Chapter 35

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I'm sorry for the constant changes especially since we're nearing the end of this story but I'm going to be updating every Saturday instead of Friday since it gives me more time to write chapters due to my busy schedule.

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Levi's P.O.V.

She was gone. Rain was gone and whatever traces of her that she left in this house was now lost in the scent of others.

I came home two days ago looking forward to spending another night with Rain in my arms only to find an empty house and a distraught Leila pacing on the front lawn.

I could somehow feel it, though. That sense of longing and loss that crept down my spine and made my heart ache the moment she was taken away from me. If only I had paid more attention and I hadn't dismissed the feeling as simply missing her.

I searched every room in the house for Rain. I called. I begged.

I screamed until my throat was raw from how anguished my cries were but she was gone and no amount of pleading was going to bring her back.

In all the chaos of searching for Rain, we discovered that August had somehow gone missing and the fact that he was the last person to be seen with Rain didn't help his case. Alexander and I spent most of our time trying to track down the whereabouts of Rain's father, who we assumed was behind this, while Leila worked on figuring out where August had disappeared to.

After so many years spent with August by my side, I didn't want to believe that he could have possibly played a role in Rain's disappearance but the odds were against him and the best thing I could do now was ask him whether or not he had done it.

August has always been a terrible liar and if he was responsible for taking Rain away, then there would be no other choice except to punish him.

My fists clenched as I thought of how terrified Rain must be now that she was back in her father's grasp. An angry growl tore through my chest at the thought of her being hurt. I roughly ran my hands through my hair, a bad habit I always seemed to have when I was nervous, but it was a source of comfort now as I remembered all the times I laid my head in Rain's lap after a long day of training and fell asleep to her small hands playing with my hair.

"Alpha!" Leila called from outside my office. I hastily pushed myself away from my chair and ran to open the door. Leila stared at me with a grim look on her face. "I found him."

Rain's P.O.V.

It has been two nights. Two nights of aimlessly counting the cracks in the walls and the number of times my heart beats in longing for Levi's arms.

My stomach growled and I gazed at the dish of bread and steak in front of me. While my appetite had increased under Levi's watch, I couldn't seem to stomach anything my father gave me. I managed to nibble away at the piece of bread but the steak still remained untouched. It had been a few hours since I got my meal.

There was no burning that followed any of the bites I took from what he fed me and it was a relief to know I was no longer being poisoned.

He came down three times a day to personally give me my meals and each time he spouted the same nonsense with red-rimmed eyes. His usual calm facade that he wore as a mask for twelve years melted away to reveal a crazed man under the delusion that his daughter was his mate.

It only disgusted me even more as I thought of all the things he did to me and how he was probably thinking of my mother as his hands touched my body.

I remembered finding pride and joy at how all the pack members complimented me for looking so much like my mom, only now it seemed what I was so proud of turned into my demise.

As his visits increased, I could see his sanity slowly slipping away every time I denied being his mate. The terror I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt now. Now, I had someone to live for. I had gotten too used to the warmth of the sun and I didn't know how I was going to survive without it. I had to do everything I could to get back to Levi but the thought of even pretending to be my father's mate sickened me.

Every minute I spent away from Levi created a new worry. I worried about whether or not he was getting enough sleep. I felt a knot forming in my chest as the memories surfaced of all the times he would stay up late to finish doing paperwork after spending the day with me. I worried about if he was eating proper meals. He always made sure that I ate three well-balanced meals a day so I could get to a healthy weight and even on days when he could barely breathe with all the pack business and paperwork he had to do, he still found time to eat with me. Levi never failed to finish his meals early and whenever our chatter would quiet down as I slowly ate whatever he had cooked for me, I would glance up at him and see the soft look in his eyes and a childish grin form on his face, a tenderness reserved just for me.

I could taste the saltiness of my tears as they streamed down my cheeks but I didn't bother wiping them away, knowing it wouldn't make any difference when a choked sob escaped my lips. My chest ached and the ghost of his fingertips dancing on my skin, tracing the lines of my scars and kissing away my nightmares only made me miss him more.

I laid on my side and curled into a ball so my back was pressed against the wall and my thin arms hugged my stomach. The cement was cold and the rocks from all the cracks on the ground dug into my skin but if I closed my eyes, it was almost as if I was back in bed with Levi and his arms were wrapped around me with his chest against my back.

It was warm. I felt a smile form on my face.

"Good morning, little moon," he whispered, his lips brushing against my ear.

I turned around and cuddled closer to his chest, humming in contentment as the soothing lullaby of his heartbeat echoed. He tried pulling away from me but I only pressed myself closer to him, breathing in his scent.

"It's time to get up, Rain," he chuckled at my childish behavior.

I shook my head stubbornly. "No, not yet."

He tucked me into his arms as though he was hiding me away from the rest of the world. This was where I was meant to be. This was home.

"Oh, alright then. Just a little longer," he murmured.

But I knew the moment I opened my eyes, this illusion would fall away and I would be left with nothing but darkness and silence.

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