Chapter 2

AEGON'S P.O.V.

“Ingrid!” I yelled for the third time but no one answered, “... Come on, Ingrid, can you quit being so childish! Father had been looking for you!” But I got nothing in response. 

This girl has completely lost her mind. It's been four days, and she has been missing every meal we have eaten in four days. Father allowed her to stay out of the Alpha's chambers, but mother insisted on her having every meal with us. 

I used my legs to break the door down, but I was greeted with silence and dust. Ingrid hasn't been seen by anyone in the pack, the only place you could find her is in the house, but she wasn't there. 

“Ingrid!” I yelled as I barged into the room to see everywhere empty, her belongings and everything was gone.

She couldn't have… I noticed a paper in the bed and picked it up. 

 I'm sorry, but I can't stay here anymore. 

This girl was dumb! I hit the bed out of anger and walked out to see the guards having worried expressions all over their faces. My parents were going to kill me knowing that I was the reason she left but come to think of it, I'm not stupid enough to tell them and her letter was evidence that she left on her own. 

“Alpha, did you find a trace?” Theo asked, and I knew he cared about her whereabouts so much, but Theo meant no harm, they were pretty close. 

“You'll hear the outcome later on but continue the search for her if you don't find her inside, then go outside the pack if you have to.”

“Yes Alpha.” The guards answered and immediately began searching.

I walked to the house and I saw my parents moving around, panicking until they saw me. Were they distressed over a mere girl?

“Did you find her?” My mum asked with her eyes swollen, which meant she had been crying.

“She's gone. She's so ungrateful!” I put the paper in my father's palm, and he looked at it.

“There was a reason she left.”

“That's because she is such an ungrateful little bit…" He slapped me across the face and I growled at him. 

“Don't you dare speak of her that way, she's your best friend, and you are here being so stupid. Have you completely lost it?”

“She left on her terms!” I growled at him and my mother stood between us.

“Ingrid didn't leave on her terms, Aegon. Search the heavens and earth if you have to but find her.” My mum said sternly as she looked at me. 

“Dead or alive, we want her back, Aegon."

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It's been days, but she was nowhere to be found, but my parents weren't letting me see the end of it. It was a battle each day in the house and my father grew angrier while my mum cried all day. 

I had given her orders to follow, yet she stupidly left the pack with no one's consent or permission. Such an ungrateful little bitch! 

“What are you so worried about?” I felt her hand against my shoulders, but her touch did nothing but irritate me. 

“Let go of me.” I snapped, and she immediately pulled her hands off before taking a seat on the bead, making me let out a sigh “... I'm sorry.” I apologized as I kissed her forehead gently in order for her not to cry. 

“It's dinner time.” She smiled comfortably as I took her hand before heading downstairs. 

The entire house was tense as no one was happy with the fact that she went missing, but what could I possibly do to bring her back? Ingrid was not going to survive the woods, no matter how stubborn she was, it was too dangerous for her. 

“Any trail on her yet?” My mother asked as I took a seat on my chair.

“Not yet.” I looked at her chair which was in-between myself and mum, which made me sigh.

If she hadn't taken that stupid decision, she would be here troubling father already.

I suddenly felt the chair being pulled and Dagna was about to sit when my father cleared his throat.

“Look, young lady, you night be my son's side piece…" I growled at him but all he did was glare at me before looking at her, “... But that doesn't give you any right to stay where you do not belong. You aren't this Pack's Luna, so while you play the role of my son's mistress, stay in your lane as well.” 

“Don't speak to her that way.” I growled at him, but he was not fazed, which made me even more angry.

“If you truly are an Alpha, you better start acting like one. Even if Ingrid wasn't a part of this family, she's a pack member. Never growl at the person who gave birth to you!” I growled at him and within the span of a second I saw myself on the floor with my father's arms around my neck. 

“Kane!!” I heard my mum scream as she tried to pull him off me and he let go. 

“We own Ingrid our lives! If it wasn't for her parents, you and your mother wouldn't be here! They died, and she was just a three-year-old kid who knew nothing. If anything happens to Ingrid, you wouldn't like what I'll do to you.” 

“She left on her own! I didn't do anything.”

“You have many things you did in this. For your best friend to be gone and you not being bothered even a bit tells us something. You were the last person who saw her among us here, what was the reason she left Aegon?”

“I have absolutely no idea! Why can't you both see that Ingrid isn't here, she must be living her life out there happily while we are fighting.”

“Aegon is right."

“Stay out of this!” My father and I yelled at Dagna and I could see the fear in her eyes, but she was being stupid right now.

“That doesn't matter, Aegon! We would be dead if not for her parents. We owe them this much to keep our daughter safe.” My mother yelled with tears in her eyes as she looked at me. 

“I'll bring her back, no matter what it takes.”