Amber POV
As I walked in, I noticed there were seven people in the room all sitting at a round table. It was a mixture of all older men and women, with one who didn't seem to quite fit in with the age. He was looking down at papers in his hand and when he looked up, his eyes meeting my own, I gasped in shock…
I just stayed standing there in the doorway. I felt like I couldn't breath and I was gasping for breath. My ears were on fire, tears were in my eyes, and my whole body felt like it was on fire. I'm pretty sure it is safe to say that my emotions were overloading my body and it had no idea what to do in response to what I was seeing.
Damien's grip on my hand tightened and he turned me to him. "Amber what is wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost!" his voice was full of concern and worry. He followed where my eyes were focused on, and sent a questioning look between me and the man in front of us.
I couldn't even answer him, I felt like my whole world was ripping at the seams. Overwhelmed I turned as fast as I could and made my way down the hallway back the way we came. As I opened the front door I could hear shouting coming from the office, but I was too emotional to care. I made my way to the grass out front and immediately shifted to my wolf form. I started running as fast as I could, having no clue where I was running.
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Damien's POV
Amber immediately started hyperventilating as we started walking into the office. She had stopped and looked as though she had seen a ghost. I asked her what was wrong but she wouldn't answer me. Before she ran out of the room I followed her line of sight to the man sitting in the middle of the conference table. As she started running out of the room my anger took over.
"Who the fuck are you?! Why does my mate look as though she has seen a ghost?! What did you do to her?" I bellowed. My anger was consuming me, and if I had not been standing in a room full of elders I would have ripped his head from his body already.
"Alpha Lionheart, it is not what you think!" the man reasoned.
I made my way closer to the man; anger was consuming me. My wolf was trying to claw his way out to the surface. "Then speak! Why the fuck would my mate run?!" I screamed.
"Alpha, you will not use that tone with me! You may be an alpha, but I am the King!" he yelled back.
Pointing my finger at his chest, I fired back, "I don't give a fuck you are! You will give me answers now!"
"Your mate's name is Amber Rose. Her birthday is May 31st. She weighed 6 pounds at birth. She was always such a happy baby with a smile that could light up any room." He started.
"What the fuck?! You are her father aren't you?"
"I am Amber's father." He answered solemnly.
My mind felt like it was running a mile a minute. That explains why my mate ran. He has been here all this time while she worried about him every day, hoping and praying that he was OK.
I looked him straight in the eyes. "You better fix this. I am going to go get my mate, but you will talk to her. She fucking thought you were dead! She prayed every fucking day that you were OK and that there was a reason that you didn't come save her from the hellhole of a life she was living. Every. Fucking. Day!" I slammed the door shut as I stared down the hallway to get my mate. I followed her scent down the hallway to the front door.
Opening the front door, I looked around. There was nothing. Where the hell is Amber?
I started yelling her name as I made a circle around the castle. She was nowhere in sight. Panic started setting in. My chest was becoming right with worry. I could still smell her scent but it was becoming faint. As I completed my circle around the castle, Amber's father and the other elder's came outside.
I ran towards Amber's father and gripped him by his collar. "You son of a bitch! I swear if anything happens to my mate, I don't give a fuck who you are, I will fucking kill you myself!" I let go of his collar and turned on my heels in the direction of the woods. I started to strip out of my clothes, and as I placed them on the ground, right before I shifted I heard Amber's father give out orders. "You three stay here. You three come with me. I will link others and tell more guards to be sent to the castle. Keep everyone safe while I am gone, I must go find my daughter!"
Thirty seconds later I had shifted and was heading into the woods, followed close behind by Amber's father and his companions.