Jackson
I marched out of the meeting, royally pissed.
The elders had given me an ultimatum: find my mate, mate with Fiona, or step down as Alpha. A month to decide. A single month to either find the woman I'd been searching for over a year or lose everything I'd worked for.
Truth be told, I knew where they were coming from. An Alpha needed his Luna. A pack needed stability. But I only wanted Phoenix—and I'd tried everything to find her.
I, alongside her friend Caleb, had searched everywhere. We'd scoured the surrounding forests, followed every lead, questioned every pack within a hundred-mile radius. Nothing. Not a single clue. Not even a whisper of where she might have gone.
I couldn't go from pack to pack looking for her—it would spark war. Other Alphas would see it as a threat, an
