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to begin, but Luke cut him off.
     
    “Don’t bother,” Luke spat. “You’re dead to me. I disavow this pack. You are no longer my Alpha, and this is no longer my pack!”
     
    Logan’s lips parted, and he tried to grab Luke’s arm as he dash past him and out the door, but Luke was too fast. Logan grunted with his mouth agape, and he looked into Michael’s eyes and quickly after his brother, and then back to Michael. Logan shook his head apologetically, and then disappeared, calling after Luke as his voice echoed into the darkness in the cavern outside.
     
    “Damn it,” Michael muttered. Then, slamming his fist into the stone wall, he shouted, “Damn it!”
     
    Allison said nothing. She shrank back into the shadows against the cave wall, afraid to speak. What had she done?
     
    Michael turned toward her with his eyes brimming with fury, and he pointed his finger toward her accusingly.
     
    “You,” he snarled.
     
    “Wh-what?” she stammered.
     
    “You,” he repeated through gritted teeth. He shook his finger at her and muttered once again, “You.”
     
    Then he turned and struck the wall again… and again, and again until his fingers were shredded an leaving bloody fist prints on the stone.
     
    “Stop!” Allison shrieked. “Please stop!”
     
    She rushed to his side and grabbed his wrist, pulling with all her might. His arm was rigid with tension, but as she peered with wide eyes at his mangled hand, he began to relax.
     
    “I have to find them,” he said softly.
     
    Allison nodded her understanding and said, “I’ll be alright here.”
     
    “No, I can’t leave you,” he argued.
     
    “Oh, for heaven’s sake! Now is no time for obstinacy! Go! Bring them back!” Allison said.
     
    “I can’t leave you!” he shouted. “Don’t you understand? I can’t… I can’t lose you.”
     
    Speechless, Allison’s eyes turned toward his. She could see the concern that looked back at her.
     
    “Then we’ll go together,” she said softly.
     
    “I can’t endanger you,” he said. “Victor and his pack are still out there, and they’ll stop at nothing to....”
     
    “Michael, we go together,” she interrupted him. “They’re your brothers. You can’t just let them go.”
     
    For a long, tense moment, Michael was silent. His eyes studied the bloody wall. Then he hung his head in defeat.
     
    “Then we go,” he said.
     

Chapter Seven
     
    The leaves crunched heavily under their feet as they walked. Allison was hardly dressed for such terrain, wearing nothing but a tank top and shorts that they’d obtained for her the first night she stayed with the pack, and her feet were bare. Until this moment, she’d never realized that her shoes, inappropriate that they might be with their spiked heels, had been lost at some point during her abduction and rescue.
     
    “Are you alright?” Michael asked her, glancing down at her tender feet.
     
    “I’ll be fine,” she lied, eager to find Luke and Logan as quickly as possible.
     
    In truth, her feet felt as though they were being ripped apart. Every jagged stone, every briar, every sharp twig tore at her delicate flesh, so used to wearing fuzzy slippers and being moisturized nightly. But she said nothing. The pack was far more important.
     
    Michael was careful to slow his pace, allowing her to keep up despite her aching feet. He knew she must be in terrible pain. He could see her wince now and then, and he could hear the occasional sucking of air between her lips. But he would not belittle her by asking if he could help her.
     
    “Do you have any idea where we are going?” Allison asked.
     
    “I go based only on pack instinct,” Michael said. “Unfortunately, I can no longer sense their location.”
     
    “Why not?”
     
    “I’ve been disavowed. They no longer recognize me as Alpha because of my betrayal, and as a consequence, our pack bond has been broken,” Michael explained.
     
    “Oh, no,” Allison murmured.