Not willingly.
“Sound the alarm,” I barked to Justice. “Lock down the campus. Post two guards at every boat dock. Send out the scent dogs.” He gave me a pitying look. Then, I tore across the open courtyard, headed to the library.
Justice ran after me.‘Brother, she’s gone. Honor too. I tracked their scent. You know I’m the best.’
Unbridled rage, unlike anything I’d ever felt before, surged up inside of me.‘Lock down those damn borders, Justice! My mate has been kidnapped!’
‘Nai! Where are you?’I pushed the thought into her mind, trying to search for her energy, but…
I couldn’t feel her.
‘Nai!’I shouted, grasping the sides of my head as I ran.
Chapter Two
My wolf surgedto the surface, and I let him take over. This form was better suited for scenting and was faster. We sprinted across the courtyard, entered the main building through a doggie-door big enough to let our wolf forms through, and then proceeded to the library as we followed Nai’s smell.
As my brothers and I approached the library doors, I shifted back to my human form and stared down the two guards posted at the door.
“Did you two let her in here?” I barked even as I wondered how in the hell they’d arrived here. I didn’t have anyone posted at the school during my coronation. Alpha Academy was closed.
“Rage,” Justice said beside me. “I posted them here five minutes ago.”
I shook myself, trying to get a grip on reality.
Reaching out, I grasped the door handle and shoved. I burst through the library doors so hard they hit the wall with a crack, and the glass insets shattered. Weaving through the aisles toward the back of the room, I ran, and my pulse climbed the closer I got to the black stone door.
It was closed.
On hands and knees, I inhaled, and a whimper ripped through me as Nai’s sunshine and homey scent filled my soul. Honor’s musky scent was there too.
I climbed to my feet as fury filled every corner of my being. She wouldn’t have done this to me.
My entire life, I’d never even tried to open that black stone door; the rules stated we weren’t allowed.
But today, I was king, so screw the rules. I was going after my mate.
I launched myself forward with an angry cry on my lips.
“No!” Justice shouted.
No sooner had my palm touched the Onyx surface than a searing blue light shot from the door. My fingers burned with pain. A yip left my throat, and my body arched. An electric charge filled the space, and I was thrown back by protective magic, crashing into a shelf of books, toppling it over. The smell of my burning skin filled the air.
“Rage!” Justice ran to me. When he reached down to pull me up, the pity in his expression made my entire body heavy with dread. I couldn’t follow her.
This isn’t happening…
My mate left me at my own coronation?
He must have spelled her. Her grandfather was helpful with getting Honor back, but who knew his real intentions? That had to be it.
With a heave, Justice got me into a standing position, but I just stood there, swaying as my mind raced through every horrible scenario possible.
“Cursed council,” Noble huffed, appearing at my side sniffing the air like a dog. “What did you do?”
I shot him a glare and raised my blackened, still-smoking palm, gritting my teeth to keep from screaming. He doused my hand with his water magic as the agony traveled up my arm and spotted my vision.
With a howl of frustration, I shifted back into my wolf-form and sniffed. Sure enough, not only was Nai’s scent all of the way to the edge of the black stone door, Honor’s, Reyna’s, and that damned High Mage Master of Spirit’s smell was there too. They all left. Together. Without me.
