Chapter 7

That was unfortunately not the case because when I woke up the next morning it was still the exact same as the day before and nothing turned out to be a nightmare. Mary was really gone and no amount of searching and looking led us anywhere and we were no closer to finding than we were the day she went missing. We hired private detectives, and we made announcements and pleas and posters and pictures asking for her safe return but none of that helped.

It was as if she had disappeared from the face of the earth never to be seen again.

Zach has started going more and more into his shell and never really smiles or laughs anymore. We haven’t had a joyous moment since she was taken five years ago. I can’t really blame him because I haven’t been any better myself also. I miss that little bundle of joy.

Its like the moon Goddess closed off the happiness tap and opened the depression and sadness tap fully.

Today she would have been six years old and we would have had a huge celebration and everyone would have been here and happy with us.

In the end I decides to have a little statue made and put up in the garden where I could go and visit her whenever I wanted to and talk to her whenever I felt the need to do so. Zach hasn’t been to it. He saw it as if I was giving up on little Mary by having something put up for her.

I would never give up the search for her.

Not as long as I live.

He doesn’t know it but I have Liam and his team of helpers helping out with the search.

He came highly recommended by Ava and Caleb the queen and king of the vampires and although we aren’t best friends I trust them to help us. Its not like we hate each other there is just creative differences and we have learned to work around them to make both our species prosper.

Although he hasn’t found a clue yet he has some friends all over keeping an eye out for her.

We believe that she and a man from the rebellion are together because we have seen him taking her on the security tapes of that dreadful evening. What’s worse is that he was someone we called a friend in our pack.

We took him in when his mother and father were murdered and the killers left him out in the forest. 

We treated him like our son and then he turns around and does something like this. Zach has been psycho analysing everything in his life and looking to see if we maybe missed something that would have pointed towards this happening but as far as I know he hasn’t found anything yet.

Sighing I look up at the clock on the wall and see that it is almost time to go and get Zach and force ourselves to go down and eat lunch with the rest of the pack. Their sympathetic looks were tolerable the first few months but after that it just became a little too much to handle. They all feel guilty in some sort of way for what had happened and they don’t believe that we don’t blame them. I can’t tell you how many times the guard that was on duty that night under her window has apologised to us and how many times they warriors that were on patrol have apologised for letting them come that close without seeing them.

I usually tell them it would have happened either way because that is what the Moon Goddess had planned for us and we should be strong and get through it. Everything will work out in the end we must just believe and try and move on with our lives as it is at present. 

There is not really anything else that can be done now is there. 

I was just about to knock on Zach's door when I felt my cell phone vibrate in my pocket. Who would call when they could just mind link me and get it over with?

It was Liam. 

"Hello."

"Good afternoon your majesty. I do not want to get you too excited to early but I do believe that I have a link in regards to the whereabouts of your daughter and Mr Ryder. They have been spotted by a pack forming part of the old ones. I will be following scents as soon as possible as they have packed and fled. Sources tell me that your daughter is alive and well. She is your splitting image your majesty. "

"T... Thank you. Please go and let me know what you find." 

I sank to the floor there right outside Zach's office door and just sat there crying. I couldn't tell you if they were tears of joy or if they were tears of sadness or even relief but I just knew I sat there crying until he opened the door and sat down right next to me asking me what the matter was. 

I told him that I had hired Liam and that he found her but they were running again and he would need to follow them to find our daughter. I told him that he said that his sources told him that she was my splitting image. This had both of us crying and praying to the moon goddess that she would return her to us safe and sounds and that Liam would succeed in finding her this time. 

We cleaned and washed our faces and then slowly walked down to the dining room to go and have lunch. Both excited and scared for the outcome that was to follow after having received the semi good news. I don't think I would be able to survive if they loose them again and they have to start the search from scratch again.