All Chapters of The Alpha's forgotten Luna: His Loss, her throne: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Liam's POVHer scent was faint.That was the first thing. The moment I stepped into the VIP corridor something in my chest pulled tight and wrong and my wolf lifted his head before my brain caught up. I pushed the door open and stood in the entrance and the room was empty and the blanket was on the floor and the basin was disturbed and there was no Ivy.I walked in. Checked the bathroom. Checked behind the door. Came back and stood in the middle of the room and the tightness in my chest was spreading, slow and cold, into something considerably less comfortable.Nobody came in here. I had made that clear to everyone the day we arrived. Rixon, the two caretakers, and nobody else. This wing, this corridor, this specific suite — nobody without my permission. I had said it once and in this pack once was enough.I went back into the corridor. Rixon was two steps behind me, files still in hand, and I looked at him with an expression that made him stop walking. "Where is she."He blinked. "I'

 Ivy's POVI stopped crying at some point. Not because I felt better. Because my body simply ran out of the energy it took to cry and what was left after was worse. Quieter. The kind of empty that sat in your chest like a stone and didn't move.I looked up at the circle of sky above me. Far, pale, completely indifferent.Was Liam even alive? I didn't know. I didn't know what this place was or who ran it or what they did to people they didn't want here. Those two women had lycan strength and lycan speed and they had looked at me like I was something they scraped off their boots. If they hated me that much on sight, what did this pack do to people they actually considered a threat? Liam had carried me here unconscious. He had brought me into their territory without their knowledge. What did they do to him for that?My wolf pressed weakly against my ribs and said nothing useful. She was as drained as I was.I pulled my knees to my chest a

Liam's POVCaius leaned against the doorframe with both arms crossed and that particular look on his face, the one that said he had already decided how this conversation was going to go and was looking forward to every second of it. His eyes moved from me to Ivy and back again and the slow smile that followed made something territorial flare hot in my chest before I could stop it."A werewolf," he said. "You're keeping a werewolf, Liam.""Get out, Caius.""No!" He retorted just like that. Flat and cheerful and completely unbothered by the fact that I had just ordered him out of my room. He pushed off the doorframe and walked in like he owned it and I watched his eyes settle on Ivy with an assessment that I did not like. "I'm serious…..a werewolf. In your room. In your bed." He looked at me with exaggerated disbelief. "What happened to kill your enemies and dine with the bigger ones? What happened to strategy, Liam? What happened to not dragging your sentimentalities into pack business

Liam's POVNo!One word and it hit me harder than anything Caius had said, harder than the Edmund situation, harder than three months of chasing a stolen key across five territories. She said no and my chest did something I was completely unprepared for and I sat with it for exactly two seconds before I buried it under the first thing available.I laughed. Quiet and self-deprecating and I made sure it reached my eyes because she couldn't know. "Forget it," I said. "It was a stupid request. I basically dragged you out of one nightmare and dropped you into mine and then had the nerve to ask you to perform in it." I stood up and straightened my shirt. "Rest. I'll have the kitchen send food."I turned toward the door."Who are you?"Her voice stopped me. Not the words, the tone. She wasn't asking to be difficult. She was genuinely lost and genuinely trying to figure out how all the pieces fit and the uncertainty in it did something

Noah's POV"Nothing, Alpha." Dax stood in front of my desk with his hands behind his back and the expression he wore when delivering news he already knew I wasn't going to take well. "I've checked every territory within a hundred miles. Every contact, every border checkpoint, every inn and safe house. It's like she vanished overnight.""People don't vanish overnight.""Ivy apparently did because she's nowhere to be found."I turned away from him and looked out the window and pressed my knuckles against the glass and tried to think past the frustration that had been sitting in my chest for three days now like a stone I couldn't shift. Ivy had nobody. That was the thing I kept coming back to. Her mother was dead. Her friend Stephanie claimed ignorance and kept claiming it despite every form of pressure Dax had applied, which meant Stephanie knew something and was choosing silence, but even Stephanie didn't leave the territory which meant Ivy hadn't gone to her.She had a cottage. A tin