Chapter 81
Hunter’s POV
The silence in the car was oppressive, the kind that felt alive, pushing in on all sides, daring someone to break it. Phoenix sat in the driver’s seat, eyes glued to the road, though there was no real destination. Zephyr stared out of the window, his fingers drumming impatiently on his knee, while Rowan sat slouched in the back, biting his nails, a habit he'd picked up since Aurora vanished. And me? I was gripping the edge of my seat so hard, my knuckles were white.
It had been a week since Aurora disappeared from the back of her school. A whole damn week of dead ends, of tracking nothing but rumors and ghost trails. We had just returned from another futile search, this time at a neighboring pack, hoping against hope that someone had seen her or heard something
