Alpha King Aramis’ POV:
Tanner dropped the letter and retreated back until his back hit the wall. I galloped, grabbing the letter from the floor, and read it out loud without any delay.
“Dear Alpha King Aramis,” it was too hard to focus on the letter when my baby brother was sobbing crazily in front of me, “I am writing this letter on behalf of my pack and demanding justice. Your brother has committed a serious crime against the mate of the Royal Beta of our pack; Markus Hart. Tanner was witnessed assaulting and murdering his mate Savia Perk today. The incident is horrifying for our pack and is a terrible act committed by the Alpha King’s brother. You have always promised justice and stayed true to your words. Me and my pack request you to do the same towards your brother. We want him presented in the werewolf court and punished in the presence of the higher-ups of every pack. I also want to inform you of my personal decision of rejecting Tanner in this sealed letter. I will do the verbal rejection in front of everyone,
Royal Gamma Warrior Phoenix Hart,” I read the letter sent by this devious creature that was assigned as our mate. Now I know what the Moon Goddess was trying to do by mating her to both of us, she knew this girl will be a disaster and when she couldn’t trap me, she trapped Tanner.
“She rejected me,” Tanner whimpered, covering his head in his hands and sobbing. He was unaware that his pain was agonizing to me, I could bear anything but not his tears.
“Tanner! She will not reject you. We will go there and talk to them. All of them, they will all apologize to you for accusing you falsely,” I held his arms and shook him into raising his head and meeting eyes with mine.
“She said she is rejecting me. She believes him---she believes them,” Tanner had this urge trying to speak to me and make me understand how much it was hurting him.
“We will see,” where he was crying, I had this anger rushing through my veins and demanding that I take a step to burn their pack down, “Tanner! Listen to me,” I preceded to cup his face in my hands, “She belongs to you. I promise to bring her here and chain her to you even if it is the last thing I have to do. She is your and will remain yours,” I finished, and soon after that, I looked around and eyed Aunt Jocelina to get him his medicines.
She was the in charge of his medicines because he would feel shy taking medicines in front of his brother. Tanner had a lot of insectaries and one of them was related to him not being social enough like me so he would try really hard to mask his weaknesses so that he can look good standing next to me.
What my little brother didn’t understand was that he was better than me. There was no comparison, there would never be because he was a complete person with emotions and feelings for others while I had none.
“Take him to his room and put him on medications, I will change and meet him in the room in a few minutes,” I ordered Jocelina while holding Tanner and walking him back to his room. He was exhausted from panicking and sobbing so much.
He was not always like that unless he gets triggered and then it will take some time for him to act normal. I slipped him onto the bed and then walked away to change and prepare for this meeting with the Dark Autumn pack but not before I let my anger out.
The first thing I did after storming into my room was to smash my cellphone into the wall and break it right then and there.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHH!” I screamed in anger, fisting the wall and then grabbing the TV and slamming it onto the ground.
I was angry!
I was mad at the world and the stupid thing called mate bond.
“They are accusing Tanner of such a disgusting crime?” I grunted heavily when accompanied by Jocelina, “How can they expect me to listen to them and let them punish my innocent brother?” my heart was throbbing in my head, I was able to hear every single beat of it in my head.
“I need you to calm down first. Tanner is resting and had asked to be left alone. While he is sleeping, why don’t you calm down before we all go and put those scums in their places? I tell you what? we go there and punish them for this act of treachery,” Aunt Jocelina thought it would be calm me down but how will any of them go back in time and prevent my brother from shedding tears? How can they ever erase this moment from his mind?
“We go there and bring that who*e to my brother’s feet, she will not be the next Alpha King’s in line’s mother, she will be a slave, whose only job will be to serve to my brother,” I was beyond myself that day, my wolf was demanding for transition but I was preventing it for many reasons.
“Fine, whatever you decide, but right now please calm down.” She didn’t dare step away from the door due to the mess I have created in my room.
“Ugh!” I groaned after the memory of my brother crying flashed before my eyes and threw the vase on the wall. This time the crash between the object and the wall created a much bigger noise but I was too consumed by anger to notice that thoroughly.
Rage pounded in me like a drumbeat, my eyes flashing red color and my skin stretching.
