“We have to go back!” I whisper, my blood running cold. I crawl off my knees and turn to Dove, who straightens up. Ash, dust, and blood coat her ripped clothes, and she brushes some of it off her cheeks like she has all the time in the world. How the f**k did she open a portal? How could she just leave them there? “Caleb is hurt! We have to help them!”
Her expression drains of all the light and kindness I’ve always seen there, morphing her into someone I’ve never seen before. It’s like a lightbulb going off, and she bows her head, looking over my shoulder. I don’t need to turn around to know who is there, to know she has betrayed me. I can see it in her cold eyes, and I was an i***t.
“My Alpha, I have found your runaway mate like you ordered.”
I slowly turn around, every second more ten
