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"Stay here and don't move!" Ryder ordered as soon as we got back to the pack house. "I'm going back out there to help Ethan."
"Ryder, what's going on?" I asked. "Why are those rogues attacking?"
"There's no time to explain," he said. "I'll have Esme come here and watch over you."
His eyes were unfocused as he said this, and he was trembling all over with pure, unbridled rage. He looked like he was going to snap at any moment, and I could see the way he was looking around confusedly, searching for something that wasn't yet clear to me.
"Ryder, you're scaring me," I said. "What's going on? Why are the rogues here? Is it something to do with me?"
He was silent for a while, eyes staring blankly at something behind me. He looked like something was seriously bothering him, and there w
