Chapter Five

RIVERS POV

Nothing, that's what we had found so far, absofuckinglutley nothing. Shadow was losing his shit, he could scent her, she had been there. Alix had to know we were coming but how? Shadow hadn't scented anyone else in the house. My stomach churns, we were all falling apart without her, she was the air we didn't know we needed to breathe.

"We're doing to the warehouse, you coming?" Arrow asks from the doorway to what is now our room. I nod numbly, rising from the couch.

"What do you think she would say if she were here?" He asks catching me off guard. I frown, not really sure what she would say, and a small part of me wonders if she didn't simply just run away. I ignore his question, keeping my thoughts to myself, he was already teetering on the edge and I wasn't going to be the reason he fell.

We walk to the warehouse in silence, the emptiness consuming us. Something feels off as I walk into the warehouse, but I can't tell what it is, Chaos is already here, but that's not unusual, he's been spending a lot more time here since Scarlett vanished.

I glance around the room, trying to figure out what it is that feels so off, that's when I spot the muddy boot prints stopping at the wall, almost as if someone had walked through the wall.

"Who the fuck was in here!" Arrow explodes, noticing the mud. The footprints too big to belong to any of us. "Chaos, bring Shadow here." He barks out the order.

Arrow turns his suspicious gaze to me, as the door closes behind Chaos. "That motherfucker has been acting shadier than Shadow, somethings going on with him, more than Scarlett missing." He keeps his voice low, even though we are the only ones here. I nod my head, he wasn't wrong, Shadow was usually the shady one, Scarlett had once joked that he was shadier than a shadow and thus the nickname stuck.

Shadow chooses that moment to burst through the door, eyes wild as he takes us in. I watch as he takes a deep breath to calm himself.

"Where's Chaos?" I ask noticing my missing brother.

"Dad ne-" he stops inhaling deeply, his eyes darken a growl ripping from his throat, and I swear I feel the ground shake beneath my feet.

"She's here." His voice is strangled and I know he's fighting his wolf for control. I still when his words finally sink in.

"What the fuck do you mean she's here?" I wave my arms at the obviously empty room. Her bares his teeth at me,

"I need you both to shut the fuck up so I can hear." I hear Arrow suck in a breath behind me. I nod at Shadow, clearly he needs to work through something. What I don't expect is for him to walk directly to the wall where the footsteps disappeared and put his fist through the wall, no not the wall, what the fuck? Is that a fucking door?