Part two- Chapter 17

“They’ve done it before and

they’ll do it again and when

they do it – seems that only

the children weep.”

-Harper Lee

DUNCAN P.O.V

I held the cell phone in a tight grip trying to process what Aunt Isadora had just said.

“Duncan? Are you there?” I heard Aunt asking me.

“Yes” I said after a few seconds. Vernon was looking at me with worry. “Are you sure?” I asked her.

“I am” she said. “After you left, I started thinking and then a thought hit me that there might be a possibility of the she-wolf being a student of the school and so I asked the trainer to take the students of every class for a run in their wolf form. When it was Darya’s class she refused to shift and ran away from the school” Aunt said.

“But-” I started however Aunt cut me off.

“I was watching everything from control room and I saw Darya’s eyes turn blood red. The trainer saw it too” Aunt said in a hurry.

“Where is she now?”

“I don’t know Duncan. I have already asked my agents to search for her” Aunt told me while I rubbed my fingers on my temples. “We have to find her, honey” she told me “Before O and his minions do. We have to find her” Aunt added in a rush.

I sighed because Aunt clearly didn’t know that her son was involved with O.

“You have any idea where she is?”

“My agents followed her scent which is heading towards the Grier Pack” she said. “But we do know it is quite far and we have to find her”

“I know Aunt; I will look for her now”

“Okay Duncan. Just bring her back because we have to talk to her.” she added in a pleading tone.

“I will Aunt”

“Thank you honey. Just keep informing me if you find anything” she told me and i agreed.

I sighed and handed the phone back to Vernon who was still staring at me confused. “You stay here with Nick” I told him and he looked at me in surprise.

“Guard Luna?” he asked in shock because I had banned him from guarding her, however I was ready to drop that ban now.

“Yes” I told him and he nodded happily.

“I will” he said.

“Give me your car keys” I asked and he fished it out of his pocket. Without a second thought, I took it and rushed towards his car.

When I was driving, I thought about all this. Darya, Cortez and Granel. They three were the members and one of these was O.

Should have guessed earlier about the involvement of Darya too because she was below fifteen years of age and more likely possible to be the she-wolf involved. But I was too worried about other things to think about this properly.

According to what Aunt said about the soothsayer’s prediction then Darya must be an Alpha blood but Sel told me she was her third-in-commanders daughter.

That brought another thought into my mind. It was about Sel. All these people are close to Sel. Could it be possible that Sel knows about all this?

Sel must have known when Darya had exactly shifted because they belonged to the same pack. Was Seline involved in all of this? I frowned at that thought because it was something I didn’t appreciate.

Not possible for Sel to be involved in this because she was stabbed that day by Granel and he had told that he had hurt her. Granel did look guilty of hurting her and it was real. He wasn’t pretending to be guilty. She must have not known about O.

However, still there was another part of me that suspected Sel. It wasn’t the mate part in me; it was a son who was suspecting his father’s murderers.

I had suspected Tyson earlier who was nowhere close to being a suspect now and so it wasn’t possible for Sel to be one either. Whenever I would convince myself that Sel wasn’t involved, the monster side in me would rise and give me reasons as to why I should suspect Sel.

A) She was friends with everyone else who were suspects. B) She and Darya were not only roommates but pack mates too and that meant Sel definitely knew when Darya had shifted. C) Her brother was the same as Darya and D) Sel always used to make sure that Darya isn’t left alone.

I had seen how she would never leave Darya alone. Whenever Sel wasn’t with Darya she would be with Cortez, Raven, Granel or Tyson. They were all very protective about Darya.

I hoped and prayed with everything in me that Sel would not be involved in this, because I don’t know how I will cope if it turns the opposite.

If what Granel did was back stabbing then what Seline did would be like ultimate betrayal and breaking of trust.

I was driving towards the Grier pack but stopped in a street when I saw few members of Granel’s pack who were checking every car that was going. They were asking some people to stop their cars and would personally check the members.

I rolled my eyes at this. If this is the way they are looking for Darya then they will never be able to find her. Pushing my head out of the car window, I stared at those wolves. With my hand I motioned one of them to come closer to me and he immediately rushed towards my side.

“Looking for Darya?” I asked him and he nodded. “Are you the only or are there still some wolves?”

“There are others in other roads” he said. “Her scent leads us ahead” he said pointing to his front.

“Then what are you guys doing here?” I asked him frowning.

“We have been told to check for anyone looking suspicious by Alpha” he said lowering his head.

“By Granel?” I asked through gritted teeth.

“No, by former Alpha. She said anyone suspicious may also be after Darya” he said.

“Okay” I told him and got out of the car. I immediately ran towards the woods and closed my eyes trying to sniff Darya’s scent. Surely, like the guy had said her scent was ahead and so I followed it.

I ran exactly in her tracks which were in the middle of the woods. But there was something irritating in her tracks and that was the creepers everywhere.

In the ground, around the tree some of them were even connected from one tree to another. It was like arranged so as to block someone’s path. Creepy creepers.

As if that wasn’t enough, the trees were bent and some trees were almost blocking the track. Honestly, it was really difficult running in Darya’s tracks because these plants and trees were playing tough.

I growled ferociously when another fucking branch was right in front of my nose. I had just missed getting hit by it. Leaping through it, I ran ahead.

As I was running, I looked around my surroundings and realized that I was out of Supreme Pack territory and now in the Elegance Pack.

The first thought that came into my mind was that Darya ran over here? Is she involved with rogues too now?

I came to a stop and held a tree trunk to compose myself. Closing my eyes and whiffing, I found Darya’s scent here. It was further ahead.

This was the rogue’s territory and I wasn’t much interested in stepping in their land after what Sel had told me about them. But I did feel something was terribly wrong because if these wolves had killed Orion, then they would also kill Darya who was gifted just like Orion.

Closing my eyes once again, I blocked all the noise around me and tried hearing for other voice hoping to get some clue about Darya.

“Stop fighting you bitch and come with me” I heard a guy saying through gritted teeth. Since this was the rogue’s territory, the guy without any doubt was a rogue.

“I said let me go” I heard Darya snarling.

That was enough for me to run towards Darya.

I stopped running when Darya’s scent was much closer to me, but growled loudly when I sniffed other rogues scents around me. The land I was in wasn’t very far from the Supreme Pack border, but it was still the rogue’s land.

Darya’s scent was much, much stronger now and so I started walking ahead. The area had large rocks here and there. There was a clearing, with two trees on either side and many rogues were standing there witnessing something. There were also two to three stone pillars and Darya was chained to one of those.

When I walked closer and came to a clearing every one present there turned to look at me. All rogues except two, who were standing behind Leo in the morning smirked at me.

I growled at them after looking at Darya whose cheeks were deep red and had finger prints in it. Someone had slapped her real hard because her lip was cut at the corner were blood oozed out stopping right at her chin.

Darya’s grey eyes widened in surprise when she saw me. She opened and closed her mouth repeatedly. At the same time, one rogue who was standing behind Leo in the morning stepped ahead and walked towards the guy who was standing right in front of Darya. They seemed to be communicating with their mind link which was rewarded to them after forming a ‘Rogue Pack’.

I stared at Darya and clenched my fists. I growled ferociously when I saw that Darya’s chains were connected to electric wires. Seriously, such a torture for a young she-wolf?