Cunning Bitch.

Killian's POV

It's been one month since my mate, Elora, went missing from the pack. They kept searching and brought back the news that she hadn't been found, that she was gone, which was more heartbreaking than anything in the world.

I had been drinking almost every night just to clear my head. I had been in my room all this while too, and I shifted meetings with the elders of the pack.

They understood and obeyed. It was best they didn't argue or make me regret asking them nicely.

With a cup of hot tea in my grip, I stood closer to the window, my eyes staring out of it, precisely fixed on the gates as I awaited Beta Dayton and the search team to return for the day.

With a slight blow on my hot tea, I pushed it towards my lips. I drank slowly from it, knowing that it was hot.

I kept staring at the gates when finally, they pushed open, and right there, I saw Beta Dayton.

The next person I was expecting to see was my mate. But she was nowhere to be found; she wasn't in the same car as th