Mated Girl (Wolf Girl #4)(29)

‘These pricks have been trying to kill me since the day I got here,’ Sawyer growled into my head.
I grabbed Sawyer’s offered hand. “Sure thing. Let me just check in with my friend,” I told him, and stood.
He lifted the gun, and then Sawyer’s arms came around my waist, yanking me backward as he jumped. I sailed through the air, landing on top of Sawyer as we both hit Pearl’s gigantic back, hard. Marmal and Sawyer’s crew held us in place just as the gun clicked. I steeled myself, ready to catch bullets or whatever magical shit I would need to, but then nothing happened.
“Needs the guard’s fingerprint, you asshole,” Luka called out.
Sawyer grinned viciously. “Enjoy the next fifty years knowing we got out.”
Walsh just flipped the dudes the bird. Then the wind picked up behind us as Pearl started to descend.
Wow, these guys must have had a lot of beef together—stories for another time.
I needed to focus on my bestie.
“Take me to the bottom floor, back side of the building where they are keeping Sage!” I yelled to Marmal.
Everything was happening so fast I couldn’t process it properly.
‘I snuck in an elevator, overheard them say they were taking the dead guard down to medical on the first floor,’ my wolf said.
Thank God.
“Sage is here?” Walsh’s voice broke.
I looked back at him and noticed the pained expression that crossed his face. I nodded. “She got my wolf inside, but they’re holding her on the bottom floor, so we need to get her.”
As Pearl flew down the eighty floors to the bottom, I watched the flickering lights inside. Red and white flashes pulsed as the siren wailed and the robot voice played out over a loudspeaker: “Prison break. Lockdown procedures active. Shield down. Remain in your cells.”
My wolf pulled my attention and I focused on her just in time to see her enter Sage’s room. She was still lying motionless in the bed with cloth straps around her feet and arms. The cloth bands were connected with silver chains, but my wolf had already started to chew at the band on her right arm, sawing it with her back teeth.
Sage moaned.
‘Sage, wake up!’ I used our pack bond to rouse her. ‘I got the guys. Walsh and Sawyer are safe. We need to get you out of there.’
I felt her consciousness stir. ‘Demi?’ she rasped through our bond.
My wolf looked up at her just as she opened her eyes and the cuff fell away from her right hand. She slowly brought her hand up to pet my wolf’s head, and then nodded as if coming out of a deep sleep.
‘I’m so groggy,’ she said.
‘It’s okay. Just try to help undo your binds. I’m almost to you.’
Sage lazily reached over and started to unclip the left arm binding as my wolf chewed on the left leg loop. Once she got her hands free, she sat up, looking more alert, and helped get out of the binds at her feet just as voices could be heard shouting down the hallway.
‘Open the blinds of the window behind you. I can’t tell which one is yours,’ I instructed her as Pearl flew low to the ground between the building and the thirty-foot-high security wall. We were trapped here if they got the protection back up. We needed out of here.
Stat.
The blinds of the window to my left ripped open then and Sage and my wolf peered at us from inside. Relief exploded in my chest at the sight of my bestie.
‘Now get back away from the window! We’re going to smash it open!’ I told her. She moved back and Sawyer looked at me with fascination as he sat behind me, hands gripped tightly on my hips.
“Are you communicating with her?” he asked suddenly as she and my wolf backed away from the window.
“They’re pack,” was all I said, and then I gave Marmal a curt nod. When I looked back at Sawyer, his face was frozen in shock. Mouth open, eyes wide, I knew the fact that I’d made Sage my pack would hit him hard. She was his cousin after all.
Pack. He mouthed the word in confusion. Sage was his, Marmal was a troll, but I didn’t have time for this conversation right now.
Pearl set herself onto the ground and then retracted her wings so that she could inch closer to the window on foot. Her tail flicked once and then everyone on her back flinched as the window shattered. Talon and Walsh sat side by side, legs tucked under them as they gripped horns like handles. Luka and Bennett did the same behind them. There wasn’t much more room, especially for a long flight home, but we’d make it work.
Back in the room with my wolf, she and Sage huddled together as the shattered glass blew out everywhere. Shards littered the linoleum floor as Sage charged forward to escape. I didn’t need to tell her that time was of the essence. She felt it.
On Pearl, Walsh shifted away from us, and his booted foot extended onto the windowsill to brace himself as he reached out a hand for Sage. My attention snapped back to my body, making sure that with Walsh’s shifting weight I wasn’t going to be thrown off of the giant dragon we all somehow teetered on. Sage leap onto the windowsill, and then Walsh gripped her by the waist and pulled her into him. She embraced him fully, wrapping her arms and legs around him as his hands came up to wind in her hair and I smiled.
We did it.
Looking over at my wolf who stood deep inside of the room, I patted my chest. “Come on! Jump!”
Why was she so far back?
Oh, the glass! It was everywhere and would tear up her paws. I could sense her figuring out what to do when the door behind her burst off its hinges and then red-hot pain sliced through my wolf’s ribcage. The mother of all electric shocks rocked her body and she fell to the ground shaking as I stood on top of Pearl and screamed.