The blood attack didn't stop until that afternoon."I need to take a nap..." Knight let out a loud groan as he stretched, finally being able to loosen up his body as he fell into the pillow."I'll leave you here then. You must be exhausted..." Raven grabbed a shirt but Knight hugged him from behind--"Don't leave."Raven chuckled as he patted Knight on the head: "I'll be right outside, silly wolf.""I want you as my pillow." Knight's eyes were already closed, but he wrapped his arms around Raven's waist with one hand grabbing the other like a kid throwing a tantrum."Fine." Raven got back into bed, but instead of as the pillow, Knight hugged Raven from behind with his nose buried in Raven's neck."Wake me up around midnight, will you?" Knight mumbled, his words bumping into each other as he barely opened his mouth."What for?" Raven whispered in confusion, but Knight already dozed off. Didn't dare move, Raven lay there with his eyes wide open. He wouldn't be able to sleep right after
"Those rogues kept him not for long before they sold them, separately." Simon continued walking, eyes on the sky, "To prevent them from ganging up together, you know?"Raven frowned. What kind of people would do that?"Knight was the most fierce one, and he was sold the furthest from his old pack, which was only ruins actually, but he kept escaping, trying to get back to his home. He made it a few times, and every time he was captured, they would break his legs and leave him to heal on his own, for days with no food and no water.""What?! Are they trying to kill him?!" Raven gasped in horror."They just didn't care. They did that to set an example for all the other slaves." Simon shook his head, "Knight stopped trying to escape after a few times, he realized he had to get strong first. Struggling on the edge of death won't do anyone any good."Raven gulped at the story."But that didn't stop his trouble." Simon let out a short chuckle, "That damn kid, he just had to save everyone he l
"What have you done to him!" Raven growled in fury as he dashed forward.Iron was taken aback when Raven made his appearance. Obviously, he wasn't expecting Raven to still be alive. But he quickly adjusted himself as he rose his hands: "I have brought all the 13 packs around here to get rid of poisonous cancer that is the doom of our society. These rogues can by no means exist any longer!"Raven glared at Iron in anger, the flames that rose inside him was burning so bad that his whole body was shaking. It was then for the first time did Raven understand what Knight meant by "it hurts to see your mate get hurt".Seeing Knight being crucified felt worse to Raven than suffering that himself."This rogue, Knight Knox, brought thirty rogues to attack the Blood Moon Pack last night!" Iron announced, "We, the Pisces Pack found out their dirty plan and attacked them. Though at the price of several of our fighters, we killed a lot of them and fought them back. But the best part, was that we ca
"You betrayed me," Raven took a deep breath as he turned to Iron, "Why?""I didn't betray you. You betrayed the pack when you choose to stand with the rogues." Iron answered smoothly.Raven glanced through the wolves Iron brought, one by one. There were twenty of them, all Iron's people."Twenty fighters." Raven sneered as he looked into their eyes, one after another, "Are they all that you could trick away the loyalty from?"Iron sneered as the wolves bared their teeth at Raven, but a dual is sacred, and none of them could intervene the moment Raven announced the challenge."Thank you," Iron took off his shirt, showing a strong body with tight muscles, "For giving me a chance to kill you myself.""No, no, no, thank YOU, for bringing the other 12 packs as witnesses. I would worry whether you might honor the dual otherwise." Raven also took off his shirt. Though he was packed with muscles too, he wasn't wide nor tall as Iron. Iron was around Knight's size."Why wouldn't I when I can sn
"Simon!" Raven shifted back the moment he felt the pack bond and growled without looking back.Simon dashed in his way as well as a few rogue warriors, including the village's doctor."Good..." Iron mumbled in a broken voice -- Raven hurt his vocal cords, "You did grow up..."Raven forced a mindlink to EVERYONE in his pack as he stood in front of Iron--"Iron Hogan, did you make a deal with some rogues to attack the Blood Moon Pack!" Raven shouted in his Alpha Aura -- no one in the pack bond could resist the Alpha Aura as they are forced to speak of the truth and obey the Alpha no matter what."No, I did not." Iron laughed as he answered.Raven frowned in confusion for a second before he asked again, loud and clear: "Have you been making deals with the rogues to attack packs around us in the past 30 years?!"Iron bit his lips till they bleed but in the end he nodded: "Yes."The wolves from the other 12 packs burst into an angry howl, as well as most of the wolves from Raven's pack."I
Raven slept through the next three days with a fever so high that the pact was certain they needed a new Alpha yet again.He saw his parents' bodies soked in blood, clawing their throat in the excruciating pain in silence, protecting their only son; he saw his father shaking hands with rogues before Knight's pack was burned to the ground in horrifying screams; and he saw Knight, crawling on the ground with his legs broken, and his eyes filled with the flames of revenge.The last image burned Raven's eyes when little Knight's broken legs overlapped with the grown-up Knight.He jerked up in his own bed in the middle of the night, soked in a cold sweat."Alpha, you are awake!" Elena burst into happy tears before she threw herself into Raven before Raven understood what happened."You...why are you here?" Raven mumbled, his throat shut dry from the three days' fever."You have slept for three days in a high fever, mumbling gibberish that no one could understand, and I have been taking car
Even with Elena's help, Iron's old supporters gave Raven hell when he finally was well enough to pick up the Alpha's work."Whatever Iron did, you should at least bring him back for a trial, Alpha! He's the beta of the pack!" An elderly, Oliver scolded Raven, "We have laws now! It's not like we are still living our wild ways, running around naked in the forest!""He tried to kill me." Raven said coldly, "And I had all the intention to bring him back for more information about his dark deals with the rogues, actually--""But you cut open his throat!" Another elderly cut Raven off, "How do you expect Iron to survive that huge a wound without any medical help?!""Howard, calm down--" Alvin frowned with a calm tone."Don't tell me to calm down!" Howard snapped at Alvin, "Raven never wanted Iron to make it back! What's up with such a sloppy execution?!""It's still Alpha to you, Howard." Raven frowned coldly as Frost pressed to the surface.The room fell in silence."Alpha, I understand yo
"How are you feeling today?" Simon knocked before he went into Knight's room with two huge buckets of distilled water, "The Pisces sent these.""Two buckets of water?" Knight rose an eyebrow with a smirk. He had been lying on his stomach in bed for days cause of the wounds on his back and the back of his thighs, not to mention his broken knees."These are distilled water, to clean your wounds." Simon laughed as he put them down on the ground, "And no, they sent another truck of them. I just might murder you if I have to boil water for you all day long."Knight chuckled lightly as he sat up, letting Simon clean and put medicines on his knees.Most of his wounds healed by now, more or less, but his knees took their time and Simon had to wash the wounds every day just to prevent infection."How's my arm still not working?" Knight frowned, swinging his broken arm in displease, "My legs were almost torn off, and they healed faster than the damn arm!""Because flesh heals faster than bones.