Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 513

Natalia’s POV

The phone nearly slipped from my hand. “Missing?” I barked, looking up at Damon. “What do you mean he’s missing?”

Damon’s face paled. I took the phone and put it on speaker so we could both hear.

“He left the house this morning and never came back,” the Beta said. “We’ve searched everywhere. The pack grounds, the town, his usual spots. Nothing.”

“Well, maybe he just went out,” Damon rationalized. “Andrei has always liked his alone time—”

“It’s more than that, Alpha Damon. We managed to track down a trail leading into the woods. The scene we found there was… disturbing, to say the least.”

“What do you mean?” I asked.

There was a pause, and then: “We found something in the woods. A deer carcass. It was… arranged.”

“Arranged?” Damon blurted out.

The Beta sighed. “The body was torn apart and laid out in some kind of pattern. The limbs were positioned at odd angles. And there was blood everywhere.” He cleared his throat. “We think Alpha Andrei might have been involved in some kind of… dark ritual.”

A dark ritual. I pressed my hand to my mouth, fighting back the urge to either cry or vomit. Maybe both. I couldn’t tell. The porch began to spin.

Andrei had killed a deer and arranged it like some kind of ritual? That wasn’t him. That wasn’t anything close to him.

It sounded like something the Winter King would have done.

“Luna?” the Beta said, snapping me out of my thoughts. “Are you still there?”

“Yeah. I’m here.” I squeezed my eyes shut and forced myself to remain calm. Now was not the time to be emotional. My pack’s Alpha was missing, potentially as part of some ritual. The pack could be at stake. My family could be at stake. “Keep searching. I’m coming home.”

“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Damon asked. “If Andrei is in the state we think he’s in—”

“I don’t care,” I snapped. “He’s my husband.”

Damon stared at me for a long moment. I could see the realization in his eyes. I wasn’t going to back down, and he knew it.

“Keep looking for him and call me the second you find anything,” I told the Beta, then hung up. I turned to find Grace standing in the doorway.

“Andrei’s missing?” she whispered.

“Yeah.” I walked over to her and gently shifted Hope back into her arms. Thankfully, the baby had stopped crying, although she was still hiccupping. “I need to go. I need to find him.”

“I don’t think that’s a good idea, Natalia.” Grace took Hope, but she didn’t budge from the doorway. “It’s supposed to rain tonight, too. And you don’t know the kind of state he’s—”

“I think you should go.”

I jerked my head up to find that Max had slipped into the hallway behind Grace. From the looks of things, he had heard everything. At the very least, he’d heard that his father needed help and that I was going to go after him.

“You have to help Daddy,” he said firmly. “You have to.”

I stared at my son. He was right. I couldn’t leave Andrei alone. He needed me. I should never have left his side to begin with, but I could change that now.

“Don’t worry. I’m going,” I said. “I’m going to find him.”

Max wiped his nose on his sleeve. “Promise?”

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