The Four Beta Brothers – Chapter 99

ETHAN

My heart leapt in my chest, and I knew something was wrong with Juniper. There was no obvious indication she was in trouble. She was supposed to just be in the hallway grabbing rope, but I felt it in my soul before anything else told me.

“Juniper?” I called out, hoping my instincts were wrong. They rarely were, but I prayed to the Moon Goddess that was the case this time.

My stomach twisted, and I knew we had been played.

that girl around. You’ve gone soft for her. He didn’t say anything about her being your mate, though.”

s. “Shut up.” I got off of Charles and rolled him over, pinning his arms behind his back. I grabbed one of my ties and tied it around his wrists as tightly as I could. It wasn’t the most secure knot, but it would do as a temporary fix.

ave gone anywhere without me, especially after being attacked. Someone took her.

or pick up any scent. I made it all of the way to the street, still stark naked from my transformation, but there wa

air on her head.

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JUNIPER

protecting me in whatever way he could.

for my wolf, I couldn’t feel the presence that was normally there, lying in wait for me to call upon her.

efore, and it unsettled my bones.

et all along. It was a clever move on his part. He didn’t give away his hand before the time was right.

the mate bond with Ethan was strong enough that he would feel that I needed him. Ethan, help.

nd if it had, it was too late.

just surprised he didn’t kill me on the spot in Ethan’s apartment.

seat.

en, hoping to see where we were going. From this position, I could only see lights flickering through the dark windows.

next. If she was close enough to me, she might be able to hear me. She was the only one from my pack at the school, so she was my only chance to call for help—if I could fight past the wolfsbane to make a connection. Moira, if you can hear me, get Ethan. Tell him I need

the connection was working or not, but I kept trying to reach out, knowing this might be my

dragged me out of the car. It felt like mere minutes had passed since he first put me in the car. I had expected at least a half hour of driving. I couldn’t tell if the drugs had messed with my sense of time, or if I was being taken somewhere much closer

partment without either of us noticing him, but his fine-tuned stealth explained it. That didn’t explain the lack of scent though.

ving into the sleep my body was screaming for.

n my eyes focused, I swore I saw the campus library, but that didn’t make any sense. I had to have been hallucinating from whatever cocktail had been injected into my bloodstream.

if I wasn’t?

e tell Ethan. Go to his apartment now. Don’t wait.

my fingers. I watched as drops of blood landed on the ground beneath me, creating a small trail behind us. If Moira, by some miracle, heard me and contacted Ethan, then maybe it’d give him a better chance

as being taken, but the drugs had fully infilt

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ASHER

offer. Axel had never followed our father’s instructions before. While he was considered the black sheep, and anyone outside of the family might think of him as the first to betray the werewolf pack, I knew it wasn’t true.

t involved me believing he was actually betraying me. Even though I had no idea where he was going with this plan, I trusted him eno

ing about this,” I said, staring at Axel with as much dis

ver as beta when Father retires, and you were next in line. I don’t have any skills, like Nathan, either. I was just the forgotten brother, but maybe that could change.”

eeded to sound believable. “If you join our father, you’ll be betraying her, too.”

been and never will be anyone’s first choice. I could ask Father to make me his beta, though. Then I wouldn’t be anyone’s second choice.”

the brother I once knew, and he would never say such things and mean them.

ide, then prove it. Hand over  that box of evidence and then kill your brother.”

towards me.

ment was wrong. However, this was Axel. He was my womb to tomb brother. No matter how bad things got between us, I knew Axel’s true heart.

pointed at me to make sure I didn’t stop him. “Do what you have to to get rid of

uldn’t believe him until I was lying lifeless on the floor. Despite her hesitation with Axel, she wasted no time in moving towards the box. After making sure the papers inside were what she wanted, she lit a match a

that box now.

“It’s my brot

things up.” The woman pulled out a gun and aimed it at Nathan. She pulled the trigger before either of us could react, and the echo of the gunshot made my heart stop beating.