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in her lap.
    Realizi ng she was still driving with her lights off , Amber switched them on. She didn’t want the girl questioning how she could see to drive and t hey were far enough away so Gerald would no t be able to catch up to them. Out of the corner of her eye she could see that Ha n na was sc runched down in the seat and got the impression she was trying to make herself disappear and frowned. “Why can’t you call them?”
    Hanna didn’t appear to notice the lights come on . On top of everything else, s he was obviously stressed about calling her parents. Her hand lifted and swiped her hair out of her face, and kept it there, her voice was muffled. “I r an away from home a month or so ago because t hey don’t want me anymore .”
    That one small statement made Amber’s heart leap into her throat and her hands gripped the steering wheel tightly. T he vivid mem ory of hearing she was not wanted either came flooding back. The horrible night flashed through her mind, hearing her mother’s screams while her pack attacked and forced her mother to re turn to their territory. The words Tommy, the Councils hit man, had spoken were burned into her memory. “ By Council’s orders, I am here to return you, Winona Gray Hamilton, runaway pack member, back to the den. Council leader Isaac Whiting has ordered that your daughter be brought before the Council. You are a disgrace to your bloodline and your mutt will be dealt with by the Council.” Amber knew if she were to ever be caught or return to the territory she would be dealt with severely. H er entire body tense d . If the pack found her , they would kill her. So yeah, s he knew exactly how it felt to not be wanted .
    With Hanna it had to be different. Her parents weren’t going to kill her. And since she was human, she needed help for the physical and mental abuse she had suffered.
    Unlike a werewolf, the human body would not he al properly if left untreated. Mentally, even as a werewolf, there would alway s be scars. Amber knew about mental scars. Pushing those thoughts away she stared out the windshield, watching the glowing white line flash by while she headed down the highway.
    “You need to at least get to the hospital.” She didn’t want to bring it up, but knew she had to. “ Hanna you were raped and need to be checked.” Wincing inwardly at having to say the words, she glanced a t Hanna and hoped like hell the prick had n’t gotten her pregnant . At Amber’s words, Hanna ’s head hung low er , her mangled hair dropping down to cover the tears running freely down the girls face. Amber gripped the steering wheel. The one sob that escaped was heartbreaking and Amber wanted to cry right along with her.
    Wh il e she drove on in silence , Hanna cried quiet ly beside her . Overwhelming sadness brought ba ck vivid memories of the story her mother had told her of how she had been conceived. Her mother had shifted unexpectedly, a month before her sixteenth birthday. Without the proper precautions in place, her shift had thrown the males into a mating frenzy and her mother’s siblings had bee n killed in the process. Her mother had ran when she found out she was pregnant. After giving birth, her mother ha d remained on the run with her until the pack had tracked them down fifteen years later and took her mother back . S he had escaped capture because her grandfather had intervened and his driver had dropped her off at Moonlight S helter . The word s a place for unwanted werewolves echoed through her mind. As far as she knew, her mother had never tried to find her and in a way was glad she hadn’t . With how badly women we re treated, Amber never wanted to be a part of any pack. But it did lead to a lonely life on the run. She thought of her attraction to Ryan earl ier that afternoon . The thoughts of what had happened to her mother made her wonder . I f she had been in a pack, would she have already made the change like all the other females? When she made her