Frustration.Anger.Kade was turning away from his own truck, which sat at an awkward angle. Both tires on the right side were completely flat. Zach glanced across at Kitani’s van, which also leaned. One tire still had the blade sticking out of the sidewall. Beyond it, the SUV and the other truck—also sitting tilted.
Laura had been thorough.
Zach’s work van was parked around the back—he spun and almost fell over. Would have if Cara hadn’t held on to him. He pushed back through the door. He kept the keys in a bowl near the door.
The bowl was empty.
“You won’t find her that way.” Cara grabbed him by the arms.
“Jessie,” Zach gasped. She might be hurt.
“Chase them down, Zach. With your mind.”
Kade burst through the kitchen door. “Jessie’s gone,” he snarled. “I need your van keys.”
Fear.Anger. Suspicion.They all bristled from the big Were. He thought Jessie had run. From them. From him.
Zach blurted, “She’s trying to stop Laura.”
It rocked Kade to a halt.Relief.Thenworry.
“Keys, Zach.”
“They’re gone. The pickup—they’ve rolled it.” He reached again. “They’re okay. Bashed around.” Jessie’sfearhammered at him, but now he senseddeterminationtoo. Determination to survive. And then he caught a glimpse through her eyes. A glimpse of a Dire, with a scarred face.
“Braden.” Zach’s voice constricted. Twine, around wrists, around ankles. She was being tied to the back of a Dire. “He’s got them.”
Kade was already shifting, his tee shirt giving way with ripping noises. The other Sabres followed him back out into a drenched yard. Zach staggered after them, but his mind was on the move. Strapped to the back of a leaping Were, racing into the cover of the woods across the road. “No, Kade, they’re gone!”
“We’ll catch them,” Kade snarled.
“Bloody hell, Kade, just wait. WAIT, I said.” The anger in Zach’s voice made Kade spin and snarl, shoving his face an inch away from Zach’s. Zach wasn’t a lot shorter, but he was only half Kade’s mass.
“Kade, listen to him,” Cara shouted. It was the first time Zach had ever heard her raise her voice. “He can feel where they’re going.”
“We’ll track them,” Kade said.
“You’ll never catch them.” The power in Cara’s voice stopped Kade, and he finally looked directly at her. “They’re faster than you.”
“Can you catch them?” Zach demanded.
Kade’s eyes were molten gold, caught between beast and man. The question fell into the air between them, and the face contorted.
“No.” A new voice. Cody, his gaze flaring copper. “They’re faster than us. A Sabre can’t outrun a Dire.”
“Focus, Zach.” Cara stepped between them, her blue gaze calm. “You can do this. We need to know where they are going.”
“They’ll have vehicles, somewhere.” Kade’s voice was hoarse. His desperation was like a living thing, pulsing off him in waves as he struggled to keep control. “If they make it to them...”
“Lock it down, Kade,” Zach hissed. “You’re blocking me.”
Cara turned to Kade and placed a hand on his arm. Immediately, the big Were’s emotions dimmed.
Zach swallowed and focused. Jessie was bouncing uncomfortably, her arms and legs strapped to a broad, brown-haired back. The bindings dug painfully into her wrists and ankles. Laura rode on the back of another big Dire, but her mind wasn’t shrieking in terror. He sensed elation from her as she clung, untethered.
“Laura wants to be there,” Zach ground out. “She’s excited.”
Kade growled, and Zach’s stomach twisted as he mentally left Laura and moved to the other Dires running through the trees. He only caught glimpses of actual images of where theywere. But he needed to know where they weregoing.
