushed Duncan before he could speak. I needed my full attention and he needed to keep an eye out for both of us.

We shut down our mind and let our senses focus on everything around us. We slowly pushed Rose into our mind replaying her shift and her playful pup activities. That feeling that Moonlight mentioned was like a tug at our mind and our heart. "See that? Moonlight asked getting excited.

I wanted to reply no but a sense of a presence in my mind stopped me. I focused on it like I was trying to dial into a clear channel on an old school television. Adjust the knobs, move the antenna, and pray.

It worked bringing a light image of Rose whimpering curled into a fetal position. Every whimper was a kick in the gut. I tried to reach out but nothing. Our power wasn't strong enough.

'Listen to what is going on around her. She is hurt but I can't see why.' Moonlight demanded.

I did as she said finally locking on to a voice that sounded familiar and filled with rage. I couldn't make out the words until I heard my fathers name and how she would kill him for her mate. The voice was female and I knew who it was. "Matilda." I shouted scaring the crap out of Duncan. "That evil, pieces of shit has Rose and she hurt her. She is dying tonight."

"Agreed. Where are they?" Duncan growled grabbing my arms with his eyes blazing from his wolfs rage.

"The old oak that is by the river." I felt him let go but grabbed his arm so he couldn't run off. "She is mine." He nodded.

I linked everyone where we were going and that I would explain how later. I shifted to Moonlight and ran as fast as we could. I could still hear Rose's whimpers and see her. Matilda kept kicking her when she got more and more angry. I had so much rage I wanted to explode.

'Want me to take full control so you can block it out?' She asked me. She knew we had done it once we could do it again.

'No. I am killing her with you.' I just had to hope I could control myself and let Rose get away first. She didn't need to see it.

'Good girl.'