The Prince’s Unwilling mate

Chapter 104

104 Griffin “That’s Jason, Hannah’s brother and he was said to becDavid’s Beta, and I am sure he is now,” Jessa tells us From the security images, and footprints the White Oak guards assumed the other men on the property were wolves too. But even on the grainy screen, I can see the hunter’s emblem on one of the men’s arms. This is bad news because David seems to be working with them. She is doing something on her phone, it’s not very clear to see but it seems like she sees something on her phone that annoys her before shuffling it back in her purse. Maybe her phone just died. We follow the route she walks and we can clearly see she seems a bit nervous. She is looking over her shoulders a few times. She must have felt something; for sreason, she didn’t feel scared enough to call for anyone. But that is all the camera images tell us. So there is no use in staying in this office any longer. And there is not much to discuss with Alpha Cedric he has givencomplete freedom on the backgrounds. He wants his niece hjust as much as I do. I need to go out, I need to feel like I am doing something, anything really just to get her home. “Dan, Jessa, could you showthe place last seen on the camera and walkto Ayla’s home?” I ask so I can go out and hopefully find sclues. Dan is quick to jump up and agree, I have only gotten to know him a little bit. He is a lot likeso I can imagine he wants to get up and do something too. Alpha Cedric tells us he will send four warriors over so that they can help us look for clues. We could call upon the entire army but the thing is that might be a risk too. A lot of werewolves tram pling all over the track might destroy more clues than we will end 0.00% O 18:18 104 Griffin 288 Vouchers

up finding, “Oh and Griffin, we did ssearching too, and we found her phone. The battery just died, so I charged it” Alpha Cedric tellsbefore handing over the phone. Her phone is password protected and it feels off to try and guess her password. But it is the only thing we can do now. We need to try and find every clue there is. I’m still absolutely sure there is no way that she just up and left me. There is no way we are going to find text confirming what the letter she supposedly sent said. Even a timeline of the place where she has been too could prove helpful. “I know her password, I can just go through her phone if you guys go looking for more clues” Jessa suggests. I am so happy she does, because A, there is a reason Ayla gave her the password. And B, I don’t think I can focus enough to just read throughout her messages. I know I would drift back to just reading the messages between us. Going over how good it all was between us, reassuring myself of what I felt. What I thought we were is still very true. Since that is not what I need to do now, I thank Jessa and then make my way outside to the place where Ayla was last seen. *** The others took a break to go have slunch but I never did. I wanted to stay outside and be sure there was nothing we had missed. No clue I had missed, the others had cback and joined me again, and not the sun was going down. The rest wanted to go for dinner, we were all invited to the pack meal. They must be tired and hungry but it feels like I would be failing if I give up on searching. Still, I cannot bring myself to sit down, be comfortable, and have a good meal. When I don’t know if my mate even gets to eat. “Griff, con let’s have dinner, so we can go over what Jessa found 25.03% 111 O 18:18 104 Griffin 1 288 Vouchers

on Ayla’s phone” Dan suggests. I would have loved to s kip dinner but he makes a lot of sense. Mom and Dad stayed behind they needed to rule the pack. The country and make sure it’s not too obvious we do not believe David. Mom won’t be watchingcat like a hawk. But the others will surely notice when I am actively not eating during meals. They will scoldjust as much as Mom did, maybe even worse and I am just too tired to deal with it. Reluctantly I follow Dan to the pack kitchen where I eat the smallest portion I can find. Which is hard to do during a werewolf dinner. Comfort food is a thing, the tables are loaded with hearty portions of pasta. Fries, burgers, pizza and casseroles. Sticking to just a burger I sit down next to Jessa. Wanting to talk to her about what she found on the phone. Instead, she just eyes up my plate, pushes her chair back, and walks away from the table. She comes back with a plate with another burger, fries, salad, and ketchup. “She would never want this for you, and you know that. When we found out our mates were best friends we told each other how easy it would be to take care of each other’s mates if it would ever cto that. So here I am, taking care of you, making sure you eat like an adult werewolf should” Jessa tells me, putting the plate of food in front of me. I want to start to object but she doesn’t let me. Warningshe would tell Ayla that I didn’t take care of myself. I smiled realizing how mad she would be and I could see her scowl when she heard about it. Weirdly enough that is somewhat reassuring. The knowledge that we are all so sure she is going to cback to me, to us. Even if she doesn’t, Jessa is suffering just as much as I am. No doubt it helps her feel better to keep a promise she made with her best friend. So I nod and force down the two burgers, the fries, and the side salad. All while listening to Jessa tellingshe actually hasn’t found all that 50.56% 18:18 O <

104 Griffin 298 Vouchers much, She stayed at the pack ground. The only exception was going to a photo service place and a Starbucks. The sStarbucks she went to, to ask Krys to be her mate so that wasn’t much of a clue either. It had gotten dark out after dinner, so we spent another three hours discussing plans for how to deal with David if he was to attack. What to do with the knowledge that at least one hunter was involved? I had been on the phone to update my parents, Alpha Cedric had been on the phone with neighboring packs to let them know of the war threat and find out what packs would be willing and able to help out. At the stime, Jay and Tessie had been desperately trying to contact their former pack members. Things were starting and several Alpha’s promised either their help when this would cto a war. Others had suggested searching their grounds for any clues, and all of them told us we were free to cover if we needed anything for the case. But it was nothing concrete yet. With that, the others were tired and wanted to go to sleep. I was tired too, I was drained but I felt scared to go to bed knowing it would be another night not knowing where my Ayla was. Emmy suggested I should sleep at their place so I could sleep in Ayla’s bed. Being in her room surrounded by her scent would soothesomewhat. But I was so unsure about how I would react to seeing all her things packed up to take towhen we weren’t sure she would make it back to me. 78.75%