Page 123 of My Broken Mate
“Remy,” he exclaims. “He disappeared. I apologize deeply, Alpha. It’s my fault—”
“Details!” I interrupt him, my mind instantly starting to race. I will the panic down before I can lash out at the man or do something similarly stupid. “I need details!”
“He wanted to stop on our way to university. There is a bookshop he usually frequents. I waited for him in the car, as usual, but he never returned.”
My head starts spinning. The bodyguards always wait for him outside. It’s something Gabriel and I decided on, so that Remy wouldn’t feel too suffocated.
My emotions have gone overboard without me even uttering a word. The warrior goes down on his knees, baring his neck. “Forgive me, Alpha. I should have watched out for him. I accept any punishment.”
“Get up,” I command. “The rule not to follow Remy anywhere inside is on Gabriel and me, not you.” Again, I am surprised by myself. I have worked hard to suppress my own feelings, so I would never lash out at my people. Yet even now, despite my feelings running amok, I don’t find myself acting in any unreasonable way towards this man. My father would have made him suffer. “Did you check the bookstore he went into?”
“Yes.” He gets up, instantly filling me in on what he knows. The shop was empty. Remy bought a book. The store owner said he was looking at something on his phone. “The rest is blurred. The man said he isn’t sure if Remy was meeting someone or if he just left through the side entrance.”
“Isn’t that staff only?”
“That’s why it’s weird. The guy thinks he might have heard something.”
I frown. Did someone lure Remy outside? My heart sinks to new depths. “Gather some of the warriors and our best trackers,” I say. “We’ll head out in a couple of minutes.”
The man nods, dashing off. Meanwhile, I know I need to call Gabriel. He beats me to it, though, calling me and blurting into my ear the moment I pick up. “Is Remy at home? And Katalina, is she around, too?”
“No.” I hurry to grab my things and head out of the suit. “His bodyguard lost track of him when he was in a store. Going by the shop owner, Remy was on the phone, then he disappeared.”
“He was supposed to meet Katalina,” Gabriel explains, his voice strained. “Ayden just called me. Remy was running late; he texted Katalina and they agreed to meet, but they never showed up to the lecture and their phones are off.”
I halt in my step, my mind racing. My initial thought was that maybe Remy shook off his bodyguard, though he has never done that before. Well, maybe at the very beginning he did, but ever since then he has always been diligent to the point of almost being overly obedient to all my wishes. I rub my head. That’s another thing to reflect on, but not now.
Listening to Gabriel raises new worries, though. If he and Katalina were supposed to meet, what happened at the time they were meeting? Why is Katalina missing, too? “I am heading out with the warriors.” I wave at the group of men waiting for me, all of them tense and nervous. “Try to look into this, too. I’ll send Levi to you for help. We’ll meet up in a couple of hours to exchange information.”
“Do you think…” His voice trails off. “Goddess, Sean, tell me nothing happened.”
“I don’t know,” I say, forcing my voice to sound calm, but even I can hear how strained I truly sound. “We need to keep an open mind and take everything into account.”
We do have enemies. I don’t say that last part out loud. Even if Remy snuck away, maybe to meet Katalina, there is still the option of someone having tailed him. There is also the option of Katalina having been spied on.
Grabbing my phone tightly, I gesture to my men to get into the cars. We take off immediately. On our way to the bookstore, I decide I have to call Joel. He picks up on the first ring. “I was about to call you,” he blurts out.
“So, you have heard it already?”
“Yes, Eve just came running.” His voice is tight. “They are definitely not in the pack. We have checked everywhere.”
“I am heading out to where Remy was last seen,” I say.
“Eve is on his way to meet Gabriel at the university to trace Kata’s last steps,” he tells me. “I was thinking about…”
His voice trails off. “What?” I urge.
“I was thinking about having Eve contact Alpha Rhodes.”
I blink. “How is he going to help?”
“He isn’t going to be of any help at all, but his beta might be. Remember? He is a friend of Eve. He is also said to be the best tracker in the country. Eve told me a while ago.”
“Have Evander contact him,” I say immediately. “Alpha Rhodes went back to his pack, but Beta Sky is still here for the last business meetings. He was supposed to meet with me later today.”
“We can use that meeting to talk to him,” Joel says. “I will call Eve immediately.”
I take a deep breath. “We will find them,” I say, more to reassure me than him. As far as we know, Remy and Katalina could be sitting in a coffee shop, chatting, and we will feel like idiots later, but my gut feeling tells me otherwise.
