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away so she couldn’t be tracked with it, or it had fallen out of her purse.  Judging from the gum that was with it, he was guessing it had fallen out when she was grabbed.
    Straightening, he put the phone and gum in his pocket.
    A woman and man walked out of the clinic and froze.  Acksel quickly explained that he was Brynn’s mate and that he believed she had been kidnapped.  The woman gasped in alarm but the male’s face tightened in anger.  “My name is Dr. Frank Channing and I’m in charge of this practice.  I have security cameras all around the building, come with me.”
    Within minutes, they were standing around a computer monitor, watching as the doctor located Brynn’s car on one of the cameras and began to forward through the recording.
    He slowed down as Brynn left the building.  Acksel’s heart ached at seeing her, even on the black and white screen.  She tensed suddenly before she reached her car as Rufus and the others stalked behind her.  She seemed to realize something was wrong, because she spun and ran right into Rufus.  He gripped her throat and Acksel snarled loudly as he watched her being choked into unconsciousness.  Taylor pulled a knife from his pocket and cut off a lock of her hair and then nicked her arm, wiping her blood on a piece of paper.
    The whole scene took only two minutes, as she slumped to the ground unconscious before Barry tossed her over his shoulder.  They walked off-screen and Acksel lowered his head.  No clues, just more fury at what had happened to her.  He’d imagined that they just snatched her and left.  But being choked into unconsciousness must have terrified her.
    Dr. Frank looked at Acksel.  “What do those men want with Brynn?”
    Acksel rubbed at the back of his neck.  “She’s my mate and they took her to get to me because I’m alpha of the pack.”
    The female doctor snapped, “She said she was all alone.  What is this mate bullshit you’re trying to pull?”
    Dr. Frank stood quickly and pushed the woman away from Acksel.  “Calm down,” he hissed softly, “this isn’t our business.”
    “She’s my friend and our employee; that makes it my business and yours, too.”
    Dr. Frank looked over his shoulder at Acksel.  “You’ll find her and bring her home safely?”
    Acksel nodded.
    “I wish we could have been more help.”
    Acksel waved his hand and the protectors headed out of the room.  “I’ll call you when she’s safe, I swear.”
    He and his dad left and stood in the parking lot near Brynn’s car.  He didn’t want to admit that he had no idea what to do next.  He had banished three wolves from the pack and expected them to just heed his warnings that they would die if they came back into town.  He had made several mistakes, not only with Brynn but in handling the banished wolves.
    First he would see Brynn safe, and then he would make sure that the males died according to pack law so they would never harm another person again.  Breaking banishment law was one thing, but they had also taken his woman, and that meant not only did the alpha in him want justice, but the male in him wanted it as well.
    He had thought of Brynn as his woman since their night together, but he hadn’t allowed himself to dwell on the thoughts or put them into action in any way outside of his tattoo.  There was no hiding his thoughts now.  Her abduction had made it clear that he’d wasted what precious time he’d had with her.  He would not make that mistake again.
     
     

 
     
     
     
    Chapter 9
     
    Brynn gritted her teeth as blood slipped down her leg from where a wolf had raked his sharp fangs across her knee.  She was trying hard not to cry in front of the men who had abducted her, but it was getting harder and harder to ignore the stinging in her eyes.
    She didn’t know how long she’d been here.  She remembered being choked until she passed out and then she’d woken up chained in what appeared to be a basement room.  Three of