And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Hale.

Three days had passed since Ivy had the children, and Damian was pronounced missing. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I stepped into my role as alpha of the pack to ensure everything ran smoothly.

We had gone to the cabin where the seer was Damian supposedly met. It wasn't hard for us to find the location with the information he had left on his desk. However, as soon as we got there, it was clear the woman had been long gone, which was lucky for her, considering I would have torn her to shreds to find my brother.

The disheartening feeling of coming home empty-handed wasn't something I wanted to do again. The look in Ivy's eyes when she threw open the front door only to find that Damian wasn't with us... it haunted my mind.

"Have there been any recent signs?" I asked Talon, who walked through the office door looking grimmer than he had the day before.

"No, but I do have patrols watching the borders expecting the worst if it comes to it. We have to find Damian. Have you seen the state that Ivy is in?"

seen the

of rest, and every time we tried to force her to do it, she would snap as if she was slowly

my life, I had questions I didn't have the answers to, and it burned a hole through my heart, knowing there was nothing I could do right now to help Ivy. We knew who had done it. We knew the Council had Damian, but without proof, we couldn't just storm in there and accuse them of

she's with the twins. She is

unreadable, but I had no doubt he saw the same things I did in his mind. "What do you want to do, then? We have to find a way to

was just at a loss for how to do that. It was hard trying to decipher what was wrong

been nothing that's

going to come, they would have surely come by now. The only

once, but I didn't want to be so hasty as to believe the Council was actually on our side. They weren't pleased by the outburst that had happened the