Chapter 12
1330 Words
POV: Abel
It’s been a week and nothing from this so called parliament of mine. I gave them till the end of last week but it’s been 8 days and no one has thought to bring to my attention of what possible solution we have for the war coming. We have food, shelter, transportation costs and other issues to settle. Yet, no bloody solution has been sent to me.
This is not what I expected from being Alpha. I just wanted to seat on this overly-emphasized throne. Have booze and bitches at my beck and call. Order anybody to do whatever I like whenever I like. I just wanted power. The power to be superior and immune to the laws of peasants. Not talking about wars, famine, women and children I have to care about. Not that I have children or a wife of my own. Speaking of wife, where the f**k has mine gone?
Lena has been gone over a month and I admit there’s been some sort of change around. For someone who is always locked up in her room and you barely see in a day, her absence left a vacuum. You know I never loved her but I crave her presence in weird way.
With everything happening around me, I may go down in history as the worst alpha of shadow pack. I’ve lost the woman given to me, I’ve lost my respect in my parliament and I’m about to loose a war that isn’t yet to begin.
“FUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKK!” I yelled following the clashing sound of glass breaking and wine splashing on the floor. Rage filled me. I was too angry about everything happening to me all at once, I didn’t know when I swept across the wine set and cleared the whole table in front of me and mess such a sound, not just the mess.
“Is everything alright, sir?” Annabella ran immediately to me. I could see from the corner of my eye the remaining maids and guards at the extreme end of the room. Each one scared to come an inch closer, except Annabella of cos.
The next thing I knew I felt weak, so weak I became dizzy. Everything was becoming blurry, I can’t breathe, I
what’s happening to me? Am I fainting? In a split second, There I go falling straight to the floor and tiny Annabella could barely catch me fall.
“I’m fine” I responded with my head down but the rage in me was making me breath heavily. Two guards ran up to me on each side to guide me to my seat which I suspect they were signaled to do so by Annabella.
“I said I’m fine” I retorted at them not her of course. I can’t let them treat me like a weakling simply because they watched me faint for a few seconds.
“But you’re not!” Annabella challenged me.
“Send for Christoff for me, tell him his Alpha wants him immediately” I weakly ordered one of the guards.
“Where is your sweet girl - Lena?” I quizzed Annabella.
“You sent her away, sir”
“You know I didn’t, she left”
“And what did you do to prevent or avert it, sir?”
Annabella is fond of challenging me but she doesn’t question my authority. She snappily clapped her hands twice, signaling the maids and guards to leave the room. She does that anytime she doesn’t want to challenge me publicly. I allow that cos she’s the one person that still keeps me in check since the rest are all cowards or as I like to think- too scared to approach their Alpha.
“Abel, we both know that you never treated Lena right. I may understand that your reason was that you never loved her. But you didn’t even treat her as good as a street dog for someone you claimed to be married and bonded with. So, Why on earth are you looking for her now? To torment her further?”
“No, but I must tell you this, I think her absence is bad aura for me. The moment she left this place, everything turned out from bad to the absolute worst for me. And for some reason, I can’t even have some good sleep no matter how drunk I am, or even have fun with my ladies when I out. My body just craves her presence. I need to at least know where she is”
“You must be joking, young man! And you think she would allow that?”
“No, I don’t think SHE would, but someone else may know of her whereabouts”
“No, Abel, No!”
“You of all people paid keen interest on her” I hinted at her, “you should know where she is” I quizzed her further.m hoping I was right.
“And what makes you think that if I knew anything about the poor girl I will tell you? After everything I watched you put her through?”
“Annabella, don’t abuse your privileges” I warned her realizing she was reaching it.
“You know I don’t!” She scoffed at me. “If I did, why then do you always that? You know I am the one person that is honest with you” she said with so much confidence I hated it. It bruised my ego. “You know this popular saying that goes _you don’t know the value of what you have until you lose it_” she continued.
“Fine! If you don’t tell me, Trina would”.
“And what makes you think she would? You seem to have forgotten that of everybody you know who knew Lena, I am the only person that can stand to look at you right now. The few other would trade you for a pint of beer if given the opportunity. So I ask once again, what makes you think that Lena’s only & best friend in the whole of the north will give up her friend for you?” Annabella asked in a very cold & nonchalant tone while cleaning her hands on her apron lightly before putting them akimbo, looking straight at me.
For a moment, I was speechless. Maybe at Annabella’s arrogance but mostly because of the truth behind what she said. And of course, it’s not because I’m oblivious to the fact that I treated her poorly, I’m very aware of that but because I never knew that despite how I tried to severe the relationship between Lena and Trina, they found their way and she updated her. Now Trina hates me. Not that I care but that’s not something good to me due to the fact that Trina is not another shadow pack peasant I’m alpha over, but there was a relationship that may be in Jeopardy cos of this.
Trina is not just Lena’s best friend but I highly suspect that there is a relationship going on between her and Christoff, my best friend and right hand man. They tried to hide it but their discretion is not as good as they thought it to be.
It’s bad enough that I treated her friend badly, but I can’t even get an access to her because right now, her ‘boyfriend’ is also mad at me for how I chose to rule over my pack.
“I see you’re Musing over a lot of thoughts. I will leave you to that while I send for the maids to clean your mess up” Annabella interrupted my thoughts.
“If I were you, I would forget about Lena” she added, walking away as she shut the door behind her.
“What the f**k did that woman just say to me?” I asked myself audibly with my bruised ego as though Annabella hasn’t done worse.
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