42~ Her first duty

Zoe I had the most frightful ride I had ever had in my life as the car drove along the route to the south. My heart thudded and tugged painfully at the thought of the possibility of James being…. No!! Negative thoughts aside! He’s still alive! The mate bond had not broken. Whose pack link was that for then? Someone in the pack? ‘Are you just in denial or you don’t really know?’ Chloe asked sharply. She was irritated because wolf spirits get connected to other members of a pack. Especially since she’s an Alpha wolf. ‘The disconnection was painful so it was someone of high rank,' she added weakly and tears streamed down my cheeks. Jericho…. My wolf Chloe was right. Deep down, I knew who may have passed. It was just hard to accept that a promising young man was no more. Why was death so unfair…. taking away good people while villains like the rogue king and his minions were left alive, terrorizing innocents? I clenched my fists as I felt pain flowing through the mate bond. We were close….