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Finneas nodded, his eyes sad. “And I don’t blame you.”
Nibbling on my lower lip with indecision I finally let out a whooshing sigh. “Can I come again? To see you I mean.”
For the first time since I’d come in, Finneas smiled the same smile I remember from my earliest memories. The one that I sometimes saw when I looked in the mirror.
“I’d like that very much.”
Chapter thirty-nine
“What do you mean you still won’t tell us where she is. Aurelia, our packmates have all but vanished and you know where.” I was trying very hard not to yell at Ciara’s sister as she sat behind her desk.
They all seemed to know exactly what was going on with her and Wiz and yet they wouldn’t tell any of us.
It had been three weeks since the accident and we still weren’t any closer to finding her than we had been when we came home to the empty apartment and a note from Ciara telling us she’d be back soon and that she was taking Wiz with her.
“I can’t tell you, Enzo,” Aurelia insisted, her blue eyes looking conflicted even as her words were firm.
“That’s bullshit!” Slamming my hand on the flat surface, I growled with frustration.
“Hey! Don’t you raise your voice at her,” Colt barked as he stepped through the open doorway of his office. “I get that you’re upset about Ciara and Wiz, but that doesn’t mean you can yell at a pregnant woman, much less my mate, Santoro.”
“I’m sorry,” I immediately apologized, guilt fisting in my chest as I stepped away from the desk.
Aurelia softened a bit. “What I was going to say before you interrupted me was that I can’t tell you where she is because I don’t even know exactly. She’s just as upset with me as she is with you.”
“Why though? None of you will tell us specifically what happened before the invitational and she’s our packmate.”
Exhaustion filled my body, weighing heavily on my shoulders right alongside the memory of the hurt on Ciara’s face when I’d said the words I wished more than anything I could take back.
I hadn’t meant them, but Ciara didn’t know that.
Maybe you really are a bad luck charm, the words echoed over and over in my mind and so did the way her brown eyes widened and her mouth opened with shock.
I thought I would have a chance to apologize, to grovel at her feet until she forgave me. But she’d run before I could get the chance and I’d spent the past three weeks trying to console my two heartbroken packmates.
Artie’s surgery had gone off without a hitch, but the omega rarely ever left his nest and rarely ever spoke. Misery oozed off of him in almost physical waves and it was hard to even get him to eat let alone leave the apartment.
On the other hand, Leith had thrown himself into his training and when he wasn’t at training he was curled up with Artie. Both of them were closed off from me and I found myself more alone than ever.
I’d done that. All of my fears about losing my pack were coming true before my very eyes and I didn’t know how to fucking fix it.
Running a hand through my hair and tugging on the ends, I realized that I must have looked completely insane to the people in the head office of the Complex.
Aurelia was looking at me with worry while Hideo and Colt looked at me with varying levels of pity.
“Enzo,” a familiar voice came from behind me and I turned to find Alexei Peterson standing in the doorway of the office. “Come with me, son, we need to talk.”
“Uncle Alexei…” Aurelia began reproachfully but the man just waved her off.
“He has a right to know what we do. Legally and emotionally,” Alexei said, jerking his head and motioning for me to follow him.
We walked in relative silence as we crossed the complex to where all of the coach’s offices were.
Once we were settled, him behind his desk and me in the chair in front of it, I was nearly exploding with the need to know where Ciara was.
“What is going on Alexei? Why are you all acting like this and where are Ciara and Wiz.”
Alexei scrubbed a tired hand over his face and leaned back in his desk chair. “Has Ciara ever told you about Brynn’s accident four years ago?”
