That was unfortunately not the case because when I woke up the next morning it was still the exact same as the day before and nothing turned out to be a nightmare. Mary was really gone and no amount of searching and looking led us anywhere and we were no closer to finding than we were the day she went missing. We hired private detectives, and we made announcements and pleas and posters and pictures asking for her safe return but none of that helped.
It was as if she had disappeared from the face of the earth never to be seen again.
Zach has started going more and more into his shell and never really smiles or laughs anymore. We haven’t had a joyous moment since she was taken five years ago. I can’t really blame him because I haven’t been any better myself also. I miss that little bundle of joy.
Its like the moon Goddess closed off the happiness tap and opened the depression and sadness tap fully.
Today she would have been six years old and we would have had a huge celebration and everyone would have been here and happy with us.
In the end I decides to have a little statue made and put up in the garden where I could go and visit her whenever I wanted to and talk to her whenever I felt the need to do so. Zach hasn’t been to it. He saw it as if I was giving up on little Mary by having something put up for her.
I would never give up the search for her.
Not as long as I live.
He doesn’t know it but I have Liam and his team of helpers helping out with the search.
He came highly recommended by Ava and Caleb the queen and king of the vampires and although we aren’t best friends I trust them to help us. Its not like we hate each other there is just creative differences and we have learned to work around them to make both our species prosper.
Although he hasn’t found a clue yet he has some friends all over keeping an eye out for her.
We believe that she and a man from the rebellion are together because we have seen him taking her on the security tapes of that dreadful evening. What’s worse is that he was someone we called a friend in our pack.
We took him in when his mother and father were murdered and the killers left him out in the forest.
We treated him like our son and then he turns around and does something like this. Zach has been psycho analysing everything in his life and looking to see if we maybe missed something that would have pointed towards this happening but as far as I know he hasn’t found anything yet.
Sighing I look up at the clock on the wall and see that it is almost time to go and get Zach and force ourselves to go down and eat lunch with the rest of the pack. Their sympathetic looks were tolerable the first few months but after that it just became a little too much to handle. They all feel guilty in some sort of way for what had happened and they don’t believe that we don’t blame them. I can’t tell you how many times the guard that was on duty that night under her window has apologised to us and how many times they warriors that were on patrol have apologised for letting them come that close without seeing them.
I usually tell them it would have happened either way because that is what the Moon Goddess had planned for us and we should be strong and get through it. Everything will work out in the end we must just believe and try and move on with our lives as it is at present.
There is not really anything else that can be done now is there.
I was just about to knock on Zach's door when I felt my cell phone vibrate in my pocket. Who would call when they could just mind link me and get it over with?
It was Liam.
"Hello."
"Good afternoon your majesty. I do not want to get you too excited to early but I do believe that I have a link in regards to the whereabouts of your daughter and Mr Ryder. They have been spotted by a pack forming part of the old ones. I will be following scents as soon as possible as they have packed and fled. Sources tell me that your daughter is alive and well. She is your splitting image your majesty. "
"T... Thank you. Please go and let me know what you find."
I sank to the floor there right outside Zach's office door and just sat there crying. I couldn't tell you if they were tears of joy or if they were tears of sadness or even relief but I just knew I sat there crying until he opened the door and sat down right next to me asking me what the matter was.
I told him that I had hired Liam and that he found her but they were running again and he would need to follow them to find our daughter. I told him that he said that his sources told him that she was my splitting image. This had both of us crying and praying to the moon goddess that she would return her to us safe and sounds and that Liam would succeed in finding her this time.
We cleaned and washed our faces and then slowly walked down to the dining room to go and have lunch. Both excited and scared for the outcome that was to follow after having received the semi good news. I don't think I would be able to survive if they loose them again and they have to start the search from scratch again.
