All Chapters of The Last Alpha’s Mate: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

FENRIRMy eyes widened.The tarmac… was so beautiful. But roads meant vehicles and vehicles meant noise and speed.Shit.I put my nose down one more time and found where she'd stood… right at the edge of the tarmac. What happened here? Her scent was mixed with a familiar scent. People of her… kind? Like Janet, and the rest of them on two legs. I scratched the back of my head with a claw. This was all so confusing.She definitely fainted here because her scent was a bit surface level with a corpse.Conscious, yet unconscious.She'd gone down here.Dark trails of something had stopped. Someone had gotten out, then the trail ended because she'd been picked up and taken somewhere in a vehicle.I raised my eyes to the sky. She was fucking taken! “Elara!” I opened my mouth to call, but something that wasn't a growl left my lips in a high pitched tone.I had no way to follow a vehicle and no way to know which direction it had gone. Unfortunately, the road was stretched away in both dire

ELARAThe woman handed a pair of jeans and a sweater from the lost property box while explaining that someone had left them six months ago and never collected them.I didn't even want to think about it.I changed in the back room, folded the scrubs and left them on the counter because they were the only thing I had to offer.The woman took them without comment."There's a women's shelter two streets over," she said, when I came back out."Thank you," I said. She didn't look convinced but she didn't push it and I left before she could decide to make any phone calls on my behalf.The lesser they knew, the better.The shelter gave me breakfast, a pair of second hand trainers that were half a size too big and a small amount of emergency cash from a fund they kept for exactly this kind of situation.My situation.I sat at the table in their kitchen, ate toast and answered the minimum number of questions required to receive the help.“Documents?” She asked.“Hell no.” I shook my head.“Oh.

FENRIRI opened the door and checked both ways.The corridor was quiet with linoleum floors and overhead strip lighting. It also had the particular smell of a cleaning product that every medical building in the world seemed to use.There was the reception desk I could see at the far end of the right-hand corridor.Shit, shit…I got halfway down before I saw two men in officer uniforms coming from the stairwell. I slowed my pace and looked at them properly because something was wrong and I needed a second to identify what.The uniforms were right.The boots were right.But their positioning was wrong. I mean, these scumbags were moving through a veterinary hospital with an alert body language of people on an active search.“Received an alert call on a big wolf.” One of them whispered into his talker.“Confirmed.” Another voice replied.“Proceed with extreme extortion?”“Confirmed.”I scoffed. These were Janet's people. And had them in officer uniforms.I knew this because I had watche

FENRIRI couldn’t stay and wait.I had known that on the cliff, and I knew it now, as a man in a stolen car driving north through a grey morning. And knowing it didn’t make it easier, but it was still true.The last place I remembered as a man was the base.Which meant the base was where I needed to start. I needed to get to the country where I had last been human and find whatever was left of the unit.The base was probably the thread that led from the bite to Janet to whatever she had done to me.It would only trace back to the beginning, because the beginning was where the answer was before I could go back to Elara.I kept driving until the city thinned out behind me and the road stretched longer and flatter, with fields on either side.Hours passed.Eventually, the fields gave way to something denser, and a town appeared gradually through signs, roundabouts, and pedestrians moving along pavements.I followed the road in until I saw the sign.FREE PARKING.Great.I pulled in fully

FENRIRShe is here.In this country, in this town, in this market, alive and moving and somewhere close enough.I was a hundred percent sure that even the thought of going back in and searching systematically presented itself. I considered it for approximately four seconds before I understood why it wouldn't work. It wouldn't because I had told her to be safe… I had done everything I could to push her away from the reach of Janet, the facility and anyone connected to either. Elara wasn't stupid. I knew she too wanted a release from the facility but never found a chance to do so.Not as a subject anyway.Moreover, walking through a crowded market calling her name was not idle. In fact it was the opposite of idle since the last thing she needed was someone drawing attention to her location.Even if that someone was me.Especially if that someone was me, because I had no idea yet who in this town or this country had eyes pointed to me.I already had on a dead man's coat and a stolen ca