Logan's POV
I search all night.
The forest first — every trail I know, every clearing, every place I've ever seen Aurora walk toward when she needed to think. Then the river, both banks, upstream and down, calling her name until my voice goes rough and the only answer is water.
Nothing.
By dawn I'm standing at the edge of the eastern tree line with mud on my boots and nothing to show for it. She's gone. She and my son are gone and I don't know where to look next because I don't know how she got out — every border guard swears they saw nothing, every patrol unit came back empty.
I go back inside.
Aiden meets me at the door with the same tight expression he's worn for two days. He doesn't have to say anything. I already know.
The next three days are the longest of my life.
I barely s
