Chapter 77

  Ryker POV

  "Get our boys back," Reika says through the link as I raced toward the Packhouse. I repeatedly kept trying to command her through the bond and the mind link, but nothing worked as I felt her grow weaker. My lungs scorched as I tried to get to her, so close. Yet the distance felt impossible when she suddenly stopped talking, falling silent in my head.

  "Reika!" I called through the link as I ran for the Packhouse. Brax pushed us as hard as we could go when Brax hit the dirt, and a tortured groan left him. My body felt like it was engulfed in flames. Brax writhed in agony as he tried to take her pain when it suddenly stopped.

  We were five hundred meters from the Packhouse when I was forced to shift back, and I found myself lying in the dirt. Brax suddenly went as silent as Reika, and the bond felt numb.