Caleum’s pov.It’s dawn before Alora returns and she doesn’t come back with the car, or my mate.Sebastien restrains me with an arm on my shoulder, his words echoing through the mind-link I have with him as he tries to speak some reason into my head. He says,~She could just be chasing something of her own.She’s a grown woman, Caleum. She can keep herself safe.She’s probably catching some rest.~I shrug his arm off as my mind says the things he can’t.~Or Maybe she’s with Ulric, and she’s not meant to be with Ulric.~She’s not meant to be chasing something of her own. She’s not meant to be keeping herself safe. She’s not meant to be in a hotel.She’s meant to be my mate!She’s meant to be with me. She’s meant to be by my side. She’s meant to leave me to chase whatever it is she wants to chase.She’s meant to have me keeping her safe. I don’t believe she can’t do it herself, but what am I for?What am I here for?My heart attempts to mock me for those thoughts, but it can’t because

The iron bars come open again hours later and I know I'd be a fool to think it’s food, but I still hope it’s food anyway.My mind tries to drag me back to the last breakfast I had, and though I fight it, I still find myself going back there. To the table.To my second chance mate.Thoughts of Caelum swirl around in my head and I feel my body almost mourn the heat of his gaze, mourn the intensity of his stares.I shut the thought off because thinking of that will only make me wonder where Alora is right now, and it’ll only make me wonder if Caelum will do what I asked him to do.The Silvershine pack is formidable. Trying anything against their Alpha and Luna would be futile so I know it’s an almost impossible task. A mosquito buzzes by my ear and I slap it away, but then my eyes see bare feet and they’re bare feet I spent all night wondering about.My eyes snap up just in time to see Dimitri’s but his question is like a smack to the face when he asks it,“They said my mum cheated on my

Caleum’s pov.Even while she is held roughly by a man.Even while he’s yanking her hair and while she looks haggard, even while she looks like she’s seen the ends of the earth and the seven things that should not be seen by men and women alike.Sophia still manages to make me feel like I've said something wrong.Sophia’s face scrunches in something like pain, or discomfort, I can't tell. Her chin lifts in that proud tilt, her bright green eyes dim in shade. There’s something about her that tells me she’s still a Luna. With that glance. With that look. With that sneer.Sophia inspires a self-consciousness in me, yet there’s something that burns hotter. Something that burns brighter than the self-consciousness that she inspires in me, and it’s the rage.The bright, burning, rage, at the fact that someone has his hands on her. That someone has his hands around her neck, has his fingers dug into her scalp.~Capture him when all this over… and gouge out his eyes.~Sebastien stills as that

The screen is bright as I stare at it and a slight smile lines my lips as I watch.“This is Alora Friar, and I report live, from what is and also once was the most regal standing mansion this side of the city and four cities beyond.Tragedy has struck the Silvershine pack today as their longstanding Alpha and Luna, Alpha Joras, and Luna Margery Silver have both been abducted and the mansion destroyed in what is an obviously brutal display of destructive power.There is not a single pillar standing. Debris and chunks of the former mansion can be found as far as four miles into the Silvershine property. This is one attack that will do one thing above all others in the hearts of all shifters and non-shifters alike, and that’s to strike an undeniable chord of fear in the hearts of all those who visit this spot in the future.Clips abound on the internet as different people speculate on the identity of the force that carried out this damage. No one is sure of who the man captured in the v

His voice floats into my head and I have to mask my reaction as he begins,~I’m almost tempted to accompany you two. It doesn’t take much for an argument to start especially when you’re left alone~I chortle because it really doesn’t, but he didn’t have to remind me of that. There’s a devious gleam in Sebastien’s eyes that tells me he liked letting me know how often Caleum and I argue, and this time when I get up, I take a look behind me and see the younger faces camped around the bed. This time, Alora doesn’t seem to be shivering at the sight of Kellen, or feel timid considering her proximity to him.If anything, I feel she wants him to notice her, and I gauge the tension between them. The tension they seem to have always been between them.“They’re siblings aren’t they?”Sebastien chuckles at my question and his response is loud enough that they can both hear, “It’s a bit more complicated than that.”I nod because I'd always suspected it.I take one look at Dimitri and Ophelia and