Chapter 3

Lea:

I gasped as I woke up, remembering what happened as I looked around the room that I was in.

The lights were dimmed out, but being a wolf, I could see as clear as day. But I couldn’t help but find myself choking on my own breath as I tried disbelieving what happened a while earlier. 

“Dad?” I called, sitting up on the bed before a headache blinded me. I didn’t even know or understand what happened, but the fact that he had fallen in front of me was all that I could remember. And I knew very well that when we came to this pack, nothing was wrong with him, if anything, he seemed to be more or less happy that things were ‘finally going to fall in place’.

“Easy, Lea,” The heir Alpha said, pushing me back on bed. I frowned as I opened my eyes to look at him. And my heart raced against the heart monitor at the touch of his hand on my skin. I didn’t even understand how he didn’t feel the mating bond, but I knew not to ask any questions about it. The last thing that I needed was a rejection or to be an embarrassment to myself. 

“Where is my dad?” I asked, looking the man in the eye. Tears blurred my vision and I knew to do my best not to cry. I was neither in the right place, pack, nor was I with or in front of the right man.

“Your pack’s Alpha has been called. He is going to come and pick the two of you up.” Heir Alpha Diego said, and I gulped. The fact that they had called Alpha Stefano was not something that I liked. Him knowing that we were here wasn’t going to be something that he liked at all, and I knew to be prepared for the worst. 

“My father, where is my father?” I asked, choosing to dismiss the topic. If the man had called Alpha Stefano to pick us up, then I was sure that my father was okay. Maybe they managed to save him when I was asleep. 

“I am sorry, Lea,” he said, and I gulped, shaking my head. I refused to believe that it was true, my father wasn’t going to leave me too. I still needed him by my side, I couldn’t just lose him like that.

“No,” I said, and he looked away from me for a second. 

“The pack doctor did everything that she could. But he had a heart attack and she couldn’t save him. I am so sorry for your loss.” He said, his voice above a whisper as he spoke. I shook my head, refusing to believe that what he was saying was true, and he took a deep breath. He opened his mouth to speak when Alpha Stefano’s scent filled my nostrils. He walked inside the infirmary, his eyes wide with rage before he grabbed my arm just as Alpha Cosimo reached him. 

“What the fuck were you doing here without my permission, omega?” He asked, glaring at me. He squeezed my arm so tight that I could feel it cracking under his tight grip. Heir Alpha Diego let out a low growl, taking me off guard, and Alpha Cosimo wrapped his arm around his chest, pulling him back from my body. 

“I called for her father. If anyone is to blame; it is him.” He said, stopping Alpha Stefano. His eyes were fixed on me as the two men stood in front of him, and for a second, I felt smaller than I had ever been. The fear that I was in of the Alpha was one that I was used to, but I had to admit, for it to happen here, I was more embarrassed than frightened.

“Where is the fucker?” Alpha Stefano asked, glaring at Alpha Cosimo. His anger could be read in his tone, and I didn’t need to be told twice that this wasn’t something that he would easily let go of. Knowing him, he was going to push deeper into the topic, and the consequences that would follow were not going to be ones that I was going to like. 

“Cosimo, this is the infirmary, you need to…”

“Dead,” I said, looking down at the bed that I was sitting on, stopping Alpha Cosimo. “My father is dead,”

“You have the nerve to be speaking…”

“Stefano, the girl is grieving…”

“Go and get ready, the car is waiting for us outside. I will pick up your traitor father’s body and we are going to be out of here.” He said, stopping Alpha Cosimo. I was still for a second too long before the growl that the Alpha let out had me darting from the bed, knowing that he would be angrier if I didn’t move. However, moving too fast, I nearly fell, tumbling over my footsteps. Heir Alpha Diego wrapped his arm around my waist, stabilizing me, and I took a deep breath as I looked him in the eye, getting lost in them for a mere moment before I heard Alpha Cosimo speaking to Alpha Stefano. 

“I will take you to the man’s body, but we have to have a doctor checking on her before she goes.” Alpha Cosimo said, referring to me. The Heir Alpha let my waist go, and I watched as he stepped back, watching as I sat on the edge of the bed as my vision blurred. “You know, it was me who had them giving her something to calm her down in the first place…”