<em><strong>”Last week, but how did you know that I had it?”</strong></em>


    <em><strong>”Your scent has changed. I noticed earlier, but I thought maybe it was just being around everyone and all the hormone stuff going on with me finding my mates, but I can still smell the difference now.”</strong></em>


    <em><strong>”What are you saying Skr?”</strong></em> She slowly sinks down on her haunches next to me.


    <em><strong>”That I have a suspicion and you need to be careful in here and not give them a reason to harm you unnecessarily or use you and my niece or nephew as bait. The other girls didn’t say anything and I assume Sam hasn’t either, meaning it’s really early and I can tell because I’m your Alpha or because my sense of smell has always been more intense. It shouldn’t be a problem in there, but all this is new for me too. I just didn’t want you to go in there and not know, just in case someone wee across has the same senses as me.” She leans into me, tucking her furry head under my wolf’s chin, which only works in this form since we are closer to the same size. “We should tell the girls too.”</strong></em>


    <em><strong>”No! They’ll just worry more, and I am kind of freaking out enough for everyone right now.”</strong></em>


    ***”That’s kind of the point. We are all important and necessary, not just me. You are currently carrying ourfuture. We can’t have secrets, that will only give them ammunition to use against us. Let’s go get this over with so we have a future to be in.”***


    <em><strong>”Are you twoing or not?”</strong></em> Lil finally gets through to me.


    <em><strong>”Yep, we have an amendment to the n.”</strong></em>


    <em><strong>”What are you talking about? I’m kind of done with twists to the n.”</strong></em> Jena grumbles.


    <em><strong>”We have an additional passenger. It’s a new development and we are all sworn to secrecy.”</strong></em>


    <em><strong>”Midge, enough with the riddles. Spit it out and get over here, I can smell at least ten wolves, meaning they run a patrol or hangout here for some reason. We need to find cover.”</strong></em>


    <em><strong>”Sierra’s pregnant. Don’t let anything happen to her and don’t let anyone else know about it, including the guys. I think I am the only one who can smell it, but that doesn’t mean the Rogue King or Adrielle won’t know. And they will both use it against us if they find out.”</strong></em>This text is property of N?/velD/rama.Org.


    I finish as we step through one at a time. I know they would make a half-assed effort to make her stay behind to protect her, but she is a warrior and carrying a child isn’t a good enough reason to stop what we are doing right now. We won’t have a home to raise our kids in if we don’t stop these two psychopaths. And she is safer with us than trying tomake it back to the guys, who will be distracted at hering back without us, causing more problems.


    Their wolves both jump at Sierra, rubbing up against her and congratting her. Zero fear or hesitations. This is what makes this group of women the best. Just because we are women isn’t going to stop us from doing what we need to do to protect our pack, including being on the front lines. We move about twenty feet into the cover of the trees, getting out of sight the best we can.


    <em><strong>”I can’t tell that anything’s different, so that’s good at least. We can hope it’s just you and your freak sense of smell.”</strong></em> Jenaughs at me. But I give her a stern look. She should have had her heat by now. I wonder if she might be expecting too, but I notice my sense of smell is off here now that we have moved away from the border. I can’t smell Sierra’s scent at all anymore, or the others.


    <em><strong>”Magic’s being used against us right now, that’s for sure. Stay close.”</strong></em>


    They are all on high alert now and we walk forward. The grove is still a grove. I wasn’t sure what I expected walking through the veil of magic, a castle or creepy looking house at the very least, but it is still just the forest that we saw from the other side. Tight clusters of trees making small natural pathways through the trees. Looking around there are several paths, all leading toward the same point. I assume the center is what we will find if we follow.