Alaric’s POV:
I had just finished talking with the head guard. We agreed to send a search party into the forest to look for Thalia. The guards had turned the whole pack upside down, but they still couldn’t find her. So now, we had no choice but to check the woods.
She couldn’t have gone far.
I walked into my room and closed the door, trying to clear my head. But I couldn’t stop thinking. I paced back and forth before deciding to take a shower, hoping it would help. When I got out, I pulled on some shorts and lay down, bare-chested, staring at the ceiling.
But my mind wouldn’t shut off.
At first, I was furious that Thalia had lied to me. But worse than that—she ran instead of facing me.
One thing was certain: she couldn’t hide forever. I would find her. And when I did, she’d
