Fated To The Lycan Brothers
Chapter 89

Atlas Wolfe

"Wes! Your phone is ringing! I think it's your guy!" I shouted out to my brother who was running back and forth in the field at the back of our place.

Wes didn't even seem to hear me at all, lost in his own head, but I can't deny that I relate to him. We all do.

It's been three days since Suri left and it's like the world stopped spinning and nothing else mattered.

Keith hadn't gone to work, staying in his office and ordering dozens of private investigators and offering them a shit ton of money, and even more should they replace her.

The boys and I, well, we release our frustrations through our wolves. So much so that we've pretty much moved here. We hadn't gone back to the academy, Keith telling the staff that we had a family emergency, which was substantially true. But the real truth was that, aside from the emergency, we were all pretty much in a crisis with ourselves.

We knew Suri mattered in our lives, but when she disappeared, it was like everything had been heightened and we realized that she really was the core of this house more than we had come to know it.

And we needed her back. We needed her back so desperately.

I was about to get up and get Wes when his phone lit up, signaling a text message. I'm not one to read other people's messages, but I don't know why I felt like I had to, and fuck I was glad I did.

"Fine, don't answer. Just wanted to say there was a ping on her location. I managed to bypass her sim and she was tracked in some small town called Motoriver. It's near Ohio. Let me know when you get this. You owe me, Wolfe."

I was already standing up, holding Wes' phone, before I even finished reading the text. F u c k. We finally fucking found her!

"Fix your shit. We're leaving in five. Suri is in Ohio." I mind linked Wes and Dev and they all replied in a heartbeat.

"Seriously?!"

"Five?! Let's leave right now!"

As much as I want that too, we need to make the necessary arrangements first because we need to get there as fast as possible. "Keith!" I shouted, practically hammering down his office door.

He looked at me flustered and I could see the tiredness in his eyes. Don't worry, Keith, we're getting her back real, real soon.

"What is it? Did you replace her?" He asked immediately.

"We did. We need your jet, like right now. We need to fly to Ohio." I informed him and it didn't take him a second to pick up his phone and contact those he needed to contact.

"It'll be ready when you get to the airport, as well as a car. Are you sure it's her?" Keith asked, desperation in his eyes.

Honestly, I wasn't sure... but this is the only bit of hope we have had that has led us to getting closer to Suri, and there was no way in hell I was going to miss that.

"It's her," I reassured Keith and prayed to the Moon Goddess that it really was.

-

The flight to Ohio was painfully slow. Except, it really was going the fastest it could, since Keith hadn't just arranged for his usual jet, but it was the fastest available to be used immediately, promising to cut the flight time into half and that was definitely what we needed.

We were all scared that Suri might not be there for very long. Knowing her, she was good at moving around and hiding her tracks. We can't lose her again. Not for another day. That would break us further and I just don't know how much more we can take. "Any other news from your guy?" I turned to Wes who had been staring at his phone since we got the text.

He shook his head. "Just that it looks like she's moving from Motoriver and closer to Ohio. That'll put us closer to her as soon as we land at the airport."

I nodded at him, feeling some sort of relief at the situation. We're getting closer to her. Finally.

I looked at the front and saw Dev acting rather unusually. He was just staring out of the window in silence and I realized he hadn't said much since we got on the plane.

"What's on your mind, Dev?" I asked him and he tilted his head a little to the side.

"It's... it's just Suri..." He answered with a sullen tone.

"What about her? We're going to see her soon, bro. She's going to be fine and everything will be back as it was before." I reassured him, but deep down inside, I was beginning to feel uncertain like him.

No, damn it!

"I know, I know. You have no idea how elated I am that we're about to see her again, but that's the thing. She left for a reason. She left because... she was afraid of us."

"Don't say that. Stop thinking like that. You don't know exactly why she left, Dev, and we need to stay positive. I'm sure she had a valid reason. Whatever it is, we'll all figure it out together. Okay?" I told Devon, my voice rising a little because this topic was putting me on edge.

"Okay..." He replied softly before letting out a deep sigh.

"It's almost her birthday," Wes commented, and both of us turned to face him.

"Is it? Shit, I hadn't noticed." Hell, I haven't noticed anything since she left.

He nodded, but there was another look in his eyes that told me he was thinking of something else, something that was bothering him.

I knew instantly what it was.

"You can't be thinking she's going to... shift."

