#Chapter 38: Rogue

Sarah POV Zane outpaced me, but I wasn’t far behind when we reached the hedge maze. I heard the most terrible snarling amid the girls’ screams, and then something the snarls were cut off. Zane rounded the last turn on the path and plunged into the maze. By the time I caught up just inside the maze’s entrance, Zane was kneeling over Grace, feeling for a pulse at her neck. Chloe saw me and ran to me, crying, “He hurt her! He hurt Grace!” I gathered Chloe up in my arms and stepped over to the horrible sight of a blood-covered Grace being looked over by her father. “She’s alive,” he told me without looking up. “But she’s been mauled badly. We have to get her to the hospital.” I spun around at the sound of the hedge being run through, but it was Mavis. She held a pump-action shotgun and wore an expression of rage. “It is still here?” she demanded, looking around. “What?” I asked even as Chloe was shaking her head, rubbing his hair against my breastbone. “Damn rogue werewolf