The Alpha's Abandoned Mate
“Where is she?” Ryder’s voice croaked into the cold morning air before he even understood he was awake. The sound didn’t feel like it came from his throat. It felt torn out of him, dragged up from some depth he hadn’t visited in years.
He opened his eyes slowly, cautiously, as if the world might collapse the second he looked at it. Above him stretched a pale sky washed in the colors of first light , soft gold bleeding into silver, and silver fading into the faintest blue. For a moment he simply blinked, confused, trying to gather himself. The last thing he remembered was the unbearable pull of the shadow realm, Sienna’s name struggling to stay on his tongue as everything inside him cracked a