Shadow of the Alpha King — Daniel James Carter - Chapter 393

Read The Heartless Alpha's Beloved Luna Novel Chapter 393 - Avery's POV Gideon's jacket was already on by the time he finished making the suggestion. "You're really going to help us?" Sebastian asked. 1 "He's a kid. I'm not just going to sit around on my ass while he's potentially in danger." Gideon grabbed his keys off the hook by the door and looked at us both. "Let's go. There wasn't much to argue with there. Sebastian and I exchanged a glance, and then we were following Gideon back out into the rain.

We split up the initial search between the three of us; Sebastian covered the eastern edge of the Evergreen border, Gideon reached out to his own pack members to comb the stretch of road between Nightwolf and the fields, and I retraced the trail I had followed earlier with Sebastian. The rain wasn't too heavy yet, but a quick look up at the rapidly darkening sky told me all I needed to know. If we didn't find Bjorn soon, he was going to be caught in a serious downpour. I hoped he'd at least been smart enough to find shelter somewhere, but if he was truly lost, there might not be any.

Along the side of the road, the paw prints I'd spotted before were already half-washed away. I crouched down in the ditch, squinting at the mud, and tried to piece together the direction he'd gone. Bjorn had always been an "explorer", as my mother called him. I had lost him in crowded parks before, in grocery stores, once in an airport that still gave me anxiety just thinking about. But this was different than the human lands. At least there, there were crowds, police officers, public transportation that he knew how to use if he had to.

Here, it was remote and quiet, and the terrain, if he had ventured far into the wilderness, was inhospitable. I stood, knees cracking, and looked out at the distant treeline beyond the fields. I swallowed hard. "Do you think he went into the forest?" a voice suddenly asked. I looked up to see Gideon approaching. Judging from the fact that he was alone, I assumed he hadn't found Bjorn. I sighed. "I like to think he's smart enough not to wander into a forest on his own, but now I'm not so sure." "Looks like a storm," Gideon said, looking up at the sky.

"If he got lost and it started to rain, he might have sought shelter under the trees. Let's go look." I nodded and followed Gideon toward the forest. Sebastian caught up to us near the tree line, shaking rain out of his hair. He'd found nothing on the eastern edge, which at least ruled out the possibility that Bjorn had doubled back. "He went into the woods," I said, looking at the dark gap between the trees. "Probably," Sebastian agreed. "You know how he is." I did. Goddess help me, I did. We had just started into the tree line when I heard a car pulling onto the gravel behind us.