Forty Four

"Okay. We don't have time to waste today. We need to send out another search team; he's somewhere in Capital territory still," Carlos barks, pacing along the raised area around his office.

Scarlet rolls her eyes and swings on her desk chair, shaking her head.

"He isn't, Boss. We spent the night searching, and there's no sign of him anywhere. We would have found him by now. He's probably made it back to his pack," she sighs.

The door opens, and a group of guards file in, all looking remarkably pale.

"There you all are," Carlos scowls, his eyes flashing as he storms towards the men.

They're visibly shaken, and one of them backs out of the line, his back hitting the door.

"How dare you abandon your charges. You are trained to stay by their sides at all times and never, NEVER, walk away," Carlos screams, his voice ringing around the office.

The interns weren't allowed in today.

Scarlet had been the one to tell them that this morning when she came back from her patrol and found the five co