Chapter 37 Xaiver

                                    

                                          

"Where is she!" I hollered, flipping over my desk and kicking it across the room in a fit of rage. The desk splintered and shattered as it hit the wall. 
"We're looking, Alpha Xaiver. We're using every available resource to find her. She's simply vanished. He had a witch." The Archer's Base leader, Effie, was trying to reassure me. She spoke so calmly that it was frustrating. 
"Hang the witch. Don't the Archer's have witches of their own?" I shouted. 
"Yes, and we're using all of them to try and locate her." Effie replied simply. 
"Just leave. Leave until you have something useful to tell me." I snarled.
"Better go." Frankie sighed, escorting the woman out. 
"You should be kinder to her, you know, she could probably murder you with a toothpick and a banana." Lion said. 
He had bags under his eyes and his face was pale. Proof that he's gotten just about as much sleep as me over these past three weeks. 
"You'll get no complaints from me." I grumbled. Lion shot me a look of concern, 
"She's alive, Xaiver." 
"Yes, wishing that she wasn't." I collapsed in the desk chair that was now missing a desk. 
"What exactly happened the last time she was with him?" Lion asked hesitantly. 
"Unmentionable things, Lion, unmentionable things." I mumbled, dropping my head into my hands. 
Frankie and Lion hadn't left my side since we received word that Thea was missing. Yasmine, Shay, and Nanny Ellen were the constant companions of the children. I couldn't bring myself to see them, to explain to Nat and Logan where Thea had gone. I saw them before bed and that was it. Otherwise, I spent every second trying to hunt down my mate. 
"That's it! I'm tired of sitting here doing nothing." I said, slamming my hand into the wall and storming across the office. 
"What are we going to do, then?" Lion and Frankie asked, following after me quickly. I was nearly running now. 
"I'm going to the place she was last seen, where her squad went after the rogues." I said, 
"But, the Archers already checked there. They found nothing." Frankie argued. 
"I don't care. She's my mate, I'll be able to sense things they can't." 
"We should take some trackers with us." Lion added. 
"Do whatever you want. I'm going now." I stripped out of my clothes and shifted into Cain. 
"Oh, he means right now." Lion grumbled, "You better go with him. I'll bring the back up." He said to Frankie who shifted and joined me as I ran. 
River and Cain raced for the northern border of the USA and Canada, their feet pounding wet grass until it turned to snow. An entire day of running was what it took to arrive at the cave where Thea was last seen. Cain threw his head back and howled when we approached. Her scent was all around us, as strong as the day we first met her. I shifted and so did River. 
"She's here. She has to be here or very near. I can smell her like she's right beside me." I said, frantically searching the area. 
"He had a witch with him. Maybe she sealed off the cave, hidden them somehow." Frankie suggested, "We should wait for backup. Get Green Mountain to send help, as well." 
"I'm not waiting. I've done enough waiting. If I had come out here in the first place instead of listening to those damn Archers I would have sensed her sooner."