Chapter 88


    Chapter 88 – Markus


    Markus P.O.V.


    ”


    “N0000!” As and I roared as we watched our mate disappear, waking up the entire Pack as our


    scream pushed through the Pack


    link. My fear and heartbreak flowing through it. My knees gave out and my knees hit the ground as we


    shifted back. Howls could be heard


    from every direction as people realized who had linked them.


    ‘Markus, what’s wrong?’ Gillian said as he added Danny and my father to the mind link.


    ‘He took her,’ was all I could say as I looked up at the sky as if she would jump back down to me. I


    heard running to my right.


    “He’s over here!” I heard Danny scream and I looked over to see as they all ran out to me half dressed.


    As was howling in my head, but I felt nothing. There was no life without Celeste. She’s gone and with


    her my heart.


    I stood up and walked towards the Packhouse. My friends, my family reached me but I just pushed


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    through them all. They tried to


    talk to me but I had nothing to give. I walked all the way up to our floor. Danny and Gillian and dad were


    still behind me, asking me what


    happened, over and over and I had no answer to give because I didn’t know what had just happened


    either. I went into the room and didn’t even bother to shut the door behind me. They would just break it


    down. I walked into the bathroom where I knew her clothes from today were in the hamper. I pulled out


    the red blouse she had worn and clutched it as if it was my safety nket. I went into the bed and


    closed my eyes. Inhaling her scent on the shirt. I heard them talking to me for goddess knows how long


    before they finally left. We stayed this way, reying what happened in my head over and over, trying


    to figure out how it could all go so wrong. Just a few hours ago, my life had been near perfect and now


    it was just gone. As howled for hours before we finally passed out.


    We slept a dead, dreamless sleep. As was still sleeping when I woke up. I could hear him whining in


    his sleep as the pain of


    everything that happened rushed to me. I started breathing hard. I couldn’t catch my breath.


    “Alpha!” I heard a voice but I couldn’t pin point who it was. My chest was seizing, my heart was racing, I


    couldn’t catch my breath. My eyes couldn’t focus on anything. She left me. Kara left us. She knew it


    would happen and told no one. Why? Why would she leave us? Did


    she not trust us to protect her? The pain in my heart increased. Why did she leave us? She would just


    give up our life so easily?


    “Son? Markus? You’re having a panic attack. You need to breathe. Slow your breathing. Come on.


    Steady breath.” He tried to calm


    me but I could barely hear him over the rush of blood in my ears. I started to feel dizzy when I felt a


    sharp pain on my cheek, making me


    see stars but cutting through my panic. The pain in my chest decreased and I was able to take a full


    breath. I looked up to see Maya in


    front of me. Tears in her eyes, her hand to her mouth. As was still asleep. Whining loudly. Why


    wasn’t he waking?


    Danny moved Maya away as Gillian pushed forward. “Alpha? Markus, talk to me brother?” He said as


    he knelt in front of me to meet


    my eyes. “Markus?”


    I felt tears begin to flow freely from my eyes. “Markus, we need to know what happened so we can get


    Celeste back,” Gillian said, and I could see a tear falling from his eyes as he stared at me.


    “I don’t know.” I choked out. “I woke up and she wasn’t in bed. I looked for her and found her outside. I


    thought she was sleep


    walking, but Kara was in control. I couldn’t talk to Celeste. She sounded so scared,”I choked back a


    sob and looked away. I felt broken.” Kara said the moon goddess showed her that this was the only


    way to avoid loss.”


    “She gave herself up?” Danny asked, his face full of hurt.


    I nodded. “She said he wouldn’t kill her until the full moon and I had to find her. He will kill her where it


    all began and under the full moon so he can make Selene watch.”


    Dad grabbed me and led me to the bathroom. He got it running and pushed me inside, “Shower and


    change. We’ve lost three days already. We need to find my daughter-inw before anything happens to


    her,” he said, and my head snapped to him.


    “What do you mean three days?” I said.


    “Markus, you have been sleeping for three days. Nothing we could do would wake you. Dr West and


    both Dr. Castle said you were in a


    healing sleep. They think you went into shock. Your heart rate was all over the ce the whole first day.


    They were concerned your heart


    “I…how?”


    “It doesn’t matter right now, son. What matters is getting your mate and your pups home safe. We only


    have 12 days before the full


    moon,” He shut the door and I took off shorts I don’t remember putting on. I walked into the stream,


    letting all of my anguish flow out of


    me. If dad was right, I didn’t have time to let my grief overwhelm me again. I was going to get my mate


    back. Wake up As – I said, but


    there was no response. I tried a few more times with the same result.


