Chapter 256. Search

Ellis’s POV

My heart was in anguish.

It wasn’t a sharp pain, not something that came and went in waves. It was constant—heavy, crushing, like someone had wrapped iron bands around my chest and kept tightening them with every passing second. Love was gone. Taken. Snatched out of my life by an evil witch, right from under my nose, while I had been useless, distracted, too slow.

One of my warrior trackers had confirmed it hours ago.

“She was taken by a witch,” he said grimly, crouching at the site where Love had last stood. “The scent, the markings on the ground—dark magic. No doubt about it.”

Those words echoed in my head as if they had been carved into my skull.

A witch.

Not a rogue attack gone wrong. Not an accid