Jake POV It took twenty minutes to discover that Jane was not at her boss'. According to him, she'd snuck out around the time we talked. An Audi came to pick her up and she left without telling him. She lied to me. I guessed I deserved that for not telling her about the mate bond sooner. I spent the rest of the night scouring the entire town. At some point, I caught a whiff of her scent along the way, but that was all. It was too faint, which meant she'd merely passed by. Jane was not at her omega friend’s house where Nasir had dropped her. Neither was she hiding in her bedroom at her mom’s. She didn’t sneak into her workplace to stay the night. Nor was she at her ex’s. The warrior on guard near the town's exit said he spotted an Audi with an unfamiliar license plate, driving in

