ALPHA JAKE COOPER
The pain had subsided, and I thought that that might mean the worst. Yet somehow, I could feel my mate bond strengthening once more. I didn't want to let myself hope that this meant that Holly was okay. I didn't know how she could have gone from dying to okay. Unless Ally was somehow with her. I pulled out my phone and dialled her number, straining to hear over the noise of the helicopter. She answered and began to greet me, but I cut her off. "Sorry, Pup, but I need to know where you are right now?" I asked. She sounded a bit taken aback but replied, "I am at the citadel. Where else would I be?" I ignored her question to ask another of my own. "Is Holly there with you?" I asked hopefully. Sounding confused, she told me that she wasn't. Before she could ask what was goin
