Chapter 59 - Lost II - The Royal Hybrid

Hayden’s POV

“You think we have a mole?”

“How else would you explain this? It’s clearly someone who has access to her tower and the prison section so it can’t be anyone from the outside because our Luna would have felt that the second, they stepped foot on the pack land.”

It made sense because he was right. No outsiders could come here without her knowing and even if they did, they wouldn’t know where our prison section was or that Zaya had barriers on her tower, let alone how to come past them. It had to be someone within the pack… Someone we trusted…

“This changes things a lot,” Zaya sighed. “I’ll go inform the Alpha and Luna and in the meantime, I need both of you to let Doctor Taylor take a look at you. Neither of you are to step foot outside your rooms without his clearance, am I clear?”

“You can’t expect us just to sit back when our mate is missing,” I hissed.

“Especially not when we know she is probably being taken back to Killian this very instant,” Gabriel exclaimed. “Do you have any idea what he will do to her?”

“I do,” she said sternly. “But what good will you two be if you end up overexerting your bodies and end up probably being killed because you lose the ability to fight back.”

“But what if we can?”

“Fine, I’ll ask this one thing then,” she said and looked from me to Gabriel. “Does either of you have contact with your wolf right now?”

And by then I knew she had us. I didn’t have contact with Syx at all, hell I couldn’t even feel him and when Gabriel didn’t speak either, I had a feeling he couldn’t feel his.

“Good, I take your silence as the answer I need. Now, do as I said.”

“Okay,” Gabriel responded with a nod. “But the second we are-“

“We will find out who did this and bring her back,” I interrupted and watched as Gabriel nodded.

“I know,” she said and turned around to leave.

I looked over at Gabriel who was already staring at me.

“You are not going to wait, are you?” he asked me

“Nope,” I said and popped the p before I tried to get up. “And I’m assuming you aren’t either.”

“Of course not,” he grumbled and got to his feet.

“Silver poisoning or not, I will not let her be in his hands ever again,” I said as I shook my head. “I promised her Gabriel…”

“Then we better get going,” he sighed and looked around. “But we need to be discreet about it. Otherwise, she will try to stop us,” he said referring to Zaya.

“That or my dads will,” I snickered and nodded towards my room. “I have a way for us to exit without getting seen. Follow me.”

I had never done this before. I wasn’t the type to break any rules let alone not follow an order, but this was something else and I didn’t care what the consequences of it were I would take it as it came. Right now, my love was in danger and there was no way I was about to let her stay that way if I could do something about it.

I closed the door behind Gabriel as he came through it and turned toward the window.

“Now what?” he asked.

“I have vines hanging from the roof, past my window and all the way to the ground,” I explained as I opened the window and looked out.

He came to my side and looked out with me before frowning.

“They don’t look very secure.”

“They are. I used them a lot when I was younger and wanted to watch the grown-ups train,” I shrugged. “Getting scared now, are you?”

“Of course, I’m not getting scared!” he huffed but I could see the sweat forming on his forehead as he looked down.

“Wait,” I paused. “Are you by any chance afraid of heights?”

“No,” he stuttered. “That would be…”

“Absolutely okay,” I interrupted and gave him a reassuring smile that looked like it threw him off a bit.

“You’re not going to make fun of it?” he asked shocked, clearly not believing me when I shook my head.

“Why would I? You might be Tatiana’s mate, but in some weird ass way you are mine too and I wouldn’t make fun of her fears so why should I do it of yours?”

“You really never cease to amaze me,” he muttered.

“Do you want to go down first or last?”

“Last, no first! No, wait…”

“Okay how about I go first to show you that there is no danger?” I chuckled lightly.

“See, now you are making fun of me,” he pointed out.

“No, I simply found that cute,” I said before I could even stop myself. “Okay, never mind that, is this what we do?”

“Yeah, you better go first.”

I swung my right leg over the window frame and leaned out just enough the get a hold of the vine. Then I made sure to find a steady one for my foot to rest on as I swung my other leg out.

“Dammit what if you fall?!” he exclaimed looking a little pale.

“Gabriel, you need to calm down. You are usually collected and calm, what the hell…”

“This is different! You could fall and die! Have you seen how far there is down?” he asked as he stuck his head out next to mine to look down.

“Hey!” I said and got his attention over to me instead. “Look at me. Good. Breathe!” I demanded and watched as he took a few deep breaths. “Good, now you need to remember who we are doing this for okay? It is either this way or the way straight down to Doctor Taylor, so which do you pick?”

“This one obviously,” he answered quickly sounding a bit more like himself.

I nodded and continued my way down, and once I was close enough to the ground, I closed the rest of the gap between the ground and me by jumping. Once my feet connected with the ground I looked up and gestured for Gabriel to crawl down. He hesitantly followed my steps throwing one foot out after another, clinging to the vines as if his life depended on it, making a few squeals here and there, and once he was close enough to the ground I asked him to jump which he refused at first but did after a few second.

“See that wasn’t so hard, was it?”

“Shut up,” he grumbled and began to walk. “Come on, we don't have much time before they notice that we have gone.”

"Where are we even going?" I asked. "We have no idea where he took her and seeing as they literally went up in smoke, he didn't exactly leave a trail behind them for us to follow."

I knew it had been my idea to leave in the first place, but standing here now with absolutely no clue on where to go first, I had to try and think rationally despite the fact that every single nerve in my body still was numb and on edge.

"Somewhere were we can hopefully track her scent and once that happens, we can only pray to the moon goddess, that the silver has left our systems enough for our wolves to come out. Until then, we have to do this on foot."

We kept walking, no, we actually more like snuck around the houses and gardens to stay out of sight and once we reached the furthest border to the south I knew we had to make a run for it.

"If we manage to get into the forest and down to the lake, we should be far enough and we can start our search there," I said.

"That would be a good idea, but we need to keep in mind that a search team will be sent off soon enough so I think we need to get further away than the lake in order to get a head start," he pointed out and made a run for the next bush.

I looked around, making sure that no one was in sight as I made a run for it too and once I was next to him, I looked at him.

"What do you suggest we do then?" I asked. "Again, as you so nicely said yourself, we don't have our wolves yet so the distance we have to go will be on foot, and if we need to get far enough away..." I trailed off.

"I hear you, I do, but if we get caught we will not only get the biggest scolding of our lives, but we will also miss the chance of possibly catching a scent. We have to push ourselves, you know like we did when we were kids in our old pack and we snuck out to see the warriors. We ran like hell to even try and catch up with them, and this is what we have to do again, just not to catch up, but to make sure we don't get caught."

I was about to answer when I heard voices in the distance calling.

"You think they are calling for us or for reinforcement?"

"I don't know and I don't plan on sticking behind to find out," he said and looked around. "The coast looks clear. As far as I can see, and according to the time, the guards on the southern border are about to change shifts so in about 20 seconds we have to make a run for it."

I nodded and prepared for the sprint of my life. We had to at least get into the forest without being noticed in order to actually have a chance.

"Let's go!"