I refused to believe this day was not a nightmare. Some pack had made my brother cry and now they were requiring me to lend my brother to them so that they can punish him without any further investigation?
"Aramis! Please for the sake of Tanner, calm---," she paused in the middle of the sentence when we heard some recognizable cries becoming audible.
I straightened my posture to calm my breathing down and focus on the melancholic wailings from afar, leading to my mansion.
As the cries began to turn louder, my heart started skipping beats.
“It seems like the wailing brides are headed towards the mansion,” Aunt Jocelina, who was also shaken up by the little earthquake and then the cries, stated.
I watched her in the eye absent-mindedly until my body felt cold. The feeling of realizing something horrible might have happened struck me in the form of goosebumps.
I sprinted past her, pushing everyone in my way until I was out of the mansion where the wailing brides had stopped.
My eyes landed on the dead body they were here to collect and it shattered me.
“Ta---nner!” I shivered in my skin, I have never felt that weak and miserable in such a long time.
My muscles couldn’t move while my brother laid there after he had jumped to his demise.
“TANNER!” and then it struck me hard, I screamed whilst rushing towards him. As soon as I took his body in my arms, I realized it was too late.
It was too late to ever see him happy again, it was too late to be with him again.
“Tanner! Why?” my cries had managed to subside the cries of the wailing brides. The pack gathered around me while I cried there holding my brother’s dead body in my arms.
The tears were not even there anymore, I was crying blood, staining Tanner’s face with red color. They took away my everything, they stole my treasure from me and now I will take away their treasure.
“Phoenix Hart!” I shouted, bleeding from my nose. The dark clouds took over the world after the sky too was ready to cry over the demise of an innocent soul.
Phoenix Hart’s POV:My pack was going crazy about this whole situation. Savia’s body was left at the Wailing River for the Wailing Brides to collect. The issue left was regarding Tanner and me.“You should have been the first to call for his jail time,” Iris had finally found a proper time to make me look bad in front of my family. We all have gathered around in the living room to discuss this matter and try resolving it without anyone breaking any rules.“Markus is not looking good, he just wants to spill blood,” Zion came out of Markus’ room and sat down with Iris, who had already started spreading venom.“It is an unfortunate event. Who would have thought my daughter’s arrival back in the pack would get scarred like this!” father let out a sigh as he passed me a weak smile. I know it shouldn’t have been about me and rather about Savia, but as a father, he had seen me sit silently in the corner my entire life. He was upset that the only time I got my moment to shine, it was replaced
Zion had taken me back to my room while the Alpha King was yelling and shouting at my father. This had turned into a whole mess.“I am fine now,” I held my brother’s hand, preventing him from pulling a blanket over me. I didn’t feel like lying down in the bed, I needed to be outside and hear what was going on.The mate bond broke after the death of Tanner yet I didn’t feel the pain of it, why?I know I have never loved Tanner and he knew that too, but I had accepted him as my mate then why didn’t I get aware of his demise?“You should stay here, he is very angry right now,” Veronica and Iris walked into the room after us as well.“Is nobody with dad outside?” I asked out of curiosity, if we were all here, who was with father?His guards wouldn’t be able to help him make decisions, why were we hiding and my dad was facing all the wrath?“I am going outside,” I jumped out of the bed while ignoring the eye roll from Iris and exited the room to meet my father in the foyer. Zion had rushed
I had my eyes on my father, waiting for him to make a decision. As for me, I wasn't ready to sacrifice myself because they have made a mistake so I shouldn’t be the one to pay the price.I understand that my pack was in danger but giving up myself wasn't the right thing to do either.However, my siblings felt otherwise and it hurt me the most."I'm ashamed of you all!" my father finally stated loudly enough for them to know he wasn't pleased with them, "It's a shame that you are suggesting we send our virgin daughter, sister, the daughter of the pack to this man's mansion, who will be preparing the worst tortures for my daughter once he gets his hands on her. So, my decision is that we fight for the safety of our daughters," My father announced determinedly but he didn't receive the cheer he was probably expecting."Everybody prepare for the worst, then," Zion announced with a lack of energy, hands tied behind his back, and followed his mate to the room. After the living room was lef
