The Prince’s Unwilling mate by Mutya

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“That’s Jason, Hannah’s brother and he was said to become David’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
some reason, 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 given me complete freedom on the backgrounds. He wants his niece home just 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 show me the place last seen on the camera and walk me to Ayla’s home?” I ask so I can go out and
hopefully find some clues.
Dan is quick to jump up and agree, I have only gotten to know him a little bit. He is a lot like me so 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
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up finding,
“Oh and Griffin, we did some searching too, and we found her phone. The battery just died, so I charged it” Alpha Cedric tells me
before 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 some lunch 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 come back 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, come on let’s have dinner, so we can go over what Jessa found
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
watching me cat like a hawk. But the others will surely notice when I am actively not eating during meals. They will scold me just
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 come to 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. Warning me she 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 come back 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 telling me she
actually hasn’t found all that
much, She stayed at the pack ground. The only exception was going to a photo service place and a Starbucks. The same
Starbucks 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 same time, 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 come to a war. Others had suggested
searching their grounds for any clues, and all of them told us we were free to come over 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 soothe me somewhat. But I was so
unsure about how I would react to seeing all her things packed up to take to me when we weren’t sure she would make it back to
me.