The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Let the Hunt Begin

Aeron’s POV~

For a moment, I didn’t understand the words.

She escaped. how?

Two simple syllables shouldn’t have held the power to shatter everything. But they did.

My heart stopped beating. My breath caught. I felt the suffocation clawing at my mind.

The hall, once thick with tension, now turned shallow. Murmurs rippled like a wave through the nobles, a hundred heads swiveling toward the doors. But I couldn’t hear them. Couldn’t see anything but that warrior, panting and trembling, sweat glistening on his brow.

I took a step forward, my voice hoarse. "What did you just say?"

His eyes darted up, wild and frightened. "Selene...she—she escaped. She’s gone, Alpha. Vanished before the guard rotation. We—we don’t know how—"

The rest of his sentence drowned in the sound of something knocking behind my back.

Luca had risen first, knocking over a ceremonial goblet, his face twisted in a snarl. "Gone? What the fuck do you mean she’s gone?"

Kael looked dazed, blinking as if trying to wake from a bad dream. "That’s not possible," he muttered, voice hollow. "She was collared. She couldn’t have—"

Lucian said nothing. His eyes were wide, lips slightly parted, like the air had been sucked from his lungs. But I could see the twitch in his jaw, the barely suppressed rage simmering just under his skin.

The room was spinning. My hands curled into fists at my sides.

Like we were nothing. Like our rules—our

How dare she?

of fury and disbelief crashing into my chest. My bones ached with the need to shift, to hunt. To find her and remind her exactly where she

growl tore from my throat before I could stop it, low and primal. The nobles flinched. Even the warrior dropped to one

us..." I

her back myself. She doesn’t

behind their gaze. My pulse thundered. I turned toward the doors, the memory of her eyes flashing behind my lids—the

was

Escape.

rejection of everything we’d built.

every patrol. If she’s beyond the walls, I want the perimeter combed until not even

glowing gold. "And when we find

bringing her back." No matter what

through his skin. Black fur exploded from his limbs. The pain was welcome as

filled the hall as his brothers also shifted beside him,

roar shook the walls, and Kael... Kael didn’t speak. His

presence darkened the entire temple hall, the towering forms of four black wolves radiating fury. The nobles scattered. Priests fell to their knees

"No!"

silk-clad body lurched forward, arms outstretched as if she could hold back the storm. But the air had

side. Her lips trembled. "You can’t go... not for

shrinking further

a shaky step forward. "I am your Luna," she whispered, eyes darting between them. "You swore it. Before the Moon

hear her or my brothers.

glance her way. His wolf stood rigid, head raised