The Prince’s Unwilling mate by Mutya

I barely slept last night, I kept having nightmares about Ayla. Nightmares where she is laughing at me. Telling me she meant every word she said in the letter. Other’s more realistic where David, was abusing her, hurting her. Trying to break her and accept him as her mate. Dreams where she doesn’t survive the abuse and dies. Every nightmare woke me up gasping, drenched in sweat.

It’s 7 AM now I know there is a pack breakfast available from six- thirty. Still not that hungry but I could do without Jessa being on my case. And somehow reminding myself I need to eat and take care of myself so Ayla won’t be mad at me is comforting. It’s like I am forcing myself to believe she is going to make it back to me in one piece. Despite what my nightmares are telling me.

I sit up, ready to get out of bed. Again my eyes dart down the room, there is not a single thing she had not packed. Knowing she was so excited about living together with me that she didn’t even need to pack on the last day, was both comforting and depressing. Knowing she loved me this much, that we were both as excited for the future was comforting. It reminded me of the Ayla I loved. The she-wolf that could be a bit shy and reserved at first, but who when she loved. Love whole-heartedly. To know despite all that happened to her I had become the man to deserve that love still made me fly high.

Only she was not here with me, we weren’t about to put the last boxes in our cars so we could drive home. Our home to our future. No, I had to sleep in the bed that once was hers because she was taken away from me. And I had no clue how to find her, Mo onGo ddess knows I’ve been trying. It had only been three days since she had been kidnapped. On the one hand, it feels like an eternity without her. Without knowing how she is doing. Three days where waking up feels difficult

because every time I do I realize she is not there breathing is difficult. The sense of missing her is wrapping around my chest like cold bands of steel. Squeezing tighter with every breath I take.

On the other hand, I realize he couldn’t have taken her that far yet. We ruled out the fact that they travel by a commercial airplane. There had not been any suspicious private flights. Unless they flew without clearance but that would be impossible to track down. This leaves us with two options, he either hid her somewhere close until the excitement dies down. Or he is taking her home by car, but that would mean they would have had to stop somewhere overnight. Tonight we are going to spread out and go to as many hotels and motels as possible to show her picture there.

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way to the training ring as Alpha Cedric requested, every available wolf that wants to help to try to see if Ayla stayed in a hotel or motel overnight would gather there. As I am getting closer I hear the low buzz of chatter. The kind of sad, quiet chatter that you hear during

Love her enough to go out and spend their entire day, some even two to find her. Or to find any trace of her. When I reach Alpha Cedric, slowly because my legs feel just as heavy as

as you can see. And that is why we are bringing her back home. To the place where she should be” He tells me and

in his optimism

listen to him divide the wolves into pairs. Seeing the abundance of hands raised

save Ayla, but I am slowly understanding that I am not the only one. And that it means that I do not have to do it all on my own. All these wolves here are just as determined to get her back with us. The only risk of all of this

someone who can hear the pack’s

of me.

looks like she should be home, enjoying her well-earned rest. Yet she is here summoning her courage to ask me as her Crown Prince if she can join me because she thinks I am better off without someone from the White Oak pack as opposed to one of my

me Griffin we’re a team today,” I tell her, because I know she is right I need someone with