Axel’s povWe were in for it, Alaric and I, the moment we stepped through the palace gates.Father was pacing back and forth like a beast in a cage, his hands curled tight as if they were already strangling someone. The guards around him were all but frozen, afraid if they so much as dared draw breath in his presence. His voice rattled the stillness of the courtyard. “Find them! I want my sons found!” “Sir… they are behind you,” a guard said as he turned to us.The second his eyes landed on us, the world stopped.His anger became something else entirely. A rage so dark and consuming that I think for the first time in my life I was actually afraid of my own father.“Inside. Now.”Alaric and I didn’t even think to argue. “On a scale of one to ten, how mad do you think he is?” I asked Alaric who shrugged.“I would say an eight.”“Now!” Father growled as we jumped in our boots and followed him.We both followed him wordlessly, the three of us making our way back inside as his fury loome
Alaric’s povI woke up to the sound of growls and snarls as I looked around to find out that I was in a cave.I could feel my insides burning with rage as I tried to get up but found that I had been chained to the ground with chains. But the chains didn’t feel so ordinary to me. They felt like they were laced with wolfsbane.I saw the guard passing as I called to him. “Hey you!” I said as he stopped and turned to me. “Where am I?”“You’re awake,” he smiled as he got a bucket of water and tossed it on me. Except it wasn’t water. It was poop.I grimaced and spat out as he laughed and leaned forward. “I’ve been waiting for you to wake up so I can do that. You, Axel, you did a great disservice to my alpha and I’ll make sure you regret it.”Now this was a mistake as I shook my head. “Oh, no, no, no, you see I’m not Axel. I’m Alaric.”He laughed. “Axel, Alaric, same thing. You can call yourself whatever you like. But you made a deal with my alpha and if you do not…”I shook my head. “You’r
Alaric’s povI stormed out of the hospital, my fists balled up in anger. My brothers were breaking apart, and I was letting them. I should have stopped the fight between Axel and Kai when it had started ten minutes ago, but I guess I didn’t have the balls to do it. Thanks to my mate, I was out here in the middle of the night trying to get Axel and talk to him. Now here I was outside searching for Axel in the empty parking lot.Where the hell did he go?I sighed, running a hand roughly through my hair. The tension in my body wouldn’t melt away and fury had remained just below the surface of my skin. I sighed and walked around to see nothing. “Axel!” I yelled but there was no one here. Where did he go?I suddenly felt something rush through my spine like a feeling. Was it fear?I calmed myself as I didn’t want to be overwhelmed by the feelings I was having.I looked around and found movement in the trees.Dark shapes hiding just within the darkness. Rogues.But that wasn’t what had m
Karla’s povI sat up slowly, my body aching from the therapy session earlier, but I wasn’t alone. My eyes were locked on Alaric who was just standing against the wall, legs crossed at the ankle and his arms loosely folded over his chest. He had been silent for so long now but I couldn’t tell what he was thinking about since he’d been staring blankly at the floor.The atmosphere of everything felt like it was closing in around me.“Why didn’t you go back down and stop the fight?” I eventually spoke out to break through against my own tormenting thoughts.He sighed and shrugged. “I don’t care what they’re doing.”I scoffed. “They are your brothers. You can’t say that about them. You need to do something or they’ll kill each other.”“Look, I just didn’t want to get incomes in thier madness. That’s all.”“You can’t stand aside and watch them tear each other apart. Can you?”“Let them fix their problems themselves. I’m not interested in being involved, I said this before and I won’t say it
Axel’s povI felt my insides burning when I heard that as I tried to keep myself calm. I knew he sounded bitter and furious but why was he on my case. I had done what I had done to save the pack and I regretted it. He didn’t need to make me feel like shit.I turned to see Kai by the door.Not that I blamed him. I’d known this would happen, after everything that had gone down, I hadn’t expected my brothers to forgive me so easily.I clenched my fists but said nothing. I knew he wasn’t done.“I thought you were banned from leaving the palace.” He stepped closer. “Or did father just decide that you weren’t threat enough? Maybe you sneaked off as usual the the coward you are.”“That is enough Kai,” I sighed. “I came to see Karla.”Kai laughed in a mocking way. “Oh, so you went to do your good deed for the year? Is that it? How did you manage it this time? You almost get our whole pack killed and yet still think you should be here?”“She is my mate,” I said in anger. I was losing grip on m
Axel’s povI sat by Karla’s hospital bed biting the edge of my lip. She turned to me and her eyes were dull and it was impossible for me to interpret her expression. The light fell on her face in soft shadows, but she did not look any paler.“I heard the commotion outside,” she said with a soft voice. “The rogues… the attack. People are saying it was really bad.”I sighed and ran a hand over my face. “Yeah. It was.” “I don’t know what to make of it. Isn’t it kind of your job to make sure something like that doesn’t happen?”I nodded. If only I could tell her that it was actually my fault that it happened, but I kept quiet. I didn’t want to say anything to her and ruin the relationship we both had.“Look, I know but something’s happened and it’s not all my fault.”She laughed and sighed, “tell me what happened. I want to know.”I sighed again then and, as I did so, answered her in a low whisper. “Karla... surely you must know.”She shook her head. “No. I only heard that rogues got int