It’s been months since Sage disappeared, and I can’t live like this anymore.
The moment I told my parents the truth — that Sage is my fated mate — something inside me changed. The drinking stopped. The moping stopped. The pain was still there, but it had a direction now.
I had a reason to move again.
To find her.
To bring her home.
Zack and Hazel didn’t ask questions when I told them what I planned to do. They just showed up.
Hazel hugged me before we left. “We’ll find her.” She said softly. “No one just disappears without a trace.”
Zack clapped me on the shoulder. “You know I’ve got your back, brother. We’ll find your girl, even if it takes forever.”
And so we began.
The first few weeks were brutal.
We searched every town that had even a whisper of pack activity. I ran through f
