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disabling the cameras she’d covered her tracks temporarily, but leaving the continent was the safest bet. Eager to leave, she took off at a fast run until sensing full-bloods followed.
    She didn’t sense aggression and stopped to wait. A few seconds later a pitiful, rag tag bunch of people surrounded her. Recognizing them from the lab she wondered why they had not returned home or left the area. They stared as if she had answers. But why follow her? A stranger.
    “Why are you following me?”
    “ We don’t know where to go.” The plain comment took her by surprise.
    “ It has been many years since I have seen the moon or felt dirt beneath my feet. Where do we go now that we left that place?” An older man she recognized from inside, his skin held a blue tinge that mystified her. Was she responsible for them? For this?
    Asia looked at the wolves and sighed. Tonight had been a series of her messing up one after the other. What had she done? She didn’t like being responsible for people.
    No, she was responsible and somehow they knew.
    To free the test wolves without thinking of the next step or what the cost would be had been a big mistake. Now they needed direction, and she had nothing. No place to take them, no pack for them to join, not even food to feed them or medicine to help them heal. In her anger, she hadn’t thought this far ahead. It never occurred to her they would need more direction. The urge to run and disappear rode her hard.
    Eager to leave the area, she waved for them to follow her. Together they moved through the woods at a decent pace until she scented Tobias, the beta from the European pack. Earlier that month, he and his pack mates helped Tyrese, La Patron’s son and others fly out of the country. Jasmine had them wait for her to complete her mission and help her leave as well.
    “Tobias,” she extended her hand in greeting to the tall, red headed, full-blood. He shook her hand but his attention settled on the ragged wolves with her.
    “La Patron asked my Alpha to have us look for you and offer help if needed. We’ve been waiting in the area all week.”
    Glad for the help she explained the dilemma without going into too much detail. She sensed he read between the lines.
    “ Soon I’ll be returning home. Can you take them with you, reacquaint them to pack life.” Since he didn’t know Silas had been in recent contact with Alpha Frederick she didn’t offer that information.
    “ I need approval from my Alpha. But it should be okay. When do you leave?”
    “ I am waiting for arrangements, Gunnolf is dead –”
    “ Gunnolfs’ been dead a long, time. Hawke tried to save him, but they used him instead. Heard they have a way of using the dead,” one of the wolves said in an eerie voice sending chills up Asia’s spine.
    She looked at the older woman. “When did Gunnolf die? I swear he spoke to me.”
    The woman cackled showing browned teeth and missing canines. “ Gunnolf speaks to everybody. All of us were in the orphanage at one time. A great man he was, great man. Pity they use him the way they do.”
    “How do they use him if he’s dead?” Asia didn’t understand, none of this made sense.
    “ Somehow they got hold of his memories and used those to lure us into the web. I heard his voice over twenty years ago, but he wasn’t there.” She eyed Asia and nodded with the self-assurance of someone who visited another spiritual plane often. “I still listen to his voice. I’ve been meaning to return to the village. Rumor says he warded the place and stashed his things there. Course that could be just the voices.”
    Asia nodded, ready to end the conversation. Too much time had passed, and she needed to rest after expending so much energy with the bracelet. That was a small price to pay. “You should get them out of here before it’s too late.” She stressed the last words so Tobias understood the danger.
    He nodded. “You?”
    “ Just waiting for instructions, go ahead.”