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He saw the tears swimming in her eyes and no matter how much he hated, he cared for them. Her reddened eyes and flushed face made him hiss in vex. They made him feel miserable not because she was that frustrating mate of his who left no chance to piss him off, but because she acted as if she was to blame.
Indeed it was her who got his sister abducted yet Zander could not hold her wrong.
How can he accuse her when they knew a threat was lingering around for the cubs of the pack? Yeah, they had to be the abductors from the same kidnapping troop who kidnapped several dozens of cubs from the neighbouring packs for trafficking and smuggling. And in their pack, they targeted the beta's daughter which was unfortunately the first kidnapping from their pack.
They knew they were coming but didn't know that they would initiate it with the beta's daughter!
The biggest foul move
47Zander's POVWe were sitting in the conference room in alpha's house. He had exclusively made this conference room for important discussions like this. Just in case if we could not make it to the official headquarters of our pack in serious time like this, we used the discussion room in his house. And at the moment, we were doing just the same.There were alpha, beta and Gamma males along with their sons, those are me, Ryley and Brandon, and that girl's name (who is also my mate) father, Hari Stark. We had the projector flashing at the white screen before us while we sat in the chair before the oval shaped table, looking at the CCTV playing."So this was here where they got Reyne. Bloody hell, I will fuck their balls if I found them. Just look at how have he blocked Reyne in his arms!" Ryley hissed but it was me that was feeling the fire of frustration and jealousy burning my heart.I
48"Come on Zander, stop it now. There is nothing in there!" Zander let out a frustrated chuckle and ignored that exclamation.He headed further, deeper and deeper in the woods, and tried to notice every possible head that could lead to his sister's abductors."I told you Shine, you can go back if you want. You don't have to follow me all the way to hell and get frustrated over nothing." He replied, his hands slapping away the leaves and branches blocking his front.His egoistic reply offended Ryley. He let out a grumble and pulled Zander by the back of his collar." What the fuck is wrong with you, Shine? " Zander roared angrily."I want to ask the same. What the fuck is wrong with you, Zander Brown? Why are you acting so weird and strange? What has gotten into you?" He asked all at once.Zander was back to being rude and aggressive like how he had been earlier with
49Being tired and awfully exhausted, Zander and Ryley applied brakes to their legs and stopped. They bent forward and rested their hands on the knees and breathed deeply. There was a thick layer of sweat forming on their faces as their lips quivered during breathing."Should we go back?" Ryley suggested more than asking that."Not now." a quick reply erupted from Zander's mouth as fear knitted along his words vibrated from his mouth. "I have promised mom I won't return without Milan."The two guys raised their glances from the dark ground and gawked at each other under darkness. The sun has disappeared and darkness has taken over. The leaves stayed silent from rustling and the winds silenced. No other sound than their deep respiration echoed in the atmosphere.Ryley shook his head in interpretation. He honestly did not want to leave but the place they were in was fatal for the both of t
50He froze like a leaf on a wintery night. His veins numbed and mind stopped working as everything revolved only and only around Milan.But wait, did he just hear what he really heard?Did he say something about ending up like his sister? Like what?His lashes widened again, heart pumped blood with double force as his veins that were numb started popping out of his skin as blood rushed through them vigorously. Zander pushed aside all the thoughts and focused back on what laid before his eyes."Do you get it?" the long haired villainous man asked, his voice oozing fear and warning.The cubs sitting there stuck together on the floor, bobbed their heads in agreement, looking at his face with dread. The expressions seemed so scary and helpless that Zander urged to go and release them from it. He desired to beat the long haired bitch to death or until his half of the bones wer
