All Chapters of After the Storm: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Alpha DoyleI made my way down to the cells, the sound of my boots echoing through the stone corridor.The further I walked, the heavier the air became.Mike was exactly where I’d ordered the warriors to leave him.Strapped to the metal chair in the centre of the cell, his wrists and ankles secured tightly. His head hung forward, his breathing slow and uneven.Wolfsbane.I could smell it from the doorway.He’d been drugged heavily enough that even if he’d wanted to fight, his wolf wouldn’t have been strong enough to answer him.I stepped inside and closed the door behind me.Mike’s head lifted slightly.His eyes struggled to focus on me.“Alpha Doyle…”His voice was barely a whisper.I pulled a chair across the cell and sat down opposite him.For several seconds, I simply watched him.Then I spoke.“Leah is safe.”His eyes snapped towards mine.It was the first real reaction I’d seen from him.“She’s…” His voice cracked. “She’s safe?”“Yes.”I leaned forward, resting my forearms on my

CainTwo days laterSomething wasn’t right.I stared at the map spread across my desk, my fingers tapping impatiently against the wooden surface.Nothing was going according to plan.I’d spent the last two days trying to get hold of Mike.Nothing.No calls.No messages.No response.At first, I hadn’t been worried.Mike had always been careful.Too careful, sometimes.But then the reports had started coming in.The patrols had changed.Routes I’d been given were no longer being used. Warriors we’d been told would be in certain locations weren’t there. The information Mike had provided about Doyle’s movements was suddenly worthless.Everything we’d been working on had changed.And that bothered me.A lot.I picked up my phone again and tried Mike’s number.Straight to voicemail.I clenched my jaw.“Where the hell are you, Mike?”I’d already sent someone to check the place he’d been staying.Nothing.His vehicle was gone.No sign of him.For a while, I’d considered the possibility that

UnknownFor the past three days, Cain had been sending us out in groups to find Mike.Every day, we searched.Every day, we came back with nothing.We checked the roads.The surrounding territory.Abandoned buildings.Safe houses.Every place we thought Mike might have gone.Nothing.It was as if he’d simply disappeared.Cain wasn’t taking it well.He’d started sending smaller groups out at different times, hoping we’d find something we’d missed.At the same time, he’d ordered several of us to find out whatever we could about what was happening inside the Celtic Moon Pack.That search had been just as frustrating.We couldn’t get close enough to learn anything useful.The borders had been tightened significantly over the past few days.More warriors.More patrols.Different patrol routes.And they weren’t the casual patrols we’d been used to seeing.These wolves were alert.Organised.Watching everything.It was almost like Alpha Doyle was preparing for war.I stood at the edge of the

StormFor the past week, we had kept our warriors on high alert.Pack security was tighter than it had ever been.Patrols had been doubled. Warriors were stationed along every section of our borders, and nobody entered or left the territory without being noticed.There was tension throughout the pack.A quiet understanding that something was coming.But strangely, the person who seemed most relaxed was Leah.And watching her over the past few days had affected me more than I could explain.She was finally free.Free to walk around the pack grounds without fear.Free to sit outside.Free to wander through the gardens.Free to laugh with the other women.Free to simply exist without constantly wondering what might happen next.And it wasn’t until I saw her like this that I realised something that broke my heart.I hadn’t seen her truly relaxed for so long.Not once in the past several years.I’d seen her smile.I’d seen her laugh.I’d seen her pretend that everything was fine.But there

StormI made my way into the house and upstairs to mine and Doyle’s suite.When I entered the suite, it was empty.The kids were with Julie and Lilly, which meant for the first time in days, there was nobody asking me questions, nobody needing anything from me, and nobody waiting for me to make a decision.Just silence.I sat on the edge of mine and Doyle’s bed and stared down at my hands.How had it come to this?We had been living in peace.We had laughed.We had spent time together.We had watched the kids grow.We had finally had the kind of life I had once believed I would never have.And now there was a threat hanging over all of us.Someone had been working against us from inside the pack.Someone had been feeding information to an enemy.Someone wanted Doyle dead.And I couldn’t stop thinking about how easily everything could have been taken from me.My children.Doyle.Our home.Our life.Who was Mike working with?Why did this person hate us so much?What had we ever done to