“Dane, let’s go.”
We started running and I got on the horn to Dexter and the elders.
It was an hour’s drive from the pack to town. Forty-five minutes if they broke every speed limit along the way.
I prayed to God that wouldn’t be too late.
We needed to save our Alpha from doing something we were all going to regret.
Chapter 13.
Tayte.
Finding the bear’s headquarters was easy enough. I just followed the stench and the information that I’d accumulated from Celeste about them.
She’d told me that they were on the furthest outskirts of town. In a ramshackle apartment block that looked like it was barely holding itself together.
I stared up at the building I’d found in my walking quest.
Celeste had lived here her whole life?
How had she survived?
There were beer cans and cigarette butts littering the grass and not much else around.
It was still early, maybe seven o’clock in the morning.
The humans had stirred. Some were on their way to work, school, or whatever else they did.
But the bears didn’t seem to have woken yet.
I walked forward, up the path to the apartment block.
Surely, they’d wake up for this? An Alpha wolf coming to surrender?
I lifted my hand and knocked on the door. I waited for a while, then did it again.
What time did these creatures rise? Or more rightly, what time they go to bed?
Eventually the door opened. A sleepy looking woman in her twenties or thirties blinked up at me.
“I’m here to see your Alpha.”
She yawned at me. “He won’t be awake for a while.”
Geez, you’d think this sort of thing happened every day.
“It’s important. I’ll wait.”
“Suit yourself.”
She showed me inside, where there was a run-down billiards table and a leather couch with a great big hole in it.
“You may be waiting a while.”
So much for charging to my death.
“No problem.”