His Inescapable Mate novel Chapter 53

"He what?!"

I groaned in exhaustion. "Alpha chose me as his mate. Vincent's my second mate, and Vincent took me to the next territory and pissed off Jason. So now Jason's keeping me locked away in his house and he threatened to kill you last night!"

"Wait, who's Jason?" she asked, sounding lost.

"Alpha! Damn it Jessie! Alpha's going to kill you! Now stay in public because he won't harm a human in front of witnesses!"

Jessie was silent on the other line. All I could hear was her breathing get faster with apprehension. "Nora? Are you safe?" she finally asked.

"Yes, but you're not! So be careful and stay away from Alpha! Stay away from wolves!" Then I paused in thought. "Run north Jessie! Go to the vampire territory there and hide! Vampires will hide you if you tell them werewolves are after you! Go there!"

"Which way's north?!"

"Just run towards the forest that is mostly pine trees!"

Jessie hung up. God please help her. And now to call Danni and warn her. I dialed her number as fast as I could and waited.

It went to the answering machine. I hung up and tried again.

"Hello?" asked a female voice. Crystal!

"Crystal! This is Nora, Danni's friend. May I speak to her? It's an emergency!" I panted, out of breath though I hadn't really done anything physical.

"Uhh, she's not available," Crystal mumbled. "Reed!"

Here were little shuffling noises and the phone was handed over. "Yes?" Reed asked in a hoarse voice, sounding like he was crying. Oh shit!

"Reed! Is Danni there? She's in danger!" I pleaded.

There was of sobbing on the other end of the line and Crystal spoke to me this time. "She passed last night," she said flatly.

Reed drew in a shaky breath. "It means he's going to kill you and then kill himself. That way, the two of you will be together in the afterlife."

Oh crap! I dropped the phone from my hands, letting it crash onto the hardwood floor. It landed with a thud and I cringed, hoping that no werewolf henchman was nearby that could hear me on the phone. If they relayed the information to Jason, then I'm frickin' dead thanks to this last resort BS.

I picked the phone back up and carefully put it back onto the receiver. Straining my ears, I guessed that I was in the clear because I didn't hear anything running up to the house right now. I couldn't call Vincent because he didn't take his cell phone with him when he hid us in the other territory…of which I have no idea the name or the location. At least Jessie was safe…hopefully. I know she can't run that fast and she isn't the smartest person in the world either.

Then my thoughts traveled back to Danni. Poor Danni. She was killed by Psycho all because of my stubbornness. Man, if I wasn't such an ass towards the werewolves, then it's pretty safe to assume that I never would have met Jason and that she would still be alive. And I'd be safe with Vincent.

That's it.

I need to find Vincent. And the only way I can do that is to leave this territory, but there's no way I could be able to do that without escaping Jason and his henchmen. He had said that his men were watching me today, but they must have been hiding out in the forest in the back of the house on a count of I haven't seen them at all yet.

And, how am I going to get past them? The only thing that popped into my head was to just run like crazy and pray that a werewolf wouldn't notice me. But I'm fairly positive that wouldn't work at all. Then an idea popped into my head.

I rushed over to the kitchen counters, pulling open one of the drawers directly under the large crack that Jason caused in his fit. In there was all the eating utensils. I grabbed one of the butter knives, its chrome finish shining in the fluorescent lighting.