ALEXIS' POV Two days after Lyra's disappearance, I feel like the greatest blockhead on earth. How did they take her right under our noses? If she were an ordinary wolf, I'd think she was being used against me, but I know she's a witch, and I know how she's been struggling with her coven members. I would have fired all the guards on duty that night if I didn't know any better. “Where are we going to find her?“ Sergei was asking me for the nth time. My mother, too, has been badgering me about her sudden disappearance. “How could she just vanish like that? A whole werewolf?“ “Ma, don't worry. I'll find her.“ If there was anything I was thankful for about Lyra's disappearance, it was the fact that it made my mother drop the wife hunting she was doing on my behalf. “You have to.“ “I

