“Finan!” I yell.
A minute later, he sticks his head in. “Yeah?”
“Who was leaving?”
“Kat’s parents and sister.”
I perk up, closing my laptop. If they’re out, then I can do something with Kat. Maybe we could go for a walk. “Are they headed into town?”
He shakes his head. “They need to get back to their pack.”
Alarm skitters down my back. “And Kat?”
“She was out there.”
“Saying goodbye to them?”
Kat would tell me if she were leaving.
“Think so,” he says. Leo yells something, and Finan twists around, calling back. “I’ll be right there.”
He closes the door behind him, leaving me alone with my thoughts.
“Kat wouldn’t just leave,” I mutter, my gaze lingering on the door. “She would tell me if she were planning to go back to Nebraska with her parents.”
But maybe she wouldn’t.
Maybe she foresaw an argument and decided to avoid it.
Maybe her dad, who hates me, convinced her that the best way to get her away from me was to walk away and not say a word.
I get up.
There’s no sign of Kat when I stick my head out the front door. She was out there recently, though. Her scent is fresh. I track it down the drive that leads off our property.
“Have you seen Kat?” I ask Wes when I see him.
He shakes his head. “Saying goodbye to her family.”
“Justsaying goodbye?”
He shrugs.
Frowning, I continue down the drive, jogging now. In the distance, I spot a car pulling away. Patric’s car.
There’s no sign of Kat anywhere.
Panic squeezes my heart. It’s like a weight compressing my chest.
Gone.
Kat is gone.
I run, pulling my clothes off to chase the car to Nebraska if I have to.
I have to stop her.
I have to tell her that?—
