The Alpha's Young Mate novel Chapter 41

Clayton's POV

The trackers and I stop running when we reach a river. Everyday so far since Nic went missing we have tried following her scent — but it doesn't work. Every time we are led somewhere different. Who ever took her sure has a way of masking scents.

My best tracker, Elliott, turns and looks at me with his yellow wolf eyes.

'Let's continue searching.' I tell him through mind-link. He shakes his wolf head and says,

'Alpha, it's no use. We can't grip her scent no matter how many times we try.'

I growl, 'Well try harder.'

He then lowers his head in submission before he turns around and starts out after a new trail with the other trackers.

Right as I am about to follow Damon mind-links me,

'The fighter from your friend Ella's pack just arrived and would like to meet his new alpha.'

'Not now. I'm busy.' I say back to him as I run with the trackers.

Damon mind-links me, but I block him out of my mind and ignore him as I smell what seems like Nicole's scent; the trackers and I run as fast as we can in the direction of it.

We didn't find Nicole. Again. Another day that we don't find her is another day she is in pain.

I growl angrily for not finding her and shift behind a tree. I put on some jeans and shoes before heading inside the pack house from the dark night.

Once I am in the house I start walking to my office.

Outside my office door I can hear Rose talking.

"No, Clayton hasn't had time to do any of that."

Do any of what?

"So he hasn't had time for his lovely mate?"

A male's voice says. I ignore the rest of what he was saying as I swing the door open to find Rose standing a few feet away from a guy with ash blonde hair.

Even more anger fills me as I walk over to the guy a growl at him. My threatening growl didn't faze him as he just stared at me.

"And who is this." I ask/demand. Neither of them answer me as the blonde guy and I stand face to face.

Rose then smiles, "This is Drake-" I cut her off. "Well drake do you have a mate?" I ask him.

He looks at me confused for a moment before he says, "no-" I don't let him finish as I say, "I don't like the fact that you were in a room alone with MY MATE." I growl at him.

"You don't trust me!" She yells angry. "I would never cheat." She says.

I growl and say, "you might."

Rose stares at me before she walks out of the room. I sigh and sit in the chair behind my desk. As I look around I notice that everything is in order — my once messy desk now has everything sorted in piles and is everything color coded.

I start looking around for the paperwork of allowing Drake to join my pack, but instead I come across a letter saying that Rose and I are invited to the strongest pack in the world's new becoming Alpha party.

I run a hand through my dark hair as I see another letter that Rose wrote saying that we will be there.

'We are not going to that party.' I mind-link Rose.

I wait a few minutes and she finally replies, 'Yes, we are.'

'No. I have far more important things to do.'

Rose doesn't answer and I start looking for the paperwork of that douche joking my pack and finally I find it only to see that Rose has signed it already. Great.

I lean back in my chair and look over at the clock — 11:56 pm. Running on no sleep again, and I think I can last one more night.

I then start marking down where the Trackers and I have searched for Nicole.