Chapter 6

Damon

“Find her.”

I stood in the middle of the empty master quarters, holding the glowing communication crystal tight in my hand.

“At any cost.”

The order came out colder than I intended, but the silence in the estate was suffocating.

Nora’s absence was everywhere.

The untouched moonflowers she’d arranged on the dining table. The ledger she’d left open beside the hearth. The empty space on the bed where she had slept for two years.

Even her wolf's scent…crisp rainfall and sweet grapevines…had begun to fade from the stones. I hated how I noticed it now that it was gone.