The Human Among Wolves (Aurora) novel Chapter 341

Chapter 341

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I turned around after a few minutes.

“Where did he take her?” I asked her.

My voice was flat now. Deadly calm. The kind of calm that came right before something irreversible,

She looked up at me, eyes wide and terrified. “I… I don’t know,” she whispered. “I swear. I don’t.”

1 stepped closer.

Every instinct in me told me she was lying. Or worse-that she wasn’t, and the truth was somehow even more dangerous.

“You expect me to believe that?” I said quietly. “You make a deal with the devil, you hand over my mate, and you don’t even ask where he’s

taking her?”

She shook her head violently. “He didn’t tell me. He just said they’d handle it. That she’d be… gone. Removed from the picture.”

I crouched in front of her, forcing her to look at me. “Listen to me very carefully,” I said, each word precise, carved from ice. “If you’re lying, if you’re holding back anything-one detail, one name, one place-I will find out. And when I do, what I just did to you will feel like mercy.”

Her breath hitched. “I swear on my life,” she said, voice breaking. “I don’t know where she is. I only helped them get her outside. That’s all.”

Outside.

My chest tightened painfully.

1 straightened slowly, the pieces snapping together in my mind. The lobby cameras. Aurora leaving. Charlotte following minutes later. The blind

spots. The timing.

This had been planned.

Professional.

I turned away from her without another word. She was no longer worth my time. Not when Aurora was out there-hurt, taken, maybe calling

my name into the dark.

I was done asking questions.

Now I was going to hunt.

I left her room without another word.

There was nothing left to say to her.

Nothing she could offer that mattered anymore. Aurora was gone, and every second I wasted breathing the same air as Charlotte felt like a betrayal.

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already knew where I was going next.

My steps were fast, sharp, barely touching the floor as I moved down the fall. I didn’t stop to think. Didn’t slow down. Every second felt stolen from her, and the pressure in my chest only tightened with each step.

Kael.

I stopped in front of his door and knocked once-hard.

A few seconds passed.

Then the door opened.

Kael stood there, already dressed, like sleep hadn’t touched him at all. His blond hair was pulled back neatly, not a strand out of place, his posture straight and alert. He didn’t look surprised to see me. If anything, his expression suggested he’d been expecting this.

I pushed past him without waiting for an answer and stepped fully into the room, the door closing behind me with a quiet but final click. The place clean, orderly-nothing out of place. It felt wrong, standing there, when my world was falling apart.

face him, my jaw tight.

You might not be working with my father,” I said, keeping my voice steady through sheer force of will, “but that doesn’t mean I trust you. I

don’t.”

He didn’t interrupt. He didn’t bristle or snap back. He just looked at me, attentive, serious, like he already knew this wasn’t something I’d say

lightly.

“I wouldn’t be here,” I went on, “if this wasn’t an emergency.”

That was when his expression shifted-not dramatically, not enough for anyone else to notice. But I did. His focus sharpened, the casual edge

gone as he waited for me to continue.

“Aurora’s gone,” I said, the words scraping my throat on the way out. “She was taken. My father is behind it.”

The silence that followed was hea

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aded. “She lured Aurora out, and they took her last night.”

shoulders going rigid, and for the first time I saw real emotion break through his calm.

I know where they took her,” I said quietly. “But I can’t get there in time on my own.”

He held my gaze for a moment before speaking.

“What kind of help do you need?”

I dragged a hand through my hair, already feeling the clock ticking down with every second.

ckly,” I asked, my voice low and urgent, “can you get us a plane?

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“To where?” he asked.

“Back home,” I said without hesitation.

His eyes didn’t leave my face as I continued, every word heavier than the st. “My father… he owned an auction house. He showed it to me once.” My jaw tightened at the memory. “They sold girls there. Vampires. Witches, Wolves. Anyone rare enough to be profitable,”

Kael didn’t react the way I expected.

No shock. No disbelief.

Just a slow, measured look, like I’d confirmed something he already knew.

That alone made my stomach twist.

“And you think,” he said carefully, “he took Aurora there?”

I nodded once. “I know he did.”

“I’ll go make some calls,” Kael said after a moment. His voice was steady, all business now. “Be ready in an hour.”

That was it. No questions. No hesitation.

I turned and left his room immediately, my mind already racing ten steps ahead of my body. Back in my own room, I moved on pure instinct. Clothes were thrown into a bag without care, essentials grabbed with shaking hands. I didn’t bother folding anything. None of it mattered. The

only thing that mattered was time.

Aurora was out there.

And every second I wasted was a second too many.

Exactly an hour later, there was a knock on the door.

I didn’t need to check who it was.

We didn’t say a word as we left the hotel together, slipping through the corridors and out into the cold night like ghosts. No goodbyes. No

explanations. I didn’t care who noticed or what consequences waited back here. None of it mattered anymore

A black car idled at the curb, engine running.

The ride was silent, the city lights blurring past the windows as we were ven away from the mountains, away from everything that had felt safe just hours ago. My jaw stayed clenched the entire time, the beast pacing violently beneath my skin, furious and restless.

When the car finally stopped, we weren’t at any public terminal.

A private airstrip stretched out in front of us, dark and quiet, a sleek jet witing on the tarmac like it had been there all along. Its engines hummed low, impatient.

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Chapter 341

I glanced at Kast

Of course he wasn’t

East had connections. Real ones.

And as we boarded the plane and the door sealed shut behind us, one thought burned through my mind, sharp and unrelenting.

Hold on, Aurora

I’m co