The Alpha's Unusual Mate

Chapter Five

The cave was bigger than I expected.

We’d passed by more than twenty caged prisoners. I honestly lost count at fifteen. Makes me wonder just how many of this caged creatures were actually innocent. I wouldn’t even be surprised if all of them did nothing against the rules. My father was the type who would throw anyone he feels threatened by in a cavern. He was that much of a coward.

“How do we even know we haven’t passed by them.”

“Can you keep your voice down? Some of them are sleeping. And you have to remember that I’ve got some abilities one of them which includes an extremely sensitive nose.”

“So you haven’t perceived their scent or what?.”

“No. But, I don’t think they’re here.”

“What!.”

“Can you stop screaming. I’m just saying I haven’t perceived her scent since we got in here. So I don’t think she’s here.”

“So you’re saying we should go back? And you’re just saying this now after walking for this long? Is there another cavern besides this one?.” Then something came to my mind. “Wait! How do you know her scent?.”

“Huh?.”

“You heard me.”

“Can we leave here first? I don’t wanna have this conversation where there are hundreds of other creatures not all of them are asleep.”

“Alright fine.”

It took approximately thirty minutes for us to walk outside the cave.

“So are you gonna tell me now or what?.”

“It’s nothing much other than the fact that we got a bit closer after you left. It would be weird of me not recognize her scent.”

I felt skeptical about him. He couldn’t have been lying, could he? One thing I was sure of was the fact that he wasn’t telling me everything.

“I thought you said she was at the cavern.” I decided to drop the topic. My voice came out weak and faint, just as I felt.

“Yeah that was where they were moved to the day it happened. They must have been moved somewhere else but I….are you okay? You don’t look too well.”

“I don’t feel too well either.” Balls of perspiration trickled down my forehead.

“We need to go see Helena right now.”

“No. I’ll be fine.”

“How could you! You’re not healing.”

“I don’t heal. I’m not like you. We’ve got only a few hours till dawn breaks. We have to find them.”

“Yes but—.”

“But nothing. I’ll be fine. All I need is a little rest and I can only get that after we find and save the Coltons.

He eyed me warily.

“Are you sure?.”

“Yes now drop it. Where do you think they can be kept?.”

“I honestly have no idea. The only other place Alpha Pete keeps his criminals is—.” He shook his head.

“What?.” I asked.

“He couldn’t have.”

“Couldn’t have what?.” I asked. I was confused.

“Cassius I think I know where they are. You should go back home or you could go to my house if that will make you feel more comfortable.”

“What? What are you saying? I’m going with you.”

“No you can’t. It’s not a place you can go on two legs. I have to do this alone. Just go get some ice and rest.”

And then he shifted to his wolf form.

“Wait—.” I could barely say before he took off running. I just stood there, confused.

I had no idea on what to do. I didn’t even know where I was. The least he could have done was take me to a familiar place. I started walking back, back the long way we came from. I wasn’t even sure if it I was going in the right direction. All I knew was that I was going to Dylan’s place because there was no way in hell that I’d be going back to my father’s castle.

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I was woken up by a loud howl. Maybe I’m crazy but the howl sounded awfully familiar. I turned my head towards the direction of the bedside clock and it was 7 o’clock sharp. I rushed down the bed as I remembered that Pen and her family were supposed to be beheaded that morning.

“Ahh.” I exclaimed and placed a hand on my stomach. I had forgotten that I had a broken rib that hadn’t healed completely. I stepped out the room and walked down to the living room. There I saw Anne Dylan’s younger sister who was only eight. I wondered why she was up that early. She was sitting in a corner, her knees bent, touching her chin. I could hear soft whimpering coming from her direction.

“Hey. Are you alright?.” I crouch down and shook her shoulder gently. Not my fault, I’m bad with children which is exactly why I’d decided on never having any. She started crying now. I had done absolutely nothing that could hurt her. I had no idea how I brought her to tears. I was freaking out and I didn’t know what to do. I just wanted her to stop crying.

“Hey hey I’m sorry. Please don’t cry.” She didn’t stop. She only cried more. “f**k!.” I cursed under my breathe. I really should have just headed out like I planned. I should have ignored her whimpering. “Do you want me to go get you something? What that?.” She shook her head. “Did I do something to hurt you?.” She shook her head again. Then why are you crying! I wanted to yell but she was just a child. I needed to be nicer and a lot careful with her.

