True Luna: The Darkness Within (The White Wolf Series Book 5)

Alexander’s POV

I’d never spent a day without my sister.

The longest we’ve been apart was 13 hours.

I was nervous then. She was running late and I was scared that something had happened to her. I was at Alpha training, but we still saw each other every day. We were lucky because the Alpha training was being held in a neighboring pack. We would meet at the border every day even if it was just for a few minutes. We had to see each other and we had to spend some time together.

It had been 207 hours, 34 minutes, and 17 seconds since I last saw her and I was losing it. The worst part of it all was not knowing if she was okay. I knew that she was alive. I could feel it. I would know if she wasn’t. But was she okay? Did she have another episode? Was she hurt? Was she hungry or thirsty?

I didn’t know shit and it was killing me slowly.

I had no fucking clues and I had no fucking idea who took her. What was their goal? Why did they take her? What would they do to her?

‘I will kill them all,’ Axel growled. ‘They will suffer. I won’t let this go.’

‘I know,’ I mumbled. ‘We will find her and we will punish whoever took her. I promise.’

Axel kept forcing his connection with Stella. He usually spent the whole morning trying to push through to her. He would exhaust himself by noon and he would retreat to rest. I let him do his thing. I was actually hoping that he would manage to connect with her.

‘I will do it,’ Axel said. ‘I will push through.’

‘I know you will,’ I mumbled as I took a deep breath.

I heard footsteps approaching my office. I knew immediately who it was.

Hunter knocked on the door.

“What?!” I shouted as he opened the door.

I had a hard time controlling my temper. I sounded angry even when I didn’t want to. I was snapping at everything and everyone.

I didn’t turn around. I was staring through the window at the spot where we knew Sophia entered the forest. I was hoping that she would emerge from the forest at that exact spot. I was hoping to see her coming back home.

With each second that passed, that hope was turning into a need. I needed to see her. I needed to get her home.

“Do you know anything?” Hunter asked, his voice quiet and raspy.

He was broken and he didn’t even look like himself since she went missing.

“I’m still waiting,” I mumbled. “The warriors aren’t back yet.”

We’d sent the warriors to each and every pack. Our first thought was that one of our enemies took her. But who would be crazy enough to go against my mom and my dad?

“Fuck,” Hunter mumbled and I heard him sit down on the chair.

I tightened my jaw and forced myself to turn around. Hunter was sitting on the chair in front of my desk. He was leaning forward, with his elbows placed on his knees. His hands were covering his face and he was grunting quietly.

I couldn’t even imagine what he was going through. I didn’t have a mate yet, but I could see how scared and hurt he was.

“We will find her, Hunter,” I said as I sat down in my chair.

Hunter moved his hands from his face and leaned back in his chair. He looked terrible.

“I had a thought,” he mumbled quietly.

He kept his eyes on his lap. He was fidgeting with his fingers and I could tell that he was nervous.

“Tell me,” I said sternly.

If he had an idea about her whereabouts I wanted to know immediately.

Hunter looked up at me and took a deep breath. I saw him gulp.

“What if she wasn’t taken?” Hunter mumbled as he looked back down at his lap. “What if she left because she was afraid of hurting us?”

A growl that escaped me was unavoidable. He looked up at me and I saw guilt in his eyes.

Was he fucking insane?!

“She would never do that!” I exclaimed as I clenched my fists. “She would never do that to our parents. She would never do that to me.”

Hunter sighed and ran his fingers through his hair.

His stupid idea was only making it harder for me to control my anger. I was successfully controlling myself and I hadn’t punched anyone yet, but Hunter was on the shortlist for the first punch.

I knew that he didn’t know her that well yet, but he should have known that Fia would never do that. She would never hurt her family like that. She knew that the only way to beat the darkness was with the help of her family.

“I am sorry, Alex,” Hunter mumbled. “I thought of it because she isn’t in any of the packs we searched through.”

My jaw ticked.

“It was a stupid idea,” I mumbled angrily. “Don’t ever repeat it.”

Hunter looked up at me and nodded.

“I am sorry,” he repeated.

I tried to take a deep breath. I couldn’t do so lately. There was a huge rock filled with fear, anger, and pain stuck in my throat. I couldn’t breathe normally. I couldn’t eat normally. I couldn’t even sleep normally.

I looked at my office door. I knew that my parents and Anna were approaching.

The door opened and they walked inside my office.

My parents looked terrible. My father was ready to kill someone and my mom looked broken.

“The warriors are back,” my dad mumbled. “They didn’t find anything.”

I already knew they wouldn’t. I had a hunch that she wasn’t taken by a pack. There wasn’t an Alpha alive who was insane enough to mess with my parents. My mom could fry their asses in a second and my dad could rip them apart in another.

Not to mention me. I was angry enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if I developed my own powers. I could feel my mom’s magic in my body. I was just a step away from unleashing it on the world.

Well, at least that’s what it felt like.

My mom walked to the window and sighed. She was so worried and it hurt my heart to see her like that.

“Where are your parents, Hunter?” Anna asked.

“In my room,” Hunter mumbled.

“Get them here,” Anna said. “I have an idea.”

My eyes snapped to her and my heart skipped a beat.

Did she know where Fia was?