Gazing at the evidence strewn all over his desk, Navian sat in his office. It was becoming apparent that Anna's absence was not merely a case of unplanned abduction.Beneath it all was something far darker, and the more he dug, the more uneasy he grew. The authorities had already received the video of Anna's burning car from him, but they were moving incredibly slowly.Restlessly tapping his fingers on the desk, Navian decided he couldn’t wait around any longer. He had to dig deeper himself.His mind raced back to the people Anna trusted. There was one person who knew her better than most: Mikel. He had saved Owen from that near-fatal car accident a month ago, and Navian remembered how close he and Anna were.Mikel would know if there were any places Anna might have gone if she had ever felt unsafe—or if he had any suspicions about who could be behind all of this.Without wasting another second, Navian picked up his phone and dialed Mikel’s number. After a few rings, Mikel answered, h
Navian walked through Anna’s quiet house, his mind racing with thoughts of her disappearance. But the fact was that it had been days since he had heard anything from her and he got worried more and more waiting for the night. He had gone around asking his friends, visited the places that she preferred to frequent, and gone around the town asking people whether they had seen either Anna or Owen. Growing more frustrated, he went back to Anna’s house, believing he may be lucky enough to discover an item that would lead him to Anna. This strange sensation came over him as he crossed from her living room and then into her bedroom.There was something out of place. His keen vision looked around and then he found something that made his hair stand on end; there seemed to be a subtle scratch across the floor to the side of her wardrobe.His heartbeat raced as he bent down to take a closer look at it. He then carefully opened a compartment that he did not know existed before. Within this wa
His mind raced with everything he had just uncovered about Anna’s family. He could never have thought that they were related, especially not in such a manner. Owen filled his mind, and he could not help doing so at every given second. That boy was close to him from the beginning and he only realized now why that was so. There was something that went beyond friendship, beyond anything that he could have ever expected. Navian’s lips twisted into a grimace, “I have to tell Rita. ” He took out his phone and called her number, he prayed she answer the call.Rita was Anna’s best friend, and she had the right to know it. Moreover, he wanted and had to share this burden with someone. He had to come out with it… He could not keep it within him any longer. The phone buzzed for two rings before Rita answered the lines."Navian? Have you heard anything?" she asked, her voice filled with worry. She had been just as anxious as he was since Anna and Owen had disappeared."Rita, I need to talk to
Elena walked back and forth in her room while clutching the phone too tightly in one of her hands. It is unbelievable that Anna she believed posed a danger to her relationship with Navian, happens to be related to him.And now, unknown to her earlier assumptions, Elena finds herself stuck in a much darker plot than she ever anticipated. She only thought Hannah would kidnap them and keep them in Moonlight pack so they never have to come back to Seahowl pack to ruin her relationship, but it seems deeper and it's her fault.Anna and Owen had been kidnapped, and Elena had helped.She had to fix this. She had to stop it before it was too late. Taking a deep breath, she picked up her phone and dialed Hannah’s number, her hands trembling. The phone rang twice before Hannah picked up.“Elena,” Hannah’s voice purred on the other end, “what do you want?”“I want you to stop this,” Elena blurted out, her voice shaking.“You have to let Anna and Owen go. I found out the truth—Anna’s not a threat
The days that followed were grim as hell, to say the least for Elena. Every morning when she woke up the feeling of emptiness in her upper abdomen was growing like a boulder on the chest. She had not had any good night’s sleep since the phone call with Hannah and it was getting very visible. Her eyes were bags, her face was pale, and have noticeably become thin within the past few days that she could easily fit in with the clothes she was wearing. And even though Elena was fully aware of the fact that there was no concrete reason to be afraid, she could not free herself from this feeling. Each time she shut her eyes, she was made to witness Anna’s car wrapped up in the blazes of flames in the bushes, the fire devouring the facts of the crime she had assisted in concealing. There was no way that the video Hannah had sent her was not permanently engraved in her mind as constant evidence of how deep she was in the case. Navian, of course, had no idea of it all. Or at least he had onc
With his fingers tapping nervously on the wooden surface of his desk, Navian sat down to work. The ideas of what might have happened to Owen and Anna raced through his mind.He was getting nowhere with every lead he pursued. He was growing more and more frustrated, and the stillness was getting intolerable.He was ready to go lost in his thoughts once more when he was startled by his phone buzzing on the desk. Grasping it, he noticed Mikel's name flickering on the screen. Without hesitation, he answered.“Mikel?” Navian’s voice was strained, a mixture of hope and desperation. “Do you have anything?”There was a brief pause on the other end before Mikel spoke, his voice low and serious.“Navian, I think I finally have something. I’ve been going over everything we talked about, and the more I think about it, the more I suspect Hannah.”Navian’s heart skipped a beat. “Hannah? Anna’s best friend?” He tried to wrap his head around it. Hannah was married to Landen, Anna’s ex-husband. Could
Landen's POVI had just finished a long day managing the affairs of Moonlight Pack. The duties of an Alpha never seemed to end, and today had been especially exhausting.I was looking forward to a few hours of quiet, maybe even some time with Jasper, our son. But as I walked toward the house, something felt off.I was unable to identify it. Just a persistent sensation that is eating away at the back of my mind.Hannah's voice was coming from the living room as soon as I walked into the house. Though she was talking quickly and in a low volume while on the phone, her words weren't very quiet.At first, I almost dismissed it, thinking it was some sort of business arrangement. Hannah has always been involved in the financial and economic decisions of the pack. But then she spoke in a different tone. It stopped me. it felt so piercing, so urgent.“There’s no time. Why are you keeping them? ” Her voice rose more as she replied,"I don't want any leaky holes. This will become more problema
3RD PARTY POVMikel leaned back in his chair, feeling the weight of the words on the other end of the phone."We found something more interesting, sir," Mikel’s man said, his tone serious.Mikel had asked them to dig deep into Hannah’s past while Navian was swamped with surgeries for over a week, unable to continue with the investigation. Now, Mikel was taking the lead."Spit it out," Mikel ordered, relaxing into the back of his office chair."There’s a record that links the woman you asked us to look into and the Beta of Moonlight Pack, the Alpha’s closest friend.""Gerald?" Mikel echoed, shocked. "What did you find out? What’s the connection?""They were secretly in a romantic relationship before she became the Alpha’s wife," the man said carefully.Mikel’s jaw dropped. Gerald and Hannah? The same Gerald who despised Hannah for being obsessed with Landen? Back in school, they never got along, and Gerald hated how Hannah would follow Landen everywhere, practically worshipping him. No