Chapter 1105
Jason kept his gaze locked on the pack of predators slowly closing in from all sides. Without taking his eyes off them, he spoke urgently to Taylor. “Get the phone. Call Cole back right now. Tell him exactly what’s happening down here and make sure his people know they’re dropping into a wolf pack.”
“Right — okay!” Taylor’s hands shook violently as he fumbled with the phone, struggling to hit the right buttons while his fear threatened to overwhelm him.
Cole’s voice came through the speaker almost immediately, sharp with concern but controlled. “Taylor, listen to me carefully. I need you to stay calm. We can see your position from up here. My men are already on the ropes — they’re coming down to you right now.”
After disconnecting the call, Cole immediately addressed the entire rescue squad. “Everyone needs to arm themselves right now! There’s a wolf pack surrounding Taylor and Jason on the ground!”
Every team member had understood from the beginning that this ancient forest would present serious dangers, but Cole’s urgent warning sent electricity surging through their veins as they double-checked their safety equipment. They had all mentally prepared themselves for potential wildlife encounters, but nobody had…
Anticipated they’d need to fight off predators before their feet even made contact with solid earth.
While Elliana fastened the final clip on her rappelling harness into its locked position, Cole made one more desperate attempt to stop her. “I’m begging you to reconsider this. The situation down there is extremely dangerous. Please, for our babies’ sake, stay here.”
Her hands moved with practiced efficiency, and her voice carried an edge that left no room for debate. “You’re wasting precious seconds arguing with me. I already explained that I’m experiencing a strong instinct pulling me toward something down there that I need to witness with my own eyes. I’m making this descent whether you approve or not.”
Recognizing that continuing to argue would be completely pointless, Cole attached his own descent line and launched himself out of the helicopter’s open door. Elliana followed immediately on his heels.
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As they dropped through the scattered openings in the leafy canopy above, the crisis unfolding on the forest floor came into crystal-clear view. The pack of wolves was steadily closing the distance toward Jason and Taylor, who had positioned themselves with their backs pressed together, each one clutching a heavy tree branch as their only means of defense.
While still dangling in the air above the scene, the rescue team members raised their tranquilizer dart rifles to their shoulders and opened fire on the advancing wolves.
The wolves that took direct hits from the sedative-filled darts dropped instantly to the ground without making a sound, and the remaining pack members, thoroughly unnerved by watching their companions fall mysteriously from an unseen threat above, turned and bolted back into the dense vegetation. The immediate crisis had been neutralized.
The rescue team touched down on the ground within seconds, and Jason and Taylor came sprinting toward them with obvious relief written across their faces.
The instant Cole’s and Jason’s eyes locked onto each other, they closed the distance and crashed together in a tight embrace.
These two men represented the twin foundations upon which the entire Evans family’s future would be built — one carrying the weight of the family’s financial empire on his shoulders, the other standing as their shield against all external threats — and the connection between them transcended ordinary friendship or even blood relation. This moment of reunion felt like being granted an impossible second chance at existence itself.
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