been down there, or leave it for someone to think squatters had moved into the park.
When they both came jogging out, I didn’t get the chance to ask.
“Don’t go in there. You’ll get some serious lung damage,” Heath said to me as he passed by me to the werewolf on the ground. “We’re burning it all.”
“Ah. I was just wondering,” I commented. “So, now we need to get out of here.”
“Yes. I have a vehicle…” Jabari frowned. “I parked it along the main road, but I don’t know where it is in relation to where we are now.”
“Can you get us back to the cabin where you found us?” I asked, throwing the bag with the heads on my back.
“Yes. That’s easy.”
“Then we can get to our car, probably do a quick repair, then pick up your car,” I said, taking a deep, steady breath. I was so ready to get out of the woods. Hasan had been right, I shouldn’t have come out here, but now, it was finally over. Except for some shit we still needed to work out, that was. “We need to get ahold of those three fucking humans and find out which of them sabotaged us.”
“We do,” my brother agreed. He was preoccupied, and I turned to see what he was looking at.
Heath was trying to wake the werewolf who was sleeping so deeply, but nothing was stirring him. I felt the pain of anger flare up in my chest again. I had really wanted to tear that last little bitch to pieces. A hand touched my shoulder, and Jabari moved around me.
“Let me carry him,” he suggested, kneeling next to Heath. “I am the strongest.”
“He’s a werewolf,” Heath growled softly. “You think I would trust you with him?”
“He’s a warrior who has survived an ordeal. I’ll suffer with the fact that he’s a werewolf and carry him.” Jabari was serious.
“Heath…let him,” I whispered from behind them. My wolf turned, showing me his eyes were still his werewolf ice-blue, not his normal grey-blue. He wanted to protect the other werewolf, but there wasn’t a threat anymore. I didn’t like Jabari much, but I wouldn’t question his honor when it came to another warrior.
Heath backed away slowly. My brother picked up the sleeping wolf so gently it nearly broke my heart, leaving Heath to grab the bag of gear.
We walked in silence, Jabari holding the wolf carefully. It took hours, but we reached the cabin. As we passed it, I sniffed the ATV once more, just testing to see if there might be a scent that would help us. Heath did the same. We had to find out who left us out here to die and told the vampires our location. It was the last thing we had to do before we could return to the city.
“Anything?” I asked him as we both walked away.
“No. I can smell all three of them, but I don’t know who was touching what. They all used it regularly.”
With a sigh, we continued down the trail that would finally reach the service shack where we left our car. Dusk was fast approaching as we found it, and Heath did a quick check on the car.
“Busted,” he confirmed. “But I can fix it with some jerry-rigging. Shouldn’t take more than an hour. Jabari, can you put him in the back seat?”
“Of course.” He shifted the young man’s body around, but I rushed over to help, not wanting to see him struggle. I opened the door and helped Jabari lower the sleeping wolf inside. I wondered if this was the first safe sleep he’d had since he was captured, and it was par for the course he only slept during the day, thanks to the vampires’ schedules. We closed him in to keep him safe if he woke up and freaked out.
“What’s wrong?” Jabari asked, walking back to the front and looking down at what Heath was doing. “I was never very good at these things.”
“It’s…just leave it to me,” Heath finally said, shaking his head. “Do we have any tape?”
“No.” I groaned. “He cut the electrics, didn’t he?”
“Yeah…” Heath frowned. “We can drive, but we might not have lights or anything. It would have been hell trying to get out with this at night. Sure, we can all see, but the tree and cloud cover blocks all the natural light, and we would have wanted to rush because someone messing with our way out would have meant we were being hunted.