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Micah tried tracking Lucy through her cell phone, but she kept it turned off. It hadn’t pinged off of any of the towers since she had left Livingston, where her apartment was. That meant that he didn’t even have an idea of what direction she went in.
Lucy also hadn’t been active on social media. There were no updates or information since the day she left. She wasn’t ever super active on any of those sites anyway, so that was just a long shot.
He reached out to several of Lucy’s friends. No one had a clue of where she might be heading. Most of them didn’t even know that she was gone. Lucy wasn’t the type of person who had to hang out with a bunch of people all the time. She only met up with people occasionally for lunch or dinner to catch up and then she would disappear for a while.
That left Ginger, her best friend. Micah already had an idea of what Ginger would have to say, but he had to try anyway.
Ginger shook her head when she saw him standing in the doorway of her apartment.
“I wondered when you were going to show up,” Ginger said, opening the door wide so he could come inside. “Coffee?”
“Sure,” he said.
“How could you agree to such an arrangement?” Ginger asked. “You know that there was no way that Lucy was going to go along with it.”
“I know,” Micah said. “I figured that I could talk to her about it and make her see that it would be a good arrangement for the both of us.”
“For you, maybe. You aren’t the one who would have to give up your entire life,” Ginger said sharply, handing him a mug of the black liquid.
“I wouldn’t stop her,” Micah said.
“No, but the overwhelming duties of an alpha’s mate would stop her and you know that,” Ginger retorted. “You need to find someone else if you are that desperate for a mate.”
“Are you volunteering for the job?” Micah asked, jokingly.
“No way,” Ginger said, vehemently. “I’m also not telling you where she is.”
No amount of cajoling would get the answer from Ginger. Micah left her apartment frustrated. How in the world was he going to find Lucy?
4
Lucy
Lucy had cleaned out all but a hundred dollars out of her bank account, which gave her quite a bit of money. She had a little bit of time before she had to figure out what she was going to do.
She drove. Lucy went to Yellowstone National Park and watched Old Faithful shoot up in the air. She went to visit a bunch of different small towns that had historical downtowns. She enjoyed history and science, so she even stopped at a couple of museums. Lucy was pretty much into anything that would keep her mind off of her current problem. She knew that she was avoiding the issue and that wasn’t a healthy way to handle the situation, but she figured that if she gave herself enough time, she would come up with a solution.
Eventually, after two weeks of meandering around back roads and small towns, she found herself in Colorado Springs. She discovered a place called Phantom Canyon. Lucy found an obscure place, which wasn’t hard to do, and shifted. She ran until her lungs ached and she was certain that her legs weren’t going to be able to carry her anymore.
The Garden of the Gods was beautiful, and it took her breath away. Heading a little further up one of the mountain roads, she drove into a charming city called Ivy Springs.
All of the buildings had old looking facades, mimicking the old west. The city had a comfortable feeling about it. She was tired of constantly driving, so she decided that she would stay a while. There was an expensive resort, called Forest Resort, but Lucy was pretty sure that she would run out of money quickly if she tried to stay there for too long. Instead, she settled for Ivy Spring’s Inn, which had long term room rentals.
The owner of the Inn was a sweet-faced older woman who had a very welcoming smile.
“How long are you going to be staying with us?”
“I don’t know,” Lucy replied. “A couple of weeks, at least.”
Lucy realized that she couldn’t stay gone forever, but hanging out here for a couple of weeks wouldn’t hurt anyone. Martha assured her that she would have a job when she returned, no matter how long she was gone.
“You look troubled,” she said.
Lucy smiled.
“I have a major situation that I have to figure out how to deal with. I needed a change of scenery so that I could clear my mind and get a fresh perspective.”
“I understand that,” the woman said. “I’ve been to Livingston. It is a nice place. My sister and I went on a shopping trip in Bozeman.”
