CHAPTER 23

Kael's POV.

I sniffed the air.

Something was wrong.

I trailed towards the border. Somebody had been messing with the patrol that I had set up. Somebody had also been making sure that there was no way their traces were going to be wiped off.

Harrison was yet to be back and that told me everything that I needed to know. If he wasn't running back to me that meant that those girls had escaped!

Shit!

The one who had bleached her hair looked very familiar but I couldn't just place my fingers on where exactly I had met her

If only somebody could give me an idea it would be easier for me to find your reverse. She must have been hiding but here it was very hard for me to do that without blowing my cover that I didn't want to get married to the woman who believed she was the love of my life.

I took a deep breath and headed back into the woods. This was where my father and I had always played and cut up with rogue scents before he was killed.

If there was a wrong infestation that meant that I was not looking hard enough and I wanted to correct that before it was too late.

The other thing that I needed to do was to make sure that I got that girl under my custody and never allowed her to leave.

"Alpha!" One of my warriors yelled from behind making hiss. If anyone was hiding in the woods now they would know that I was onto their trail and we would try to escape!

How stupid can a warrior be not to send Morse codes?

I picked up my sword. This was the right time for me to strike whoever was coming.

A swift turn and I grabbed the arm of a man trying to touch me!

Aha! I knew that it was a trap.

My sword drove into his ribs eliciting a sharp cry.

"Who the freaking hell sent you here? Did you think you were going to get away with it freely?" I grinned, before flinging the small dagger in my hand behind me just to capture another cry.

They must have been stupid to think that they would be able to come in and out without me figuring that something was wrong.

It turned into a brutal fight instantly. I had almost been prepared for this day to fight the rogues which I suspected were in charge of killing my father and now wanted to retaliate after I had razed them to the ground.

I drove the sword deeper into the rogue's rib, waiting for a mistake that was going to tell me where he had come from.

None of them worked based on their own order. They always had a leader who thought that he was greater than all the werewolves combined and had that stupid mindset of leeching from us.

Blood spluttered out of his mouth but I kept holding his jaw. He was going to tell me who sent him around her before he died.

I didn't care if it was going to take a longer time but he was going to produce the answers and by the time I was done with him he would regret ever walking the surface of the Earth.

I hoisted him in midair, before kicking him away.

"Alpha strength, why don't you flex it over things that are more important than this?" A cool voice call from behind me.

It was at 8'O clock. Bunch of cowards hiding behind trees to be able to speak to me.

I already knew how this worked but I was not going to allow myself to become a victim of it.

"Tell that to somebody else. Tell that to people who care to listen." I answered.

Every nerve ending in my body was at alert, leaving no room for mistakes. I knew that I was surrounded by rogues.

They were here for a mission and as soon as they accomplished it I was going to be dead meat. It didn't help that I didn't have any sufficient backup but I had always been the one in the forefront of trouble and I had never shied away from it.

"Show your face if you are that desperate to speak to me or else forever keep your peace!

You cannot really do many things with us being around and I'm sure you know that. The only thing that I need you to do right now is to keep your hide. We don't want any trouble. We just want an agreement from you." The rogue called.

He was probably the second in command because he didn't have the authority that their leaders always did but that didn't mean that he was even less dangerous

Most of them always roast to become the leaders of their evil factions.

"Tell that to people who truly care about whatever you want. I'm sure that by now you already know the truth that I don't care about you or any of your requests. So what are you going to do about that?" I asked.

I wasn't going to pretend that everything was fine when it wasn't because it was just nothing but a blatant lie and I hated it.

I wanted to paint the ground with their blood. All other things to come much later and that would not even affect me one bit.

"Yeah, right. I know that you're itching to kill us. But maybe you are about to make a mistake because the enemy is even more within than we can be." He called again.

More spluttering and the rogue collapsed. I watched him disintegrate before my eyes.

An evidence that for a deal was more to this than met the eye.

"I'm sure you know what I want."

I refused to turn my back. From my experience the enemy wasn't even behind me just before me and they needed me to feel a sense of security before I was annihilated.

"Meet me halfway then."