chapter 16: The awakened instincts

Brian’s POV

Empty.

The bed was untouched. The room was still. Scattered on the floor was untouched food, and the lingering scent of her hung in the air, faint but fresh. My eyes scanned every corner, my senses on high alert.

She wasn’t here.

A low growl rumbled in my chest, my wolf stirring with rage. Cara had been here, but she hadn’t been gone for long.

How could she have escaped? My orders had been clear. She wasn’t supposed to leave. She wasn’t supposed to run.

But she had.

I clenched my fists, anger surging through me. Gareth had lied. He’d said she was safe, that she was suffering in the cottage, but now she was gone.

Where the hell is that damn Omega?

I stormed out of the cottage, my mind racing with a thousand possibilities. Has someone helped her? Or had she foolishly gone off on her own, thinking she could hide from me?

Foolish girl.

The emergency bell rang again, but I barely heard it over the sound of my own fury. The entire pack would feel my wrath if I didn’t