Luna On The Run - I Stole The Alphas Son

Chapter 57

Axton POV

We left the boys with Eli and Michelle, knowing having to get them will only slow us down. Elena is a nervous wreck beside me, and all she has done is panic, conjuring up the worst-case scenario. What if the strigoi got Sondra? Or her father came back for revenge, or what if Osiris is behind it?

Yet I have a feeling Sondra is missing because she chose to go missing; the strong old bat takes shit from nobody, so I doubt if someone came after her, she would go quietly.

“She may have ducked into town,” I tell Elena, and she nods, staring off vacantly out the window. Her bottom lip quivers, and she presses her top teeth against it.

“Elena, we’ll find her. Marco has gone to check the commune. We can check in town; she is probably at the bakery, eating all the cupcakes,” I try to reassure her, and she turns her head to look at

“She’s dying, Axton,” she answers, and I swallow. Yeah, Marco had said something about taking care of her, but she looked okay the last time I saw her.

“We’ll find her,” I answer. We have to; I don’t think Elena will cope not knowing.

“Don’t go to the bakery. Go to Mary’s cafe,” Elena whispers, and I glance at her. I nod my head, taking the next turn to head down the main street of the small derelict town.

Pulling up along the curb, I don’t see her car anywhere or any sign of her. Elena gets out to check the old cafe, letting herself in with a

Dividing into pages now

of keys. She pauses at the door, and I stop on my way to the bakery to watch her. Her hands shake as she tries to get the key in the lock. Fear slivers through the bond, yet she is determined to find Sondra also. Forgetting the bakery, I walk over to her and grab the key from her hand. She glances over her shoulder at me, and I brush my lips against her

will check it out,” I tell her.

door open, Elena sucks in a deep breath. “How do you have a key,” I ask her, and she sighs,

so once her death certificate was in the place, it was handed back to Sondra,

feeling her anguish. “Have you been back here… you know, since?”

it down, yet I couldn’t bring myself to step inside it,” she whispers while looking up at the

pretty much empty, though the fridges are full of old fizzy drinks and outdated milk. Other than that, my men had

peer around the place, and I walk to the back, calling out for Sondra but don’t find her. However, I do find the cage that Mary and Alisha were both kept in. Turning around,

find her. Stepping inside, it feels like deja vu when I spot her. She holds the same look on her face. Back then, I thought she was petrified of me finding her shacked up with. another man. Now seeing the same expression, I recognize it for what it

and I kind of regret not getting my men to clear it out. As I wander over to her,

says, and I nod against her shoulder. Noticing the chains and cuffs on the bed, I swallow guiltily. Khan had tried to tell me, but I was angry; I only believed what I wanted to believe and chose her father’s

“Sondra once said that some things

shoulder.

keep a secret if one is dead. Jake is

He got the easy way out. He took it