Longing For My Rejected Luna

*****Erika's POV*****

"Where do you think she might be?" We had entered my room but could not find Kat.

Paula and I exchanged concerned looks. Where was she? Where had she gone to? I went out of my room to find her, Jace was such a stupid brother. He deserved to be hit on his head. Tasyra Grigshade? No. I did not believe Jace would have anything to do with that girl. She was always acting brainless. Her father's reputation and wealth was the only thing giving her a face in the society. And to be honest, she was quite pretty too. Only she behaved dumb. Too dumb.

She was always liking every guy she thought was handsome and caught her eye. Jace was undeniably handsome, he had always attracted the opposite sex right from our childhood. It got worse when we became teenagers, but being the quiet, reserved guy, he barely paid any of them attention. I used to him about it and how he would end up lonely if he did not show interest in any woman but he would always counter me saying he had me, I was the only woman he wanted to be around.

Tears stung my eyes, how did we get here? Me yelling at my brother and him yelling right back. We had always fought but it was unlike what had happened in the meeting room. That had been too personal. We had both gone overboard with each other.

"I thought Kat was happy." Paula said in a small worried voice beside me. She was also trying to find Kat with me.

"Me too, Paula. Me too." I replied. We were outside the mansion now, my gaze roamed and searched the length of the pack but it could not see the beginning nor the end, the pack was very big. Of all the packs, we had the biggest land mass. We made our jewels ourselves, our land was also blessed with natural resources which was one of the ways dad made money. This land belonged to the first Alpha who found this place shortly after history said he was forced to go rogue by a small pack on the Western side.

He had come here with some loyal members who had stood by him and when he found here, he named it Blackwood's legacy. But he later changed it to Iron Claw when adversities came to fight him and take the land from him after they saw the minerals and gemstones the land possessed, and it was also fertile for farming — we also produced our own food. We even produced commercially too. We were successful in every area.

"Where do you think she might be, Rika? I'm getting worried" Paula was standing beside me, she too was scanning the area but could not see Kat.

"Where are you..." I was trying to ask when Paula was running back inside, but I was unable to finish the question before she ran off.

But she soon returned with a phone. Her phone. It was to her ear. "I'm trying to call her but she's not picking."

"Her phone is in the room too, I guess. Where else would it be?" I shrugged.

She sighed and disconnected the call. "Who do you suggest we do now? Your brother needs to be slapped severally." She uttered, quite pissed.

"And I am going to do it, if he dared leaves this pack."

"I would so want to know why he suddenly wants to leave this pack but I am going

to leave that until we find Kat." Paula decided.

Why had Jace done this? It was truly mind-boggling. I had never known

Jace to be what he was at the moment. What had he thought of to have made him speak in that manner? Behave as he had behaved? Was it because he liked Tasyra? Or because he truly did not want to be in picture so people could stop talking about how he was supposed to be the Alpha? How could he even say he wanted to

leave father now that he was needed?

I needed him to help with the investigation. Yes, I knew it was time for me to take over, it was even a matter of time before my coronation as the next Alpha took place and during that important moment in my life, I would not have him around me. I would rather have him in chains present than missing. I knew Jace. Something was not right with him, and I was going to look into it. For now, I just needed to find Kat and try to make sure the doctor did not slack in my dad's treatment. I knew th chances of him surviving were almost non-existent, but I would fight at least to make sure he would survive.

But then again, the doctor had said that if even he survived, he was going to remain a vegetable. No, le would not think of that now. I would not bother my head or bruise my heart further on thoughts of my father's illness. I needed to find my best friend.

"Let's go inside." Paula was holding my hand.noveldrama

"No, I need to find her." Something was not right, I needed to find Kat.

"We can not keep standing here, it would make people suspicious or begin to give us weird looks. Let's go inside and think properly where she might be."

Paula was right. Reluctantly, I let her hold my hands and pull me inside while my eyes still roamed the premises as though I would find her. We went back to my room. I could not seat. "Where could she be?"

"I don't know, Rika. This is not my pack, I am not really familiar with places here.

But you are, this is your pack." She spoke, looking at me expectantly.

"I know this is my pack but I don't know where she is."

"She's your childhood friend, Rika. I don't know why I'm having a bad feeling about Kat. Think, Rika. Where do you think she would hide? Where does she go to whenever she's sad or wants to be alone?"

I was having the bad feeling too, but Paula had helped me remember. Pulling Paula with me, we ran out of the room. "I think I know where she might be."

Her hand still In mine, we ran to Kat's favorite spot - a hidden lake at one of far end of the pack and it was lonely too. Getting close to th spot, I heard growls.

My eyes snapped to Paula, she had heard it too. We knew there was danger and as though in sync, we both transmuted into our wolves.

If Kat needed us, she needed us to come prepared.