Vanilla ice cream

"Come on, let's waste his time a little more. Want some ice cream?"

"Yes, please." Evie smiled brightly.

"Pick anyone you want and don't hold back."

"For real?"

"For real." Adrian smiled. 'She communicates and acts like a child and not even a teenager. Brody, this girl's gonna change your life.'

After contemplating on which flavour to take, she took a small bucket of vanilla ice cream.

"Is that all you want?"

"Hmm. This is already more than enough."

"If you say so." Adrian took a vanilla ice cream in a small cup with a cherry on top. "You can take this one right now. Save the big container for later 'cause you won't enjoy taking from a big container while moving."

After their ice cream shopping, Adrian and Evie headed out of the ice cream shop. Adrian took his phone to text Brody and ask for his location.

[Where are you right now?]

[I'm back at the boutique. I've checked the area but I can't find her.]

[Okay, I'll be there in a bit]

"Evie, let's hurry back before he gets too impatient."

"Okay."

"Wanna run? You can hold my hand so we can go faster."

"Okay." She put her hand in his and they started running back to the boutique. Running away didn't make her feel so tired compared to when she was running back. There was a lot of adrenaline when she was running away but now, she felt like she was running a marathon.

*AT THE BOUTIQUE*

Brody was searching from one arc of the boutique to another. 'Where the fuck could she be?' he thought. He started searching like a crazy man and was even searching among the clothes. 'Why am I even searching here? What if someone has actually taken her away? Is this the moon goddess' way of punishing me? Letting me know what it feels like to have a mate and then taking her away? But why do I get the feeling like she's not in danger? Maybe that's why I'm still calm. Maybe she just strayed somewhere. But I can't even sense her. If she's within this place, I should at least be able to sense her.'

After searching the entire boutique, he walked back to the packing lot. 'I should take the car to look around for her. That way, I can cover more ground.' On getting to the car, he remembered that he didn't have the key to start the car. Although Adrian had left it open, he didn't leave the key behind.

"That fucking wolf pup." He cursed under his breath. Whenever Brody was going out, he always took either one of the guards or one of the warriors to drive him. Sometimes he even drives himself. Only when it came to going to the company with Kyle and Adrian will either of them drive. But for no particular reason, Brody just felt like taking Adrian with him was a better option since it was not just any outing, but an outing with his mate and he needed an upper hand incase anything was to happen. But had that moment, he had started to regret it. "What to do? What to do?" he paced around trying to find a possible place she could be. He stopped in his tracks when his favorite scent hit his nose. 'It's her.' He looked up and saw Adrian running towards him with a bucket of ice cream in his hand and there was someone behind him. The person had a small figure and he couldn't see who it was because of Adrian's body that covered the person. He didn't need to see who it was to know that was Evie, her scent was enough information for him.

"Wait, Adrian found her?" he said to himself.

'More like had her.' a voice said in his head.

"That moron!" With werewolf speed, he appeared right in front of them in the blink of an eye which made them stop in their tracks.

"Woah, you shouldn't do that here. What if someone sees you."

Brody scanned the girl and saw that she was holding a cup of ice cream. 'This idiot...' His eyes turned darker and he slowly turned his head to look at Adrian who was smiling nervously. He knew what was coming for him. In a swift move, Brody held his neck in his hand with a tight grip and said; "You were with her all this time?"

"Fuck! W-we were getting ice cream." Adrian said struggling out of his grip.

"You took her out to get ice cream and I was looking around for her, worried that all sorts of things might have happened to her!"

"C'mon, aren't y-you glad th-that she's safe. I- I just wanted her to-"

"I'm sorry."