Chapter 35: Theo

I felt like I was on auto–pilot for days after I felt Ayla with Kingston. I slept even less. My nights were plagued with dreams of them together whenever I closed my eyes. The only way I could get any peace was to get drunk enough to pass

out.

I was avoiding my parents, and Kylee, and anyone else for that matter. Especially Briggs. After Kylee’s cousin, Mina, turned out to be his fated mate, I couldn’t handle being around them.

I was holed up in my office again when he burst through the door without knocking..

“In case you didn’t get the hint,” I said, “I’m not in the mood to talk to you.”

“I’m just here to do my job,” he replied, dropping a folder on my desk. “I finally heard back from some of the other packs. There have been four similar fires set in other territories. Two

with casualties.”

I picked up the file and was eagerly opening it when Kylee rushed into my office, followed by her mother.

“You need to find her, Theo,” she yelled angrily.

“What are you…”

“Ayla,” she interrupted, fury rolling off of her.

I felt the blood drain from my face. Had she found out her

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sister was a rogue?

on?” I said, trying to

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every last penny our mother

his breath from behind

up

emails. The neighbors say that they haven’t seen her in weeks,” Kylee continued. “She took everything and ran

there

Theo, we have no idea where she

where she is.

you know where she is?” Kylee asked with a strange

ties with the pack a few weeks ago,” I

her mouth. This wasn’t exactly the way I was going to break the news to them, but right now, I didn’t really care. I couldn’t believe I had been wallowing over her all this time. I couldn’t believe Kieran couldn’t see what a snake she

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true. She

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I was tired of his stubbornness,

do

evening caring that her only sibling cut herself off from them. “She’s always been selfish

heading for the door. “I’ll make sure

when Briggs

about to do, Theo,

through gritted teeth. “She’s

not even going to

“I’m not living

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hard. It still took most of the evening to get all the paperwork together. So I got a hotel room to avoid returning to the packhouse and headed out before sunrise the next

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calling me practically non–stop since I had left, so I cut my phone off a few hours into the drive. Until I got to the

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