Page 192 of Rogue Alpha Prince
Cain’s POV
Iwalk toward my men, finally free, dragging my bloody sword that cut more heads today than in its lifetime… and that's when I see her.
My wife, my Luna, my heart.
“Atlas!” my Beta is shouting, and they both catch her arms at the last second before she collapses between them. Head falling loosely, strawberry hair dripping with blood, just like the rest of her body, neck, midriff, hands, legs…
I want to run to her, kneel before her, catch her, hug her, hold her… but I can’t. I have the war to end and she is in good hands.
So, I turn around and yell commands on the left and right, all my warriors strong and wanting to fight—my fragile Asher the only one who seems to have any real wounds. They shouldn’t have brought her here. They shouldn’t have…
‘Why did you let her come here?’ I mind-link my Beta, slowly but finally coming back to my supernatural abilities after injecting myself with gallons of wolfsbane. ‘You should’ve known better.’
‘She is the one that was dragging all of us, Alpha. She’s the one who saved you. She’s the one they all fight for right now.’
I mindlessly sink my sword in another Unwanted and look around at my warriors, all bloodthirsty, all in… mourning? What happened to her?
I turn around to look at my wife again. I can feel where she is, but I can’t see her over the wall of my best officers. Standing there, protecting her instead of helping me.
Idon’t need help, not anymore, not now with all my warriors fighting for me with this power they’ve never possessed before, but it’s still strange they chose her… What happened when I was gone?
‘Does she need me there?’ I ask my Beta, my heart in there with him, with her, not in the battle where it should be.
‘End the war,’ he growls back and forces the end of the mind link.
I want to stab him for this insubordination, but I know better.
I stay where I am. I command, I plan, I fight. I take them over until there’s no one left to take or fight or kill and it's a different day, a different night, a different blood-stained land…
I drag my sword loosely in my right hand, walking back to the South, ignoring all the cheering my warriors make. The leader of the Unwanted is alive and well, but she doesn’t have anyone valuable to lead anymore.
I struggle to connect mind-link with my Gamma, proving that they are not anywhere close. But I keep trying until it works at last.
‘Where is my wife?’ I ask Atlas with no patience left in my voice. I’m dying to know.
‘In the Castle, Cain… hurry up.’
He hasn't called me by my name since we were kids. I should make him pay for not calling me Alpha, but it sounds weirdly intimate and I’m suddenly more worried about my wife than when I was seeing her all bloody in the middle of the battlefield.
‘What’s going on?’ I ask again.
‘Hurry up, just hurry up.’
I’m already running and it’s not enough.
‘Officer Rein, Ineed to be at the pack house right now!’ I shout through my mind-link to him as soon as I catch him in the crowd.
‘Yes, sir!’ He runs over to me and outreaches his hand. ”You need to shift, Alpha, and go in that direction, jumping over Blood River in a few miles.”
I give him my sword and stop to take off everything I have on me. I draw on my primal power that was subdued the last few days after that inhuman amount of wolfsbane. It is there and grows in strength when I call for it.
Finally, I shift with the roar and run as fast as my royal part-Lycan wolf form possibly can.
“Where is Asher? Where’s my Luna?!” I shout while running into the Packhouse Castle.
I’m all naked and dirty, but I don’t care… I feel something is wrong.
“Hospital wing” Gamma Atlas runs to me, ready with a robe because I mind-linked him when I was close.
