Tears of an Alpha

Chapter Five

Alpha Apollo’s POV...

Nearly three weeks and she has given my men nothing, I have told them to take pictures of her wounds and face, it is time for me to visit her Family, and get them to talk before I take her life.

I arrive at the small cottage they live in. It is secluded, and just on the territory’s edge, we had no idea about their identity until an elder recognised the mother at her place of work. She was the one who went after Allora and her parents. She was just a baby, and her parents were the kindest people. Even their wolves were gentle.

Allora was destined to be my mate; it was in a prophesy written by a powerful Oracle.

The door opened as I arrived, the woman who answered looked hopeless, her eyes red from tears, and it looked as if she had not eaten in a while.

“Can I help you, Alpha?” That surprised me.

“You know who I am? Well, I guess you would if you were here to try and destroy us.” The woman looked at me with a sadness.

“We know who you are because we asked around, we wanted Emma to get to know the world she would need to know about.”

“What so she can learn to murder innocent wolves? Like you did?” With those words the woman wept, holding her hand on her heart, she carried on talking.

“You have no idea what you’re talking about, we gave up our past to bring up Emma, she doesn’t know violence or hate, she thinks that there is only humans in the world, we knew the day would come when she had to be told, but Emma left, and we cannot find her, she needs to know the truth, she is out there alone.”

This is getting me nowhere. I grab the pictures and press them into her hands.

“What is this? Who….? Emma! Who did this to her? Where is she? We need to get to her now!”

I look at her. She is as delusional as her daughter.

“She is getting what you deserve for killing my parents and my father’s Pack, they were all innocents, just families and children doing no harm to anyone, you killed a couple and their child Allora, she was a baby.”

“No, we saved as many as we could. You need to listen. We only hunted the evil of the world, those hunters went against the code and went to kill for sport, my husband and myself tried to stop them, we came across them in the woods, we were to late to save many, my husband saved Emma after her parents were killed, he shot the hunters before they could do anything to that innocent child. You know I am telling the truth; you can smell a lie, can you not? You should have known Emma was honest also, or did your hate blind you to the truth?”

Can she be telling the truth, I can not be sure. They could cloak the scent of a lie, but if it is true, then that means Emma is a wolf.

“Her Birth mother told me to save her and bring her up as human until she comes of age, which is tomorrow, we were going to introduce her to our world the Saturday that held your festival. Wait, it is tonight, we have run out of time, she will be changing soon, and alone.”

I drive us to the cells, my head won't clear, if it is true then…. I can't think about it. I will deal with the fallout afterwards.

We reach the building just before a link opens up.

“We have a problem. She is a wolf and changing as we speak.”

It is true. I leave the car and run down to her cell, screams of pure agony echo in the halls, the smell of all the blood from the torture, and I feel sick, wrecked with guilt. But I need to help her now. She does not even know what she is.

I kneel on the floor of the cell and hold her, stroking her hair. I try to calm her. But the girl tries to get away from me, she has blood all down her legs, how? There are no cuts there. I can not analyse that just yet, Emma needs to calm down. But her wolf is strong, and she wants out.

It is about an hour before the shifting ends, and a golden wolf sits growling at me. She is amazing. Before I can say anything, Emma shifts back. I grab her and look down at her, she lifts her head to look at me, and the worst feeling of guilt and hurt hit me hard, she is my Mate, I tortured my Mate, my men hurt her, the sweet innocence wasn’t an act, what the hell have I done? I cup her face, and she speaks the words that will destroy me.

“Please, I hurt too much, don’t take me tonight, please leave me, I don’t want another man to enter me, just kill me, I beg you.”

My heart breaks at her words, I look to my men and ask what she means, but I already know what the answer will be.

“You said to punish and torture without killing her, so we took her. Her innocence was already gone after the first time Terry did it, and then we just carried on.” My rage was surfacing. My wolf was ready to tear my men apart.

“You r***d her? And you took her virginity also?” My men all looked at each other until they all nodded.

“You all took her?” Again, they nodded. The head guard took it upon himself to speak up,

“Even if she is a wolf, does it matter? she isn’t one of us, just a lone wolf with hunter parents.” I snapped then.

“She is my mate!!!!!” I scream before tearing out his heart. I then lift a now unconscious Emma and take her outside where her mother is waiting. Before I kill all who touched her, I still may. I don’t want men like that protecting my pack. What the hell got into them?

A stray tear escapes me, but I can not break yet, my Mate needs me first.