Reunited

“Alpha! We have to go!” someone yells as they grab my arms and pull me to my feet. “They’re coming back!” They yell and I look around absently as my body shuts down from the shock.

“Athena!” someone else yells, and then slaps me across the face.

I shake my head, and my eyes focus on Ryna as he shakes my shoulders. “He’s gone,” I croak out.

“I know honey,” he says softly. “But we have to go, we have to get everybody to safety,” he says, and I look back at our group as they help the chosen into the woods.

I see Andreas unconscious on the ground, and I’m brought back to reality. “Let’s go,” I say, taking one last look at the blazing fire.

As I turn to run to Andreas, I see movement in the tree line behind the barn, making me stop. “Enyo, is that…?”

She stops howling and focuses on what I’m looking at and then growls. ‘DEREK!’

“RYNA!” I yell, and he runs back to my side, and I point to Derek in the distance. “IT’S FUCKING DEREK!”