The Run To Quinn

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I put my hands on her shoulders. "It's okay. Pierce won't let them get caught."

"Pierce is the reason I'm scared they'll get caught. Pierce has a fist for a brain." While she wasn't wrong, Pierce was also a strategist. Or he could be. He adapted to situations so he could come out on top.

Sam was also a top notch fighter, whether he could shift or not, with both his hands and his words. Nobody, not even Pierce, could convince Sam to do something he didn't want to do. He was a combination of his mother's fighting skills, and his father's wordmanship.

They'd be okay.

"We'll break out Paula and your father, you go to Sam and Pierce." Under no circumstances was I allowed to boss my Luna around.

But under extreme circumstances, I could help a shaken mother terrified for her baby's life. Sam might have been almost 20, but that was still her child and she was still terrified and not on the right mind track.

"Bash, help me with her chains." I grabbed the chains and grimaced as they burned through the raw skin on my palms.

He grabbed and pulled and they broke.

"I can help with my dad." Paula said.

I shook my head. "You're too weak right now. Strengthen up on your walk to the Pack House." I patted her back and sent her off.

I grabbed the last set of chains and cried out. Bash grabbed my hands and took them off. "You're sweating."

I wiped my forehead, my arm coming back wet. "I am? Didn't notice."

He flipped my hands over, showing me my bleeding palms. My hands had been burned so bad boils were popping up. "I'm fine." I took my hands away, despite the comfort and coolness I felt with them in his.

"I got this one." He demanded.

"No, I need to help."

"Quinn!" he snapped, his eyes hard and cold as he looked at me. "I have it." Bash grabbed the chains and gulped as he pulled and pulled, with me not helping he had to leave his hands on there longer but the chains eventually broke.

Marshall closed his eyes. "Thank you, both." He nodded to Bash. "Quinn... I wish you were mated to Pierce or to Sam, we could use you."

I scoffed, the thought disgusting and foreign to me. Mated to Pierce. I'd rather die. "I'm afraid Sam would drive me so nuts I'd kill him, and Pierce would kill me just to kill me." I laughed.

He set a hand on my head and ruffled my hair. "Go help who you can. They didn't kill everyone for some reason. Leave the fight to us, you've done enough." He ran after his daughters, towards the fight.

Bash pulled me down, behind a group of bushes. "What?" I hissed.

He nodded to a couple vampires walking past us, blood dripping down their faces. I wanted one of them to have long, curly, blood crusted hair. It was three boys.

Bash tried to follow them but I put my hand on his shoulder. "No." His skin was soft, warm under my fingers. I wondered what the rest of him felt like.

I shouldn't be thinking that right now.

This wasn't time for that.

Don't come to the pack house. Luna Marie tapped into my head, sounding scared, terrified even. It's a trap. Run. Go to your new mate's pack. The safest thing for the pack, for our survival, is getting people to escape and contact someone who can help. We're... outnumbered now.

Is my dad there? Last time I talked to mom, she said dad was there. I needed to know if my parents were still alive.

He's— she cut off.

Luna Marie? There was no bond. There was no string connection us, no line. She was gone. My heart ran icy as my relationship with my Luna disappeared.

I looked at Seb and shook my head. "We have to leave. We have to contact Alpha Barron and send help here."

Bash looked like he wanted to argue, like he wanted to stay and fight. It wasn't customary to run from a fight, especially not for a warrior like him.

"Please?" My voice cracked as I grabbed his hand, closing my eyes. I looked down at the ground, my arms shaking.

I couldn't help if I was dead, and if I went in there fists blazing I'd probably die. If we left and got help, maybe we could save them. If I left, there wouldn't be a chance of seeing that "vampire" again.

Bash huffed out a breath but ultimately agreed.