Chapter 31: CHAPTER THIRTY ONE

It was in the early hours of the night when Xana pulled to the expressway in her car. She was on her way to her best friend's residence where Mercy and the rest of their friends were waiting for Xana to arrive so that they can have one of their usual ladies' nights. Xana hoped that she didn't arrive at the house very late since she was the one that had told the girls to assemble.

She had promised them a night of recklessness and abandon on the phone when she had called Mercy to get the other girls to her place. Mercy had tried to find out from Xana why she suddenly wanted to have a night of debauchery but Xana had refused to tell her anything on the phone. She had promised that she would tell her when they were together at the house.

To prove to the girls that she meant every word she had said when she had said that they would be having a nice night, Xana had sent some amount of money to Mercy to get some drinks, anything chocolate they could munch on, and some beauty masks they could use to treat their faces. She had even gone on and promised each of the girls some cash transfer to their accounts when everyone was leaving in the morning. They might not understand why she was happy but Xana knew why herself.

Ever since she had staged the lovemaking scene between herself and Adam that Sarah had seen, Xana hadn't spotted her even once in the mansion. Given that she wasn't all that loved in the pack house, no one had bothered to look for her either, which suited Xana's plan even better. So, it wasn't until two days later after she left that news had gotten to Adam that she was missing. She scoffed as she thought about how the Alpha had reacted when he got to know about that little fact.

The Alpha had asked her if she had seen Sarah at any time in the two months and she had denied seeing the vampire, which technically wasn't a lie. Xana had even joined the werewolves Adam had sent out to look for the vampire because why not. She was the gentle, kind, humble, and down-to-earth girl that everyone at the mansion thought she was and she was not ready to lose that perfect image in the eyes of the people who whooped at her like she was an angel.

Xana was still lost in thought when she heard a loud bang on her car. Frightened by the sound, she swerved off the road, stopped the car, and looked around for a sign of life but she couldn't find anything strange. She turned her key into the ignition but the car refused to cough to life. She got out of the car to check the car engine and maybe figure out a way to fix the problem. She opened the car bonnet to see what she could do about it since the road she was on was a little deserted.

She was still checking the car engine, removing some plugs, and fixing them back when a hand held her tightly by the throat. Because of how sudden it was, Xana hadn't been able to scream for help when the hand held her. Waves of fear washed over her as the hand closed over her throat even tighter. All she could think about at that moment was if she was going to die just like that and that too, in the hands of somebody she couldn't understand.

With that thought came the determination that she wasn't going to die. She struggled against the hand that held her and tried to dislodge the hand from her neck but the effort proved abortive. Whosoever the other person who held her was, the person was too strong than she could handle even with her wolf power. Xana tried to cough but no single sound came out of her mouth. All she could do was try to gasp some tiny amount of air into her lungs with the efforts she could find.

Sarah was angry at the woman she held her neck with her hand. If it wasn't because she wanted the redhead to die a slow and painful death, she would have let her nails grow and just dig them into her neck. How dare the redhead woman sleep with her man? Sarah thought as her anger doubled in size. How dare the redhead cheated with Adam behind her? Sarah shouted in her mind.

"I'm going to kill you and then feed your body to the man-eating birds. No one would ever be able to see you again, you prostitute!" Sarah screamed at her.

Sarah? Xana thought with more fear than she already was. Where had she come from? She thought again. When the vampire tightened her hold on her some more, Xana felt her eyes dazzling and it felt like she was losing control. She felt like her life would slip out of her if nothing was done to stop the woman who was so bent on killing her and making her stop existing in the world.

Sarah tightened her hold some more. She could already feel that the redhead was losing her life and that makes her happy. Sarah was sure that if it wasn't for her wolf strength, the redhead would have lost her life from the first minute she had her hand around her neck. When Xana mustered her strength and was able to push Sarah away from her, Sarah's anger grew. Before the redhead could run away from her, she grabbed her and slammed her hard against the car she drove to the place. Sarah bought out a pocket knife and glammed it in front of her.

When Xana saw that the vampire had brought out the knife, her eyes rounded and she nearly fainted from the effect. She knew what the knife meant and what the vampire meant to do with it. Perhaps, she shouldn't have taken such a rash decision when she had done it. All she had just wanted was to see the vampire leave the mansion and when she had disappeared, Xana hadn't thought about how the vampire would be seeking revenge on her.

"I'll kill you first and then move on to Adam. Don't worry, I'll make sure you both can continue your love in the afterlife," Sarah said, moving the knife back and forth to elicit more fear in the mind of the woman she had pinned against the car.

Sarah laughed maliciously and brought the knife up to the air before she brought it down to Xana's neck. When the woman screamed in fear, Sarah smiled and gave her a little cut on the neck.

"Hello, death," Sarah said in such a low tone that Xana shivered.

As she wanted to push the knife deeply into Xana's neck, the headlight of a car glared into them, blinding Sarah. She closed her eyes and Xana took the opportunity to push her away. The knife cut into Xana's skin in a shallow straight line when she pushed the vampire away. Sarah tried to stab Xana but she saw that the approaching car was stopping behind them. Knowing that she would have to wait until later for her revenge, she rushed back into the forest she had come from before the other car owner could spot her.

