When Knight made it to Raven's balcony it was midnight, and he could barely stand. To his surprise, Raven was not in bed as how he expected but was curling up into a ball in the corner of the balcony, shivering with his head buried in his knees. "Missed me, little wolf?" A huge smile crawled onto Knight's face the moment he saw his mate. It was such a wonder how someone could raise such pure pleasure in him just by existing. Raven shot his head up in utter surprise, his lips moved but he didn't manage to say a word at first. "You...!" Raven stumbled forward only to almost fall before Knight caught him. "What's wrong, Raven?" Knight asked in a hasty tone, "Are you alright?" "I haven't taken the medicine today..." Raven trembled uncontrollably, pain in his voice. "Why? Did she not give you any?" Knight asked, taking Raven into his arms before he got Raven to the bed, "Have you been suffering these days--?" "No, I got the temperary cure on the table," Raven shook his head with a b
"Really, you think so, huh?" Raven suppressed the anger and sting rose at the rejecting words from his mate."I'm sorry," Knight sighed heavily, dodging Raven's eyes, "I thought I could do it, but in the end, you are still a White.""It wasn't my father who did the crime," Raven stood up with his fists shaking at his side, but Knight took that a sign of Raven's anger, and didn't connect that with the poison."Your father allowed the attack," Knight took a deep breath and closed his eyes, his chest in pain like never before when he forced his cold words out of him, "maybe not intentional, but he made a deal with the rogues to make his name, and that cost innocent lives, Raven.""..." Though knowing Knight was only saying this because he wanted to sacrifice his own chance of living for him, Raven couldn't help but felt hurt, and the worst part was, Knight was right.Nolan White bought the rogues to attack just so he could come to the rescue and make his own name. Though not intended to
"Alpha! Are you alright?!" Noah shouted, tapping Raven on the face."Stop it..." Raven gasped for air with a frown. He didn't black out, just couldn't maintain a calm face under Elena's poison was all."Let me help!" Noah put Raven's arm around his neck and got him to the bed before he asked, "Why are we taking down Alpha Knight?"Raven didn't have time to explain his full plan to Noah, but just told him to take whatever necessary means to take down THE beast, hence Noah's three shots."Why did you shoot him three times!" Raven snapped angrily, finally catching his breath after the mate mark on his neck faded a little."I...I panicked..." Noah blurted tamely, "His eyes were red and I knew how strong he was so...""Okay, whatever," Raven waved his hand impatiently, putting the vial in Noah's hand, "feed him this first and then we'll talk!""What is this?" Noah took the vial to Knight with a swift move, "Are you..."His hand froze, and Raven shot over a questioning look."Is this poison
"Are you fucking kidding me..." Mumbling with a resigned tone, Raven sighed heavily as he turned around slowly to Knight's pitch-dark eyes.Hands locked behind his back, Knight sat on the floor with his back against the table, smirking."From the look of your shaking hands," With a drawling tone, Knight's eyes fell on the empty bowl that rolled to the side, "you didn't take the cure?""And now that you have," Raven panted with a messy breath, giving up his failure of a plan to contain the beast with a sarcastic tone, "do you still insist that you stopped loving me, ALPHA?""I never said that," Knight's eyes scanned the room before he sighed and stood up, putting the handcuff on the table gently.Raven rolled his eyes at Knight's silent bragging."Where is the vial?" With a coaxing tone, Knight pulled Raven up from the floor before he carried Raven to the bed and put him there, again."I drank it up before throwing it outside the window!" Raven snapped at Knight sarcastically.He could
Knight instantly understood Raven's shout, and he got out of Raven's grab easily before he jumped at Noah when Noah froze where he was."You break the vial and I'll die, too!" Raven shouted as he stumbled off the bed at the two, and his words slowed down Knight's move visibly."What the fuck are you still doing here?!" Raven snapped at Noah as he jumped on Knight's back, "Can't you do ONE thing you are told?! Run!""Give me the vial or your Alpha dies!" Knight cut in before Raven could even finish his sentence, "Don't obey your Alpha!"That was the weirdest order ever and Noah froze there, darting his eyes between the two Alphas like a moron."Noah!" Raven snapped, "What the hell?!""Your Alpha needs the vial!" Knight wouldn't budge, "I'm only trying to save him--""I-- I don't have the vial..." Noah mumbled with a frightened look, horrified."What?!" Raven snapped, "You took it and ran away when I--"He stopped his words, shooting a guilty glance at Knight and Knight instantly unders
"Knight...Knight?!" Raven mumbled when he opened his eyes, but the bed was empty, and that gave Raven an icy quiver before he threw the sheet away and jumped out of bed, only to fall to the ground with his body shaking in a heavy sweat.Knight was gone?! Again?![Noah!] Raven mindlinked Noah, trying to get back up to his feet, [Where are you? Where is Knight?!][Alpha?] Noah's confused voice came through, [I'm in the lobby of the Alpha's house, do you need me to come up to help?][No!] Raven huffed, [Where is Knight?!][I don't know...] Noah shot a worried glance up in the direction of Raven's bedroom before he left the lobby, [I'm coming--]"Yo," Knight's voice suddenly rose as the bathroom door slid open, "fancy way to wake up, Alpha Raven."Huffing Raven on the ground: "..."[Alpha, I--] Noah hesitated and Raven already cut the mindlink."Where did you go?!" Raven snapped angrily, cold sweat all over him when he woke up to an empty bed."The...bathroom..." Knight blinked innocently
Knight wrapped his arm around Raven's chest from behind, falling asleep quickly as Raven listened to his steady breath carefully, thinking about how to get out without Knight knowing.Whatever the bad news was, he couldn't trust Knight's decision.Raven closed his eyes and mindlinked Allura again.[Sorry about that,] Said Raven, looking around the laboratory through Allura's eyes, [what's the bad news?][We have analyzed the cure and basically re-created it exactly in the same proportion,] Allura raised a tube for Raven to see.[What do you mean basically?] Raven frowned, catching on to the keyword.[Well, we use the same method on them with a centrifuge and it came out as the same,] Allura put down the tube, and her eyes fell on the centrifuge in the middle of the room, [but somehow they are working differently...][As in?][As in, the mice with the poison in their blood took our cure calmed down instantly like how the cure was supposed to have worked, but later the symptoms appeared
"Raven...?" Knight got nervous when he lost all expectation of what Raven wanted a serious talk for."You really think she might poison me?" In a light tone, Raven waited till Allura was out of the room, making no move at neither the real cure nor the temp cure.It was the first time he really tried to go against the great Alpha in front of him, and magically, he calmed down and could think clearer like never before.He knew how to play the Alpha who had only his benefit in mind, and he just needed to make his moves right."I'm not saying that she has ill intention," Knight explained, trying to search for Raven's eyes, but Raven sighed with his eyes, low, "I know how hatred works, and she has been blaming you for what happened for too long to just shake it off overnight.""I see..." Raven sighed in a heavy tone, frowning as if the fact that he couldn't win his people's hearts over bothered him.And Knight fell for that instantly, because that feeling was genuine."I'm not saying that