I'm gonna get you back

Asher looks up at us, “No one knows. He threatened to kill mom and Aria if I ever said anything. I took it so they would never hurt. I swear I didn’t know.”

“What happened Asher. Tell us.” I say. I already know. I’ve always suspected but I know he’s about to tell the truth for the first time ever.

“He’s been beating me since I was six. It only stopped two years ago because I beat the fuck out of him. I didn’t know he was hurting her. I swear to God, I thought it was only me he was hurting. Is she alive please Jasper I’m begging you let me go to her! I... she ...I need her please. She’s, my sister. I need her to know I’m here for her. That I will never let anyone ever hurt her ever again.”

I wipe my eyes and look up at the ceiling. Pushing my hands through my hair. I cough and look at him. “She’s alive but man he broke her. She was at the bottom of the front staircase. The doctors said her jaw was broken, fucking broken by hand. There were fingerprints across her throat. She has casts on her leg and arms. They removed her spleen, and so many fucking ribs man. One punctured a lung. Got lucky they didn’t have to vent her. Blood was pooled around her from the bone in her leg pushing through the skin of her leg. He broke her. This wasn’t just a beating. He tried to kill her. No one was in the home but her.”

He cried then growled, his wolf trying to come to the surface as he fought for control, as I mentioned that it looked like their father tried to kill her.

“He has cameras everywhere in that house.” He whispers. “We will find proof.”

Linc nods and helps Asher to his feet, “Let’s get to Aria.” he says softly, his hands rubbing his shaved head.

“Let’s take my car, Asher isn’t fit to drive right now.” They both nod and we lock my apartment and jump in my car. I start my car and Numb by Likin Park blares from the speakers. A sense of foreboding flashes through me. The same feeling, I had before found Aria on the floor. I back out of my parking spot quickly and speed all the way to the hospital. I barely threw the car in park before running into the building to the floor Aria was on.

But she was gone. The nurse told us that she had left minutes ago. We sped back toward the entrance, but she was gone. Nowhere to be found. Asher slammed his fist into the pillar next to him and Linc started calling all his father's contacts trying to find her. But nothing. She was nowhere to be found. My fated mate disappeared in the blink of an eye. I should have never left her alone. I shouldn’t have walked away this morning. You’d think the fucking doctors would have encouraged her to stay longer. But they didn’t. They let her roll out. Refusing to tell us who picked her up, nothing.

We spent the next year searching and trying to put her father away for the attempted murder of Aria Elaine Baker. He kept telling us it wasn’t attempted. That he had killed that bitch, his words breaking me more and more every day. My wolf and I in denial, we would feel it surely if our mate was gone. I never touched another woman. I couldn’t. It felt wrong. It took a year but with video evidence Asher and Aria’s father got life in prison for the murder of Aria Baker. The jury threw the book at him. They believed she was dead. But I didn't.

I would feel it in my soul if my other half was gone. We pulled our resources together and became rich in our own rights after designing something to help victims of domestic abuse. But it didn’t feel like enough. We became club owners and started expanding to other states around the country. Expanding the pack further and further out until we encompassed over half of the states.

We spent years searching for her. I could still feel her in my soul. I couldn’t let her go. My wolf going ballistic at the thought.

Five years has flown by. I tilt my head back and sip my whiskey. It goes down smoother than it probably should, but it helped numb the nonstop pain that stuck in my heart every fucking day since I walked out of that hospital without her. The day she disappeared.

I grin at the bartender, “Asher will be in here in a few weeks to get you some help trained up.”

“Dude, we need it. I can’t believe how popular this place is. Y'all changed our entire plan, and everyone loves it. Music row is lucky you chose us to start up this place.” He grins as he throws a bottle over his shoulder and catches it before pouring a drink and handing it to the woman two seats away. She slides her money across to him and smiles at me. I pretend to not notice and look over at the door.

The feeling in my stomach went from the nonstop ache I have lived with to relief, My wolfs voice echoing in my mind, "Mate, Mate" and I have no clue why.

I look around casually. I tilt my head and focus on what I see walking slowly through my club. No fucking way.

I look closer. There's no way. I’ve not seen her in five years, but I could never forget her. The hair is longer, but I remember how she used to wear it when we were younger. Those long black curls flowing down her back to her ass. I groan as my body wakes up for the first time in years. It’s her. My wolf is yelling at me to grab her, mark her, mate her, claim her. That way she could never disappear again.

I look around and see someone else I would have never thought I’d see again. Lorelei Adams. It's her. Fuck yes. I make my way across the room. I have found her; it has to be by the Goddess hand. I need to get to her. I focus on her, once she’s back in my arms I’m never letting her go again. Aria Baker is mine.