Xana got over her shock very quickly after Sarah left. She took out a scarf from her car and wrapped it around her neck when she saw that the car owner had gotten almost close to where she was. Even though the knife wound on her neck would be healed almost soon, she knew that she still couldn't afford to let the man see the blood since she wouldn't be able to explain what had happened to him.

"Miss, are you okay? Is there something wrong with the car?" the man asked when he was with her.

"Yes, please. My car broke down and I couldn't fix it," she told the man.

"Let me get my tools and I'll check it for you, miss."

The man went back to his car and as he promised, he went to Xana's car and began to check on it. In fifteen minutes, he was dome fixing the car and Xana thanked him for his help. The man waited until she was in the car and already started the ignition before he went on his way. Xana turned the car around and returned to the mansion. She was afraid that if she tried to go on to her friends, Sarah might still be lying in wait for her and there might not be anyone else to be her saving grace.

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Adam banged his hands on the table and his omega moved back considerably. He stood up from the chair he sat in behind the table with a menacing growl. How dare his bunch of useless packs come to him every time with the same negative reports? Now, even his omega had joined the group of useless people and had also reported back with the same negative response he's been getting.

"Tell me how hard it is for you to find a woman!" Adam screamed at his omega.

His omega took another fearful step back and Adam growled loudly. True, he had never raised his voice at his omega before but the situation on the ground didn't warrant him using a cool voice. Even as he was standing right now, his mind was not settled in any way. All that kept running through his mind were horrible things that Adam had only pushed back to the corners of his mind.

Right now, he didn't need to display the fear he feels in front of his subordinates but it was getting harder to keep it together. He blamed himself for how Sarah had disappeared from the pack house. If he hadn't told her in a harsh voice to stop the fight she had had with Alisha and Xana, then she wouldn't have run out of the mansion and not returned since three days ago. To crown it all, he hadn't even realized that she wasn't home anymore until yesterday.

After the little quarrel between the three women that say that he has interfered in, Adam had slept off without first going over to her to pacify her as he had planned to. The next day when he woke up, he had planned to go over to her when a call had come in and his manager had told him that his attention was urgently needed. Adam had aborted his mission of going to look for his mate and had dressed up and left the house as fast as he could.

He had stayed over at the city for two days, tending to the business that had taken him away from home. Every day of his stay at the city, Adam had made sure him texted Sarah up to six times s day no matter how busy he was but she never replied to any of his messages. By the afternoon of the second day, Adam had worried and had called her directly, only for him to get redirected to her voicemail.

After he had called about ten times without any response, Adam had called Alisha who told him that she didn't know where his mate was and she didn't care about her. The moment he dropped the call from his sister, Adam had called his beta and told the man to look around for Sarah and give her the phone since he had missed her and wanted to talk to her. He had also wanted to explain the reason why he did what he did about the fight to her.

When Ian hadn't called back within an hour, Adam had gotten apprehensive. All his thoughts had reflected on the fact that perhaps she was still angry with him and had refused to take the phone from Ian or even listen to what his beta had to say. But when Adam had called Ian multiple times and his best friend had refused to pick up the calls, he had begun to worry. What had broken the camel's back the most for Adam was when his wolf had begun to jump about in restlessness in his head?

Without waiting to hear any update from Ian again, Adam had wrapped up the work he was doing and had gotten into the car to get home as fast as he could. He was already halfway home when Ian had returned his calls to give Adam the news that no one had seen Sarah since the last two days and despite searching everywhere for her, no one has found out where she was. By the time Adam got home, he was no longer himself. They had searched and searched everywhere for her and up to now, no one had been able to find her.

"Alpha," Ian called him, bringing him back to the present.

"Were you able to find her?" Adam asked, his hope rising.

When Ian shook his head in the negative, Adam sat back on the chair he had evacuated a minute ago. It was beginning to look to Adam like she had deliberately gone missing like she didn't want to be found. Adam dismissed the people with him and held his head in worry. He asked himself where else he could look for her since she wasn't anywhere around the mansion but he couldn't get an answer. He was still feeling lost about what to do when his omega returned to the room with a smile on her face.

"Alpha, Miss Xana just returned and she reported that she saw Miss Sarah," his omega announced.

Xana saw Sarah? Without waiting for a second more, Adam scrambled out of the study room and went straight to where Xana was. When he got there, he saw the doctor tending to a wound on her neck that seemed to be closing up already. Adam knew that if age was one of those that could shift at will, the wound would not be there anymore.

"Where did you see Sarah?" Adam asked her. He could tell that his sudden voice shocked the redhead but he didn't care. All he was interested in is getting Sarah back to himself.

Xana was hurt by the question the Alpha asked her. She was hurt because he didn't care that she had nearly gotten killed but he was interested only in knowing where the woman that had nearly killed her was. But all the same, she told him and Adam went out immediately.

Once he was by the car, he got into Xana's car and drove like a crazy man to the location Xana had told him about. He hoped that Sarah was still lying in wait for Xana and when she saw the car again, she would come out of her hiding and attack him. When he got to the place, he stopped the car and sat there in the car, waiting. About thirty minutes later, he was still seated in the car, waiting for Sarah who there was no sign of. After about an hour of waiting, he gave up on expecting to see her and drove away from the place.