Chapter 86

“What do you mean missing? How can she be missing for a few weeks without Gabriel realising?” Marcellus asked warily with a small frown on his face, unable to comprehend exactly what Dalton was trying to tell him.

“She’s up at Columbia and when she hadn’t been returning Gabriel’s calls for a few weeks like she usually does, he went up there to visit her.”

“And she wasn’t there?”

“Even worse.” Dalton shook his head. “Her roommate had said that Amy left a note saying that she had decided to quit college and was moving back home, but obviously that’s not true. That was a few days ago.”

“They realised that she was missing a few days ago and they didn’t tell anyone?” Marcellus questioned with alarm. “We could have helped look for her.”

“That’s exactly what I said, but Alpha Gabriel said he decided to keep that information to himself as most of the other Alpha’s tend to look down on Amy already.”

“That’s bullshit!” Marcellus groaned and shook his head as he rose to feet, determined to help in any way that he can. “I’ll speak to Gabriel while you round up the warriors. Let’s set out to leave in twenty minutes.”

Dalton shook his head and was quick to push the words out of his mouth before Marcellus began with his grand plans.

“There’s more to the story.”

“How can there be more?”

“They found her body last night.”

“What?” Marcellus questioned in shock, dropping himself back down on his desk chair, sensing that this would not be something that he would want to be standing up for.

“One of the warriors found her body on the border of the pack last night when she was on border patrol.”

“She’s dead?”

Dalton nodded, his eyes stormy as a shaky breath escaped him, also struggling to wrap his mind around the fact that sweet, innocent Amy had been missing for weeks without anyone realising and then turned up dead.

“Gabriel couldn’t speak to me so Luna Avery took the phone. She told me that Amy’s body was torn up from the insides.”

“What do you mean by torn up?” Marcellus dared to ask even though he knew that he wouldn’t like the answer; already struggling to wrap his mind around all the news that he had learnt so far this early in the morning; so early in fact that he hadn’t managed to enjoy his first cup of coffee yet.

“Her insides were spilling out of her stomach and there were gashes all over her middle but the weird thing is, everything was on her insides. Luna Avery told me that other than the skin of her stomach that that basically doesn’t exist anymore, there were no other marks on her body. Not even a hair out of place.”

“But how can that be?”

“The pack doctor says that she was pregnant.”

“The baby, too?”

“They think the baby killed her.”

“What?” Marcellus sounded aloud, almost as if he couldn’t believe his ears despite all the crazy shit that he had heard already.

“Amy was pregnant with a wolf pup and while they’re still carrying out tests, they think the baby killed her. They think that the wolf pop tore her up from the insides.”

“That still doesn’t explain how or why she had been missing for weeks. Or even how she got pregnant with a wolf pup if she was surrounded by humans.”

“Yes, exactly.” Dalton groaned aloud; his mind now clouded with such disturbing images. “Nothing is really adding up.”

Marcellus merely hummed in response, needing a moment to mull over everything that he had just learnt.

“This has got to be related to all of the other kidnappings that had happened.” He sounded aloud with a distant look on his face, still trying to figure everything out. “They were all part wolf too.”

“But they all were returned safe and sound. Other than some temporary memory loss, they were all perfectly fine.”

I can’t explain that part, but I’m confident that all of this is correlated somehow.” Marcellus spoke with the utmost belief in his theory. “It’s almost as if these crimes are escalating. As if they’re more than just kidnapping these females, but we just didn’t realise it at first.”

“Then why do they think that the baby killed her?”

“I can’t explain that part.” He shook his head and sighed softly, his mind perplexed as he tried to think of a valid and plausible explanation as to what had happened to Amy but as the minutes stretched out, he still couldn’t come up with anything.

“I need to speak to Gabriel.” Marcellus sighed as he reached across the desk and grabbed his phone, his mind still clouded and his thoughts heavy as he scrolled through his contacts in search of Alpha Gabriel’s number.

When the phone rang seven times before going to voicemail, neither Marcellus or Dalton was surprised. Instead, they decided to round up some warriors and head over there anyway. Even if they couldn’t physically help Amy as it was far too late for that now, they could provide moral support and help with investigating exactly what happened, as well preventing something like this from happening again.

Twenty minutes later, Marcellus shifted into his wolf and led his wolves toward the Red Howler pack, all of them ready to help out other wolves in need, especially in times as dire and uncertain as these.

Despite his good intentions, Marcellus couldn’t stop thinking of his own mate; the very one that swore she wanted absolutely nothing to do with him. The fact that his mate was also part wolf worried him immensely, genuinely afraid that there was the possibility that she could end up in the same state as poor, innocent Amy.

That very thought pushed him to run faster and harder, take bigger strides, almost as if he feared to find Anastasia suffer a similar fate.