Page 47 of Rising Luna
Sometimes, I really hated my mates.You two suck.
No, but you are amazing at it,Jackson said with a wink.
There wasn't a way for me to respond to that in a way I really wanted, so instead I growled at them. Because of my shifting, I lost my clothes. Hunter stood from the bed and walked over to my dresser to pull out a baggy shirt and pants and held them out to me. I sneezed at him and bore my teeth at him again. He chuckled, but didn't move away. I snatched the clothes from him with my teeth and trotted off to the bathroom. It wasn’t that I felt embarrassed to be naked in front of Sera, but more that I knew how my mates were when I was naked.
Sera didn't need to see that.
No one needed to see that.
It was just my pleasure to experience it. The shift back was quick, and I pulled on the clothes Hunter gave me. When I walked back in, Hunter and Jackson were talking about how they asked Silas to get Noah to come to the angel dorm because she was in trouble. Sera bit her lip, and I knew my friend knew something, but didn't want to say it. Something told me I didn't want to know what she knew. The mention of Silas caused my wolf to perk up and whine. She missed him, and I hated that I missed him, too. That night together really messed up the bond. Before I could ignore it.
I couldn't anymore.
The mention of his name caused it to tug for me to find him. The need for the bond to be completed grew with each passing moment. It annoyed me to know how my heart could betray me so easily. Silas still had a long way to go before I forgave him, but fuck me. I didn't like the idea of him disappearing. He could've let me suffer that night. Locked me in his bathroom and let me ride out my heat with no pleasure. Silas took care ofme even though I could wake up the next morning and still hate him.
That was love.
Hunter and Jackson would have done the same thing if they were in the same predicament with me. If Silas will do the same things as the devoted mates I have now, how the hell could I remain mad at him?
"I don't know how to say this, but I saw him talk to Noah," Sera said.
When she looked at me, the concern grew in my chest. My wolf whined as the feeling that something bad happened settled in.
"What did he do after he talked with Noah?" Hunter asked her.
He glanced in my direction, and I could feel how he hoped nothing bad would be coming out of her mouth for my sake. There was an undertone there, too, of him hoping it was something incriminating, so he had more of an excuse to punch Silas in the face. For Silas's sake, I hoped it wouldn't lead to that. Hunter, being as lethal as he is, could probably kill someone with a single punch.
"That's the thing. I don't know. I saw him talking to the guard, and then he disappeared," Sera explained.
Hunter leaned in, going into Enforcer mode, which meant he wanted information to track Silas down. Not good. Through the bond, anger rose in Hunter's bond. He needed more information before he passed judgement.
"How did you lose sight of him? Did he disappear by going into the school, or did he walk off somewhere?"
Sera bit her lip again. I could scent the nervousness on her. Hunter was a scary dude on a normal day. Give him a reason to bring out his Enforcer side, and it would make you want to run for the hills.
"A group of students walked in front of me. I was walking out of the school when I saw him. He looked in my direction and waved, so I didn't want to be rude because I thought he was flagging me down to talk. He spoke with Noah for a moment, the students walked past, and when they were gone, he was, too."
Jackson looked at me next, and he didn't like how that sounded. "Why wouldn't he come with Noah toward us?"
I shrugged. "I don't know. He knew the plan. Silas was supposed to help us with Noah."
Hunter growled. "That's the point. Did he do this and then just walk away to leave it up to us to capture him?"
Now anger boiled inside me. That couldn't be it, right? He didn't just abandon me when I needed him after he got what he wanted, right? Silas had to be a better guy than that. He looked utterly heartbroken when I rejected him after he showed up here, and he's looked like a lost puppy around campus since he got here. He couldn't have acted like this all because he wanted sex. That couldn't be possible. No one could fake everything like that.
Hunter walked out the door, and I reached through the bond to find out where he planned to go. There wasn't a wall to block me out, but I could feel his presence below us. There was some knocking, but no movement to answer the door. Silas wasn't in his room. So where did he go?
Hunter walked through the door and shook his head.My wolf whined again, and I shared what she felt. Betrayal. Silas got what he wanted and then disappeared.
I fell for it when I shouldn't have.
Chapter Sixteen: Dylan
Sometimes I wished the world would understand that some people have a lot of shit going on, and it would be nice if everything could just stop for a few days. We’re told the gods care, but it’s hard to see it that way. Silas disappearing sat in my mind all night long. Even with Hunter’s and Jackson's warmth, sleep evaded me.
Where the hell could he have gone?
Silas knew to follow Noah. Sera didn't notice foul play like someone attacking Silas before he disappeared. The crowd of people who walked by only broke her line of sight on him for a few minutes. Silas was a big guy. It wasn't like anyone could overpower him in just a few seconds.
