Blames

Chase carries Emandra back to bed. When he was done dressing he stepped out for his office. Enzo and Delilah have been waiting for him. The moment they lay eyes on him everyone fell silent. He looked too good to have just woken up from a near-death situation.

 ‘’If you keep staring at me like that I might have your eyes plugged out’’ Chase joked. Enzo laughed nervously. He was happy to have him back.

 ‘’What has been happening in my absence?” Chase glanced down at the pile of files that needed attendance. 

‘’The rogues vanished without a trace and nothing seems to be moving towards finding how or why they attacked us purposely’’ Enzo robbed the bridge of his nose. He was tired, it's been days of findings and tracing yet nothing could be found. 

‘’We have had limited or no Rogues attacks in the past years. Hunting has always been their motive however this time they came with an objective. I feel war is just within our grasp'’ Chase, glances over to Delilah who has been quiet. 

It was very unlike her to not make mention of tips or leads. She may be just a maid on the outside, but she was his greatest asset. She knew just how to read through the mind and her gift of weather made things too easy for him. 

‘'I would ignore your silence Delilah, but we all know it is not a sign of peace or comfort’’ Chase sits up.

 ‘’Chase, I served your father and now you. The dangers ahead are not something I would be part of. The weather is dull and they are here to take me, I will leave but before I do, I want you to bring my daughter from the land of Altera back home. She would be of great help to the new reign’’

 Chase stared at Delilah not sure if he understood what she was blabbering about. She did have a daughter born with the blessing of a version. Delilah’s mate was a hybrid born of a werewolf and a witch, her mate did not get any of the qualities of his mother, but their daughter did. She was taken at birth to be trained in the Land of Altera. The land of the future.

 “Delilah, we are grateful for your services and I would bring her back, however, something else borders me’’ Chase sighs. The weather was indeed becoming too dark as if a hurricane was brewing on the horizon. 

‘’My Alpha, great men beget great responsibility. Head maids are not just chosen from any family, but gifted by the moon goddess for every generation. Yes, I am the weather reader of the time of your fathers and it is time for my daughter to come take my place for the new reign. Promise me, you will always follow your heart”’ Delilah held his hands, as shadows hovered all over her. 

Chase and Enzo both stared in shock. Chase knew just what was happening, he had seen the two shadows before, it was the same beautiful beings he had seen with Emandra, and now they were choking Delilah and draining the life out of her. No one can fight them, they can only stare. The limb dead body of Delilah falls to the ground with a thud. 

Enzo was first to reach out for her but it was too late, she was cold and dead. The shadows hovered over Chase, their slender fingers caressing his cheeks. Eno watched in fear, however Chase knew deep down they wouldn't hurt him. Yes, he felt so close and familiar with them.

 ‘’Pretty thing, be at ease, it is her destiny to die saving the one destined for the most precious. Ours’’ they purr like a wolf or more like a kitty…. 

“‘Till we meet again, pretty one”’ they were gone but not before planting a soft kiss on his cheek.

 They were shadows but he could feel it, it felt so real and so tempting. He felt their touch, every word from them aroused and sent tingles down his spine. What were these feelings he was having for creatures of the dark? 

‘’What was that about?’’ Enzo asked to bring him back. He looks at his beta whose eyes were directed straight to the bulge in his pants threatening to burst its way through.

 ‘’I don't know,’’ Chase confessed honestly. Something was pulling him close to the shadows. It felt the same as the mate bond and strong as the same feelings he shared and felt towards Emandra. 

‘’Chase, I don't know what is happening but Altera seems to be the only place we can seek answers. The presence of the ancient powers of old means its human forms reside in this pack, we have to seek it out”’ Chase walks over to Delilah, she was the mother he grew to know. She loved him like her very own and was the only person next to her family. The pain of losing her was great.

 ‘’Prepare for her final rites”’ he walks out carrying her dead body while Enzo spreads the news of her passing through the pack link. Chase could feel the pain of every member as they all mourned for Delilah. She was not just mother to him but to all. 

A great loss indeed. As a member of the great family of weather wolves, she was to be laid in the company of her past descendants. Chase watched as everyone paid their last respect with white roses on her laid corpse. 

“Chase, something is wrong at the borders'’ Enzo's voice came through the mind link. He had to leave. Haze was quick to take over as they headed toward the east border where Enzo was on night patrol.

 ‘’What's wrong, he walks over to Enzo who tossed him a pair of shorts. ‘’The rogues are here again, but unlike the last time, they want to meet you, they have a proposition’’ Chase frowned. Something within him did not like this. He walks over to 3 rogues, the stench from them is so horrid. It turned his stomach as he vomited everything.

 ‘’What do you want?’’ he asks, leaning over a fig tree. 

‘’We want nothing of importance to you, just a she-wolf’’ one of the rogues voiced out. ‘’Really? You want someone of no importance”’ Chase sneered. 

‘’Your presence and the stunt you pulled last time is enough to make out the importance of whoever you seek,’’ Enzo tells the rogues. A she-wolf of no importance would bring the rogues away from their territory.

 ‘’You Alpha should want this one so badly, that he is ready to kill for it”’ Chase mocked. 

‘’She means nothing to you, we are ready to double the amount you paid for her, if that will make it easier”’ Enzo could not hold his anger as his eyes flicker. The one they wanted was the mate to his alpha, she was their luna marked or not. 

‘’Not happening, if he wants her, then he should be ready for blood’' Enzo hissed. Emandra was their Luna, his first duty was to protect the Alpha and Luna. Enzo was long gone as his wolf had taken over. ‘

’I see, it seems the lesson was not learned. Alpha chase, you will hear from us soon”’ they vanished into thin air. Enzo turned to chase but something about him did not look surprising. 

‘’What are you hiding?’’ Enzo asked. While every other person was freaking out, he was the only one standing and not baffled by the sudden change. Witches were the only ones who could vanish, and not all had such abilities. 

Rogues were wolves separated from a pack or born without a pack. Unlike other creatures of the old, wolves held great power and ruled over all except vampires. They are neither enemies nor friends.

 ‘’I should head back, Emandra is awake’’ Chase walks away shifting and running towards the pack house. He needed answers only emandra could provide.