Chapter One Hundred and Thirty
“The wind hazard‘ left thirty injured, five of them in severe conditions, but no lives were lost. The healers have their hands full,” Axel reported back to Thane.
“What exactly caused a wind that strong, it was not at all natural,” Thane wondered aloud.
“Were you thinking an elemental did this?” Axel questioned.
“Something close. Elementals had long gone extinct, of course, except one.”
“The elders” A female voice suggested, and of course it was Bailey approaching, joining in on
the conversation.
“You think the elders did this?” Axel‘ questioned,
“Not just any elder… Nyaos did this; he was an elemental.”
“That should be the one elder who escaped,” Thane added. His mask was back on, but I knew more than anything that he was furious; he hated anything that came against his pack
“He was sending a warning…” Bailey began, but Axel cut her off.
“More like a threat.”
“I would end what I began,” Thane declares.
“No, is too dangerous.” Bailey says
“For me?” Thane asked with a hint of amusement in his eyes.
“You are the king; you shouldn’t rush into danger, and it won’t be best for you to go hunt them down; who knows how long it would take to get to them.”
“So, you propose I sit here and wait… doing nothing?”
“I would go against Nyaos; since there is only a single elder; it would be a fair battle.”
“You know, I think she is right,” I said, and Axel nodded along. I had never agreed with Bailey before, but on this I happily would.
I was alone with Thane again. Axel had to check on the
and Bailey was getting ready to
leave. Thane and I walked down the hallways, inspecting the pack house.
“How long would it take to fix all these broken stuffs?” I asked, pointing at the shattered glasses lying on the ground.
“There are already workers on the job,” Thane answers. “It would take a day or two.”
“A day or two?… That’s so fast.”
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Thane chuckled at that. “Yes. It would be all cleared up soon.”
“Riley, I want you to return back to our room,” Thane says after a few minutes of silence.
“Oh. Wow, I didn’t know I was still welcomed in there.”
“Riley, stop”
“I’m sorry, Thane; I am not ready to do that yet, and I don’t know when exactly I would be.”
“I can understand why you have feelings for him Thane says.
“What?”
“Axel. I don’t blame you; he is the better man. I should have enlightened you on the deal I made with Bailey.”
“I know you had to, and you said it once: you make bargains with what you have; the bargain you made with Bailey could have been smart if you didn’t have a very jealous girl in love with you. I was mad at the fact that you had been with her while I was away, but what enraged me more was how comfortable she looked in the room that was meant to be ours, and she also had your robe on.”
“She did that to spite you; I’m sorry you had to see that.”
“Is okay, but… I can’t return back there, not when the memory is still so fresh.”
Thane nodded. “You had showed up because you wanted to talk to me, right?” he questions.
“Right”
“I am still interested in what you had to say.”
I wanted to tell him the truth so bad, but I knew what this would mean it would mean that I was ‘okay‘ with what he did, and I wasn’t. It wasn’t fine.
“You know what?, forget it.” With that, I walked away, fully aware that his gaze was still on
- me.
The room was so dark, I could barely make out the other furniture in the room. Thane sat alone on the wooden chair, his wrist and ankles chained with pure silver. Blood and sweat glistened on his skin; he had been left in only a pair of washed jeans, which had also been stained with his blood. The room was so silent the only noise to be heard was Thane’s ragged intake of breath.
Just then the metal door creaked open and a man walked in, his face hidden by the darkness, but he was powerful, that I could sense.
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“All hail the great Alpha King,” the man mocked Thane. “The most feared Alpha who lusts. after blood, the murderer of his own father and the great elders,” the man mocked on.
“What do you want?” Thane asks, though wounded and in chains, his face betrayed no emotions and remained stoic.
“What do I want? You ask what I want!” The man screamed out before laughing maniacally. I spotted his cold eyes; they were the same empty ancient eyes I had seen before. The man was one of the elders, I could tell. “You killed my brothers and sisters, and you ask me what I want? “he says louder.
“Then if I have nothing to offer you, you could go ahead and kill me.” Thane says he hadn’t flinched once, not when the elder drew so close to him, their faces almost came into contact.
“Oh, I would kill you,” the elder says, taking out a dagger. I recognize that too. It was the Cursed Weapon, the very same one Thane had used against the elders. “It would only be just that you die by the same weapon,” he says, lifting the weapon before stabbing it into Thane’s side.
“You would slowly lose your wolf, and just when that happened, I would have more fun with you. This is not over. There’s a girl, Riley. She is next.”
I woke up with a start, covered in sweat. I gasped for air.
“Riley, I am right here.”
“Thane, I cried out, wiping off my tears.
It was just a dream. I repeated this over and over to myself, but for some reasons, it felt more than just a ‘dream‘.
