Chapter 60 - Lost and found

**Hopes pov**

Luna is flooding my mind with different scenes. Callum laughing, Callums kisses and warm embraces. Thomas and Anna eating Rocky Road, Anna falling a sleep in my lap. My mothers tears of joy when she stroked our fur. The run through the forest with the pack, and so much more. She was trying to make me turn around, to go back, but all I could see was Maya on the ground, with her bloody neck, Maya in the bed, hooked up to all those machines. I could still feel Reeces finger on my chest and hear him tell me that this was all my fault. I could se the tears on his face and I could taste Mayas blood in my mouth.
Callum had tried to link me, but I shot him out, I shot them all out. Closed all the links.

A beautiful crescent moon was visible among the stars in the clear night sky. I don’t know how long I had been running but it was morning when I left.
I let images from Aayla’s memories play for Luna. The cave, the river, the ruins from the village, the gray stone wolf..Luna’s father.
*Do you think any of it is still there? Is it far? Can you take me there? *
I don't know why I want to go there..it was Aaylas home, not mine..still a part of me wants to feel the familiarity of the dreams. I felt at home when I dreamed, I want to feel that again. Luna changed direction, we had been traveling south, now we turned west.
*Thank you girl..I know you are disappointed in me..and I’m sorry..I just need time, ok? * I felt a warmth spread in my chest, a Luna hug.
After running for a while longer the woods become sparser and soon the trees are just scattered here and there. The ground start to slope e little, and the grass is growing high. Infront of me is the most beautiful view I have ever seen, its like a picture from a hiking trip with your family, one of those pictures that stands in a frame over the fireplace and you cant help smiling every time you see it. Under the dark sky with thousands of stars and the beautiful moon, mountains stretched with snow-capped peaks..with a little imagination they almost looked like shark teeth with their jagged edges. At the foot of the mountains is a lake, not big but not the smallest I’ve seen either. The water reflects the dark night above. I can only imagine how beautiful it is during the day. No, I don’t have to imagine..
*Luna, we’ll stay here for the night, we both need to rest. *
I get closer to the lake, where the ground is flatter, and find a good place to lie down. I have a hard time taking my eyes off the wonders of nature on the other side of the lake..but soon I feel my eyelids getting heavier.


**Callums pov**

“ What do you mean you cant locate her? You are connected to her aren’t you? You are the all knowing hag..you know everything at all times..or at least you use to..lately you’ve seemed off your game to be honest” I stand in the kitchen of the packhouse, Zandra is sitting at the kitchen island and she gets a lot of my frustration at the moment. Hope has been gone for twelve hours and I’m loosing it.
“I’m sorry Callum, she has shoot me out, I cant feel her..maybe if she falls a sleep but for now..just give it a little more time, I will feel her..I’m sure of it..” Zandra look down and I immediately feel bad..Cecilia is coming up behind her and give her shoulder a comforting squeeze, and at the same time she gives me a look..a look a mother would give a child..saying Back off!
Beacon is scratching in my head. He wants to be out there, searching for her. But there are four cardinal directions..how am I even supposed to know which way to go.
I tried to follow her when she left, but she was to fast and her scent disappeared after a while..I hated it but I had to turn back.
“ Where would she go?…Cecilia..is there any place you can think of? “
“ Well..Hope like the familiar feeling..if she had a bad dream, she would call me..because it made her feel like home..she always liked the nature..she loved to hang with the wolves at the zoo..but you know that…they were her family before you came in to the picture.”
“ The Zoo! Of course! She would love to spent time with them right? She told me she use to go there when she needs a mood change!” I suddenly feel like I am so close to her. If I take the jet, she can be in my arms in two hours!
“ Callum…Alpha..please..Its not only Hope anymore..its Luna to. She doesn’t have a relationship with the gray wolves at the zoo..”
“ So what would Luna do?..What did she do in the past? “
“ Luna and Hope is simular that way..they both want to go home. They both love the feeling of something familiar..” Zandra sigh..I could see something was getting to her, but it didnt seem to have anything to do with Hope or Luna.
“Zandra..I’m sorry..are you okay?”
“ I will be my boy..I will be..”
“ Is Reece still at the clinic?” Cathy asked as she walked in to the kitchen
“ Yes, and he will be for a while, I wouldn't leave either if it was Hope..when you have a mate, you will understand” I ruffle her hair as I pass her to get to the fridge, I really need a beer..she slapped my hand away and looked really distraught..she never done that before, she likes it when i mess a little with her..right?…
“ Cathy, what’s going on?” I turn to her, looking into those pretty and familiar eyes. She is avoiding me, turning her face to the floor. .but no, I won't have that. I know my sister better that anyone, I practically raised her..well for a few years that is..
“ Stop it!..Tell me!” I see the birth of tears in her eyes as she realize I’m on to her.
“ Mate..I found my mate..”
“ Wow, that’s great siss, who is he? where is he?” I felt the joy press a little of my worries away. My sister found her mate, yay!!!
“ He is long gone..we rejected eachother..in a way..its complicated..he is not in the picture though..and he won't be, so lets just leave it for another day..okay?”
“ We are not done talking about this..”
“ We are..for now” She give me a kiss on the cheek before she goes and join Zandra and Cecilia at the kitchen island. My little sister met her mate?..And I missed it?..Now I’m not only feel like the worst mate, but even the worst brother.
I look at the trio in front of me..they were all here because of their love and concern for Hope…but they were also here for me..and I treated them like..shit..
“Cathy, bring out the fine glass, Ill be right back” I give her a wink and I see a small shred of that familiar light in her eyes.
I leave the kitchen and pass the hallway heading for the doors to the cellar. I usually don't go down there my self, come to think of it, I havent even showed it to Hope..and she really likes wine, I push the heavy old oak door open and look at the stairs going down. My hand automatically find the light-switch on the right wall. I could find my way down here with a blindfold on, but why bother when its an easier way.
There are five aisles of shelves. I don’t really know under what system all the bottles are sorted, but I know that aisles one and two are the red wine aisles and I know that the three women up there prefer red wine. I step into aisle one..looking at the different bottles. The description could just as easily have been in Greek. On a label I read, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz..it’s a mix I recognize, I take two bottles before I turn and head up back the stairs.
“ Hush, please, the both of you!!” I come back into the kitchen, Zandra is sitting with her head in her hands, either she is in pain or she is trying to concentrate. Both Cecilia and Cathy is worrying, trying to get her attention, to find out whats wrong with her..but I already know. She is connecting to someone, supposedly Luna. God I hope its Luna. My body aces for them, the both of them. Beacon is whipping the inside of my head, wagging his tail at the sight.
“ Home..they are going home..” A tear fell down Zandras cheek, but her eyes isnt here..she is somewhere ells…sometime ells.
“ Talk to Reece, tell him to be ready at first light, we are going after her. All of us! “ I say to Cathy as I place the two bottles on the island.