Turns out that they left almost immediately after Liam got the tip and he followed their scent for a while but lost them again. Honestly, I don’t know anymore. This constant hope is going to be the death of both me and Zach.Ryders’ P.O.VHer nightmares continued and started coming more frequently. I don’t know how long it will continue before it changes into what really happened and she starts hating me. I decided that I would take her on a picnic and we could try and see if something that happened is the cause of the nightmares.I was thinking it could be the warning signs of her wolf coming forward but her smell hasn’t changed at all so that one is ruled out.I thought about her and the little wolf she met and thought that that could be the reason for her nightmares and that she had smelled him and then linked it with some smells from her past but I’m not sure if that could be the case as she isn’t supposed to be able to link smells until her wolf comes.All this uncertainty was giv
Ryder’s P.O.VThe woman stopped like four yards from us and placed the basket on the ground in front of her feet. She still wasn’t talking and kept on staring at us. I still couldn’t get a read on her scent. I definitely smell something that is not entirely human, but she is not a wolf or anything I have been in contact with before and I’ve been in contact with quite a lot of species before this whole running away and hiding away part of my life even started.Being part of the royal pack definitely has its advantages in this regard. Royal visits to the other realms and meeting the other species of the supernatural world.She started taking a few more steps toward me and started motioning with her arms and it looked like she was trying to tell me something, but the words were not coming out of her mouth. She pointed to her mouth and showed me something.“Okay so if I understand you correctly then you are either not able to talk at all or you are not able/ want to talk to me at this mome
Ryder's P.O.VAfter dropping the flowers into the basket she turned around, and waved at me and Dora before running back into the flower field probably thinking that she had not yet picked enough to fill the entire house like she had wanted to do. I watched her pick some more bouquets and place them in the basket along with the other ones before she ran back with one in her hand holding it out to Dora who willingly took it with the biggest smile on her face I have yet to see. Before I had time to give her a sandwich she had already run off to the field again trying to tug the basket back over to us. After I sat and watched her struggle for a little while longer I decided enough was enough now. "Mary, come and have a sandwich before you pass out." She looked up from where she was still struggling with the basket she ha
Dora's P.O.V I had felt the need to tell Ryder everything about what I was doing and who I was and I didn't even know why. I knew he wasn't my Gabriel but I felt this special bond or something that I wasn't able to explain between us. I had wanted to ask him about the sweet little girl he had with him and when I saw that she had fallen asleep I thought that it would be the perfect time to do so. I was already ready to share my story with him after he had said what he had wanted to say but when I saw him struggling, looking for words, changing his mind, and looking again I decided that I could start telling my story so long and then when he was up to it later he could tell me about him and the little girl he is traveling with. I grabbed the stick I have been using to write everything out in the sand and started writing my story giving him time to get his words together. I was used to people looking at me funnily because I had what the humans call selective mutism. I was no stranger
Ryder's P.O.V When she took out and gave me that ring box I felt all the blood drain right out of me. If this had been her mates' mothers ring then either she was already dead, hiding away somewhere, or living under a new fake name. "This ring and crest belong to a pack that was taken over by a very evil man when he overthrew the Alpha and Luna of the pack. They were the nicest people and I had talked with them plenty of times when I was still with the palace helpers. I met with them right before they were overthrown and most people in the pack were either slaughtered or enslaved under the reign of the madman who took over. The luna, whom this ring belonged to was presumed killed or as having run away with her son and living under a false name somewhere in heartache because her mate was slaughtered right in front of her eyes. It was rumored that her son who was at the time only thirteen years old protected his mother when his father wasn't there anymore and that it was believed tha
Dora's P.O.V What Ryder told me had me in shock for quite some time. I knew that the rebellion was after the crown and that they would do anything to get what they wanted but to kidnap the miracle child of the king and the queen and keep her away from them to just bring her back to help them get the crown in the future was wrong in so many ways. Ryder helping them I didn't know if I wanted to believe him about the manipulation that he was experiencing but he did seem to care and have Mary's best interest at heart for the little while that I have seen them interact with each other. She also seems to have love for him and to have accepted him as her father even though he isn't that. Everyone was roped in to help search for this little girl when she first went missing and I remember that I had thought to myself who could be so cruel to take the little girl from her crib in the middle of the night. " Why would you do it though? I know I haven't known you long enough but to me, you see
Dora's P.O.V After we had decided that we would be traveling together Ryder had asked if I had any luggage that I would need any help with because if I did he would just get Mary back to the cottage and in her bed tucked in before getting it for me. He was such a gentleman but I shook my head no because I did not have anything that I was traveling with. After all, there had not been time to pack anything before the people coming to get me from my house had shown up. had climbed out the window and down the vine plant as fast as possible while being safe and after that, I ran like my life depended on it. Looking back to it now it probably did. Along the way, I have been changing clothes by leaving the previous outfit hanging on someone's laundry line and taking something else just to make it a little harder for them to be tracking me. It also helped me change my scent a little bit each time and with them still following the other scent allowed me some more time to escape. Ryder p
Mary's P.O.VI wonder if Dora is the same as dad and if she can also turn into a wolf when she wants to. Dad also hasn't transformed in a while and I kind of miss it, to be honest. I liked looking at him in the wolf body. He was pretty and he didn't scare me for some reason.I heard dad talking to Dora about something he had done in the past but I didn't hear everything so I don't know what it was about. All I heard is that he was glad that he was the person who had agreed to do it as he believed that it was the best and the safest option at that point in time with the information that he had available at that point in time.I wanted to listen and maybe hear if he would talk about mom but he did not. I miss her even though I can't remember anything about her. I have this little hurt in my heart whenever I think about mum and I didn't know why. I had asked dad once and he tried to explain but I could see that he was hurting when he talked about