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Dominic

There’s no light anymore.

Atlas

Fourteen days.

I thought I knew pain, what it was like to lose her. This pain pales in comparison to this feeling that is currently ripping my chest to shreds.

Two weeks. Fourteen days. Three hundred and thirty-six hours, and the only thing I’ve known is pain.

Sebastian

My brain tries to rationalize everything, but I’ve never felt like this before.

I feel useless.

Unable to find any more sightings of her.

I can’t do anything more, and now all the thoughts I desperately tried to hold back are battering my mind.

I feel nothing but hopelessness as I let it pull me under, and I seek comfort in the foreign feeling.

Why should I fight it? There is no sunshine without her.

Zander

I don’t like not being able to fight while the anger settles in my heart like an old friend.

I could arrange a fight. Hell, I could walk up to Dominic right now and get exactly what I need, but I can’t.

I hold it all in. I let the bloodlust flood my veins for when we find them because we will.

I’m just scared that none of us will be the men she knew before.

Tobias

I found her.

Chapter 14

Tobias

One day…

Twenty-four hours and still no sign of her. I followed the GPS route to the drop-off point, searching for anything I could that could lead me to their whereabouts.

They usually run somewhere secluded, making my job harder, but I always find them. I enjoy the hunt, capturing them so much sweeter when they believe that they got away.

But this is Autumn, my girl, my love, my everything.

I will always find her, no matter what.Always.

Three days…

My phone buzzes on the nightstand, waking me from my sleep, not that I’ve been sleeping these past few days. I force myself to stop and rest, staying in shitty motels for a few hours of shut-eye.

Groaning, I sit up, my back aching from the lumpy mattress, and grab the device.

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