Page 200 of Omega for the Pack

Getting out of bed, I pulled my sweatpants on and walked across the hallway to her room. I knocked on the door. Noanswer. Maybe she was sleeping now. I could tell her tomorrow anyway.

It was so late. I was losing my fucking mind.

I noticed the door was partly open, so I pushed it open all the way. When I saw the empty bed, my heart nearly stopped.

“Vanessa?”

The room was bare. Her purple suitcase was gone.

No, no, no. Then I remembered her words about never seeing her again.Fuck!I slammed a fist down on the nightstand, causing the lamp to fall to the floor.

“Yo, what’s up?” asked Liam, dragging his lanky body into the room as he stretched.

“She left! She fucking up and left,” I said, my heart racing. Did she usually do this? Have one-night stands and then disappear? Did she think I was going to abandon her in Howl’s Edge?

“What?!” said Liam, his eyes opening wide- taking in the empty room. “She couldn’t have gone far.”

“We need to go find her,” I said. “Wake Ryan up, and we’re getting the hell out of here.”

Liam droveas I looked out the windows at the empty roads like a maniac. I was running on no sleep, but my brain was on alert.

“The bus stop is around here,” said Ryan. “I don’t see her.”

“She has to be here,” I said harshly, my eyes peeled and watching for her slim figure to walk around any corner. When I saw her, my heart dropped. She was leaning against a concrete wall, with her face in her hands, clearly crying. “Stop here. She’s right there!”

Her suitcase sat abandoned next to her, and she wore a pink sweater with black leggings.

When the car stopped, I jumped out and ran towards her. She looked up, looking shaken and distraught.

“Where’s Gabe?” I asked, not seeing the little tyke anywhere. Her eyes were bloodshot as she silently shook her head. Goosebumps covered every inch of my skin. I froze, standing still.

“They took him,” she blubbered, unable to hold it in any longer. She collapsed against my chest and loudly sobbed.

“Who took him?” I asked frantically. “We need to find him.”

“Gabe!” Ryan started shouting up and down the road.

“No,theytook him,” she said. Her sentences didn’t make sense to me as she blabbered about the Royal Pack.

“You mean theRoyal Packtook him?”

That was impossible.

“Yes,” she cried out. “We need to go to Howl’s Edge.”

“Okay,” I said without hesitating. I had to take charge. “Liam, drive us to the plane. Ryan, let’s go. Gabe isn’t here.”

“Thank you,” she sighed into my chest, her body limp against mine.

“We’ll get you there, baby,” I said, rubbing her back as we sat in the back of the car with Ryan and Liam up front. “Why do you think the Royal Pack took Gabe?”

“He’s the rightful heir. Their only son,” she said, shuddering.

“What?!”

The news took me completely by surprise. I had no idea she was that close to the Royal Pack. Shesleptwith the alpha kings…I had no idea how I felt about it.

“That’s why I had to leave Howl’s Edge,” she said, rubbing her tears. “Gabe is probably so scared without me. I’m such a horrible mother.”

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