When the Ashes Howl

'Caden no!' I slammed him down to the ground when that rough growl tore out of him. My heart kept splintering while that made-up wind kept threading through the tree branches. It felt like we needed to leave. I knew we did. That old warning feeling had come back, the same one that told us what that night was about to become. 'Caden, please hear me out-' 'I'm going to kill him,' he snarled, trying to throw me off. 'I know, I know, but we cannot do this right now and you know it!' Caden snarled back while I tried to hold him down, but fury made him almost impossible to control. I got it. I got it too well. I wanted Calder's throat too, my beast wanted it just as badly. She was primed to race with her mate, hunt the traitor down, and sink her teeth into him. Caden threw me off and bolted for the woods, our bond wailing with pain, but I hit him again and drove him back to the ground while tears spilled over. 'Baby, please, we can't-' 'Adelaide.' He rolled us so I wound up beneath him. His eyes burned with the same kind of bloodlust I had seen in Gideon's in that vision. I trembled and cupped his cheek, trying to reach him, to find my mate. 'Do not tell me that after watching that we are supposed to let him keep breathing our air another day!' 'Baby, please, just hear me. You said it yourself, we need proof, something real for the pack. Telling everyone we know we saw it through a tree is not actual evidence-' I meant to keep going, but my voice snapped when pain rolled through the bond.