“Natalie was Rosalie’s cousin.”
For the whole day, Hunter, Elijah and Asher were searching the borders and then also went deep in the jungles. They shifted into their Lycans in order to search for the body amongst the thousand smells of wet earth and pine and herbs and animals, but they couldn’t find her.
Natalie’s father, Howard, had lost all hope of finding his daughter. She was his love-child with his human mate who was still living in the human world. Even though he could have brought his mate to his world, she abandoned him and their pup because she hated his beast. Howard had been single-handedly looking after Natalie. Natalie was a rare case of being a half human and she wasn’t as powerful as the pure Lycans. And that alone bothered Howard as ***.
The next day, Asher started questioning Natalie’s classmates. While Hunter didn’t come, Elijah was present. After they had questioned everyone, they approached Natalie’s core group of five friends- Jack, Miami, Nick, Trish and Mia.
Natalie was an adorable girl and even though everyone knew that she was a half human, they all loved her. However, lately. she was showing bizarre behavior.
“I don’t know but she seemed like she was in a different world,” said Jack, pondering about Asher’s question.
“That’s right,” Miami added. “She said that she had information about someone that if it ever leaked out, that person would be destroyed.”
“What information?” Asher asked.
“I don’t know. Natalie was always very secretive. But she had so much energy and was so beautiful that everyone was attracted to her,” said Miami.
Mia was standing behind the group and watching them all quietly. Asher glanced at her and stopped himself from asking questions to her.
“Did she have a boyfriend?” Asher asked Miami.
“She said that she had a boyfriend,” Miami said.
“Who?”
“We don’t know. She was very secretive about him but she said that he was an older guy. She never mentioned about her. But she always said that she liked him a lot.”
“I see,” Asher sighed, glancing at Mia again. He turned his attention to Trish. “Did you see her going with her boyfriend?”
“Never,” Trish said, shaking her head. She looked a little nervous. “Natalie said that her boyfriend gave her a lot of money and dresses.”
Nick chimed in. “I don’t want to sound bitchy, but that girl was very vicious on the inside. She liked playing with people’s emotions like they were nothing.”
Mia shifted uneasily on her feet which didn’t go unnoticed by Asher. “Can you elaborate?”
Nick tightened his lips and paused for a moment before saying, “She had put Mia into a lot of trouble and she had announced it in the school that her cousin Rosalie was rejected by Alpha Hunter, but that Rosalie wanted her to marry Hunter after her. However-” he gazed at Mia, who was clearly not liking the conversation. “However, Rosalie was upset. that she couldn’t help Natalie with it.”
Asher was stunned. On one hand he wanted to give it a high-school crush label, but on the other hand, he was getting wildly suspicious.
“Natalie was upset for a few days and then she bounced back saying it didn’t matter. Luna River would never be her match anyway and that now she had a lover. So even if the Alpha came begging on his feet to marry her, she wouldn’t.”
“She was ***to think that my brother would marry her!” Mia snapped, tension radiating off her.
“Hunter didn’t have eyes. for anyone except River!”
Elijah tensed. He wanted to come to Mia and wrap his arms around her to soothe her, but he restrained himself from doing that.
Asher became so tense that he locked his jaws, hoping that Mia would keep quiet. He glared at her so hard that she closed her ****. “The questions are over for today. If you all find something different or want to tell me anything. then you can. Feel free to call me, okay?” Asher said and got up.
As they were going back, Asher said, “This has become complicated. Who was the older Lycan she liked?
We have to find him.”
Elijah didn’t reply
For the entire month, as River’s pregnancy progressed, Hunter only grew more impatient
“Baby, why don’t you eat apple pie?” he said as he took a large spoon, dug it into the pie and held it in front of her ***He had this crazy urge to make her eat as much as possible.
River let out an exasperated sigh. If this was how Hunter was going to be for the next few months, she was going to give him a piece of her mind. I don’t feel like having it, Hunter?”
“Baby-*
“Knock it off” she snapped. Her emotions were all over the place. She hated so many kinds of food and she was getting too emotional about everything and anything Hunter became quiet. He had this sad expression on his face when he said, “I feel I am unable to feed you well, River. You have to think about my pups also. They are the ones who would suffer if you don’t eat well”
Faria, who was standing near the couch and folding some clothes, let out a small laugh. “Alpha Hunter, please don’t worry I am there and I will make sure that our Luna eats well and she eats every nutrient that is necessary for her Faria had become a mother hen to River. She would goad her and coax her into eating everything If River didn’t want to have milk, then she would ensure that she had curd. If River didn’t like plain curd, then she made sure that the chef made flavored curd. Basically, milk had to get inside her in one form or the other And Hunter thanked the Goddess for having Faria next to River. Only she could handle her emotions these days.
Hunter’s face broke into a smile. “You are superb, Faria!” he said. He winked at River. “You are in great hands.”
River shook her head. “You both are going to drive me crazy at the end of the ninth month.”
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