Mated To The Alpha King (Raven and Ethan) novel Chapter 377

Chapter 377

Alpha Ethan’s POV

The drive home was quiet.

Too quiet.

The kind of silence that pressed against your ears and made your thoughts louder than they had any right to be.

Lucian sat in the backseat beside his sister, both of them unusually subdued.

The city lights flickered past the tinted windows, reflecting against the glass like ghosts trying to keep up with us. I kept my eyes on the road, hands gripping the steering wheel tighter than necessary.

There was no way in hell she would be alive and not want to look for her family.

No way.

Revan wasn’t weak.

She wasn’t careless.

And she wasn’t the type to disappear.

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Yet Lucian’s voice at the mall kept replaying in my head.

Daddy, that’s Mommy.

I had dismissed it immediately. I had to. Because if I entertained that possibility for even a second, the fragile control I had over my emotions would shatter.

And I couldn’t afford to shatter.

Not as Alpha.

Not as a father.

Not when the entire pack depended on me to be steady.

The gates of the packhouse opened as the guards recognized my car. We drove in, the tires crunching softly against the gravel driveway. The mansion stood tall and imposing under the moonlight with cold stone walls, sharp edges, a place of strength.

A place that had felt emptier since she was declared dead.

I parked the car and stepped out first, walking around to open the back door for the kids.

Lucian looked up at me with those eyes–her eyes.

It hit me in the chest like it always did.

“Let’s go inside,” I said, keeping my tone even.

They nodded.

Inside, the warm lights of the house glowed softly. The nanny hurried over to take the shopping bags from the mall, bowing respectfully.

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“Good evening, Alpha”

“Evening.” I replied shortly.

I carried some of the bags myself and walked the kids upstairs to their room. Their laughter from earlier at the small had vanished. The air felt heavier now.

I placed the shopping bags on the dresser and handed the rest to the nanny.

“Make sure they eat before bed,” I instructed.

“Yes, Alpha.”

I crouched down in front of them.

Lucian’s sister wrapped her small arms around my neck first. I kissed her forehead gently.

“I’ll be back soon. Daddy just needs to handle something.”

She nodded obediently.

Lucian didn’t move at first.

He stared at me, jaw tight, as if fighting something inside him.

Then he stepped forward and grabbed my hand before I could stand.

His small fingers tightened around mine.

“Daddy… please.”

My heart skipped.

“Please make sure to look for Mommy,” he said, his voice trembling but determined. “I know she was the one I saw at the mall. I know you won’t believe me…. but just know she’s alive. And she needs help.”

For a second, I couldn’t breathe.

I placed my free hand on his shoulder, squeezing gently.

“I will do my best,” I said carefully. “But I’m not sure she’s alive. And I’m not sure if the person you saw was her. I will investigate.”

His lips pressed together stubbornly.

“I’m not wrong.”

I swallowed.

“I know you believe that.”

He nodded once.

I kissed his forehead too and finally stood.

As I turned to leave, I felt the weight of his gaze on my back.

Hope.

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That dangerous, fragile thing.

I closed the door softly behind me.

I walked down the hallway toward my study, but the questions had already begun to claw at my mind.

She was declared dead.

Her body was never found.

The battlefield was chaos that day fire, blood, and wolves clashing under the full moon.

We searched for days. We combed the forest. We interrogated rogues.

Nothing.

Nobody.

No scent.

No trace.

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The council declared her dead after weeks of investigation.

We held a funeral without a corpse.

And now

Now my son believed he saw her at a mall, like she was some ordinary stranger browsing through clothes.

How the hell was I supposed to start looking for someone the world had buried?

I reached my study and shut the door behind me harder than necessary.

The room felt suffocating.

I walked to my desk, staring at the empty surface.

If she was alive… where had she been all this time?

Why hadn’t she come back?

Was she hurt?

Captured?

Or

I slammed my fist against the table.

The wood cracked slightly under the impact.

Frustration roared through me.

This was madness.

I was chasing shadows.

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Only one person dared to do that.

Matthew.

He stepped inside, holding a file in his hand, his expression serious. as always.

He dropped the file on my desk.

“Alpha, you need to go through these files,” he said. “It’s the council’s new project about training the young wolves. They need equipment. Funding will have to come from you.”