51“Zander!” as soon as his eyes unlatched, he saw his mother and father’s worried facade.There was a wave of relief bursting on their cheeks as they curiously erected their backs and looked at him while Zander tried to focus on his surroundings, "Mom... Dad," He whispered in his dry voice that hardly hit their ear drums.Zander tried to sit straight but failed when his mother threw her arms around him and wept, "Zane, I am glad you woke up, darling. I thought... I thought," She choked on her words and paused, taking Zane by surprise.What the fuck was wrong?He wondered, looking at his father's face that only conveyed one emotion— relief.He tried to stay put. He difficultly wrapped his hands around his mum while on her back, he attempted to look at his surroundings. He was in a hospital room, in a blue patient's gown. There was
52Zander stared at the closed door of his ward without a blink. Whatever Ryley was saying went straight from the top of his head just because now his attention was at something else. Precisely at someone else!He smelled the same smell that he termed as unwanted and unworthy, invading in his nostrils. A sudden power rushed through his muscles and Zack squealed inside of him, 'MATE'It was relaxing. Her presence relaxed his body and mind like she was some drug he was in need of.He wanted to avoid her who was probably standing by the side of the door against the wall but failed. He knew it was somewhere because of her why he woke up. He cannot neglect that her face was the cause why he got up that night and fought that bastard."And there are still a lot of things you need to know but before that," Ryley fixated his gaze at his friend's face while his eyebrows creased.&
53"He is fine. And as you had said earlier, he is mad at Reyne." Ryley shared the words about their conversation with Valen over the call.He had just come out that his phone buzzed, flashing her name on his phone."I told you so. Anyways, I need to go, dadda is calling me. You take care of him. If possible then I will come to see Zander today." Valen sent virtual kisses over the phone to Ryley before she ultimately hung up."This girl, I love her so much." A dreamy grin appeared on Ryley's face, he stared at the screen of his phone at Valen's picture that was saved as his wallpaper.After a minute of admiring his mate, he decided to go back to Zander. It was injurious to leave him alone as this guy was known for running out of the hospital.When Ryley came back to his room, he was stunned to see the bed. "Zander?" The bed was empty.He ro
54Zander's POVOur car halted in front of my house. Various emotions hit me as I opened the door and came out. It looked beautiful as ever.My father has a great taste. He made us a house that was indeed worth living in, and admiring it from outside."Welcome home, Zany." I flashed a toothy smile because my sister was waiting to welcome me with a beautiful rose in her tiny hand.She was made to change in a pair of pajamas and a t-shirt that read, 'Welcome home, best brother'"Milly, my baby." I picked her up in my arms and trailed a line of kisses on her forehead and cheeks.She reciprocated my actions and kissed me on my cheeks. It filled my heart with contentment and gratefulness.I didn't cry but my eyes were invariably wet. These were unshed tears of acknowledgement and felicity. I was lucky enough to have come home back, safe
(Last chapter) Five days later, In the lounge of the hospital beside the reception desk, Valen stood with her phone in one of her hands and a package in the other. She stomped her foot impatiently as she glanced at a recently received message, seething in vexation. 'Stuck in the traffic!' "Oh, moon goddess! Why do you have to mate me with such a dumb f*ck bastard." She cried— like she was a wolf, with a baby face and pout she was adored for. Then another message appeared on her screen that turned her facial expressions even sour and bitter. 'A bloody red lory has blocked my way. It's not moving further, not letting me do so.' "Oh Jesus, I will kill you, Ryley Shine." Valen shrieked, this time like a human, earning amusing looks from the passers-by and the watchman who was sitting across a huge television, keeping
117 "Tell me, I am on time." He said amidst his uneven respiration as he stood with his torso bent forward and hands resting on his knees, working on stabilizing his breathing. His beta entered the room behind him, "You are, Ryan." "How long has he been dead for?" Alpha Ryan asked coming to his full height even though his breathing had not braced up. He discerned the clueless faces of Zander's kith and kin waiting for an answer. When none came, his beta stepped next to him and disclosed, "Less than twenty-four hours. We still have time— but not much!" "Great. That's enough time." Alpha Ryan expressed his delight at his beta's reply with a clap of hands as the others gawked at him. Their doubtfully teary eyes stayed affixed on his face as he, standing as an odd one out, smiled in the whole room.
