The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 143

Chapter 143

Cole POV

Three fucking days. That’s how long it’s been since I saw her, touched her, kissed her.

Three days of her absence pressing against my chest like something alive, something suffocating.

I thought killing the council would settle Zeus, but it’s only made him worse. He’s been on edge every day all day/

Not restless-hunting. Waiting for a direction. Waiting for blood.

I haven’t been able to focus on anything since that night.

I’m sitting in my office, trying not to go to the cells and kill Caleb and Serena. If I could bring them back, I would keep bringing

them back after each kill.

Break them. Heal them. Break them again-until one of them finally gives me her location.

Bringing both of them to the brink of death doesn’t settle me.

Nothing settles me. Not without her.

I pace the office until the door opens, and Dominic, Elias, Hunter, and Mason walk in.

Hunter said he’s not leaving until we find her.

Good. He can sit in this feeling with me.

Having Mason here makes Zeus anxious because he doesn’t like how worried he is for our mate while our sister is somewhere around the palace, pregnant and alone.

Zeus doesn’t see worry-he sees a male standing too close to what’s his.

“Did you find the runes?” I ask, trying to focus on anything else.

“Yes, we have guards posted outside and also have warriors hidden because we know David will try to access the magic now that he has Lyric,” Dominic says, and I growl.

Her name hits like a trigger-sharp, immediate, violent.

“Do we have any lead on where she might be? Any trails, anything?” I ask, desperation in my voice.

“Not yet, Alpha,” he says.

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“Elias, how did they get in?” I growl, my aura spilling out.

It floods the room before I can pull it back-thick, heavy, suffocating.

Everyone bows their heads, keeping my aura in check. Without her, it’s been difficult.

“South border,” he says, with his neck bared.

Who was on patrol at the south border during the coronation? I ask.

He doesn’t answer, and that makes Zeus and me even angrier.

Silence feels like betrayal right now.

“WHO!” I roar in his face, Zeus sitting on the surface trying to force the shift.

“I don’t know, Alpha,” he says, voice strained under my aura.

I grab him by the throat.

“My mate is somewhere with that stupid fucker, David, and you don’t know who YOU had on patrol?” I snarl.

My grip tightens without thought, claws threatening to break skin.

“It was supposed to be Grayson and Tylen, but Mitchell told me last minute that Grayson’s mate went into labor, so he swapped him out for Jonah. I can’t find him or Tylen,” he says.

“You mean to tell me all these warriors in this pack and none of you can find them?” I say through gritted teeth.

“We’re still looking, but we had to split the search between locating them and the Queen,” he says.

He pauses.

“We also had to post warriors outside the runes, and remember, we sent warriors to the packs in the kingdom,” he says low, as my grip tightens around his throat before I throw him back in his seat.

I growl loudly, hairs sprouting across my arms as Zeus forces the shift.

“We need to find mate,” Zeus says, jumping out of my office window and running into the woods.

“Where are you going?” I ask.

“Pups, I feel them,” he says low.

That word cuts through everything-rage, grief, all of it.

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“Why don’t I feel them?” I ask, voice choked.

“Your mind is too loud,” he says.

Too loud with anger. Too loud with fear. Too loud with her absence.

We run for two hours, and I feel them strongly.

When we run through an empty field, we can no longer sense them.

Zeus growls loudly in the field.

They were here. I felt them. I know I did.

We ran back the way we came, but now we don’t feel them at all.

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