Alpha's Blind Luna novel Chapter 18

I was in the passenger seat and Bryan was driving. The windows were rolled down and my arm was hanging out. We had taken the Jeep just in case I managed to pick up her scent. At this point though, we were four hours into the drive and I hadn’t even picked up a whiff of her. The patrol also was checking in but said she had left the territory a couple hours ago.

“I can’t believe she’s that fucking fast.” Bryan mused as he wove through traffic. “She’s the damn wind.”

“It just means we might catch up with her in the city.” I looked out the window. “If she makes it that far.”

There was a silence for a while. Most of the ride had been. Bryan was still fairly mad at me and even literally kicked me into the passenger seat. He had the radio on for a bit but after hour two, they started to play the same songs and he turned it down. I just focused my eyes out the window.

“I got to hear her sing.”

My eyes snapped to him, he was looking ahead, both hands on the steering wheel.

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard something so angelic. She’s not even my mate and I fucking nearly went weak in the knees.”

I growled. “She sang for you?”

Bryan glared at me for a second before looking back at the road. “Not for me. But she sang while she made the most glorious dinner last night. I think I just happened to be sitting there. Calm your tits, Alpha.”

I felt Cato slink back, still upset. “So my Beta not only had my mates home made cooking before me, but also heard her sing. How am I supposed to react to that?”

He chuckled. “Wallow in self loathing for being an ass to her. Hell, she would probably talk to me before she would you.”

My hand went up to his neck before I realized. I had been on edge already and Bryan was poking the bear. He didn’t say anything. His hands still were on the steering wheel and he was still looking at the road ahead. Slowly, I unpeeled my hand from around his neck and sat back in my seat. Bryan didn’t say anything for another hour and neither did I.

“I can take the highway and head into the city, or we can run into Alpha Leo’s territory.”

“And tell him that that I lost my mate after I gave him a stern talking to yesterday about her parents treatment of her? No thanks. If her end goal is The Blood Oath, then we head there first.”

Bryan got over and took the highway. I continued to look out the window. Auri had to be out there somewhere. I tried to reach into the connection of the mate bond but there was nothing. She blocked it off since yesterday and I sighed.

She didn’t even have a cell phone. I had gotten one for her back at the house and it was sitting in my office drawer but we hadn’t even gotten to that point. I pulled up my phone, the sexy lady photo replaced by a candid I had taken of her looking out the window at the forest. It wasn’t the best photo but the look on her face, the serenity on her face with the slight smile. I missed her. Missed her voice, even angry. Missed her smell and her touch. The memory of her hands on my chest, spending her fingers made me involuntarily shiver and felt a wave of goosebumps come over me.

“You okay?” Bryan looked over at me, confused, as he got on an off ramp.

“I’m fine. We just need to focus on finding Auri.”

He cleared his throat, covering the chuckle that he let out. Bryan whipped through the streets and he turned on the navigation for the first time for the drive. We were only about ten minutes away but he made a face.

“It’s only 4:30pm. The club won’t be open and I don’t know if anyone will be there.”

“We can check if I smell Auri though.”

He nodded, making a left and a quick right. We pulled up to a brick building. The neon sign ‘The Blood Oath’ with a wine glass pouring a drop onto a scroll was dark and unlit. The doors were closed and there was no one out front. I got out and looked around. I walked to the front door and then looped around back to the alley.

'I don’t smell her.' Cato chimed in.

I nodded and came back to the Jeep. Bryan was still sitting in it, looking at his phone.

“I don’t smell her.”

He nodded. “According to the app, they open at 9pm. So we still have a few hours.”

“We don’t even know if she made it to the city already. She could still be in the surrounding area.” I jumped in and sat down.

“What do you want to do Alpha?”