116A storm of grief, they never anticipated, knocked their senses down.Anyone and everyone, who walked inside the ward Zander's corpse was placed in, returned with an expressionless face. He was just too young to die. Nobody believed their eyes when they walked in, but when they returned, they realized it was indeed true.His parents and friends stayed lined up by the side of the wall adjacent to his ward's door, weeping.His father had awoken with a smile, hoping to see the others safe within the boundaries of their pack- back in their sweet home. But the news he was dawned with, trembled his very core, muting him for several times before his wife broke into his ward.They held each other in a forlorn embrace and shared their pain. Their first child, their son... Was gone.The doctors warned him not to leave the bed yet Mr. Brown overstepped thei
115"Noooooo! Zander, my son.. He Can't... He can't die!" Mrs. Brown melted to the ground, her body loosely flattened, wailing deeply on top of her voice."C-control yourself, Mrs. Brown. You..." Ryley, who had been attempting to handle her, himself felt his throat choke as tears blurred his vision.The news that they received was itself so shaking and bewildering that none of them was ready to believe it. Zander was dead. He died whilst saving his mate. The Paladin Alpha sacrificed his life to save the others.When in the morning the Gamma hastily rushed to woods land after receiving a call of trepidation, all of them prayed for the well-being of all the Alphas and betas who've gone on the rescue mission with Zander.Although the Gamma left in his car, he returned with five ambulances behind him that paused across the hospital gate. It was Ryley who was given a call by doctor Jason to come ov
114“Zane!” his father shrieked, perceiving him wail in discomfort.A big chunk of glass stayed stabbed in his stomach. Blood slipped at his temple given that his head hit against a sharp rock, making the world around him spin.He did not get a second to steady himself as the ifrit galloped near him. He lifted Zander by his neck, his hold tightening around it. The wisp sound of his slow squeezing at zander’s neck had his father roar manically while he plunged at the demon, turning into his wolf.His canines pierced through the shoulder of the arm that was clasping Zander in his hold, and caused him to loosen his grip. Zander plummeted at the ifrit’s feet coughing and gasping for air.“He was dead, wasn’t he?” there was a faint tremor in alpha Hercules’ tone.Nobody had any answer except for shocking gasps and he
113Satisfaction. It was a kind of satisfaction he never derived before. Not from bullying or hurting people. It can only be derived through killing... Killing the enemy.His chest swelled in pleasure and eyes brightened. The scent of Reyne stayed in his breaths. The air held her fragrance, which his lungs gladly sucked in.Those alphas waiting out there said that they would leave as soon as they found Reyne— without creating any scene, but he couldn't stop. He had to kill him. Kill them all. They tortured his Reyne. They threatened their kind. And hunters... He killed him half right when he mentioned them.But it was over. Zane killed them here and the doppelgangers killed his psycho wife there.He smiled to himself as he rushed ahead. He just wanted to get to his Reyne and hold her tight. His crawl was quick. Zane was moving further steadily until— he witn
112She was threatened to not cry as it would ruin her make-up. Reyne couldn't keep up with their threats though. With the grief of her father's death weighing down on her chest, she sat in the cage wearing nothing but a flimsy tight one piece suit that covered her from knuckle to neck.She was told they would come to take her out on the stage. She was supposed to end the show, using her shape-shifting technique as the show stopping demonstration. Earlier she tried to refuse and what they did was whip her in the back. They scared her to do even worse that she easily gave up.Worse was that they put her in a cage. A real freaking cage as though she was an animal. She was not an animal. Damn it. She was an extraordinary creation. That's all. Who was going to explain it to the humans notwithstanding.Now Reyne could apprehend the meaning of her father's words, that he used to say all this while. Thi
111With his mouth pressing at hers, Zander looked around the room with his peripheral vision. It was a vast area. As far as he can see, there were doors and huge corridors.He assumed he would note the region in his mind during the kiss, and go away after knocking her down. But surprisingly, he didn't know what to do.His inside curled. The thought of Reyne made a wild current of dissatisfaction run down his spine. Still, he continued moving his mouth on her as he guided his hands around her waist.Just as heat of pleasure wormed within her, she eased down. The heat helped loosen her tight muscles and seize her trembling. Finally when Zander recognized she would not backfire his plan of occupying her sexually, he parted and stared in her eyes with a fake smirk."I've been wanting to do that since I saw you outside the theatre. You are hot!" She tilted her head back and
110A physical flash and burn shocked Zander to the core with its all-encompassing depth and strength and power as he hissed in exasperation at the view across from him.They were in the theatre where the Mad Magician's magic show was flaring in full swing. All the werewolves including himself were astonished observing the crowd that had gathered to see his show. Oh no, it was not because he was showing anything extraordinary as for now, but because of the slogan he had used in the advertisement regarding shape-shifting demonstration which was going to happen toward the end of the show, as a show stopping magic demonstration.In that instant, every other thought and emotion had ceased to exist except for a cascade of urgent directives to kill that bastard of a man he watched standing in the middle of the stage, showing some magic trick of fire through a woman."That's Phoebe Augusti