Burning Scent

Chapter 26: Contact

Hunter's POV

It's been two weeks. Two whole weeks since I last saw the light of my life, my love, my Luna. My wolf has long since left me in silence, I can still feel him in the far recesses of my mind but he hasn't said one word since Destiny went missing. I've been sending out my best trackers and warriors to search for her. But they've found nothing.

I was slowly slipping away from sanity, the methodical pains throughout my body-with no wounds to cause them-the only way of connecting to her. I remember each wound and have been relaying the information to the pack doctor so that when we find her we can heal her straight away.

I was sat in our room, surrounded by her comforting scent. I've been staying in one of the spare rooms so that I wouldn't overpower it with my own. It was killing me that I hadn't found her yet.

"Alpha?" I heard someone call from outside

"What?" I growled as I tore open the door, to find Charlie stood there with a letter in his hands. I trembled knowing who it was from. He gave me a solemn look only confirming my suspicions. Taking the envelope I opened it up and began to read:

My Dearest Alpha,

I guess that you are wondering why I have taken your mate. Well the fact is that your pack has caused me great grief, so I was just returning a favour. Don't worry your Luna is alive and unharmed, well maybe not unharmed but oh well.

I hope you enjoy my little update on her, you will find a USB stick enclosed along with some rather artistic photos if I do say so myself. Anyway I must be going now, I have many things planned with your little mate, and she is quite the looker. Especially the way crimson looks on her porcelain complexion.

Yours truly,

A grieved mate

I growled at the last sentence, that sadistic man was taking a sick pleasure in torturing my mate. I looked back in the envelope and as he said there was a flash drive and a series of Polaroids that made a sob tear through my throat.

In the first my beautiful destiny was tied to a chair blood dripping down her legs onto the floor, she sat unconscious and unaware of the knife that was still plunged deep into her leg. This was day one.

The second picture showed her with a gash on her head just above her eyebrow, and a busted lip.

There were 14 pictures in total each one similar to the last. Depicting an unconscious Destiny with various wounds. By the end of looking through the pictures I was sobbing on the floor outside our bedroom, not caring who saw me. I was the Alpha, strong and resilient but a few photos had caused me to sit with my head in my hands sobbing my heart out.

I stopped crying with a new found rage, picking up the envelope with everything inside I went into my office. Plugged the flash drive into my laptop and looked at the files. Videos. Videos of my beautiful Destiny being tortured. She was strong, after the first day she didn't scream, she didn't cry she just sat there. I admired her strength, but I wanted nothing more than to kill the man that did this to her.

Opening the last file I saw that it was a photo of a map of the human territory next to my pack's land. There was a cross and a route from my lands to the point. I was confused but noticed a note written at the bottom.

I think your mate has suffered enough, here is my location come and kill me. I have nothing to lose anymore. I am alone.

I called Charlie, Luke and a few of my trackers to go over everything with me when a searing pain went through my back.