The parking lot seemed to tilt beneath me.
"What do you mean, missing?" Kian's voice had gone hard, flat, the alpha in him snapping back into place instantly. "She was supposed to be at the estate. Under guard."
"She was." Marcus's breathing was ragged, like he'd run the whole way from wherever he'd parked. "I checked on her myself before I left to find her. She was fine. Restless, but fine."
"And now?"
"Now her room's torn apart, there's blood on the floor by the window, and nobody saw a thing." Marcus dragged a hand through his hair, his composure cracking in a way I'd never seen from him before, even in the chaos of the last two days. "The guards outside her door swear no one passed them. Which means whoever did this didn't come through the door at all."
My stomach turned over. Bes
