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the cave mouth had ceased. As he approached the lab, the rest of the Bear Patrol were reading rights to the gang members who had finally surrendered.
    "Justin Lockheart is cuffed and unconscious at the back of the cavern," Gauge told Rollo.
    "Good job, Gauge," Rollo said. "Now get your mate out of here and take her somewhere safe.”
    Gauge hurried out into the yard where the helicopter had landed. He quickly lifted Lola inside, and the pilot agreed to take him back to town before coming back for the rest of the criminals who'd been arrested at the compound.
    It was still dark outside but the moon was high and bright as the chopper lifted into the air. He held Lola in his arms, praying that she would be all right. The chopper landed in the police hanger of the small airport in Fate Mountain Village and there was an ambulance waiting for them as soon as they arrived.
    The EMTs helped Gauge get Lola out of the helicopter and into the ambulance. He rode with her all the way to the hospital and sat beside her gurney as the doctors examined her. They told him she had a concussion but was otherwise okay.
    When she finally came to, an hour later. She gasped at the sight of herself in the dimly lit hospital room. She looked down at her arm, seeing an IV, and then put her hand to her face where she had been hit.
    "What happened?" she asked groggily.
    "It's over. We've taken down your brother and his men."
    "Where is my mother's cameo?" she asked, looking down at her hospital gown.
    "I found it in your jacket pocket when the nurses changed you into the hospital gown.
    "What's going to happen to Justin?" Lola asked.
    "He will probably rot in jail."
    "That's what he deserves," Lola said, her voice hoarse.
    "What he's done to the people of Fate Mountain is unforgivable."
    "What he did to my mother was also unforgivable," Lola said.
    "What did he do to your mother?"
    "Years ago, soon after my stepfather decided to take me out of public school, my mother was found dead in the woods. Shot in the back of the head. After that, Justin said something to me that made me believe that he had been involved at his father's request to take out my mother. They never found any evidence and her case was considered unresolved. But I always believed that my stepfather and my stepbrother had something to do with it."
    "The Bear Patrol is going through the compound right now, if there's any evidence that connects Justin Lockheart to your mother's murder case, we will find it.”
    "I can't believe you got me off that mountain," Lola said. "I thought that I would die there."
    "I would never let that happen to you."
    "I guess this place isn't called Fate Mountain for nothing," she said in a low voice. "I never really believed in fate before you arrived at the compound. Now, I can't believe in anything else."
    "Shifters have always believed in fate. That's why we keep ourselves on the side of the good. It was our belief in fate that allowed us to help bring an end to the great war. Fate rewards the good in the end. And it's rewarded me with the most beautiful, most courageous, most magnificent woman I ever could have imagined being mated with."
    "Gauge, I just can't believe how lucky I am. I don't feel like I deserve you."
    "Why would you ever say that?" Gauge asked.
    "Because of all of the things I've done. I've been involved in Justin's crystal operation. I worked in the lab for an entire year. I am partially responsible for what is happening to the people of Fate Mountain. I feel I should be punished for it."
    "Nonsense. I never want to hear you say that again. Your stepbrother forced you to do those things. You were a prisoner at the compound with no means of escape. Look at what he did to you."
    Gauge pointed at her face and Lola closed her eyes, a tear squeezing out from between her eyelids.
    "You're right. I never wanted to be there. But I should have run away. I should have found a way to leave. I think I've been a coward."
    "You are anything but a