Natalia’s POV
The phone nearly slipped from my hand. “Missing?” I barked, looking up at Damon. “What do you mean he’s missing?”
Damon’s face paled. I took the phone and put it on speaker so we could both hear.
“He left the house this morning and never came back,” the Beta said. “We’ve searched everywhere. The pack grounds, the town, his usual spots. Nothing.”
“Well, maybe he just went out,” Damon rationalized. “Andrei has always liked his alone time—”
“It’s more than that, Alpha Damon. We managed to track down a trail leading into the woods. The scene we found there was… disturbing, to say the least.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
There was a pause, and then: “We found something in the woods. A deer carcass. It was… arranged.”
“Arranged?” Damon blurted out.
The Beta sighed. “The bo
