The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 86

Ryan

I’m convinced that I’m going crazy. Without my mate in my mind, or in my arms, I feel like half a puzzle, incomplete and scrambling. I picture her silky hair, her beautiful vast eyes, wide and wandering with love and admiration as she stares at me. Her hands are soft, precious but built with a few callouses, fighting through her first life, and now the second.

I sit at the breakfast table alone, unwilling to even lift my fork, relying on stress and coffee for far too long. I don’t mind the jittery adrenaline it gives me; it only fuels me more in the search for my mate. I know she’s in the woods near our pack lands, I know she was taken, and if the note meant anything, she is at least somewhat safe in order to be used as collateral.

uiet when I enter a room, suspiciously so.

d morning, Alpha.”

.”

g the trails again today? I can send some of our warriors out to help once they have some breakfast and get suited.”

n join me and my warriors out there. I’m leaving soon

well.”

lculatedly so, his eyes unkind at the source. “We will resolve this issu

e elders, but I can’t help and wonder why someone would accuse them of something so heinous. Sure, rogues are an eye sore and sometimes they break the rules of packs they travel through—

Fritz sighs, looking around as if waiting to be

ention the elders as though to strike a deal with you, not me?”

my subtle conviction and questioning. Looking up, he meets me with dead eyes. “I don’t know anything for sure, Ryan, just of what we have been accused of doing.”

at, exactly? Killing off rogues? That’s all?”

on’t f*****g ask.

y about what he has been accused off, furthering segregating me from my mate, then I will have to do what I can to get her back.

pack lands. I recall where I found the bottle before, the one tainted with her scent, and I run toward it, leaving the group behind. Tire doesn’t touch me. not until I have her back.

ed away in this rain. I know the trail of her scent withers from here, almost like it’s been covered, or tainted, or she stopped walking and was carried. I try not to think about it too much.

very nook that may have even a slice of her scent rubbed onto it. I need to find something, anything, that will lead me to her.

d into my chest, near my neck, her smell like roses in a wild field. She would smile, so bright that the world would lighten up for just a moment, just long enough to see the twinkle of her eyes.

d over her. I hate to consider it all, all the while not being able to comfort her, which drives me to think about how I will never let her go again.

will remain in my arms forever a

Forever.

bly, and follow the ragged scent of this male until I can’t anymore.

gine anyone jumping down this sheer drop, knowing it would most certainly lead to death, so the question remains.

here?