“Keep it,” to Trisha before belting out the door. He was
just in time to see a silver SUV head off down the road, with
Dean presumably inside. Not wasting any time, Matthew
pulled his phone and called Kane.
“They’ve got Dean,” he said getting into Dean’s wagon,
thankful that Cloverleah was the type of place you could leave
your keys in the vehicle. Turning the key quickly, he pulled out
onto the road, and sped off after the kidnapper’s vehicle.
“Okay,” Kane said, his calm voice obviously designed to soothe
rather than encourage Matthew’s anger. “Shawn’s here, and he
can see him. Stay on the phone. Keep following down the road
you’re on, I’ll tell you if you need to turn.”
“You do realize I haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about,”
Matthew snarled, as he saw the SUV turn a corner and move
out of sight. He really should have spent more time
understanding the powers in his new pack instead of mooning
over his mate. Pressing the accelerator flat to the floor,
Matthew kept an easy control on his vehicle, while listening to
Kane explain that Shawn had special powers as a Shifter
Guardian and one of them was being able to get a holographic
image of anyone he had a scent for. Dean was pack so Shawn
could pick up on him really easily.
“Did you see how many men took him?” Kane asked as
Matthew turned the corner and caught sight of the vehicle he
was after again.
“At least two,” Matthew snapped out. “Some scruffy, dirty
looking male, long dark hair, grubby blue jeans and a blue
denim jacket, grabbed him and injected him with something.
Another had to be driving the escape vehicle. I didn’t see
anybody else.”
“Good,” Kane soothed, clearly understanding Matthew’s need to
kill someone. He had been having a really good lunch with
Dean, pleased that his little mate had relaxed while talking so
excitedly about his art. Now any positive steps he had taken
were rudely smashed by some dickhead with a syringe.
“Okay, they’re turning off the main road, small little dirt track,
coming up on your right,” Kane said after a few moments
silence. Determined to learn more about the Alpha Mate’s
special powers later, for now Matthew appreciated the heads
up because he had come to a dip in the road and lost sight of
the vehicle he was chasing.
Seeing the tiny dirt track, Matthew turned up it and carefully
drove forward. The visibility was really poor with the track
covered in trees and undergrowth.
“Pull over,” Kane said. “You’ll need to go the rest of the
distance on foot. They’re parked about 300 yards from where
you are now.”
Considering all he could see was the track disappearing into
more undergrowth, Matthew trusted Kane enough to stop his
wagon and slip out of the vehicle, his phone now pressed to his
ear.
“Keep following the track around about 200 yards and you
should see an old shack. That’s where they have taken Dean.
He’s coming around so move yourself.”
“How many?”
“Just the two,” Kane confirmed.
Nodding even though he knew Kane couldn’t see him Matthew
set off at a sharp sprint, stopping when he saw the shack that
Kane had mentioned. Although he couldn’t see anybody
through the shack’s dirty windows, he caught a thread of
Dean’s scent and growled softly. Taking a chance, he quickly
ran up to the wall of the building, noting the rotten wood and
sagging beams.
“You need to get in there now,” Kane’s voice came urgently
through the phone. Not bothering to ask why, Matthew ran
around the side of the shack and smashed through the front
door. The sight of Dean awake, fighting off the two men while
they were trying to remove his clothes was more than
Matthew’s wolf could take and with a roar he pounced on first
one man, and then the other, quickly and efficiently snapping
their necks.
It was all over in a matter of minutes, the human kidnappers
no match for