Heartache in Yellowstone novel Chapter 3

Adrenaline pumps through my system as I race back downstairs.

Dan is losing his mind and I don't blame him. If it were my mate and child out there..."Lauren"...My heart stutters in my chest for a second as a wave of pain collides with it. Lauren means everything to me and if I lost her I would become a shell.

But nothing is going to happen to Samantha and her daughter. They will be fine. Our pack will remain whole. I will not lose my brother and our pack will not lose it's luna. We have come to far for that to happen.

"Dan! I called all the hotels in a twenty-mile radius...Guess who checked into a hotel a town over yesterday," I says, as I jog into the room to see his eyes completely bloodshot, but dry.

He spins around and our eyes lock as he looks at me desperately.

"Who," he shouts, and my chest puffs with the knowledge that I found her.

I can fix this and save the day. I can bring my pack the information it so desperately needs. I am useful here. I'm not just the pathetic office drone who lusts after his co-worker and friend.

"Kelly O'Neil," I growl, and my brother's face doesn't relax.

It actually grows more frustrated before shifting to confused.

"I don't know who the hell that is," he snarls while moving to attack me.

I hold up my hands desperately as I realize his mind is too jumbled to understand who I am talking about. He isn't rational right now. His primal instincts that are engraved within his shifter DNA is screaming at him.

Direct information Stanley!

"Wait, wait. That's the name of Adam Polk's mistress. The chick Samantha's ex-husband was sleeping with. It's Adam! I'm sorry I should have known you wouldn't have remembered her name," I explain quickly to ease my tormented twin and his face shifts from murderous to grateful in an instant.

He tips his head back and howls toward the ceiling as soon as my words manage to sink in. Relief pulls a small grin onto my face and he yanks me into a skin to skin full body hug.

"Let's go," he orders as he releases me, and we all shift.

I take his flank as we exit our territory and he darts straight towards downtown instead of the hotel. I bark to get my brother attention and his eyes cut towards me. His gray fur sways as his body continues to move and his bulging muscles constrict almost aggressively due to my interruption.

I quickly point towards the direction we need to be taking and he actually nods. He surprises me even further and changes our formation within seconds. Pride fills my chest as my twin allows me to lead our pack in saving his mate.

When we near the outskirts of the neighboring town, I drop back to his flank to give him the lead. We crouch low to the ground as we proceed to move through the back streets due to the humans still being awake. We don't need to further alarm anyone with a pack of seven large male wolves traveling together.

When we get near the hotel, four gunshots ring out, and Daniel's body slows as if he is pain. His pace becomes a crawl, but we don't slow down. I know my brother is allowing shock and fear to win for the moment but he will snap out of it. He has to. She needs him.

But after a few second he doesn't pick his pace back up so we circle back. He whimpers loudly as we sprint past him again and the guys snarl loudly. I nudge his side with my snout and he snaps right out of it. He growls and bolts for the hotel as if nothing even happened.

When he gets to the room where fresh blood is coming from he shifts and kicks away the wooden barrier.

"Samantha," he yells and the tone of his voice makes my heart squeeze.