Chapter 19 Finding Kristen
Calhoun's POV
"Alpha Calhoun, my daughter has been missing for three days," sobs the middle-aged woman in front of me.
"Are you sure she didn't elope with a lover or something?" My eyes narrow in their sockets.
"No, Daisy doesn't even sleep out. She tells me of her whereabouts but it's been three days and she hasn't returned home. Her line isn't reachable."
"How old is your daughter, again?"
"She's just twenty, Alpha Calhoun." Almost the same age as my mate, Kristen.
"Just return home, I'll have my men look into this and Daisy will be found," I assure her, meaning every word.
The tearful woman nods and reluctantly takes her leave, while the guards shut the doors. Leaving just me and Bruce alone.
It's been seven hours since my return and I went to the Greyhound council, especially to attend to pressing issues that have to do with my pack.
"Do you think the girl is alive?" Bruce inquires, stroking his chin.
"Maybe, maybe not," turning my head in his direction, I make this request, "Wine."
Bruce nods before pouring some wine into a glass and handing it to me.
"I think Jack the rogue psycho has a hand in, his." I say after having a thought about everything.
"The guy who wears a creepy mask and kidnaps women?" Bruce asks.
"Yes," I answer and sip my wine before putting the glass aside.
"It's so messed up that no one even knows what he looks like." Bruce sighs and pours himself some wine.
"People say he has an underground basement where he takes these women and tortures them into doing his bidding, but I am yet to know if it's true." I let my mind recall the rumor about the psycho rogue.
He was set on exile from his pack, after trying to rape his Alpha's wife. He was a beta as of then. His Alpha took pity on him and spared his life when he pleaded for mercy, so he was kicked out of his pack. Since then, he hasn't joined any pack. He just lived alone and began with his kidnap for women because both he and his wolf were powerful. His dream was to have 200 she-wolves who worshiped him.
"Have some men search for Daisy by tomorrow," I order Bruce.
"As you wish, though I hope the girl is still. Because it might be that she's been attacked by something else," Bruce said in a thoughtful manner and dawned his wine in one gulp.
My mind drifts over to the incident with Natalie. I've kept out of her way as she's wanted and right now, I don't need to man up and make the right decision. Because things aren't even working out between us anymore.
"Kristen hasn't returned home," Bruce remarks.
"What do you mean she hasn't returned home?" I blink in confusion.
"She stays out at night and it's within your estate but this time she's not around. I've looked everywhere." Bruce informs me and pours himself more wine.
"Have you told Natalie?"
"She seems unbothered."
Now something seems off. It was in the morning when we left Kristen at the hairdressing salon and it's late now. Where else would she go apart from here?
Upon thinking she's an adult, I try to sit back and relax but my wolf is against this. He wants me to go in search of her. "Where are you off to?" Bruce questions upon seeing me head for the door.
"To find my mate." My response stuns him for a couple of seconds until he leaves him and rushes to my side.
"Wait up, I'm coming with you."
I am restless as we keep looking for Kristen. Bruce has been driving me to the places we suspect she'd be since she's just twenty- one. Even the hairdressers at the salon said she left an hour after I took her mother away.
Where in the world could she be?
Is she upset that I ignored her this morning or mad that I didn't show up at the council hall when I ought to?
"Just calm down, Alpha Calhoun. She could be somewhere drinking and grinding on men at the club." Bruce smirks.
And his response sparks jealousy within me. Because I just imagined it.
"Don't you dare talk about her like that!" I growl at him.
"Woah, sorry about that. I was just kidding to lighten up the mood since you look upset." Bruce has his eyes raised in their sockets, while I just look away from him because I'm not in the mood to talk anymore.
I've been trying to reach her through the phone but she isn't taking any of my calls.
Can it be that she's at the club just like Bruce said?
She's letting older men touch her?
My fists are curled up so hard on top of my thighs when images of Kristen getting fcked by someone flashes through my head. The urge to punch something is consuming right now.
Our first encounter was at the club. Can it be that I have the wrong conception about her and she approaches men to sleep with her?
I've never been so jealous and bitter in my entire life. My chest is rising and falling from how fast my heart is pounding in my chest.
"What's wrong?" Bruce upon sensing this, glances at me with raised eyes.
"Let's go find my mate!" My voice is dangerously thick and hair-raising to Bruce because he immediately stops the car.
"Okay, okay. Slow down. We'll find her and take her home." Bruce assures me with caution but it's not working.
"No, don't do this, Calhoun." He's against this but it's already too late.
My wolf has taken over right now, with blazing red eyes. He doesn't push the car open. Instead, he uproots the door and takes a high leap from the car.
"Wait, Alpha Calhoun!" Bruce yells after me and immediately shifts.
He's running to catch up with me now but my wolf is times twice his size, and even faster.
Our wolves do not speak but the whining from Bruce's wolf gives out that he's complaining inwardly. My wolf just destroyed the door of a car, because we're both jealous that Kristen is doing it with someone. And when afraid that she might be hurt.
I would kill anyone who tries to tamper with what's mine. It doesn't matter if she approached them or not, no one has the right to get intimate with her except me.
Upon seeing me and my Beta's wolf running on all fours, people pave the way for us to pass.
I can still remember the faces of those young boys who surrounded Kristen at the pack run, and my first instinct is to break into their homes and find my mate. Oh, the boy or man with Kristen will plead for mercy while I break all his limbs.
Never have I been this consumed by jealousy over a woman. It's a foreign feeling and I'll take it that it's because I just found my mate for the first time in my life.
When I break into the first boy's house, I find him on top of a girl.
"Alpha Calhoun!?" The boy yelps in shock upon seeing my growling wolf, then he moves away from the girl who's a brunette.
Kristen is blonde.
Upon thinking she dyed her hair brown because she was at the hairdressing saloon just this morning, my wolf nears the shivering girl and takes a closer look at her.
Only to confirm she's not Kristen.