Chapter 16.

Embry's P.O.V

"You think she got kidnapped?" Paul said to my thoughts and I felt sick to my stomach. The pack and I had been out all day and night looking for Kate without finding her. I was freaking out, but I had to think straight if I was ever going to find her. I knew she wouldn't leave without taking anything with her or even telling anyone. Her aunt and uncle had called me earlier and asked me if I knew where she was.

"We just have to keep looking" I answered, focusing on running. The thought of her getting hurt made me want to throw up.

"Embry, Emily needed you to get to our place, apparently your phone had gotten a text. She didn't tell me what it said but she sounded frantic. I just talked to her" Sam said just as he phased back from talking to Emily on the phone. I had left my phone with her in case Kate called because there was no use in me having it while I was in wolf form.

"I'll be right back" I said, feeling a little bit of hope.

I ran to Emily as fast as I could and phased before walking in to the house. Emily was sitting at the kitchen table with my phone in front of her, staring at me when I walked through the door. She looked shocked and scared, and as soon as I saw that look on her face I knew something was terribly wrong. I walked over to the table and grabbed the phone.

"Embry, I'm so sorry..." Emily whispered, her voice trembling.

My hands shook as I opened the message and when I saw it my heart nearly stopped and a growl ripped through my whole body. The words on the screen almost made me phase right there in the kitchen, and as soon as I saw the picture attached to the message my body was trembling so bad I didn't even notice that Emily had walked out of the room.

Forget about her or I'll send her to you. Piece by piece.

I looked at the picture and the next second I threw the phone on the wall with all my force and watched it crash into pieces. I ran out of the house and phased while growling loudly. I was met by the thoughts of my pack mates immediately and as soon as they saw my thoughts they went quiet, which was a pretty hard thing to do in your thoughts.

I listened to one thought though that made me growl and ran faster.

"...caught her scent by the airport..."

Kate's P.O.V

I sat on the old couch staring at the wall, listening as the seconds ticked by. It felt like I had been here for days even thought it had only been like a day and a half. I felt numb, and every time the thought of Embry came to my mind, which it did often, I felt nauseous. I knew exactly how he would take it. He had probably gotten the text by now, and he was out for blood, I was sure of it.

"Come on sweetie, say something. You're just sitting there." Steven's voice made me jump. I looked at him and he was, like always, wearing a smirk on his face.

"You know Embry won't stop looking for me right? He won't stop until he kills you" I said, trying to threaten him. He didn't look like he cared at all.

"He won't find you" he just said and smiled at me. I looked away and turned back to staring at the wall. "And if he does, I'll probably kill him first" he added and I felt sick to my stomach once more. The thought of someone physically hurting Embry was too much for me to handle.

As the time went by I got more and more tired, but I refused to sleep here. What if he killed me in my sleep? Or what if his vampire friends decided to join us and they killed me? I also spent the time convincing myself that Embry was looking for me. He wouldn't stop. I'm his imprint.

"What's an imprint?" Steven asked and I broke out of my thoughts. Had I said that out loud?

"What?" I asked, trying to sound innocent. He sighed.

"You said that you were his imprint. What's that?" he asked again and I debated whether to tell him or not.

"A werewolf's soul mate, kind of." I mumbled, not looking at him. He was quiet for a while.

"Sounds stupid. But I guess he has to live without his 'soul mate' then" he finally said and the next thing I knew he was standing right in front of me, like he had moved in a split second. He looked down on me and my heart started beating faster. Was he going to hurt me? I didn't like looking in to his blood red eyes but it was hard to look away right now.

He raised his hand and cupped my face in it. I shivered as his skin made contact with mine. He was ice cold.

"You are mine now" he mumbled and before I knew it his lips met mine. It was nothing compared to when Embry kissed me and I just wanted to pull away, but I was frozen to the spot. His lips where ice cold and demanding and he scared me. He finally pulled away though and I stared at him. If he had been a human I would probably slap him in the face, I thought.

"Just like old times" he said and smirked.

A few hours later, when it was night again, I was so tired that it was hard to keep my eyes open. And I was hungry too.

"I'll get you some food" Steven said as my stomach growled and he stood up from the chair he had been sitting on. I knew he had been staring at me the whole time and was happy to have some time alone.

"I'm gonna hunt too, so it may take a while. But if you're smart, you won't try to go anywhere" he said just before the door was shut and I was left alone once more. I sighed in relief and finally let the tears I had been holding in fall down my face. I didn't want to cry in front of him.

I sat there for a while, letting my sobs rip through my body as I longed for Embry to be here with me, but suddenly I spotted something on the chair where Steven had been sitting. His cell phone. Had he forgotten it? It must have fallen out of his pocket. Would I be able to make a call before Steven came back? I had to try.

I hurried over to the phone and dialed Embry's number as fast as I could and pressed the phone against my ear.

"The number you are trying to reach, is not in service" a female voice said and I cursed out loud. What had happened to his phone? Maybe it wasn't on and maybe he hadn't even gotten the freaky text?

I dialed Emily's number, hoping that she would pick up. Maybe the boys were all out patrolling or looking for me.

"Hello?" Emily's voice said and I was relieved to hear someone I knew. She sounded different though, like she had been crying.

"Emily? Emily I need help!" said in to the phone. I heard her gasp.

"Kate? Kate is that you? Where are you? Are you ok?" she sounded frantic and I knew right away that they all knew I was gone and probably looking for me, and that calmed me a bit.

"I think I'm somewhere in Germany. Where is Embry? I need Embry, where is he? I need him..." my voice broke and I was shocked that I wasn't even able to have a normal conversation. Talking to Emily made me realize how bad this situation was and it made me miss Embry even more.

"I'll tell the boys, they are all looking for you. Are you hurt? I saw the text..." she was interrupted by someone talking to her in the background.

"Kate?" I heard Sam's voice as Emily handed the phone to him. "We will save you, you hear me? Don't worry, everything's ok. We'll save you" he said, trying to reassure me. I nodded frantically, the sobs once again ripping through my body.

"Embry..." I couldn't even form a normal sentence, I just wanted to know where he was and I wanted to talk to him.

"He's out with the pack looking for you. Don't worry about him ok, just try to stay alive. What happened?" he asked and I tried to stop my sobbing so I could tell him everything they needed to know.

"He's a vampire..." as soon as the words left my mouth I heard keys in the door and ended the call as fast as possible, deleted the call history and ran back to the couch before Steven knew what I had been doing.

"Yeah, I am a vampire, talking to yourself sweetie? Going a little crazy?" Steven chuckled as he walked in with a bag in his hand. I just kept staring at the wall, a little spark of hope growing inside of me.

Is there hope for Kate? Please review! xoxo