After a while, she stopped crying. She got closer and grabbed my T-shirt. I looked down at her a bit surprised. I wondered why she fisted my T-shirt in her hand. And before I knew it, she blew her nose with it. With my shirt.

She was blowing her nose with my f*****g shirt!

I almost screamed. I shut my eyes and fisted my hands just so I wouldn’t push her off me.

She’s just a child Cass. She’s only eight. She doesn’t know the gravity of what she was doing. I kept chanting in my head.

She finished doing her business and I stood up a d turned around. Heading back to Dylan’s room to get myself a new T-shirt.

“Don’t you wanna know why I was crying.” Anne’s shy voice said behind me. Honestly, I was no longer interested in knowing why she was crying. All I wanted to know was to get out of my shirt and then discard it. But I couldn’t tell her that. I don’t want to have to go through hearing her cry again. I took a deep breath and then turned around to face her.

“Tell me then.”

“Dylan, He’s sad.” She casted her gaze downwards at her feet.

The howl. It was Dylan’s. Does that mean…..

“I’ll go find him okay?.” I said as calmly as I could.

She nodded and I rushed back to Dylan’s room, pulling the T-shirt off me immediately. I picked up on of Dylan’s and out it over my head. It was a bit small as I was more muscular than Dylan but it would have to do. I left the room for the main door and left the house.

I could see throngs of people moving in the same direction. I followed them, I was curious to see where they all hastily wanted to go. It didn’t take long for me to reach there.

My stomach dropped. I suddenly felt a pant in my chest.

A circle had been formed. And in the middle of the circle was something I never thought I’d see. Pools of blood flowed on the ground. I was faced with a horrific sight, a sight I never wanted to see. People around me whispered to each other talking about how cruel their king was. About how they don’t deserve it, about how much of a good person they were.

I turned around. I couldn’t bear it.

I couldn’t bear to see my first love’s head detached from her body.

Anger coursed through my veins. My blood was hot and boiling.

He had just spilled the blood of the innocent. I wasn’t gonna sit back and do nothing.

I marched to the castle angrily. I was gonna kill him. I don’t care how but he is gonna die in my hands today.

I kicked his door open without knocking. Luckily it was opened ‘cause it would have been embarrassing if I had had to push at a locked door. He was sat in his chair facing the door. In long strides I walked up to him and gave him a hard punch in his face. His face fell to the side from the impact of my punch. My fingers went numb and I had to flex them behind my back just so he wouldn’t see it.

“You bastard!.” I tried to punch him with my left hand but this time he grabbed my fist.I tried to pull my hands out of his but I couldn’t, he was too strong. Then he kicked me hard in the chest, I staggered backwards. In a flash he was on his feet his hand wrapped around my neck as he held me to the wall. My feet was now above the ground I could barely breathe.

“Mind your language boy.” He growled.

I gritted my teeth. “You don’t tell me what to do you evil piece of trash.” And then he bashed my head in the wall. I saw stars and my eyes rolled back in my head. For a second I thought I had lost my sight. I could no longer think straight. I think I had a concussion.

Everything happened so fast that in a flash I was kicked outside and the black door slammed shut in front of me. I was on the floor, disoriented. Blood trickled from the back of my head down my back soiling Dylan’s shirt. I managed to get back on my feet and walked away. I meant with a few wolves and all they could do was stare at me with pity. I hated that.

I went back to Dylan’s house, thankful that neither his parents nor his sisters saw me all bloodied. I took a quick shower, washing the blood of me. The back of my head hurt so much. I felt it with my fingers and realized that it had split open. I rested my back against the cold tiles, my eyes shut closed as I replayed all that happened at his place.

I got out of the showers and put on a clean clothes. One that also belonged to Dylan. I left the house and went in search of him. It was quite easy to find him. He was at the same spot he used to run to when we were younger whenever he wanted to be alone. He was in his human form and was sat on a big stone with his back to me. His shoulder shook and I took a sit beside him.

“I should have taken you with me. I couldn’t get access to the place no matter how hard I tried.” He said without looking at me.

“Why?.”

“Wolfsbane.”

I still didn’t understand why he was crying. I mean Pen was our friend but he needed to be a man about it even though he wasn’t really one.

“I know you’re probably thinking that of how much of a cry baby I am.”

“Yes. I could only handle so much people crying in one day.”

He sniffed in.

And then he said something I wasn’t expecting. Something I wouldn’t have thought of happening in a thousand years.

“You know, Penelope was my mate.”