Chapter 117: Find Her

Carter I stared at the mass of warriors in front of me and couldn't help but be relieved by the sight. All these wolves were willing to help me fight to get my mate back. I had no idea how we had gotten here, how so many people had come to help. There was something truly special about my mate even if I wasn't sure exactly what it was. "Alpha Carter, all of the Eastern packs are ready, the neighboring packs are still trying to make sure that everyone is accounted for. We will be able to leave in the next half hour or so and we can head out to rescue the Luna." Beta Johna informed me sneaking up on me. "Thanks, Johna, have all the Alpha's meet me here in the next five minutes. We leave in a half an hour, I want my mate back as soon as possible. Nothing is going to keep me from her anymore, I will get my mate back." I promised him, he nodded back and made his way off to inform the Alphas. I took a moment to assess the preparedness of each group of warriors. They were all fit, their Alpha's had made sure they were ready for whatever was going to come their way. After all that Samith had told us last night, they were going to need that energy, especially if we were all to run for two hours before engaging in a fight like this. I lunged at my father's neck, my wolf was ready to kill everything around us. He was going insane, after hearing his mate screaming in agony he couldn't sit still. He would destroy whatever was keeping him from his mate, keeping him from finding her. At this moment that threat, that person, was my father. After being forced to hear the screams of Elinn, knowing that she was being tortured while I sat in a nice warm mansion with warm food in my stomach. The sound of knife tearing skin, her cries of agony and sorrow caused my mind to shut down. I was a failure, everything that I had been trying to do was for nothing. I had been trying for so long and nothing good had come out of it. My father and I circled each other, me in wolf form and him in his human skin. It was obvious that he was displeased with our behavior, but neither my wolf nor myself cared at this moment. He was keeping us from leaving to save our mate, forcing us to stay here and let her stay with that monster. "Carter I realize that you're upset right now, but you need to calm down so that we can talk about this civilly." He tried to reason with me, but I was too busy wallowing in self-pity and my wolf wanted blood. "Get out of our way Kent, you do not want to be part of this fight." My wolf mind linked my father. He didn't see this man as someone who deserves our respect, he wasn't my wolf's father. "You don't want to do this with me, Carter, not now. There is a boy in there who has information about you mate and instead of being in there listening to what he has to say, you are out here. You are out here throwing a hissy fit because you feel inadequate like you would never do anything." His words started to pull me out of my stupor, but not enough for me to stop when Luca lunged forward and bit into Dad's leg. With a dominating growl, Kent shifted into his large gray wolf. He snarled at me once again trying to warn us against getting on his bad side. We snarled back showing him that we were not someone who was going to back down easily. Before we could make any move to grab him my father somehow ended up with my neck between his teeth. For a few moments, Luca tried to fight his way out of the stronghold. Dad tightened his grip drawing blood and forcing us to stop moving. I finally got a grip on myself and thrust my neck upward in submission. Almost immediately he let go of my neck and began licking my neck. After being sure that my wounds weren't serious he shifted back into his skin and walked into the woods to grab some shorts. Forcing Luca back I shifted back and slowly climbed to my feet. Forced shifts were not easy nor fun and they made you super sore afterward. I gingerly climbed to my feet and Dad held out a pair of shorts for me to put on. "Let's go find out what that boy knows." Dad encouraged and we made our way to the house. That's when we found out what it was that Samith knew. He had been running a patrol when he caught the scent of a rogue and decided to follow it. With all that was going on, he figured that it would be a good idea to go and investigate why the damn thing was running around the pack. He followed the rogue for three hours, something that I was actually very impressed with for someone like him who had relatively no experience. When the rogue had finally stopped Samith found himself outside a large compound that smelled like it housed thousands of wolves. Samith could sense more rogues, but he could also smell normal pack wolves, who we assumed was being kept, prisoner. Then he got the faintest hint of something, the scent of my mate. As soon as he caught her scent he started running back to the pack house to tell me. I wasn't sure what happened to get the rogues attention, but when you are running on adrenaline you tend to make a couple mistakes. Three rogues attacked Samith, he fought them off as best he could, but he was outnumbered and new to this whole thing. Luckily he had made it close to the pack border and some of the warriors heard his cries for help. We had a location for where my mate was and that was good enough for me any day. I would have already left to go save her if it wasn't for my father, who had fought some reason for me. I was ready to leave, but I also knew that we had to make sure that everyone was ready or this would be a much harder battle than it had to be. No sense in charging in with no plan or idea of what to expect, it was a sure way to lose Elinn once again. "Alpha Carter, are you okay? You don't look like your doing too well," I spun around and saw a group of Alpha's staring at me with concern all over their faces. I knew that I was a mess right now, but I wasn't going to let them leave without me. "I'm fine, I am just anxious to have my mate back. She's been gone for so long and I know what that, shit head does to people. I don't want to find out what he's done to her while I've been away, it would be too much for me to handle you know. This was all my fault and I couldn't take it if she was…." I couldn't bring myself to say it but I knew they all understood what I was saying. "She's going to be fine Carter, we have to stay positive. The maybe game is a dangerous thing to be playing especially right now." Alpha Kertin said with a knowing look on his face. "You're right, I need to focus on what needs to get done. Are you all ready to go?" I asked looking at the seventeen Alphas in front of me. Alpha Zayden and Ecstan were the only ones who could really look me in the eyes, but they all nodded. "All right then, let's get a move on. I want my mate back in my arms by the end of the day. Goddess help anyone who gets in my way," I told them as I shifted and began running