Then She Was Gone Summary Novels & Stories

After that, she launched into a long explanation—nothing more than insisting she was just helping out and warning me not to cause trouble again. “I won’t be going,” I said quietly, my eyes lowered. After everything that happened last night, the last trace of affection I had for her was gone. Seeing how calm I was, an inexplicable sense of panic swept over Sarah. She hesitated, but then she thought of Tim’s clingy behavior, and the hand gripping her phone slowly relaxed. She knew I loved her so much. What could possibly go wrong? With that thought, she let out a breath, and walked out of my sight. I watched as she walked out and dialed a number.

I suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction. Then, the girl's mother looked around. When she found that no one was around, she picked up the little girl and ran. As she drew her distance away from me, I heard her telling the girl not to do such dangerous things again. She never gave me a single glance. I lay on the ground, feeling the life drain away from my body. Several people passed by. They shook their heads and sighed. I heard the clicking of camera shutters, but no one called the ambulance.

I asked, not like I was really interested in what he wanted to say. Swirling his drink, he straightened up, “Everyone is talking about the girl, the one Dane humiliated in front of everyone.” With a shrug, he added, "She’s gone, she vanished without a trace.” I didn’t move, but my heartbeat slowed in that dangerous way it always did when my anger tried to rise. “Gone?” I echoed like the word was foreign. “Yes,” he said, watching me too closely. “No one saw her leave, no one knows where she went. One moment she’s crying in front of the whole pack, and the next… she is gone. You don’t know what happened to her, right? Or do you?”

Hated that he was making me wait when my patience was already worn thin. “She’s gone.” He said, making me frown in confusion. “The Omega, the wolfless Omega. She is gone.” The world seemed to tilt, just for a second. “What do you mean gone? Where the hell could an Omega without a wolf just disappear too? Especially not caught or seen.”

“Your mate is right by your side, yet all you care about is some traitor who is already gone and won’t be coming back.” Gone. Is she really gone for good? “Don’t do something you’ll regret.” Too late. Layla is gone because I pushed her away. My hand curls into a fist at my side, my jaw tightening as I stare into the forest, searching for someone that isn’t there.

That means whatever this is, he probably didn't need to see it. I step fully into the room, letting the door close behind me, my eyes moving between both of them. Neither of them speaks first, which tells me everything I need to know. “Where is she?” I ask. No one pretends not to understand. Malachi looks at me for a second before answering, like he’s deciding how to say whatever is in his mind. “She’s gone.” For a moment, I didn't react. Not because I didn’t hear him, but because I did and my brain is already trying to process how that even happened. Rebecca was right here. We had her. Answers were right in front of us and now, she was just gone?!

And she had disappeared a week before the wedding. That’s when she left. No warning. No explanation. Just gone. One day, she was beside me, laughing, touching me, talking about the future. The next, her number was disconnected. Her apartment emptied. Her existence erased like she had never been real at all. I had searched. I had turned over every stone, but there was nothing. No clues. No traces. Just a ghost where a person had once been. And if she was dead? If something had happened to her? Then, whoever took her had hidden her well.

And what she’s becoming. “Leon…” her voice comes again. Weak. Breaking. “Help me—” The screen flickers. Cuts. Static floods everything. Then— black. Complete. Final. Silence crashes down. No feeds. No signals. No trace. “She’s gone,” someone says. “No,” I reply quietly. “She’s not gone.” I step forward. Eyes locked on the empty screens. Mind already moving. Already rebuilding the puzzle. Because now— we have something we didn’t before.

And now she was gone. Because the truth had caught up with him.

I shout now, my heart pounding. 'Zane. She is not there anymore. She is gone,' Claw sounds broken. 'Gone? No, she can never have disappeared. She wants to be with us'. 'No, Zane. There's more to it'…