Wes and Devon stared at me like they really were thinking exactly that.

"Seriously? You guys need to think this through. She can't be a wolf. She..."

I stopped talking when it also began to dawn on me. The possibility that Suri Nightingale... could not just be human.

Fuck.

"We need to get to her as soon as fucking possible," Wes exclaimed as his leg continuously rocked on the carpet. "We will. We'll get to her."

I told myself that, but I was scared that there was a high chance we might be too late...

-

We were rushing like crazy. Running out of the airport to get to the car and even when we were driving to the location Wes' guy had given, I was pretty sure we were violating quite a bunch of laws and Keith would have to make some speeding tickets disappear. "Are we any closer?!" Wes asked annoyedly and I looked down at the location map and was disappointed to see we were still about half an hour away.

"No, and there's incoming traffic because of a road block. Fuck." I cursed in frustration.

"This sucks!" Wes shouted as he honked and honked, but the traffic was unmoving. There was no way we could get past this and still get to Suri on time.

Midnight was nearing and we were all worried about the same thing. If she shifts... it would be chaos. For her and for everyone around her.

Fuck this. I'm going to shift.

"There's woods at the side. I can use that to run and get to her faster. You and Devon stay and drive to her as fast as possible." I told the two and they were quick to dispute my plan.

"What? No, I should go. I'm faster!" Wes reasoned out.

"I know that. Do you really think I didn't think about that? And what would you do if somebody saw you? You fucking glow under the moonlight, Wes. and you too Devon, your wolves are too bright. It needs to be me." I explained to them and when they realized I was right, they quickly agreed.

We may all be worried about Suri and can't wait to get to her, but we still need to be mindful.

Not a second later, I was walking out of the road and into the tall trees. I closed my eyes and felt my wolf inside of me coming out.

"Let's go get our girl, Titan."

-

A few minutes later, I felt it. I felt my surroundings changing, and the closer I got, the more everything around us felt... different.

I passed by people screaming and running away and I knew, I just knew that something was terribly wrong and that scared me. It scared me that something bad might have happened to Suri and I ran even faster, pushing myself and my wolf to keep going. That was when I saw a man in the middle of the woods, his hand up, and when I tilted my head, she was there.

And oh my god...

It was like whiplash to my face, to my entire being.

It's her. It's Suri.

And she was one of us. She was a full white Lycan.

Holy Moon Goddess. She was the most beautiful wolf I have ever laid my eyes on.

And I was going to protect her if it was the last thing I did on this godforsaken earth.

When my brothers arrived, Suri was still in shock. Her wolf was looking back at us with terrified and widened eyes, her two different colored eyes blinking at us in unsureness and all I wanted to do was to keep her in my arms, but I knew that we couldn't stay here. We had to go home.

"Baby, you have to shift back..." I told her gently as we surrounded her, making sure she was safe with us here.

But she doesn't understand what's going on. She just looked at us like we were talking gibberish.

"You need to get her out of here. The cops are coming." The voice said and it was the man that I almost tore apart until he explained to me what happened.

He had just found her, sensed another wolf in the vicinity and tried to get her to shift. If he hadn't said that, he would just be pieces on the ground by now.

"What the hell do you think we're trying to do?" Wes hissed at him and he flinched away.

"Go home. Go back to your Pack and do not ever tell anyone what you saw here tonight." Devon instructed him.

"We will know," I added as my eyes flared at him and he quickly nodded before running away.

Now that he was gone, we focused all our attention on Suri who was still a shaking mess.

Slowly, we huddled her and kept her safe, making sure she could feel that we were all here and we were trying to help her.

"Shift, Suri. I know you can do it. Just replace it in you." I whispered to her, and surprisingly, it began to work.

We stepped backwards to give her some space, and slowly but surely, her body began to rearrange and she whimpered softly in the process, but a minute later, she was back in her human form.

Everything that had happened must have been too much for her tiny body, because the second Devon put a coat around her, she almost collapsed on the ground, but I was thankfully able to keep her up.

I grabbed her from underneath and carried her close to me. I couldn't help but feel a sense of elation having her back in my arms like this.

"We're going home, baby..." I told her even though I wasn't even sure she could hear me.

Once we were all back safely in flight, and we had tucked her into bed in one of the suites, the three of us looked at each other in absolute shock and wariness.

"We need to tell Keith."