Darius.

"Her location has been confirmed, Alpha." Someone said from behind me, snapping me out of my train of thoughts.

The voice made me immediately angry and I frowned as I pulled my dick out of the red-haired vixen in front of me, turned around and looked up just in time to see Matthias, one of the bodyguards standing behind me with his head bowed as he waited for my response.

’My response’ which was a strange concept seeing as I had nothing to say. In fact, my brain felt jammed, devoid of coherent thoughts as I stared straight at him.

"Alpha...?" He muttered with his head tilted to the side.

"Whose location has been found?" I hissed, blinking in annoyance when he took a step back. From the look on his face, it was quite obvious that he was taken aback by my question; But do I care?

Of course not.

"Who the fuck has been found?" I hissed again snappily, and this time, he responded by lowering his head, his voice slightly shaky as he whispered;

"Her."

"Are you dumb?!" I didn’t intend to be so loud but the words had come out that way, resonating around the room with such tempo that even the vixen— whose name I couldn’t remember— scuttled off the bed, whilst wrapping the bedsheet around her body as she went.

"Whose presence or location is so important that you would barge in on me at a time like this?!" I growled, forgetting to add the rest of the sentence, which was:

While having sex...

He gulped and lowered his head one more time, and I swear to the goddess, something about his overall overly timid nature riled me up so much, I wanted to smack his face so hard that he’d lose a tooth or more.

I was however about to do that, seeing as he still hasn’t said a thing yet when suddenly, he took another step away from me and muttered:

"Miss Sinclair."

I froze.

"Huh?"

"Miss Leilani Sinclar’s location has been found and she is currently somewhere within the city."

While he spoke, I couldn’t help but notice the way he would turn to look at the red-haired girl as if half expecting her to crash out at the mention of Leilani’s name.

She didn’t. If anything, she seemed clueless.

No wonder he’s been refusing to talk about it in front of her...

"When?" I rasped, feeling my heart skip several beats in my chest. "How? Since when have you known about this?"

"Since five minutes ago." He answered quickly— a little too quickly. "I had to come in to tell you about it because you said to do that regardless of what you’re up to," he answered, and once again, I noticed how his eyes darted to the girl before coming to settle on me. "That’s why I came."

At the sound of his words, I smiled. Hell, I tried to keep that smile at bay but no matter how hard I tried, it was as good as impossible.

Just the mere thought of having her around me filled me with so much glee, then there was the possibility that she could come back to me now— to us— to become Luna.

My Luna.

My eyes suddenly thinned as I turned to look at the girl who for some reason still hasn’t left the room, her wide eyes filled with apprehension as they darted between I and Matthias.

Seeing her now made me annoyed for no reason and I found myself snapping at her even before I realized what I was doing.

I yelled; "Get out!"

For a second, she froze like a deer caught in the headlights before slowly turning away to pick up her discarded clothes from the floor.

"Me?" She whispered— more like shrieked.

"Yes, you!" I snapped in irritation, "we’re done here. Get out!"

And with that, she scurried out of the room like the devil was hot on her heels, her dainty feet hitting the ground with a soft pitpat sound as she went.

It wasn’t until she was fully gone that I allowed myself to heave out the sigh I had been holding ever since and then I turned to Matthias and hissed;

"Find out exactly where she is."

"I have." He answered without an ounce of hesitation.

"And where is that?" I snarled,

"At a hospital. A hospital in the middle of the city, built specifically for werewolves, witches, Lycans and vamp—"

"Saint Nyx?" I cut in quickly, interrupting him.

"Yes, Saint Nyx." He answered with a nod. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"Then get me to Saint Nyx this instant!" I bellowed, throwing on my clothes with the speed of lightning before rushing out of the room like the devil himself was hot on my tails...

And to be very honest, I think he is.

—

Leilani.

At this point, I was practically living like a hobo in the pristine hospital halls while jerking awake at intervals to any sounds whatsover. I was restless beyond measure, and to top it all, there were still no news cornering Jarek yet or what other measures we could take to get him safe.

Because I have been living off these walls for so long, I was so tired, I could hardly keep my head up. In fact, I was already dozing off but snapped awake when Caelum came to sit close to me, the warmth of his skin seeping into my dress as he drawled;

"You ought to rest, Lani."

I turned to him... slowly, tilted my head to the side and smiled— one that didn’t quite reach my eyes— as I said; "I know and I will."

"When?"

"Soon." I answered again with a smile. "I’ll definitely go home when I am certain that he is okay." And with conviction, I added: "...and I know he will be okay soon."

"Leilani, I understand where you are coming from but at the same time, I think—"

I kind of already knew what kind of he thoughts he had, and for that reason, I didn’t even give him the opportunity to say it before I rushed out;

"Please, Caelum, I know he will be fine."

Just as I said that, a young nurse with smooth almond face walked over to me, a small smile plastered across her face as she bowed; "Miss Leilani, right?"

"Right." I answered with cocked eyebrows.

"Mr Frostclaw is awake."