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 state

of food or get the right amount of rest, and every time we tried to force

nothing I could do right now to

loss for what to do to help her. She's spiraling, and I only see her smile when she's with the twins. She is happy and content one minute, and then it's like someone flips the switch as soon as they're asleep. She

stared at me. His facial expressions were 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

how to do that. It was hard trying to decipher what was wrong with her while trying also to find my

been nothing that's

though," Talon replied. "If they were going to come, they would have surely come by now. The only thing I can

believe the Council was actually on our side. They weren't pleased by the outburst that had happened the day we were all