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“Zander Brown, I know you are not sleeping, so get up quickly!” Mrs. Brown heaved.
Behind her, little Milan entered his room with her forefinger in her mouth. She stopped next to her mamma and gripped her pajamas around her calf and watched her sniffle at her brother.
“Mamma, what happened?” she inquired in her baby voice. “Why are you scolding Zany?” her innocence caught his heed.
He peeked out of the pillow at his little baby sister and stretched his hand out to invite her. She easily interpreted her brother’s action and climbed the bed that was an inch higher than her height.
She slid in his arms and chuckled when her brother covered themselves with the quilt, “Let’s go to sleep together and let mom scream, okay?”
“Okay,” she whispered, imitating his soft tone while there their mother’s jaw dropped in bewilderment.
She crossed her arms together before her chest and huffed. Mrs. Brown walked up to the bed and pulled out the blanket.
No sooner had she pulled it out than Milan and Zander laughed together as if their mother was playing with them.
“You,” she glared at her son while pulling Milan out of his grip. "You will spoil her, Zander. She has learned to fake her whines! All thanks to you."
Her daughter whined. She faked cries, hence proving Mrs. Brown right. She was bewildered to see Milan trying to get back in her brother’s embrace with soft audible muffles coming from her mouth, “Mamma, huhu…” but Mrs. Brown drew her out and placed her on the floor, and pointed towards the door.
Lovely Milan innocently looked behind her at the door confusingly as she could not get her mamma’s actions until she spoke out, “Go to daddy, he is waiting for you in the kitchen.”
“Daddy is waiting?” she asked.
“Yeah.” Mrs. Brown replied.
“Don’t go, Milan. Come back to Zany, let’s sleep in the quilt together. Come here, baby.” Zander turned over his stomach, he spread his hands out calling for her.
He chuckled realizing his sister was really struggling to reach him but their mother stood between them as an obstacle. Mrs. Brown pointed at the door behind as she eyed Milan with a fake frown, "I told you to go to the kitchen, didn't I?" She huffed, and then she picked Milan up.
"Mom, why don't you let her go?"
"I will. But first, you get up and freshen up yourself. You can't miss your school any longer, Zander Brown. Enough of your obstinacy."
"I am not going to school. I don't think I need to attend that stupid school again." He grumbled, sitting on the bed with crossed legs. "Not when I know that Alpha and the Principal wants me to repeat the year again!"
Yeah, that was true. Since the Bully Gang or as they call themselves, the Wild Wolves wasted their previous year; Alpha Hercules decided to have them repeat the year. Not Zander alone, but also Ryley and the others.
Oh no no, that was the real issue why he refused to go to the school. But Valen. The naive foolish mate of his best friend!
"I don't want to go to school too!" Milan spoke. That made Zander laugh and frustrate Mrs. Brown.
She narrowed her eyes to glare Zander and gritted her teeth, "Look at her. She follows you. She has not even started her school but she does not want to go to school either. Geez, Zander for her sake, get up and get ready. I am sure you would not want your sister to spoil like you."
"Oh yeah, whatever!" He rolled his eyes.
But anyways, Zander got up from the bed. He kissed his sister everywhere on her face and also his mother on her cheek before he swung around towards the bathroom.
All mommies know how to get their children to work, don't they?
Tbc...
(Last chapter) Five days later, In the lounge of the hospital beside the reception desk, Valen stood with her phone in one of her hands and a package in the other. She stomped her foot impatiently as she glanced at a recently received message, seething in vexation. 'Stuck in the traffic!' "Oh, moon goddess! Why do you have to mate me with such a dumb f*ck bastard." She cried— like she was a wolf, with a baby face and pout she was adored for. Then another message appeared on her screen that turned her facial expressions even sour and bitter. 'A bloody red lory has blocked my way. It's not moving further, not letting me do so.' "Oh Jesus, I will kill you, Ryley Shine." Valen shrieked, this time like a human, earning amusing looks from the passers-by and the watchman who was sitting across a huge television, keeping
117 "Tell me, I am on time." He said amidst his uneven respiration as he stood with his torso bent forward and hands resting on his knees, working on stabilizing his breathing. His beta entered the room behind him, "You are, Ryan." "How long has he been dead for?" Alpha Ryan asked coming to his full height even though his breathing had not braced up. He discerned the clueless faces of Zander's kith and kin waiting for an answer. When none came, his beta stepped next to him and disclosed, "Less than twenty-four hours. We still have time— but not much!" "Great. That's enough time." Alpha Ryan expressed his delight at his beta's reply with a clap of hands as the others gawked at him. Their doubtfully teary eyes stayed affixed on his face as he, standing as an odd one out, smiled in the whole room.
116A storm of grief, they never anticipated, knocked their senses down.Anyone and everyone, who walked inside the ward Zander's corpse was placed in, returned with an expressionless face. He was just too young to die. Nobody believed their eyes when they walked in, but when they returned, they realized it was indeed true.His parents and friends stayed lined up by the side of the wall adjacent to his ward's door, weeping.His father had awoken with a smile, hoping to see the others safe within the boundaries of their pack- back in their sweet home. But the news he was dawned with, trembled his very core, muting him for several times before his wife broke into his ward.They held each other in a forlorn embrace and shared their pain. Their first child, their son... Was gone.The doctors warned him not to leave the bed yet Mr. Brown overstepped thei
115"Noooooo! Zander, my son.. He Can't... He can't die!" Mrs. Brown melted to the ground, her body loosely flattened, wailing deeply on top of her voice."C-control yourself, Mrs. Brown. You..." Ryley, who had been attempting to handle her, himself felt his throat choke as tears blurred his vision.The news that they received was itself so shaking and bewildering that none of them was ready to believe it. Zander was dead. He died whilst saving his mate. The Paladin Alpha sacrificed his life to save the others.When in the morning the Gamma hastily rushed to woods land after receiving a call of trepidation, all of them prayed for the well-being of all the Alphas and betas who've gone on the rescue mission with Zander.Although the Gamma left in his car, he returned with five ambulances behind him that paused across the hospital gate. It was Ryley who was given a call by doctor Jason to come ov
114“Zane!” his father shrieked, perceiving him wail in discomfort.A big chunk of glass stayed stabbed in his stomach. Blood slipped at his temple given that his head hit against a sharp rock, making the world around him spin.He did not get a second to steady himself as the ifrit galloped near him. He lifted Zander by his neck, his hold tightening around it. The wisp sound of his slow squeezing at zander’s neck had his father roar manically while he plunged at the demon, turning into his wolf.His canines pierced through the shoulder of the arm that was clasping Zander in his hold, and caused him to loosen his grip. Zander plummeted at the ifrit’s feet coughing and gasping for air.“He was dead, wasn’t he?” there was a faint tremor in alpha Hercules’ tone.Nobody had any answer except for shocking gasps and he
113Satisfaction. It was a kind of satisfaction he never derived before. Not from bullying or hurting people. It can only be derived through killing... Killing the enemy.His chest swelled in pleasure and eyes brightened. The scent of Reyne stayed in his breaths. The air held her fragrance, which his lungs gladly sucked in.Those alphas waiting out there said that they would leave as soon as they found Reyne— without creating any scene, but he couldn't stop. He had to kill him. Kill them all. They tortured his Reyne. They threatened their kind. And hunters... He killed him half right when he mentioned them.But it was over. Zane killed them here and the doppelgangers killed his psycho wife there.He smiled to himself as he rushed ahead. He just wanted to get to his Reyne and hold her tight. His crawl was quick. Zane was moving further steadily until— he witn