Aiden’s POV:I stood stiffly near the door, arms crossed, watching the the truck vanish.“She shouldn’t have come here,” i muttered.Malric finally turned back to me. “Where is your Alpha?”I blinked. “Erica?”“Unless you’ve got a spare one hiding in the garden.”My brow furrowed. “She left this morning. Said she had something to handle up north. Didn’t say what.”Malric’s face stayed unreadable. “Alone?”“She said it was an ‘Alpha duty.’ She didn’t take any guards and even when I tried she wouldn’t let me go.”“Hm.”I hesitated, then exhaled sharply. “She’s been off since the ball. Quiet. Shut in. Moving weirdly,Snapping at people. She hasn’t slept at her chambers since after the ball too.”Malric looked toward the horizon again. The sun was setting lower now and long shadows stretched across the forest.“I feel it,” he said finally, voice low.“Feel what?” I asked.“A bad thing,” Malric said simply. “I need to see her urgently.”“What kind of bad thing?”Malric gave no answer. Just
The tires crunched over the gravels as the Packs SUV rolled into woods.The drive through woods was slow and heavy. Each sector blurred into the next…woods, rocky paths, old dens and so on.I knocked on doors of each territories. Asked questions. Some wolves shrugged, some promised to ask around, some just gave her that pitying look which I hated more than anything. No one had seen him. We checked a broken fence along the East Ridge. Nothing. We even passed the creek where Creed used to fish as a kid. Still nothing. Where could it be, I was loosing all my strength.Then finally, we reached the last place. Erica’s Pack Terittory. A big estate situated in the middle of the woods, quiet, luxurious and calm, I had always heard how big the estate is but I’ve never been here before and it seems their fact wasn’t exaggerated enough because it’s bigger than how I was told it was. I climbed out of rhe SUV, counting my steps and made my way to the front door, it was big and giganti
Jimmy stepped forward, arms crossed, he gave a stupid smug look on his face like he had the nerve to judge me.“Why do you care if he lives?” he asked. “Didn’t you want him gone? An omega for a mate? That was the joke, right?”I lunged at him so fast he hit the wall. I had him by the throat, my eyes flickering gold and then back to black.“I DON’T KNOW!” I growl. “Okay? I don’t fucking know!”His feet kicked uselessly against the floor.“I didn’t want this bond,” I snarled. “I didn’t want him. But I can’t…I can’t feel anything without him right now. And I hate it. I hate that he matters. I hate that he’s mine.”I let Jimmy drop to the ground, coughing and gasping.Silence covered the room.All I could hear was Jimmy stupid breaths. “You can’t use that shadow healer, you know that right? It’s a curse and you’ll get banished if caught”I was knee deep in dead ends staring down at Creed’s barely-breathing body like I was supposed to know how to fix this.At this point I was frustrated
Erica’s POVI ran down the stairs, or should I say flew down because I couldn’t feel my feet touching the floor or maybe I just missed a step or some steps, I don’t know. Everything inside me felt like it was collapsing as I screamed without sound.The phone call still rang in my head, all I could hear echoing in my head was“He’s not breathing right,” “He may be dead, Alpha.”Creed, dead?Fucking Creed. I’d planned to kidnap him, not kill him. That wasn’t the goddamn deal.I hit the ending of the stairs nearly crashing into the railing as I turned the corner. “Erica!”I heard a voice, low and firm, I froze cold yet I could feel sweat drip from my face, “oh moon goddess” i muttered as I turned.It was Aiden, I looked at him relieved. He stepped into the hall like he always does,calm and composed. His brows drawn tight, his posture rigid.“Where are you going?” he asked. Not angry. Not suspicious. Just… watching me.I didn’t have time for this.“I need you to take over at the offi
The ball began and everyone began to dance with their partners. While I sat and watched I felt a strange grip around my shoulders with a handsome voice “love to join me my baby girl?” I turned around to see who was that and it was “Dinerooooo!” I screamed hugging him back. “You silly wolf, you're back and you didn't let me know about it?” I said still giving him a hug. “I wanted to Suprise you,you know? I was invited here and told that all the alphas would be here so I called to find out if you would be coming and of course you did” he said with a grin on his face.“Oh dinero I missed you a lot” I said pinching his chubby cheeks“Of course you should” he chuckled, “may we have this dance?” he said gesturing his hand towards the dancing floor and we began to dance, it all felt like a fairy tale as the blue Cinderella lights shun upon us.*********I panicked out of my sleep to find my phone’s ringing again. “Of course, what else is going to disturb my peace by 6am in the morning”
One of the other rogues panicked. "We weren't supposed to kill him! The Alpha will kill us!"“The Alpha?” I questioned myself trying to stop the gushing blood from coming out.Jimmy shrugged. "Don't worry about it. Let's just get him out of here."They quickly stuffed me into a sack, and I was lifted off the ground. As they carried me away, I heard a voice shouting behind us."Halt! What do you have there?"One of the Crystal White Pack's gammas, Lucas, had caught up to us."Just a statue, gamma," one of the rogues replied. "We're taking it to the ball for repairs."Lucas narrowed his eyes. "At this hour? And in a sack?"The rogue hesitated. "It's... uh... delicate. We can't let it get damaged the more."Lucas frowned. "I want to see this statue."“Gamma, gamma, we've been sent by the alpha and he needs us to repair this quick, you're wasting our time” one of the rogues said as I tried to make sounds to get his attention.“What was that sound? Did it…”“Uh…..Its me….. gamma, I was…..