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Colorado.”
    “The hunters?”
    “They found me in New Mexico. I knew they were there. There was no way for me to escape. I tried to hide my wallet and anything else they could use to find out who I was. To protect you. They couldn’t have placed me in Colorado, but I definitely would have led them to you.”
    “What happened?”
    “They shot me before they ever got near enough for me to see them. I saw the dart, felt the sting of whatever they injected in me then I was out cold. I came to tied to a wall, naked. I was already bleeding, but they waited for me to wake up before the real fun began.”
    “They tortured you,” Murph said. “I saw the damage. The broken bones, the lacerations, the knife wounds. I don’t need you to relive that for me.”
    “But I am,” Finn muttered hoarsely, tapping his head. “It’s all up here in vivid color. I hear the taunts, the laughter and jeers. I feel the blows, the way it felt as they broke my fingers one by one. They hooked cables to my chest and attached them to some huge-ass battery. Every question brought me a jolt if I didn’t give the answer they wanted. If I passed out, they threw water on me and laughed when it made each surge of electricity that much worse.”
    “Jesus, God! I want to kill every bastard that was there. I wish I hadn’t been robbed of that honor!” Murphy exclaimed.
    “She did it,” Finn whispered.
    “What?”
    “Laura. My mate. She killed them.”
    Murphy’s face shone with disbelief.
    “They’d pulled me off the wall and tossed me in the corner. I couldn’t move. It hurt to fucking breathe. I felt you searching for me, and I didn’t want you to feel anything I was at that moment. That’s when we heard her. This fierce growl that had the men jumping to attention. They were excited, reaching for weapons, and the leader yelled orders to take whoever it was alive.”
    “How do you know it was her?”
    “She’s my mate,” Finn answered. “I knew. I’m not sure how she did it, but she took out everyone who was outside. We heard their screams. The leader headed out with three men. He left one inside with me. That one came at me with one of the knives they’d used earlier to carve me up. He laughed and told me they no longer had any use for me. There was better prey now. That’s when he stabbed me in the stomach. The door flew open and several men ran in. They were bleeding and screaming over each other about the white beast. It was chaos. Then she stalked inside. I watched her methodically take them out. First, she incapacitated the one who’d been with me, making sure he was as incapable of attacking her as the others were. Then she went for the kill. She was ferocious, the most beautiful animal I’d ever seen. The hunter who’d been with me had managed to regain the knife. He caught her in the front paw before she ripped his throat out. My vision was fading at that point. I was dying, and I knew it.”
    “Did she see you? Did she try to help at all?”
    Finn smiled. “I watched her change. I just remembered that. I thought I’d blinked, and she was there, but I saw her the whole time. The vision of her, tangled blonde hair and big green eyes, has haunted me every night in my dreams. She came to me, crying. She used her hands to try to stop my stomach from bleeding, but it was no use. I think she felt me slipping away.”
    “So she left you there? Left her mate to fucking die!”
    Murphy’s anger poured off of him in waves as he stood, knocking the chair back and tipping it over. Finn had felt that same rage several times when he wasn’t sure if Laura existed. He’d wanted to find her and kill her. Hell, he’d told her when he’d seen her that he wanted to rip her throat out.
    “I think I did die,” Finn said. “I think you probably felt it. I’m sure she did.”
    “You were alive when Zane and I got there,” Murphy argued. “She left you there like that. She’s not a fit mate for you or any man. If you want her