What Am I Going to tell him?!

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"Kieran, you've got to pick up Ace's call. Just talk to him." Rika's voice is laced with concern. "You know how he is. Even if you don't talk to him, he'll still act on his own. The fact that he listened to you and stayed back without arguing about coming with us should show you how much he trusts you."

Kieran stares at the phone in his hand, the screen flashing Ace's name for the fifth_ no, sixth time that night.

His thumb hovers over the answer button, but he can't bring himself to press it.

What the hell is he supposed to say to him?

They had rushed back for Marsel. Before they could even return to the pack house, they didn't want to leave him there, at the crawfords' for long.

They had stormed the lab, ready to risk, to fight however it would take to get Marsel out of there, but it was too late.

The place was wrecked. Blood smeared the floors. The stench of death clung to the walls.