I looked down at the file without really seeing it.

“I’ll go through it.”

Matthew didn’t leave.

Instead, he leaned slightly against the desk, studying me.

“Are you fine?” he asked. “You’ve been unusually quiet.”

“I’m fine.”

A beat of silence.

He gave a soft, humorless chuckle.

“We grew up together,” he said. “I know you very well. And I know when you’re not fine. Start talking. Something is bothering you.”

I exhaled slowly.

For a moment, I considered dismissing him.

But Matthew wasn’t just my Beta.

He was my brother in everything except blood.

If there was anyone I could say this to without being labeled insane, it was him.

“Fine,” I muttered. “But don’t think I’m crazy.”

His brows furrowed slightly.

“I think Reven is alive.”

The words hung in the air like a gunshot.

Matthew froze.

I saw the shock flicker across his face before he masked it.

“How are you sure?” he asked carefully.

“I’m not sure,” I admitted. “Lucian said he saw her at the mall today.”

Matthew blinked.

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“I denied him,” I said quickly. “But it felt… weird.”

“Weird how?”

I ran a hand through my hair.

“Because Lucian wasn’t unsure. He wasn’t guessing. He looked at me like I was the one being blind.”

Matthew folded his arms.

“Children can mistake strangers for familiar faces. Especially when they miss someone.”

“That’s what I thought,” I said. “Not until I checked the mall’s CCTV footage.”

His eyes sharpened.

“You checked?”

“I had security send it to me immediately.”

“And?”

“It didn’t capture her face clearly. But her back…” I paused. “The hair color looked dull. Not exactly like hers. But the posture. The way she moved…”

I couldn’t finish.

Matthew cut in sharply.

“You see? She isn’t the one. Why wouldn’t she recognize her own child?”

That question had been tormenting me since the footage arrived.

Why didn’t she react?

Why didn’t she run to him?

Why did she look… distant?

“That’s why I’m saying something is wrong,” I said quietly. “If it was her.”

Matthew stared at me.

“And what are you thinking? That she’s alive but doesn’t remember? That she’s being controlled? That someone is hiding her?”

“I don’t know,” I snapped. “I just know my instincts are screaming.”

He was silent for a long moment.

“You searched for her for months,” he said finally. “We all did. There was nothing.”

“I know.”

“The council declared her dead.”

“I know that too.”

“So what are you planning to do?”

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I leaned back in my chair.

“I want to dig deeper. Quietly. No announcements. No rumors. I’ll start with the mall. Track the stores she entered. Get transaction records. If she used a card, I’ll find it.”

“And if she paid cash?”

“Then I track the security footage outside the mall. Vehicles. License plates.”

Matthew exhaled slowly.

“You’re serious.”

“Yes.”

He pushed off the desk and walked a few steps, thinking.

“If this gets out, the council will question your stability.”

“I don’t care.”

“You should,” he said firmly. “You’re Alpha.”

I met his gaze.

“And I’m also a husband.”

The room went still.

Matthew’s expression softened slightly.

After a moment, he nodded.

“I have no choice but to support you,” he said. “If you’re going into this, I’m in it with you.”

Relief flickered briefly through me.

“But,” he continued, “you need to be careful. If someone made her disappear. they won’t like you digging.”

A cold realization slid down my spine.

He was right.

If this wasn’t a coincidence

If someone had orchestrated her disappearance

Then I was about to provoke them.

I stood slowly.

“Start by pulling every missing female report within a hundred–mile radius over the past year,” I instructed. “Check hospitals too. Amnesia cases. Unknown identities.”

Matthew nodded.

“I’ll handle it.”

“And Matthew…”

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He paused at the door.

“Not a word to the council.”

“Understood.”

He opened the door but stopped before leaving.

“If she is alive,” he said quietly, “then whoever hid her made a mistake by letting her step into that mall.”

Then he left.

The door clicked shut behind him.

I stared at the cracked wood on my desk where my fist had landed.

If she was alive

If Lucian was right.Then everything we believed was a lie.

And someone would pay for it.

Outside, the wind howled faintly against the windows.

It almost sounded like a warning.

Or a whisper from the dead.

And for the first time in months….

Hope didn’t feel like weakness.

It felt like war.