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    - Josie -


    Time slows down as the ding of the elevator forces me out of the mind-link with Jaxon. He and


    our parents were unharmed, however, Jace was unounted for.


    Reinforcements wereing...but it was already toote.


    My eyes are blinded by the red targetsers pointed in my direction. We didn''t block the


    elevator...how could we miss that.


    They move with precision towards us, bullets flying our way...bullets we will not be able to dodge


    due to the sheer volume.


    I''m hit in my upper arm and my shoulder, but I push through the pain, dive towards them to take them down.


    I''ve taken two down before I have even taken in the


    full number of them, but I know that there are more than I had expected.


    They just keeping.


    Doctor Abel moves off the blocked door as they rain bullets at him, the barricade cascading at


    his movement.


    Kit''s aura swarms the area, making it chilling, dark...he moves as the expert fighter that he is.


    "Kill them, take the female." One orders out, forcing me to see red. If they came for a fight, a fight they will get.


    My wolf pushes forward preparing to shift but each time I begin the process, a bullet hits me and knocks me back.


    "Josie." Kit''s voice growls out for me as I keep moving, keeping taking them down.


    Until we are surrounded.


    Guns point at the three of us, the hunters forming a circle around us...we were trapped and out of time. But they weren''t silver bullets, otherwise we would be dead by now.


    "Surrender the female!" One of the hunters shouts out, as I stand boxed in between Kit and Doctor Abel. He must be their section leader.


    "Come with us and we will let them live." He offers out to me.


    "It''s a lie, don''t." Kit growls in my ear, he was right, it would be a trick. As soon as I were in their clutches, they would open fire.


    Silver or not, Kit and Doctor Abel wouldn''t be able to survive that. They needed me alive which is why they, yet again, refuse to use silver bullets.


    As long as I remain stood here, on the right side they wouldn''t risk the chance of me getting killed in the crossfire.


    "There''s too many..." I murmur under my breath.


    "Can you get her out?" My eyebrows knit together at Kit''s response until I realise he is talking to Doctor Abel.


    "What?" I growl out with fury.


    "Knox?" Doctor Abel''s voice mutters back.


    "Can you get her out?" I look to my mate, my eyes wide with fear from what he was even considering.


    "Yes... Yes I can get her out."


    "Don''t you even fucking dare!" I seethe out at him, as his hands rise to cup the side of my face.


    “I won''t y that game anymore.......” His voice is soft inparison to mine, peaceful.


    "But you will let me?"


    "You''re all that matters."


    "No, that''s not true. I''m not leaving, we fight together. If it is our fate to do so, then we fall


    together. I cannot live without the mate bond." I plead with him, how could he think I would leave him, use him as a shield.


    He nods his head at me, realisation dawning on him what he was about to do, what he expected


    me to go through. There is no chance I would survive losing him.


    "You''ll have to open fire, because you aren''t having me.." I snarl out at the hunters, their guns still pointed aggressively towards us.


    "That''s a shame." The leader signals two fingers towards his troops, a signal I do not understand


    until they lock all theirsers onto Kit, his chest lit up with red light.


    "No..." I push myself in front of him but he pushes me back.


    "Get her out of here." Kit roars, an arm snaking around my waist as I am pulled back with such force I crash onto the floor of the elevator. Doctor Abel pushes a dead body out of the way


    that was blocking the door from closing, before he presses on the ground floor level.


    "NO..." I scream out as the doors close, Kit''s eyes watching me as I try to reach to stop the doors.


    The elevator kicks into action as I w at the doors to stop the descent. I press buttons but the elevator continues to descend to the bottom floor. As soon as it stops I start pressing again, only for Doctor Abel to grip me around the shoulders and lift me in his arms, pulling me with him.


    "How could you." I scream at him, fighting against his hold. My heart was pounding at a speed I didn''t recognise. I needed to get to Kit, I needed to help Kit.


    "I know a safe ce, I know how to help him..."


    "Get off me."


    "Josie,e with me and we can help him..." He continues to lift me, my hands fighting against


    his hold, my teeth even biting at him.


    "I''m following his orders and getting you out."


    "No." I scream again as he grips my wrists and hoists me over his shoulders, locking me in


    ce.


    I watch in horror as dead bodies litter the grounds of the packnds, gunfire continues on the training


    field....I see a woman in white fight, Mum.


    "Mum!" I scream out in the mind-link.


    "Josie?"


    "Knox, help Knox...he''s in the hospital."