Rejected by My Alpha Now He Replaced Me with a Copycat Luna novel Chapter 80

Chapter 80

Nox’s POV

My fingers flew over the keyboard as I stared at the screen. My eyes burned like they’d taken a bath in acid overnight, left to soak like dentures in a glass. But I didn’t stop. There were more avenues to take, more routes to check.

“Nox,” Dexter said, his voice low.

“Hmm?” I didn’t look away from the screen. There was a bus station two towns over that Raven could’ve used if she’d hitched a ride.

The idea of her getting into a car with a stranger had my wolf Grit snarling. It didn’t matter that he was submissive; his mate was at risk, and that was enough to bring out alpha tendencies in anyone.

“You need to get some sleep.”

My gaze flicked to my brother in the chair next to me. Dexter looked rough. His scruff had gotten thicker in the last five days, and dark circles rimmed green eyes that had gone dull. Even his blond hair seemed to have lost a little of its signature shine.

I looked back to the computer screen, trying to find the right backdoor channel that would allow me to access the bus station’s security cameras. “Like you’ve slept.”

“I got a few hours last night,” Dexter defended.

What he meant was that he’d crashed for about two hours on my couch while I hacked into our local taxi company. There were no pickups around the time Raven disappeared.

Every single avenue I took came up empty. It was like Raven had simply vanished into thin air. But I knew that wasn’t possible. She was somewhere. Or worse, someone had her.

“Nox.” There was a bite to Dexter’s tone this time.

“I’m not sleeping,” I clipped. “Not until Raven’s sleeping with me.”

My wolf howled this time. He was in agony, right along with me. We missed our mate. Missed her scent, her feel, her essence. Raven made everything in our world better. Without her, everything turned a sickly gray.

Dexter let out a long sigh and scrubbed his hands over his face. “All right. What can I do?”

The tiniest bit of tension bled out of me at his words. I didn’t have it in me to fight with Dexter. He had been the only one who’d had Raven’s back with me. “I want you to look for her in this camera footage. I just need one sec-there. Got it.”

There were two camera angles covering the ticketing area. The bus station itself wasn’t large, but they did a share of their business in cash, so it made sense that they had security, I was damn glad. I sent one of the two feeds to the monitor nearest Dexter and put the other on mine.

“Let’s see if she got on a bus,” I muttered, If she did, I could match the timestamp from the footage to the transactions from the teller and discover where the hell Raven was going.

My gut twisted at the thought, I knew Raven leaving of her own free will was the best option, but the knowledge that she might’ve been okay with walking away from me killed something inside me.

The video began to play at four times normal speed. “Tell me if you see anything that might be her. I’ll pause it,” I told Dexter.

He nodded; his gaze remaining trained on the screen. “What are we going to do when we find her?”

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Dexter’s voice had gone soft. Not with gentleness, but with defeat. Because we were going to lose something no matter what. There was no way

around it.

“We go get her,” I said, my back teeth grinding together.

His gaze flicked to me for a split second. “She doesn’t want to be here. We can’t force her.”

Pain swept through me. “I know. We’ll have to start over somewhere new.”

“Just the three of us?” Dexter asked.

If Raven wanted that, then yes. But Ezra and Kael knew they’d fucked up. They would try to make things right. I just had to hope Raven gave them a chance to atone.

Asher, on the other hand, was still locked in his obsession with seeing Raven as the villain. It was like she’d gotten too close to his vulnerabilities, and it’d scared the hell out of him. So, he did the only thing he could. He went on the offensive.

“I guess we’ll have to see. One thing at a time. We need to find her first.” I reached for my energy drink. Tipping it back, I realized it was already gone. I kept my eyes on my screen but reached for my mini fridge and pulled out another.

“You’re going to give yourself a heart attack,” Dexter muttered.

“You have your drug of choice, I have mine,” I muttered.

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