ALARIC POV
*darkside - Neoni ; Vultures - Neoni*
The sun was already up.
Aria should have been home hours ago.
I kept pacing the same strip of dirt at the top of the ridge until the ground was nothing but churned mud under my boots. Back. Turn. Back again. My lungs felt tight like I couldn’t pull enough air in.
The Crescent Moon forests spread out below us, quiet and still, morning light bleeding through the trees like nothing in the world was wrong.
Like my mate hadn’t vanished into thin air. Like our pups weren't waiting in our home, still wearing my T-shirts and praying to the Goddess that she was fine.
Behind me the wolves shifted restlessly in the tree line. Greenwood warriors and Caelin’s pack. Ellis somewhere among them, watching everything with that sharp beta focus he had.
