Enslaved By The Alpha
Chapter 76

~MAYA~

"They're coming!" Isabella shouts as she spots her mate along with everyone else.

I watch them all run to their mates to hug them and hold them close. My eyes are on Kane, and I desperately want to run to him. However, I know that it isn't my place. Especially not when Maya's entire family is around. They would freak out if they saw me holding onto Kane as though he was my lover. Even Kane would freak out if I did something like that in front of them. He already freaked out if I was close to him in private.

"Did you finish them off?" Gabriella asks Kane.

"We killed her father. I locked her in a cold cell. She wouldn't last long. And the prisoners will finish off the guards for us. They can't hurt anyone else after today." He answers her.

"It's not over," Austin says. "I don't want to waste another second. We need to bring Maya home today. I don't care how long I have to stay away from home. I'm not going home until I replace her."

Kane nods, "let's get going. We have no idea what they are doing to her. We need to free her. She's suffered enough already."

I'm not sure if it's okay for me to tag along on this trip with them. This was a rescue mission for Maya. The woman Kane was hopelessly in love with. I'm not sure that I will be able to stand back and watch something like that happen in front of me.

I've said before that I wanted him to be happy, and I understood that he would only be satisfied if he was back with Maya. That didn't mean that I wanted to see their reunion. I don't think my weak heart would be able to see something like that. I could barely handle hearing him talk about how much he loved her. How horrible would it be to see him showering her with love?

Kane doesn't seem to notice me anymore. He's only concerned about bringing her home to him. I always knew this day would come when I would no longer have his attention. A day where she would be all he thinks about. That day was finally here, and I was even more devastated than I thought I would have been.

Once more, Lucy invited me to join them, and I didn't turn her down. Kane didn't even ask for me to join them. I'm not even sure that he realizes that I would also be there while they searched for Maya.

I had to get a grip on myself. I knew this day would come. It was time for me to be happy for him. He was finally close to getting Maya back.

-KANE-

My heart is pounding against my chest. I'm not sure what I'm going to replace.

I walk towards the door, with everyone behind me waiting for a signal. This was the last known location of the witch. We'd already searched other sites where we'd hoped to replace her. We didn't replace anything. This was our last hope. If we didn't see her here, I didn't know what else to do.

Austin and his pack are to the left, while James and his pack are right. Hunter's men, along with Arthur, are at the back of the building, while Ermanno and his brothers are right behind me. We are all here to bring Maya home.

I'm still praying that we replace her alive and healthy. Though, I can't feel her presence here at all. That couldn't be a good sign. However, the witch may have put a spell on her to prevent me from replaceing Maya sooner. A spell that could stop me from sensing her. She was strong enough to pull something as crazy as that off.

I had to wonder what other spells she used to get her way. We had no idea what she was doing to her all this time. Just the thought of it sends my blood boiling. I'm f*****g pissed that it took me this long to reach here. If Giselle hadn't trapped me, I could have gotten to her sooner than this. But I had to put that behind me now.

At least Giselle had finally gotten what she deserved. Both her and her father. They'd lost everything in the end. I'm sure that they weren't expecting so many people to come to my rescue. Even though I didn't expect to get so much help, I was grateful for all the support I'd gotten. It's only because of them that I'm finally here.

I wish it hadn't taken me this long to figure out where my Maya was. There is no telling what she had to go through in the hands of these f*****g monsters. When I got my hands on them, I would rip them into a million pieces. We didn't need this many men to attack the witch, but everyone here came for Maya. This was how much she was loved. She had all of these people along with me, ready to bring her home with us.

"Ready?" Ermanno asks me.

I nod my head and slam the door open with force, breaking it down. I didn't want anything to be in my way. One after the next, we searched every single room in the abandoned castle. I moved as fast as my body would let me.

"Did you see anything?" I ask Austin across the room.

"No!" He shouts in frustration. "Did you?"

"Nothing here!" I answer him. Those were all of the responses we kept getting, over and over.

"Nothing here either!" Arthur shouts a little distance away.

"Where is that f*****g witch?" Hunter asks as he comes out of a different room. "Where could she be hiding?"

I wish I knew the answer to that. There were still many other rooms to search; I couldn't give up hope yet. I reached too far to give up now. "Come on," I tell them. "We need to move faster. We can't give her a chance to try and escape before she tells us what she did with my mate." Ermanno pats my back as support, and we all move up the stairs together. "We will replace her, and even if we don't, we will not give up searching." "Thanks." I thank him as we continue to search rooms one after the next.

We don't stop until there is just one more floor left. The highest floor and the only one left for us to replace the bloody witch that destroyed my life. My heart is pounding against my chest, and it feels like it's about to jump out of my damn chest. This was it. I held my breath as we barrelled into the last room-my last hope.

I searched my surroundings and felt the air rush out of my body at what I saw next.

Leaned up against the wall, with her knees pressed against her chest and tears streaming down her face, was none other than my mate. Maya.

I'd finally found her.