Chapter 5

Lea:

“Move,” Alpha Stefano said, pushing me out of the car. I had to fight back crying in pain as I fell on my knees. 

The Alpha’s blonde hair was already messed up from how much he ran his fingers through it, and his brown eyes held a kind of rage that would have scared anyone who would have dared look at him in the first place. 

“Alpha, please…”

“Did you really fucking expect me not to find out about your treasons?” He asked, glaring daggers at me. I knew that he was stopping me from completing anything that I was saying because he didn’t want me defending myself. 

It seemed to me that things were far deeper than I ever knew. 

“I did not betray…” he kicked me in the stomach, stopping me from completing my sentence. The rest of the pack joined to look at the two of us, and I couldn’t help but find myself being in shame at that. I didn’t even do anything but go with my father. He often told me that we were invited, but he never did give me a reason, and I knew better than to ask. 

“You and your father chose to go through a dark path…” he said, uncovering my father’s body. My eyes welled up with tears at his sight, and the man grabbed me by my hair, forcing me to my feet. He pushed me toward his body, which, thankfully, Alpha Cosimo had placed in a crate. I had to fight back, closing my eyes, knowing that the Alpha would be angrier than he already was. The rest of the pack either looked away or gasped at the sight. “I would have you join him, but considering that we have no other maid to be cleaning around the pack; I am forced to keep you alive.”

“I didn’t do anything. I merely went and…”

He pushed me down on the ground before I could finish my sentence. I cried out as I felt my wrist cracking under my weight, and the Alpha kept his eyes on me, his glare darkening more than it already was before he grabbed me by my chin, forcing me to look up at him. “One more word from you and I am going to cut your tongue off. You were in the house of the enemy, and I doubt that he forced you there with a chain. You know the punishment of going somewhere without your Alpha’s knowing, and rather than telling me, you followed the man. Therefore, consider yourself lucky to be alive in the first place.”

Tears fell from my eyes before I could stop them, and I could swear, for one second, that the Alpha’s eyes softened before he pushed me back again. I whimpered in pain, and keeping my eyes on my father’s body, I could hear the Alpha walking toward the house. “Take her to the pack doctor to get her hand checked, and she starts working tomorrow. I am going to have the spec of mercy by giving her one night to mourn.”

“His body, Alpha?” Zenith, his beta asked, making me perk up as I fought to stand despite the pain that I felt. The last thing that I wanted was for them to take my father’s body. 

I looked at the Alpha and his beta, and when the Alpha’s eyes met mine, I could see his dark expression, knowing that he was going to do everything but give him a proper grave. “Burn him, and keep his head, hang it inside the main arena. Let everyone see what is to be done to those who think of betraying their pack and Alpha. Maybe his daughter would learn a lesson or two from it too.”

“Please, no,” I begged, gulping as I tried voicing out my words. My hands shook, and it took everything in me to voice out my sentence despite my trembling and tears. “Please, I know that you do not want to give him a grave, but allow me to bury him…”

“Do as fucking told,” he said, stopping me. Zenith looked at me, and I looked away, biting my bottom lip as I tried stopping myself from crying out because of the pain that I felt. “And I told you, omega; ONE more word out of you, and you are going to be paying the price of it.”

I went to open my mouth to respond before Zenith shook his head at me, silently begging me not to say anything. I took a deep breath before looking down at my feet, avoiding the Alpha’s eyes and he smirked, believing that he got his way. 

My chest ached, and my stomach churned, but I walked toward the house with my head low as I tried my best to fight showing my pain. 

The walls in the Estate’s house felt thick, and the air tight, but I made my way to the infirmary, making sure to stay quiet as I knew that I was being followed. My words would have been heard and as we always said within the pack, ‘the walls had ears, and the ground spoke, and when the air tightened, that is when trouble arose.’ 

But the weakness that I felt at that moment was not one that I liked. 

I was alone, completely, fucking alone. 

And having nowhere to go, I knew that this torment was one that I was going to have to live with. 

Therefore, with that thought in mind, I knocked on the infirmary door, knowing that the pack doctor was inside. 

“Come in,” she said, and I took a deep breath before opening the door as I fought to stop my tears. “Lea, how can I help you?”

“I fell and hurt my wrist,” I said, raising my hand for her to see. Her eyes widened in surprise and she nodded at the infirmary bed. “Can you please help me tend to it? I need it to heal before the Alpha calls for me tomorrow…”