I have watched my father’s dead body being taken away by the wailing brides. Many pack members mourned that day, but it was marked as the darkest day for me.The only one who had always defended me and shielded me from greedy eyes was now gone. I was left in the hands of these brutal people, who hadn’t stopped accusing me of my father’s death this whole time. I didn’t get any consolation from anyone, they all avoided me like I was a disease.I have returned to the pack house mansion just a minute ago when I heard someone calling for me.“What happened today was terrible,” Zion was standing in the middle of his people and in front of the empty chair that belonged to my father once.The big tears in my eyes wet my eyelashes, I blinked them away and refused to sit down.“My father was a great warrior; he was a great Alpha of the pack. He had maintained alliances with the other packs and always kept us safe but his one mistake cost him his life.” As he finished, everybody turned their hea
My heart seemed to have jumped out of my throat when my eyes spotted the present standing before my door. It wasn’t Zion anymore, he couldn’t be.He had tears in his eyes so it has to be someone else. My siblings were standing behind him with a sad glister glooming in their eyes.“We never thought we have weakened you so much.” Veronica filled her face in her hands and sobbed whilst Hassel turned his face to the other side.“I shouldn’t have blamed you for all that,” Markus stepped ahead and filled me in his arms. I broke down instantly as I recalled my father.He would have been so happy to see us all together. I felt Zion and Veronica wrapping us in a group hug too. Even though Iris and Hassel were not happy, it didn’t matter anymore. My siblings have realized their mistakes and that’s all that mattered to me.“Now! Let’s stand together like a wall and see who can steal our sister from us,” Zion broke the hug and announced as he secretly wiped the tears clean and acted tough.“I lov
Things were bound to change after my family horribly betrayed me. I was poisoned with so much love that I couldn’t even feel the bitterness in the alcohol while chugging it down.They were aware of my doubt in the loyalty of others, hence they used my desire to be accepted and loved by them against me and disguised as a loving family just to kill my wolf.I didn’t only lose Nix that night, I was no longer able to carry the title of the Warrior among the powerful creatures because I was not a supernatural creature anymore.I was a mere flesh and bone creature called a human now, ready to be sacrificed by her family.I woke up not in my comfortable bed but on a hard ground. The hard light was penetrating my eyelids, shaking me awake at the arrival of the day after the horrible night was passed.“Uh!” I groaned in pain when moving a muscle, my body was sore. Being just a human was a terrible feeling, I felt weak, and hard to wake up.I still managed to peel my eyelids open when I smelt t
My heart began to pound in my head, my body feeling an icy wave stabbing my skin like tiny little needles. The goosebumps covered my skin as I pushed my body into the corner and far away from the coffin.My mind couldn’t stop making up queries about what was this and why was it here?What was I seeing? Why was there a dead body of my mate preserved in a coffin? Why wasn’t his body handed over to the wailing brides?This wasn’t good for so many reasons. Not only would I be tortured watching him sleeping for eternity but the wailing brides will never let the Alpha King Aramis keep Tanner’s body.I was startled and shaken up badly, tears were streaming down my eyes as I forgot to blink. I couldn’t bring myself to go near the coffin and see his face from close. Sliding against the wall, I embraced my knees, pulling my legs closed and my knees to my chest. I could see the hole that silver dagger had left in his chest that he had stabbed himself with before jumping off the window.There w
“Morgana! Will you shut up for a minute?” I have been hearing the two talk for the last few minutes after Aramis left. I was told to get ready for something special he had planned for me.In those few minutes, I figured out that Jocelina was the mother of this girl Morgana, who was pretty bratty but whenever she was in front of Aramis, she wouldn’t stop being all cute and naïve but even her tone changed when he wasn’t around.“Where is he taking her? ask him,” she nagged her mother again, it had been going on for the last few minutes. I wondered how her mother was able to tolerate her because I would have snapped at her.“Morgana!” Jocelina grunted, watching me come out of my room in black cargo pants and a black top. I was asked to braid my hair and that kind of reminded me of my training sessions. We were advised to always keep our hair tied if we are going for a battle or even a simple fight.“All set? I will escort you to the Alpha King’s car now,” the smile of confidence on Jocel