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By the time I finally could go to bed, I was exhausted, and I still didn’t have an appetite.
Desperately wanting to feel closer to Ayla I decided to just go to sleep in the bed that still
vaguely smells of her. When I find one of my shirts she wore to bed the last night we were
together under her pillows I slip into it. Normally I would sleep tople ss but, having her
scent envelop me is the most calming thing for me at this moment. I allow myself to close
my eyes and imagine she is peacefully sleeping next to me. I know this will alone cause
me more pain in the morning. But for now, I let it lull me into a peaceful sleep.
***
The next morning I woke up after a fitful sleep. Wearing a shirt that smelled of her helped
me fall asleep peacefully. However, I should have known that it would never be enough to
actually have a peaceful night. Even my subconscious misses the feeling of her in my
arms when I am sleeping. I needed to get up though, we would travel to the White Oak
pack shortly. After the announcement on the website, I let the pack know we were still
actively searching for their Princess.
And after yesterday’s hiccup, we now truly had the support of the entire pack and it meant
the world to me. Not only because it would make my life, and my mission to get the love
of my life back to me so much easier. No, I wanted Ayla to have a warm, loving pack. That
missed her, that believed her and fought for her to go home too. Being without our mates
even without having completed the process was painful for any wolf. We had always
managed to take the edge off with texting every day. Making sure we were surrounded by
each other’s scent. I highly doubt David would allow her any of those.
That’s the dark place my mind keeps going back to. Trying to imagine
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what he is doing to her. How he is trying to break her because I know from my own
experience just how strong she is. And just how stubborn she is, she will keep fighting him
if not physically she will fight him men tally. I wish I could tell her to just go along with
everything he is coming up with. That I would never blame her for acting like she prefers
him over me. I know it is not true but, if that is what is going to keep her safe she should
do it. Just hold out long enough for me to come and save her. Sadly I cannot reach her and
she will be too stubborn, she loves me too much to speak badly about me.
With a body that feels like it’s been run over by a tow truck, I shuffle towards the
bathroom. Hoping that a hot shower will release some of the tension in my body. I feel like
I have to be ready for anything, every second of the day now. So my body has been
tensed up ever since reading that letter. Ready to pounce on whoever I need to pounce
on. And it made my muscles sore, of course, the lack of nutrition doesn’t help either. But
how could I be stuffing my face when I am not sure that Ayla even gets to eat anything?
When I walk out of the shower Mom is waiting for me, a plate of scrambled eggs with
bacon sits on my dining room table next to a mug of coffee.
“Honey, I know you don’t want to but you need to eat something. The only way we are
getting your mate back is by keeping our strengths up. You know Ayla would never want
you to starve yourself” She adds the last words in a gentler tone.
She is right, I can practically hear Ayla scold me for not taking care of myself. It feels like
nobody gets it though. Nobody seems to understand how much the simplest things like
eating or even breathing feel without her. No one in my family or pack has ever been
through something like this. So there is nobody here I can talk to.
“I know Mom, I just miss her so much that it hurts me” I can barely hold in my so bs.
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Suddenly Mom’s arms are around me, it feels so comforting. Like it did when I was a little
pup crying over a scraped knee or a missing toy. Only now I was an adult, set to take over
the throne in a few years. And now it was my heart that was hurting and I lost my mate,
not my favorite toy. So Mom’s hugs could only go so far. Still, it comforted me enough to
attempt to eat breakfast. My mouth felt dry, and my throat was swollen. I had trouble with
every bite I swallowed down. Feeling like the bit of fluffy eggs got lodged in my throat.
***
Two hours later I sat in the royal jet, heading towards the White Oak pack once more. Next
to me was an empty chair, the chair where Ayla should have been seated. I should be
flying to the White Oak pack not because I needed to find out what happened to her. No,
we needed to be going there together to visit her family. Maybe even to go over to bring
them some good news.
Still, I was glad to be out of the castle, looking for hints here would feel so much better
than just sitting at home. Staring at words or images on a computer screen to try and get
more information. After landing we would go straight to the packhouse to speak with
Alpha Cedric and the rest of his family, he was heartbroken about the news too. But as the
Alpha, he couldn’t just come over to the castle and leave the pack without a leader. More
so because the kidnapping had taken place on his packground. Indicating a breach of
security, something he had to look into. Both to keep the rest of the pack safe and to see
if there are any hints to find out what happened to Ayla.
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for us. Since it had been peace among the neighboring packs for so long there wasn’t any
security around the borders of the pack apart from the guards station at the entrance.
With the party and how well-loved Ayla was in this pack. almost everyone
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had attended the party so security was at an all-time low.
Some of the security cameras on the property had managed to capture three unknown
wolves. He had also been able to track most of Ayla’s route home, not all of it as the
security cameras where put into place to protect the heart of the pack better. And to
possibly form evidence if there ever was a fight between pack members.
It was better than nothing though because it meant there was a set path Ayla had taken to
her home. With our combined force we would research every inch of said path to look for
traces or hints of what had happened to her. Agreeing with the rest of us that the
BloodMoon pack had to be involved. David more specifically, Cedric asked everyone to
look at the wolves on the camera. Hopefully one of the former BloodMoon members could
confirm who it was. The council had already agreed with us that we had more than enough
evidence to act on our suspicions that it was David who kidnapped my mate.
So we didn’t need to know who kidnapped her to be able to act upon it. It was still
valuable information. We could maybe use it to put some pressure on the kidnapper
hoping they would crumble underneath the weight of it. Confessing and pointing us out to
Ayla in return for a lesser sentence.
Upon seeing the security camera footage both Jessa and Dan jumped up stating they
knew who the wolf on the screen was. But I noticed something else as I closely monitored
the videos for any lead that could bring Ayla back to me.
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