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"I lo-lo-lost him. Ho-ho-how ca-ca-can I-I-I move on?"
Remy cried once more. She didn't have the answer to that question. She wasn't even sure how she would move on from losing her father. How was she to explain to her mother and his mate how to do so?
No one ever prepares for losing the ones they love during fights like this. No child ever thinks their mother or father could lose during a fight because, to them, their parents were the most fierce and powerful people on the planet. Today, Remy was reminded just how untrue those things were. Her father fought with all his might to ensure the safety of his people and for his pack to keep their territory. In the end, his strength and power weren't enough. However it happened, it still did. The gut-wrenching pain of understanding was what made her heart clench as if it were being ripped in two.
"Mom, I wish I knew the answer," she began, "but I don't know that one. I do know this." Remy pushed her mother gently back so she could look into her eyes. The green and red eyes of the Luna stared back at her. The spark of life her mother always had was gone, making the words she was about to say more potent than she could have ever imagined, "I will make the person who did this regret the day he chose to fuck with us. I will bring Levi to his knees, rip his heart out, and present it to him. I promise you, Mom... Daddy's death will be avenged."
A flicker of the spark Remy was used to seeing came through Tala's eyes. She gave Remy a nod and slowly got to her feet. Remy watched her mom look down at Lykos before tilting her head back and howling again. A chorus of howls joined her as they mourned the death of the fallen Alpha. Remy looked at her father and felt the sting of his death within the bonds before tilting her head back and joining in the howls.
I meant what I said. I will avenge him.
Chase walked over to her and put his arm around her shoulders. He handed her a pair of garments to put on and then one to Tala. Remy assessed the damage the battle had taken on the pack as she wore the clothes.
Half of the pack was dead.
Remy shook from the loss of adrenaline, and her knees wobbled as the fight cleared from her muscles. Chase held her up and wrapped his arms around her. He rubbed her back and cuddled her into the crook of his neck. Remy felt Tala slowly walk away to address the pack of what was to happen next. The tears came back as she replayed the battle through her mind, and the severed bond where her father used to be twitched with pain. The death of an Alpha lingered until a new one was to take over.
I can't even think about that right now, and I doubt Mom can either.
"I just want to crawl back into bed and wake up from this nightmare," Remy told Chase as she breathed in his scent.
"I know, love, I know. I wish I could take this pain from you. I don't know what to say to make this better."
"There is nothing you can say to make this better."
He nodded and hugged her tighter. "I know that."
"I don't get it." Remy stepped back to look at Chase. "How did he lose?"
"Three jumped on him and got their moves in before Bryan and I could help him. We took two of them off him and finished them off, and then the next thing we knew, he was on the ground. Bryan finished with his guy first and took out the one over your father. He must have gotten neck wounds while on top because they weren't there before. When Bryan was finished, another jumped on him."
"Jeezus."
Chase looked around, puzzled. "I am trying to understand how this many Lycans were here for this. It was at least two packs' worth of people. No one I know has this many people under him."
Remy growled. "Levi. He somehow accumulated all the packs taken over by the Dark Dimension. I don't know how many he has, but I know that, if he managed to get several of those packs to join him since we left a few days ago, he definitely could have amassed the kind of power to pull this off."
Chase returned her growl. "So there is an Alpha out there with an ample amount of freaking people under him, and we don't even know the number?"
Remy looked around and smiled. "Well, he is about fifty Lycans short of what he thought he had, so it can't be that much."
"I love seeing this side of you. So bloodthirsty," Chase joked.
She smacked him on the chest, smiling. "Stop it."
"I will once you lose that smile," he said, wagging his eyebrows.
She shook her head at him and looked around to find her mother. She needed to know what was happening and if her mother was okay. Tala was quickly found putting together a pyre. Remy let go of Chase and jogged over to her mom. Tala didn't look up at her as she continued to put wood together.
"Mom, can I help?"
Tala looked at her. The puffiness and redness was still in her eyes. The determination in the pools of green told Remy that Tala wanted to build the best pyre she could for her mate. The same determination filled her heart because she wanted that for her father. Kodi walked up to them with a handful of wood in his arms. The redness in his eyes surprised her. Men normally didn't showcase their emotions at the deaths of their packmates, even if they were family. It made Remy smile a little, knowing her brother was back. He didn't care how men were supposed to look in front of the pack. He told her quite often growing up that men needed to show their emotions more to prove they were still human. Hiding emotion gave the Lycan too much power, which was not a good thing.
"Only us three will build his pyre. I do not want anyone else to touch it."
Remy nodded and searched for wood. It took a few hours, but yet again, her pack was around pyres that filled the area. A breath caught in her throat as she tried to bring herself to announce that the pyres' lighting would start. Tala grabbed Remy's hand and gave it a squeeze. Remy was on Tala's right and Kodi to the left. Chase stood next to her in front of the entirety of the packs. Remy could see Chase's pack members sprinkled in with theirs, and it looked as though they were equal to what they had lost now.
She looked at Chase inquisitively, and he could read the question she was pondering as if he could read the exact thought inside of her head. "I lost some pack members, too. We all lost some pack members today."
