Chapter 5
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Rune, from the clustered bushes, keenly watched the front door to Rose’s house.
Three days had passed, and the house was still, and his ears could not pick up anything.
These factors made his concern grow.
“Why are we back here, Alpha Rune?” Symon whispered. “Nothing special is happening.”
“Exactly.”
“Huh?”
“Do you know who might be in that house?” Rune dreaded the answer to that question despite knowing it.
“Humans who are living their life?” Symon never failed to hide his annoyance whenever he could not figure out Alpha Rune.
“No.”
“Then, who?”
“Someone that will make my life better.”
Symon scoffed. “Are you saying I make your life terrible?”
Rune eyed the Beta.
Symon certainly knew how to twist statements to his taste. “Think whatever you want. While doing that, I need you to recheck the house.”
“Seriously! What’s going on? I keep checking that house, but all I see is nothing. It’s quiet, all the curtains are pulled down, and there are no concerning sounds. It’s proper for a house to be this quiet on a work day.” The Beta was almost stomping his feet.
“If all you’ll do is make noise, just leave. I can do this on my own.”
“B-but…”
“Leave.” Rune’s brows frowned when he detected footsteps.
“Are you mad at me?”
He gently shoved Symon to the side and focused more on the house.
Finally, someone walked out, and it was that bastard husband of hers.
Behind him was a giant suitcase, which he dragged while suspiciously looking around.
“Why is he being weird?” Symon also focused on the view. “Wait a minute… Is that blood?”
Rune’s heart thudded. “Where?” He hurriedly observed every part of the suitcase.
“On the doorstep.”
The moment Rune sighted the stain, rage filled him.
He pulled off his hoodie and rushed towards the bastard.
Once he got there, he snatched the bag before the husband could place it in the boot of his car.
“Who the f**k are you?”
Rune ignored him, tore the suitcase open and allowed relief to wash over him when he saw the paint cans haphazardly placed in the bag.
“Are you deaf?! Who the f**k are you?”
Rune lifted his head, his natural and dangerous aura appearing in his eyes. “Where is your wife?”
“What?”
“Where is she?”
“How is that your business?” The husband’s brows tightened, and his smallish hands rested on his waist. “Does she know you?”
Rune slowly got up after he convinced himself to hold back from storming into the house. That would violate the pact he made with Rose.
So, to ease his concern, he widened his senses and picked up Rose’s scent to his relief. The faintness of her scent did worry him, but he chose to believe that she was holding on and planning her escape well.
“Hey!” The husband continued to yap. “I am talking to you! I said, who are you?” His eyes burned. “Are you her f**k buddy? Huh?”
The man’s manner of speaking disgusted Rune, so he walked away without a word.
But the husband would not have that. The moment Rune moved, he grabbed him by the collar. “I am talking to you, fucker. Answer me.”
Rune looked down at the bastard and smirked. The husband was undoubtedly a pathetic man.
“What’s funny to you, you f*****g weirdo? Huh?”
Rune, with just little power, held one of the man’s wrists and weakened his bones.
“Wh-” The feebleness in the man’s eyes gladdened Rune. He watched as the bastard held his deflated wrist with great confusion. “What is this? What did you do to me?!”
Without a word more, Rune walked away and went back to his hiding place where Symon was waiting with a questioning frown plastered on his face.
“Who is that person?” he asked, his arms crossed. “Are you trying to cheat on the Luna?”
Rune’s brows jerked. “You speak like a fool, Symon.” He pulled up his hood. “Think hard before you utter your next statement.”
“Uh…” The man, whose build was impressive yet not on the same level as Alpha Rune, scratched the back of his head. “I overstepped. I apologise. But…”
Rune’s hands pulled into fists, he disliked that the Beta wolf was about to mention one of the things he hated the most.
“You are technically still married to Luna Catherine. Just because you were-”
“Just because I was banished doesn’t mean she is no longer my wife?” Rune grinned maliciously. “Is that what you are trying to say, my dear Beta Symon?”
“Uhm…” The evil in Rune’s eyes once drove a wolf mad, Symon knew better than to provoke it. As the Beta swallowed hard and closed his eyes to construct his words better, he stammered, “I- uhm- I think… It might be best that you… uhm… take things slow?” His forehead creased with uncertainty, and he looked up at Rune. “Can you do that?”
“I am doing that.”
“You are stalking this person, Alpha Rune. And this person is messing with your time.”
Rune looked ahead as the bastard husband drove away. “I am protecting her.”
“I-”
“Listen up, Symon,” the Alpha cupped his jaw, “sometimes you pokenose into my business too much. If you stifle me unnecessarily, I will not hesitate to get rid of you. There is only so much I can let you get away with.”
It was apparent in his eyes that the Beta was hurt by the Alpha’s words, but he quickly nodded and accepted the warning because he knew they were not false statements.
“I will uhm… take note of that.”
“Thank you.” Rune relaxed his sinisterness and patted the wolf’s head. “I appreciate all you do for me. You know that, right?”
“I do,” Symon croaked, his head ducked to hide the tears that always came easily.
Rune looked away because tears from a he-wolf annoyed him. “How is retrieving the data from that phone coming along?”
“We found a very concerning audio file.”
The Alpha noticed that the front door to that house was not completely closed. “Hmm.”
“The audio suggests domestic violence and-” Symon suddenly paused. Rune saw that Symon’s eyes were narrowed in pondering. Then, he shifted them to the house they were surveilling. “Is that why we are here? Is this person being-?”
“Wait for me.” Rune left Symon to figure out his thoughts.
He rushed to the entrance of that house.
Upon entry, the quiet that greeted him made him aware that Rose was not in that place.
With fear gradually wrapping his heart in an unfamiliar way, he checked every inch of the house.
She really was not in the house.
The only trace of her was the faint lingering scent in the kitchen and her items in the little room he first checked.
With a pounding heart and sweating palms, Rune summoned his wolf to heighten his sense of smell. Despite that, he could not trace her whereabouts.
It was as if she had been forced to erase most of her existence from the world.
That thought crushed Rune, he fell to his knees while his aching heart worsened.
“Rose…” While clutching his chest, he wondered if that was how he was going to lose his mate without getting to know her.
No, that must not happen, he decided.
Wherever that bastard dragged her to, he would find it and bring her to her real home. To him.
And… If by any chance she already suffered death, he would go to the depths of the world and beyond to bring back her soul.
Why?
Because she was his mate, the one who set his soul ablaze with passion after months of living in great despair because of the things he lost.
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