Page 194 of Rogue Alpha Prince
I don’t care about anything anymore. Just her.
I open my eyes again and look at my Gamma and Beta, both looking dirty and hunted.
“What happened to her?” I ask because I need to know who to kill, even if it’s one of them. “Why was she there in the middle of the fucking fight?”
“She used to be a General,” Gamma reminds me, “She’s not—”
“Tell me what the hell happened,” I growl.
“When we came back, I commanded her to stay in your bedroom, but she didn’t listen,” Beta starts to talk, looking at her tiny hands in his again, “She came to the camp and screamed at all of us, demanding respect and loyalty to her.”
“Because we were all a bunch of incompetent assholes,” Gamma chips in.
“When you stupidly got yourself kidnapped, no offense your Highness, all of the officers were fighting—not exactly knowing what to do or who to listen to.”
“Why is that?” I try to control my raging emotions.
“Beta was away, and I was there but you know full well half of them are Alpha-blooded, and I couldn’t get into their thick skulls when they started to argue and piss on every tree,” Beta-blooded Gamma answers with his head low.
“That’s when I came back and told Luna to stay in her room. I tried to outrank them all, despite my own fight with Gamma over the best course of action, but all this alpha blood started to boil and—”
“Well, Luna showed us who the true General there was pretty quickly,” Gamma laughs at the memory. “She was so furious that we were wasting our time on the fight. She single-handedly ended it with your sword. Literally. We lost some limbs, mostly fingers. You should have seen her then. Even Beta was getting hard…”
“She united everyone and found you in no time.” Beta’s turn to talk. “But then they kept a good defense, and because, as it turned out, you used the Unwanted boy to go in, we needed someone else to walk into their territory to send you your sword back…” Beta looks at me disapprovingly.
The only other message I left them was to get that blade back to meno matter what. The irony is not lost on me. I clear my throat. “So, you let her go?”
“We didn’t! I mean, we all thought she was the only one that didn’t look like your typical warrior,” Beta explains quickly and Gamma nods at his words, “Especially wearing a dress. And she had the best chances to do that and additionally keep them distracted long enough for us to break their flanks. Itwas the first time we all agreed on anything, but we knew we couldn’t risk our Luna, so we started arguing—Hm. Now when I think about it, she started that fight on purpose so she could slip away.”
“Oh, she totally did, didn’t she?” Atlas adds with a bitter laugh, and they exchange understanding eyes.
“I don’t know what happened there, but she succeeded. They took your sword inside their city as you wanted, and with that distraction she provided, we were finally able to penetrate their defenses enough to come to help you—”
“I was okay on my own. I just needed the sword, after all that wolfsbane, to get back.”
“Yeah, because she gave you that chance, Alpha. They were… feral. She made them turn their eyes from you. That was her plan from the beginning. She was so sure you just needed a little distraction.”
I swallow hard.
“What happened next?” I ask with a lump in my throat and close my eyes, bracing myself for the worst part.
“No. It happened there. I think. I was the one who found her, and she was all bruised up and… bleeding between her legs.”
There is silence in the room after that until one of them clears his throat, and I hear Beta speaking again.
“At first, I thought she just got her period because I could smell she wasn’t raped. At least, I thought so. I asked anyway, just in case, and that’s when she admitted she lost a pup. Um… I’m sorry, Alpha. If I knew she was pregnant—”
I shake my head.
“I didn’t know either,” I admit, pulling her limp, coldish body even closer to me.
“That’s when Beta told everyone what happened, and they united again.”
Beta nods at Gamma’s words.
“I asked her what she needed but she told me she wanted to fight. There was no room for opposition in the murderous look she gave me, so I stayed by her side—killing together one by one in our wolf forms. She was fearless and strong, and I didn’t know… I had no fucking idea she…”
He looks so distressed.
