Ran Away Pregnant Came Back Alpha Heiress (Amelia and Damien) novel Chapter 187

Chapter 187

Jake’s POV

The minute the words left Cara’s mouth, I felt like I had entered an alternative dimension where nothing made

sense anymore.

“What the hell do you mean Amelia isn’t in the room?” I asked, repeating those words back to her, hoping they would be somehow different this time.

But Cara wasn’t one for tasteless jokes. Often she didn’t talk at all unless absolutely necessary.

She wouldn’t say something like this unless she was deadly serious.

For her to find me, to call me out of the party, and drag me to a more secluded location, she could only be serious.

“When she didn’t emerge for lunch or dinner, I decided to go into the room,” Cara said. “We searched everywhere, but she just wasn’t there.”

“How can that be?”

“I don’t know,” she admitted. “That door never opened after you and your parents left this morning. I did not move from it, not even to take breaks myself. I was diligent, Alpha. No one came through that door, in or out.”

The door to the hallway was the clearest route, but it wasn’t the only way in or out of that room. “What about the windows?”

This question was how I ended up back in the hotel room, standing in Amelia’s room, on her balcony, looking at the trellis that had clear signs of disturbance, some of the flowers and vines smashed where Amelia must have found her hand and footholds.

“I don’t understand,” Cara said. “Why would she want to sneak out?”

I didn’t know either, but I had a very bad feeling about this. My thoughts flew a thousand miles in every direction, but one of the threads led me to thinking about Sienna.

“Sienna came to speak with Amelia yesterday,” I said. “You said Amelia spoke with her.”

“Yes,” Cara replied.

I tried to remember what Amelia had said she and Sienna had talked about. But my thoughts were scattered. I remembered being somewhat suspicious like Amelia was holding back, but I couldn’t remember exactly what had

been said.

“Find Sienna,” I told Cara. “I want answers.”

“At once, Alpha,” Cara said, and turned. As she ran out of the room, I closed my eyes and tried to extend my

senses.

Amelia and I weren’t bonded like she was with Damien, but we were still close. I still felt a connection with her, in ways that I didn’t totally understand. But perhaps I could use that connection now to my advantage.

I stretched my senses out. Down in the ballroom I could sense my mom and dad. Further out, I could sense cousins, my aunt and uncles. Even further, I felt the distant strum of the Alpha King.

Then… there.

I felt Amelia.

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The pull to her was subtle, not as obvious as the others, but in a flash that changed. At once, I went from not noticing her, to being able to see her like a beacon in the night.

My wolf recognized family.

But how could that be?

I didn’t have time to think about it. Instead, I clung onto that connection with the full force of my wolf and took off running.

Victoria’s POV

Clutching my phone with shaky hands, I called Claire as my brother rampaged inside the room just behind me. The door was closed tightly, as were all the other doors and windows. I had already thought to keep him contained, worried the tear of the mating bond might drive him wild.

“I-it’s happening,” I said when Claire answered. “It’s even worse than I thought it would be. He’s totally feral.”

“You know what to do,” Claire said. “That’s why I gave you the tranquilizer gun. Get in there and sedate him before he ruins everything.”

In my purse was the tranquilizer gun, but hearing how wild Damien was within the hotel room did not give me any courage to face him. “B-but I…”

“He can’t be the one to find Amelia. It could ruin everything. Get in there and take care of things, Victoria,” Claire said. “Didn’t you say you could handle it? What the hell are you waiting for?”

She hung up without saying anything else.

My hands trembled so badly that I dropped my phone on the carpet of the hotel hallway. I left it there, forgetting it as I clutched the tranquilizer gun instead with both hands. The shot was already loaded. I was told it would be enough to bring down even an Alpha as strong as Damien, but there were another three shots in my purse just in

case.

I closed my eyes a moment, in an attempt to gather my courage. Then snapping them open again, I pushed my way into the room, closing the door immediately behind me.

There, I saw Damien, caught between werewolf and human, tearing at the walls and the furniture with his claws and his sharp teeth. The room was entirely trashed. Even the wallpaper was torn, hanging off by shreds.

A low growl was emitting from the back of his throat. His eyes were blood red, and seemed to pulse with his rage.

Sensing me, he turned to me.

Fear rose in my throat.

He started toward me.

I raised the tranquilizer gun and fired.

As he stumbled, I reloaded the tranquilizer, then I fired again.

And a third time, as he finally fell to the ground.

He looked up at me and whimpered.

“Sorry, brother,” I told him, feeling some guilt now. But Claire was right, Damien couldn’t be found with Amelia’s body. If for no other reason than he could be blamed.

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I wasn’t going to let that happened. Damien had been through enough trying to protect that human.

Now, it was time for him to rest.

There was pain in his eyes, but I didn’t think it was physical. The tranquilizers should cut off the pain, not add to

Or maybe the break of the mating bond was that strong. I’d heard that sometimes mates would lose their minds from the loss, when their fated mate died unexpectedly.

I hoped Damien could be strong.

But I still fell down beside him.

Later, I would have to clean up the tranquilizers. I would have to make it seem like he raged until he passed out all his own.

For now, though. Now, I just cried.

I felt so far in over my head. How had things come to this?

I just wanted what was right for my brother and my pack.

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