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“Silver, no, gray—I don’t know! The same color as her eyes!”
The world spun around me as the pieces began to fall into place like they were tumbling from the sky. My surroundings disappeared bit by bit.
Odette. Odette had planned all this.
No. I couldn’t accept that. Jamery was lying. He was cleverer than he looked under the blubbering, whining exterior.
But my gut screamed at me, reminding me how many times I had wanted to dismiss the enchantress from the castle, how often she had defied me and gotten on my nerves. Could she possibly be that evil?
“Does she have long, white hair?” I asked Jamery, keeping my tone even. I was trying to trick him, hoping that somehow this shapeshifter had worked alone.
He shook his head vehemently. “No! It’s red like fire! She’s a demon, a witch, I’m telling you!”
“Alpha…” The head guard was speaking again, but I ignored him.
“What else did she say to you?”
“She wanted me for my shapeshifting more than anything, Alpha. She told me she would guide me?—”
I’d heard enough. I had to get to Maren. Odette was still in the castle with my lover.
“Take him to the barracks until I can figure out what to do with him,” I barked out at the guards, shifting as I ran.
How could I have been so blind?
I burstthrough one of the back doors, shocking the kitchen staff as my tail knocked past them. Taking the servant’s stairs, I raced up the stone steps, three at a time, panic enveloping me.
On the third floor, I stopped at the closed bedroom door, looking around for Drakias, but he was nowhere to be found. I shifted back into my fae form, only to find my voice.
“DRAKIAS!” I howled for the guard as I threw open the bedroom door. Somehow, I already knew what I was going to find in there. Nothing. Maren was not there. “DRAKIAS!” I yelled again, storming out into the hallway as the guard sprinted up the main steps toward me.
“Yes, Alpha?”
“Where the hell were you?” I hissed. “You’re supposed to be guarding Miss Maren.”
He appeared stunned by the question. “It was an all-hands-on-deck situation with the shapeshifter, Alpha. I got a Code Red on my radio.”
“Where is she?”
Drakias continued to stare at me like a deer in headlights, and I threw up my hands, retreating to the bedroom to scour for signs of where she might have gone.
“Go find Odette,” I ordered Drakias.
“Yes, Alpha.”
I hurried to the closet to hastily throw on some clothes before retreating to the main floor to look for my cell phone in the officewhere I’d last had it. A terrible sense of foreboding overcame me as I saw the missed texts and calls from Maren.
Calling out, I held the phone away from my ear, honing my hearing for any distinct sounds of the ringing. My heart leaped when I caught a snatch of the chiming from upstairs, and I raced back up three flights to our suites again, but I found myself back in the empty bedroom.
Maren’s phone lay under the accent chair, next to the dressing room, sinking my gut lower.
“Alpha…”
I whirled around, his face telling me what I’d already dreaded and feared.
“She’s not in her room, is she?” I rasped, the blood draining out of my face. Drakias shook his head. “FIND HER!” I yelled, pocketing Maren’s cell phone. “Tear this place apart until she and Maren are located. I want every guard on it.”
“Yes, Alpha.”
