Three Alpha Bikers Wants An Open Marriage Chapter 184

Gunnar’s POV

I stepped out of the pack chambers without looking back.

The mont 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 easily. The last thing I needed right now was one of my pack mbers stopping to ask questions or worse, trying to follow . I didn’t have the patience for that now.

I had already wasted too much ti.

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 mont, my jaw tightening as I looked around again, scanning the area like I had done a hundred tis already, but there was no sign of her, no trace, nothing that told 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 ti 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 co out here on her own to look for her friend, things would have gone wrong imdiately, 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 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 sothing, but the result stayed the sa.

Nothing.

No scent.

No trace.

No sign of struggle.

No sign of movent.

It didn’t make sense.

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

Unless—

"Looking for soone?"

The voice ca from behind .

I stopped imdiately.

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

And the mont 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 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 ti on that.

"If you’re here," I said, stepping closer slightly, "then you’ve seen sothing, I an soone."

He didn’t answer imdiately.

Instead, he looked at like he was trying to confirm sothing.

"Are you looking for soone sohow 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 soone wanted Riley, if soone was watching her, if soone understood her enough to know what she would do, then taking soone 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 ," 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 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 knew sothing 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 imdiately.

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 statent.

And I didn’t like the idea of sothing 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 imdiately.

Then he spoke.

"No," he said.

That annoyed .

"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 sothing 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 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.

"Soone brought her in," he said.

I didn’t respond.

"Or helped her get in," he added.

That made my jaw tighten slightly.

Because that ant one thing.

This was planned.

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

"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 sa thing.

And the answer wasn’t good.

Bane looked at directly."That ans soone from inside helped her," he said.

My expression hardened completely.

"A very close enemy or friend,"