Chapter 393

Avery’s POV

Gideon’s jacket was already on by the time he finished making the suggestion.

“You’re really going to help us?” Sebastian asked.

“He’s a kid. I’m not just going to sit around on my ass while he’s potentially in danger.” Gideon grabbed his keys off the hook by the door and looked at us both. “Let’s go. There wasn’t much to argue with there. Sebastian and I exchanged a glance, and then we were following Gideon back out into the rain.

We split up the initial search between the three of us; Sebastian covered the eastern edge of the Evergreen border, Gideon reached out to his own pack members to comb the stretch of road between Nightwolf and the fields, and I retraced the trail I had followed earlier with Sebastian.

The rain wasn’t too heavy yet, but a quick look up at the rapidly darkening sky told me all I needed to know. If we didn’t find Bjorn soon, he was going to be caught in a serious downpour. I hoped he’d at least been smart enough to find shelter somewhere, but if he was truly lost, there might not be any.

Along the side of the road, the paw prints I’d spotted before were already half-washed away. I crouched down in the ditch, squinting at the mud, and tried to piece together the direction he’d gone.

in grocery stores, once in an airport that still gave me anxiety just thinking about. But this was different than the human lands. At least there, there were crowds, police officers, public transportation that he knew how to

the terrain, if he had ventured far into the

stood, knees cracking, and looked out at the distant treeline beyond the fields. I swallowed

you think he went into the forest?” a

the fact that he

he’s smart enough not to wander into a forest on his own, but now I’m

the sky. “If he got lost and it started to

up to us near the tree line, shaking rain out of his

the woods,” I said, looking at

“You know

Goddess help

heard a car pulling onto the gravel behind us. Headlights cut through

Fiona stepped out.

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