Erick
For days, I had been here, in this small, quiet pack village that felt far too serene for the storm raging inside me.
I had scoured every street, spoken to every elder, and even questioned the smallest pups who might have seen a trace of her.
But nothing.
No one knew Sophia.
No one had seen her. It was as if she had been swallowed whole by the earth.
I paced the length of the narrow street, my boots crunching against the gravel, my wolf restless under my skin.
I could feel his agitation mirroring mine.
His need to find her, to see her, to be sure she was alive and safe. Every minute that passed without a clue gnawed at me, a new wound layered atop the old ones that already refused to heal.
I had sent my best trackers out, ordered them to find the woman from the video, t
