Page 11 of Mated in Darkness

Not to mention that everything that I had thought was true for my thirty-something years was wrong.

Wolves and witches weren’t the only paranormals out there. Yes, there were demons, but those had been sent to their dimension, especially after Caym had tried to decimate our Pack, and they killed so many of us.

I tried not to think about him, though I had only been an infant when he had been taken out. I could still hear the pain and terror in my family’s voice when they spoke of him.

However, there were more than the three major powers. The Aspen Pack had a cat shifter, and during a horrific turn of events that almost cost my friend’s life, the Talon Pack also now had a cat shifter.

I knew there had to be many other secrets out there since the world so was much bigger than us. After all, I couldn’t be the only Tracker like my father. There had to be more. Only my family had never been able to find outwhyJosh was that way or why I was the only one of their children to inherit his traits.

I pushed this outside of my mind and followed the scent and trail towards Spencer.

“Do you feel him?” Rio, one of the lieutenants, asked, and I nodded. “Slightly. It keeps fading in and out, so I don’t know if he’s moving farther away or my wolf continues to lose sight of him.” I frowned. “I don’t like the idea of that, though.”

“Neither do I. We haven’t been able to find Spencer since we thought that he could be out here,” the other wolf, Dane, said.

I looked over at him and saw he had a frown on his face that only made the scar on his cheek more prominent.

“Our Alpha called you ahead then, to look?” I asked, trying to pick up on Spencer’s scent. I couldn’t at all, and that worried me. I just had to hope that my Tracking wasn’t leading us astray.

My cousin was still in Philadelphia, searching for Spencer, but nobody had seen him for the conference he was supposed to be at. There was no scent, no place to track.

Either he was in the wrong place, or we both were, and we were never going to be able to find Spencer. I pushed those thoughts from my mind, not wanting to think about them.

“Yes, as did your Beta,” Dane answered. “They told us when he hadn’t shown up and thought maybe he would come out here. Now that you’re here, it just reaffirms the fact that we need to find out.”

“Because I’m the Tracker?” I asked, ducking underneath a fallen branch.

Rio picked it up as if it weighed nothing, and he looked down at me, interest in his gaze.

They were both dominant wolves, strong enough to match my own wolf, and yet I felt nothing.

My wolf wanted a mate. She didn’t want just a quick lay to get rid of her aggression and need.

That meant I had to deal with it.

I gave him a small smile, then went back to Tracking, and I figured the way that I turned would be enough of an answer to the question in his gaze.

He didn’t push, and I was grateful. I hated having to put down dominant wolves when I wasn’t in the mood to deal with their games. I was a dominant wolf myself, I understood.

But I had to listen to my own needs. For once.

My phone buzzed, and I cursed and pulled it out of my pocket. “Sorry.”

“No problem, we’ll keep on the scent,” Dane said, as he gestured towards Rio to move out of the way. We were werewolves, and so it was going to be hard for them to give me too much privacy, but they were at least giving me the benefit of the doubt.

That was nice considering I was an unknown on their territory.

“What is it, Conner?” I asked, my voice a growl.

“I’m just checking in on you. You don’t have to snap at me.” My brother grumbled into the phone, and I held back a smile. This wasn’t a time to smile, not when something was sending me on edge.

“I’m Tracking right now, I don’t have time for you to get possessive and growly.”

“I just had a bad feeling along the twin bond. I don’t know what it is. I feel like you’re in the right place. It’s just hard. You know?”

My wolf calmed slightly, liking to be reassured. I sighed. “I feel like we’re in the right place too, and that worries me. Because I can’t scent him, Conner. I don’t know what we’re going to find.”

“If you don’t want me out there, anyone else from the Pack can come fly out, so you’re not alone. We’re creating an alliance with the Starlight Pack. They won’t mind.”

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