Seventy-Eight: In Between Life And Death.

DENVER.

It had been half an hour since Eliana left the arena. She said she'd needed to clean up which was understandable after her bloody victory over Jaxon. But now, the party was imminent where she was supposed to deliver her first speech as Alpha of the Pack too but she was nowhere to be found.

I pushed through the doors of the Pack house and the hollow echo of the emptiness was what first hit me in the face.

I looked around before straddling the stairs and it was almost as if no one had come here. That was the first time I felt the sting in my gut feeling.

That something was wrong.

But then again, it couldn't be. I shook it off. I told myself that it was better to relish in the good moments like tonight's victory. Not everything had to go horribly, right? There was no other shoe...

At some point, there was supposed to be a happy ending, right?

I threw one look over my shoulders as I made my way first to the Alpha Chambers but Eliana wasn't there. So I went ahead to her room whi