Three Days Gone

Three days. Three days of silence. Three days of mounting dread. Three days since Cassia and Garek vanished without a trace. No sign, no trail, nothing to indicate where they were—or worse, if they were even alive.

I sat in my study, staring at a map of our pack’s vast territory spread across the table. Red circles marked the areas we’d searched, each one a failure that clawed at my sanity. My wol