    I wrapped a towel around my waist and looked in the mirror. Despite apparently sleeping for three days,


    there wererge bags under


    my eyes and I was tired. I walked out of the room to find all of them there. Evergreen had joined them


    along with his mate Valeria 1


    walked to the closet and changed into a shirt and sweats. I stood at the door of the closet and took a


    few deep breaths, though I could


    find no calm, I got control of my emotions and opened the door, “What’s happened while I was


    sleeping?” I asked.


    “We reviewed the cameras while you were out to try to figure out what happened. Evergreen has


    scanned his picture and one of Celeste and is having his software scan to let us know where they are.


    So far we have no hits.” Gillian said, disappointment in his


    voice.


    “Alpha Diego returned to his Pack yesterday. He is gathering his warriors and will return so he can be


    near when we find and fight


    Huitzilopochtli,” Danny added, “He also said he would call around for us to see if there have been any


    sightings from other packs.”


    “Tell him not toe but to be ready. Kara said he would take them where it all began and that will be


    somewhere in Mexico.” I said and Evergreen nodded, already typing away on theputer.


    “Get all of our warriors ready. The moment we know where he has her, we are flying to Mexico. Every


    warrior should have a bag ready


    with some change of clothing and their passport. I will call Rhett and ask him to send some of his


    warriors to protect the pack in case of a


    rogue attack.”I went back to the bed and sat down, grabbing her shirt again. I felt pain shoot through


    my heart as I thought of her. “Have


    either Dr. West or Dr Castle be ready with supplies. We don’t know if she’s eating or if she’ll need


    medical attention,” I said quietly.


    “Hey man, Celeste has been through a lot. She can survive anything,” Gillian said.


    “Can you call one of them? As is not waking up.”I told dad. He sighed.


    “Dr West already said that might happen. When he checked your vitals, As’ eyes were in ce, not


    yours. As healed you while


    you slept. He’s likely just tired and will be asleep for a bit longer than you.” I nodded.


    “Is there anything else?” I asked them. I was tired. I just wanted to sleep again.


    “Your people need to see you, son. The pain they felt, that we all felt. They are worried about you. They


    need to see their Alpha.


    I nodded. “Not today, dad. I need to sleep.” I looked at my clock. It was only 7pm, but I had no energy. I


    didn’t even have the energy to pretend I was OK. I curled back up in bed with Celeste’s shirt. Her scent


    was faint but it was still there.


    “Son, you need to eat something.”


    “Tomorrow dad. I’m not hungry.” I said and shut my eyes. I slept, but this time I had nightmare after


    nightmare. My mind reyed the same set of events in my head over and over. Sometimes kara was


    smiling, holding Huitzilopochtli lovingly. Another time, he ripped her head off. I woke up panting


    sometime around 5am from a dream where he had punched a whole through her stomach. Despite


    having an empty stomach, I threw up into a waist basket.


    Markus – As howled at the dream.


    Are you OK? – I asked him.


    We were dying. Our heart was hurting too much. I had to put us into a deep sleep –


    He said.


    We have to find her. – I said,


    She was being held in a basement somewhere. She hasn’t been hurt and the pups are OK. They are


    taking her to Mexico. They were


    waiting on a fake passport. She will be in Mexico in a few hours. –


    He said.


    How do you know this?


    After I healed you, I reached out through the mate bond. I pushed it as far as I could with everything I


    had. It took hours but I finally


    got through. That is why we had to sleep for so long. I used all of our energy.


    She’s OK.- I sighed.


    Yes, she said look for two pyramids. When she visited the moon goddess, thest vision was two


    pyramids in front of each


    other.


    Will you be able to talk to her again? I asked him with a bit of hope and he howled.


    She’s too far now. Trying to reach her would kill us. We need to find the ce so we can try to reach


    out. Even then, getting through would take too much energy for us to do. We wouldn’t be able to fight


    after. – He said.


    So no – I said sadly – Thank you for doing that. It’s better than thinking the worst. We have to tell


    Evergreen and Diego, maybe they know the pyramids we are talking about.


    We have to gather all that we have. He cannot live Markus. He is a threat to our pups. –


    As growled.


    We don’t know if he can even be killed.


    -Treminded him, making him growl more – We don’t have time to look now, we need to


    think of the Celeste and the pups.


    Mate and pups first – As agreed and we headed downstairs to where my friends and family had


    spent thest three days looking for Celeste.