Three Alpha Bikers Wants An Open Marriage

Chapter 184: Chapter 184

Gunnar’s POV

I stepped out of the pack chambers without looking back.

The moment I crossed into the open, I pulled the hood lower over my head and adjusted the dark cloth around my face so no one would recognize me easily. The last thing I needed right now was one of my pack members stopping me to ask questions or worse, trying to follow me. I didn’t have the patience for that now.

I had already wasted too much time.

For hours now, I had been searching.

Every path.

Every corner.

Every place a human could possibly get dragged into without understanding what they were walking into.

And still nothing.

Anna was nowhere to be found.

I stopped walking for a moment, my jaw tightening as I looked around again, scanning the area like I had done a hundred times already, but there was no sign of her, no trace, nothing that told me where to go next.

It was irritating.

No, it was worse than that.

It was frustrating in a way I didn’t like admitting.

I exhaled slowly, running a hand through my hair before pulling the hood back into place, my expression hardening again because I didn’t have time to stand around thinking about how I felt.

I needed results.

And I didn’t have any.

I couldn’t even believe I was doing this.

Searching for a human.

A useless, fragile human who had no business being anywhere near this place in the first place.

If this was anyone else, I wouldn’t have moved a step.

I would have let them deal with the consequences of their own stupidity.

But this wasn’t about the human.

This was about Riley.

I clicked my tongue slightly, annoyed at the thought.

If I had allowed Riley to come out here on her own to look for her friend, things would have gone wrong immediately, and I wasn’t going to deal with that kind of chaos inside this territory.

So I handled it myself.

Or at least, it was supposed to be.

Now I was still out here, hours later, with nothing to show for it.

I clenched my jaw slightly.

There was no way I was going back to Riley and telling her I couldn’t find her friend.

That wasn’t an option.

Not because I cared about the human.

But because I refused to stand in front of Riley without results.

That alone irritated me more than anything else.

I started moving again, my steps controlled as I pushed further out, checking areas I had already checked before, just in case I missed something, but the result stayed the same. ƒreewebɳovel.com

Nothing.

No scent.

No trace.

No sign of struggle.

No sign of movement.

It didn’t make sense.

A human doesn’t just disappear in a place like this without leaving something behind.

Unless—

"Looking for someone?"

The voice came from behind me.

I stopped immediately.

My body didn’t tense in panic and slowly, I turned around.

And the moment I saw him, my eyes narrowed slightly.

Bane.

I hadn’t seen him since the incident in Tithers Town.

Back then, disappeared like he was never there in the first place.

And now he was here inside this pack. That alone was enough to put me on edge.

"How did you get in here?" I asked, my voice calm but sharp enough to make it clear I wasn’t asking out of curiosity.

I was asking because I wanted an answer.

Bane smiled slightly like he expected the question.

"I have my ways," he said casually.

I didn’t like that answer.

My eyes stayed on him, studying him carefully because I didn’t trust him, not fully, not even close, and the fact that he could walk into this place without being detected made him a problem whether he liked it or not.

But I didn’t waste time on that.

"If you’re here," I said, stepping closer slightly, "then you’ve seen something, I mean someone."

He didn’t answer immediately.

Instead, he looked at me like he was trying to confirm something.

"Are you looking for someone somehow connected to Riley? Because that is the only reason you would be out here yourself" he asked.

I didn’t hesitate on how asking how he knew because he was already strange enough.

"Yes," I said.

His expression changed slightly.

Not surprised.

More like... understanding.

Then he nodded slowly.

"Then they’ll use her," he said.

I frowned."Use her for what?" I asked.

"To lure Riley out," he replied.

That made my expression darken instantly.

My mind moved fast, connecting the possibility with everything that had already happened.

It made sense.

Too much sense.

If someone wanted Riley, if someone was watching her, if someone understood her enough to know what she would do, then taking someone close to her would be the easiest way to draw her out.

And Riley would go.

Without thinking twice.

I already knew that.

"You need to make sure she doesn’t," Bane added.

I looked at him, my gaze cold now.

"Who are they?" I asked.

He shook his head slightly."That’s not a simple answer," he said.

I didn’t like that either.

"Try me," I said.

He let out a small breath, like he was deciding how much to say.

"There are things moving inside this place," he said slowly. "Things that shouldn’t be here."

My eyes narrowed further.

"This is my territory," I said. "Nothing moves here without me knowing."

Bane gave a small, almost amused look.

"Then you haven’t been paying enough attention to this pack Gunnar," he replied.

That hit.

Not because I agreed.

But because part of me knew something had been off lately.

"Obsidian Veil isn’t as clean as you think anymore," he continued. "There are beings here that don’t belong, and they’ve already settled in deeper than you realize."

I didn’t respond immediately.

I just stared at him, processing what he was saying.

"If you don’t clear them out," he added, "this pack is going to fall apart."

Silence followed that.

Heavy silence.

Because that wasn’t a warning.

That was a statement.

And I didn’t like the idea of something moving inside my territory without my control.

Not one bit.

Bane turned slightly, like he was about to leave.

I wasn’t done.

"Do you know how I can find her?" I asked.

He stopped.

"The human," I clarified. "If you know this much, then you have an idea where she is."

He didn’t turn immediately.

Then he spoke.

"No," he said.

That annoyed me.

"But if you want to find her," he added, finally turning back slightly, "you’re looking in the wrong way."

I watched him closely.

"Explain," I said.

"She didn’t get here on her own," he continued. "Humans don’t just walk into a place like this."

I already knew that.

"There’s a veil around this territory," he went on. "It keeps normal humans out because they can’t see it, they can’t understand it, and they don’t cross it unless something allows them to."

My expression didn’t change.

But my mind was already moving."Then how did she get in?" I asked.

Bane looked at me fully now."That’s the right question," he said.

He started walking again, slow, like he wasn’t in a hurry to leave.

I stayed where I was.

"Someone brought her in," he said.

I didn’t respond.

"Or helped her get in," he added.

That made my jaw tighten slightly.

Because that meant one thing.

This was planned.

Bane stopped again. Then he turned his head slightly toward me.

"Wait a minute," he said.

I didn’t like the tone.

"How did the human get past the veil?" he continued. "Humans don’t see it. They can’t even cross it. So how did she end up here?"

I didn’t answer.

Because now I was thinking the same thing.

And the answer wasn’t good.

Bane looked at me directly."That means someone from inside helped her," he said.

My expression hardened completely.

"A very close enemy or friend,"