Alice’s POVWell, my past week has definitely been different than I expected. After all I thought I would be kept captive by my mother and her husband but here I am as free as a bird on the branch as long as I stay inside the boundaries of the camp where Sienna has brought me.All the witches here are nice, maybe it has to do with my future that they claim they have seen but mostly I feel like they are genuinely nice. But the number still surprised me. There were rumors that witches were almost extinct, but I am living in a camp full of witches and I am speaking about hundreds of them living right in front of our noses and hiding in plain sight.But honestly, I miss my pack, I miss Jessy and Ash, but mostly I miss Neil. I know Sienna assured me that they told him nothing had happened to me, but still. I already felt bad because I ran away from him, now to top it all off I am in an unknown territory and relying on their honesty. Neil was on my mind constantly. Sure, he was my mate, but
Neil’s POV“Fucking find her right now!” why was it so hard to follow my orders? I know I was not thinking with a clear head right now but guess what? I do not give a flying fuck! I want to find my mate already! As if they do not understand she could get hurt in the next moment, or maybe they have already hurt her! And what are we doing? We are just sitting around in her pack house and talking about plans and possibilities, we are still looking for a witch to help us find her, because Alice managed to hide her scent as soon as she left the pack territory.So now I was freaking out and since I was an Alpha, I could not allow myself to show how vulnerable I was at the moment, so instead of having a pity party or freaking out I was rather yelling at everyone and pretty much I was acting like a huge asshole.“Calm down Neil. We are doing everything in our power to bring her back. Do not forget she is my best friend and also my Alpha, so believe me when I tell you I am doing my best and so
Alice’s POVHave you ever realized how scary everything gets when you know you are in danger, and you are facing it on your own? Without any back up plan, no way out, like a caged animal. I was all alone in this forest, and I think for the first time since I had to take over as the leader of our pack, I was truly scared, “You are not completely alone though Alice.” Lily whispered in my head, and I had to admit it at least to myself, that it did feel better knowing she was with me. Even though she was still pissed at me, “I am not pissed. Just hurt. We just found our mate and you left him behind. I can feel how much pain Zane is feeling. He feels betrayed and he has every right you know.”Sometimes it was not easy to share your thoughts with your wolf, but I would rather have her intrude on my thoughts than be without her. She had a point, and I knew it. We hurt Neil and Zane, but in my opinion, it was the best scenario for everyone, “You know as well as I, that it had to be done. I wi
Neil’s POVMy eyes were still closed as if I was sleeping, but I could feel it deep inside my heart that something just was not right. My hand instinctively reached at the other side of the bed, in hope to find Alice there, but the place next to me was empty and cold. I jumped up right, and my eyes were suddenly wide open. Where was Alice?Panic started squeezing my heart and I could just feel it I could turn around the whole pack territory, but I would not find Alice anywhere.“Ryan! I do not care what you are doing at the moment, gather everyone and look for Alice through the whole territory right now!” I shouted through the mind link at my beta. I know it was not his fault whatever was going on but right now I just needed to shout at someone so I could feel better.Even Rryan could hear the panic in my voice because he answered in a second, “On it Alpha.” And I knew everything was put into capable hands, but I had to do so much as well, so I went into the closet and got dressed. My
Alice’s POVI could hear growls of angry wolves close behind me while I ran as fast as my feet would carry me through the forest. I could feel my muscles were getting tired, but I could not afford to take a break or slow down, they were getting closer as it was. Running full speed was in a human form not fast enough for my trackers since they were in wolf form. Once again, I tried to reach Lily, “Lily? Please answer me. Damn it! I need you!”Suddenly every other noise disappeared, except one voice, “Come to me willingly darling, or your dreams might just become reality and I will have to take your wolf away from you.” I knew that voice from somewhere… but from where?“Who are you, and what do you want from me?!” I yelled into the empty forest that was surrounding me. The other person chuckled, but it was not a pleasant sound, since the chuckle was full of malice and evil, “Oh darling. I have told you already yesterday when we met.” With those words everything went silent around me for
Neil’s POV“Did I tell you that you are beautiful?” Alice chuckled lightly while she kept drawing circles all over my chest with her finger, “I think you did about a dozen times in the past thirty minutes.” And she was probably right. After three more rounds of foreplay and hot sex we finally decided to take a break, so now we were cuddling together, with her head on my chest and her hand drawing circles, everything together combined with the sparks of the bond and her scent was calming me down like nothing ever before in my life did, not even my mother’s touch when I was younger.As much as I hated to ruin the calmness that fell around us, we had some things to discus, “What are we going to do about my brother and your mother?” surprisingly though she just exhaled a loud, tired sigh, “I have no idea, Neil. First of all, I need to know if you still love your brother in any kind of way. Then we can make any kind of plan. I need to know what our end goal is here, and also make sure we a