As we exit the vehicle, I move in...demanding to know what has happened.

"What has happened, where has Jace gone?"

"We don't know sweetheart, that's what we are trying to find out." Mum responds to me, her arms crossed as she looks at Jaxon expectantly.

"I told you; I don't know what is going on...he has told me shit." Jaxon growls out, his temper getting the better of him.

"Watch your tongue when speaking to your mother." Dad growls in warning, taking a step forward towards Jaxon, his aura tightening the night air around us. Making it that little bit more difficult to breathe effortlessly. "We've got to go after him, Jaxon get your car keys."

"He made it very clear he didn't want anyone to follow him." Jaxon's eyes look past me as Maya and Cleo exit the car. "Jaxon, I mean come on." I look at him expecting him to move. When his feet remain where he stands, I turn to Knox.

"We can take your bike; we can't just let him leave."

"No Josie, just leave it...he made his decision clear...he'll be back when he is ready."

"Can't you feel it, through the sibling bond. Something is seriously wrong. I've got to go after him."novelbin

"I said leave it." Jaxon roars at me, his anger completely misdirected, his aura rushing out on to me.

Like Dad, Jaxon is a powerful alpha, for the most part keeping his real strength hidden. But in this very moment I get a snippet into how potentially strong he truly is.

It takes my breath away, my mind stuck within an immobilised body. All control disappearing, as pain shoots throughout my body from fighting the call to submit.

"Drop it, now." Dad growls, as he speeds to my side, his hands holding on to me preparing for my legs to give way as soon as Jaxon lifts his command. Mum takes a step forward, her growl feral as her usually greens eyes start to bleed out into blue...a sign her wolf is coming forward.

She raises her hand to touch Jaxon but stops when Dad places his own hand out, telling her to stop whatever she planned to do.

We are frozen as a family in a state of power struggle, not one of us prepared to pack down until Knox takes a step forward...his eyes watching me with concern.

"Jaxon, wolf...now!" Knox orders, stripping off his clothes before my very eyes. He moves towards the vast fields and woodlands that surround us, dropping his clothes as he moves.

Surprisingly, it's Knox that Jaxon listens to, his body turning as he also starts to remove his clothes before shifting into his black large wolf.

As soon as he shifts, he drops the command, my legs falling under me as my exhausted body fails me.

Dad lifts me up, holding me upright as he watches Jaxon's wolf howl to the moon before running into the shadows. Knox turns to look at me, my dad's grip on me tightening before the air shimmers around him and he shifts into a large brown wolf, more like a bear. He follows Jaxon into the darkness.

"Josie?" Auntie Rosa rushes up to me, clutching at my face, fear for my wellbeing written all over her face.

"I'm fine Auntie Rosa." I smile out softly to her, she's always struggled with male dominant behaviour over females.

"Let's give you all some privacy, shall we..." Uncle Orpheus wraps his arms around Rosa as he moves her towards him, placing her firmly by his side. His head whips to both Cleo and Maya to follow them back inside. "Dad? Mum? We need to go after him."

"Let's give Jace some space for now, after he has had a chance to cool down, he will return." They both move to be either side of me, wrapping their arms supportively around me, their heads resting against mine as we move as a trio towards the front door. As I walk into the dimly lit hallway of our house, I can't stop myself from thinking what the hell has happened that Jace needs to cool down from, what he needs space from. What would make him steal my car to make a fast exit.