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His muscles tightened and eyes fixated with her face. She seemed equally petrified. However, the terror staying crimson on her cheeks along with sweat beads shone more as her eyes just stayed stilled. In between the daze crossing his facade, Zander frowned a little because her head was gauzed with a bandaged around her forehead.
Zander could not decide whether she was alive or a mannequin. Even her breaths have stuck in her breaths and she refrained herself from making any move. He didn't divert his gaze from her eyes yet he can see her lips has started breaking the frozen spell she was bound into.
He noticed nothing but her dark dark blue irises, staring at him without a blink from behind a layer of tears lingering over her lower lashes.
"Reyne," Wendy pushed Zander aside and came to face her.
She furiously grabbed Reyne by the collarless fabric of her top and yanked unti
46He saw the tears swimming in her eyes and no matter how much he hated, he cared for them. Her reddened eyes and flushed face made him hiss in vex. They made him feel miserable not because she was that frustrating mate of his who left no chance to piss him off, but because she acted as if she was to blame.Indeed it was her who got his sister abducted yet Zander could not hold her wrong.How can he accuse her when they knew a threat was lingering around for the cubs of the pack? Yeah, they had to be the abductors from the same kidnapping troop who kidnapped several dozens of cubs from the neighbouring packs for trafficking and smuggling. And in their pack, they targeted the beta's daughter which was unfortunately the first kidnapping from their pack.They knew they were coming but didn't know that they would initiate it with the beta's daughter!The biggest foul move
47Zander's POVWe were sitting in the conference room in alpha's house. He had exclusively made this conference room for important discussions like this. Just in case if we could not make it to the official headquarters of our pack in serious time like this, we used the discussion room in his house. And at the moment, we were doing just the same.There were alpha, beta and Gamma males along with their sons, those are me, Ryley and Brandon, and that girl's name (who is also my mate) father, Hari Stark. We had the projector flashing at the white screen before us while we sat in the chair before the oval shaped table, looking at the CCTV playing."So this was here where they got Reyne. Bloody hell, I will fuck their balls if I found them. Just look at how have he blocked Reyne in his arms!" Ryley hissed but it was me that was feeling the fire of frustration and jealousy burning my heart.I
48"Come on Zander, stop it now. There is nothing in there!" Zander let out a frustrated chuckle and ignored that exclamation.He headed further, deeper and deeper in the woods, and tried to notice every possible head that could lead to his sister's abductors."I told you Shine, you can go back if you want. You don't have to follow me all the way to hell and get frustrated over nothing." He replied, his hands slapping away the leaves and branches blocking his front.His egoistic reply offended Ryley. He let out a grumble and pulled Zander by the back of his collar." What the fuck is wrong with you, Shine? " Zander roared angrily."I want to ask the same. What the fuck is wrong with you, Zander Brown? Why are you acting so weird and strange? What has gotten into you?" He asked all at once.Zander was back to being rude and aggressive like how he had been earlier with
49Being tired and awfully exhausted, Zander and Ryley applied brakes to their legs and stopped. They bent forward and rested their hands on the knees and breathed deeply. There was a thick layer of sweat forming on their faces as their lips quivered during breathing."Should we go back?" Ryley suggested more than asking that."Not now." a quick reply erupted from Zander's mouth as fear knitted along his words vibrated from his mouth. "I have promised mom I won't return without Milan."The two guys raised their glances from the dark ground and gawked at each other under darkness. The sun has disappeared and darkness has taken over. The leaves stayed silent from rustling and the winds silenced. No other sound than their deep respiration echoed in the atmosphere.Ryley shook his head in interpretation. He honestly did not want to leave but the place they were in was fatal for the both of t
50He froze like a leaf on a wintery night. His veins numbed and mind stopped working as everything revolved only and only around Milan.But wait, did he just hear what he really heard?Did he say something about ending up like his sister? Like what?His lashes widened again, heart pumped blood with double force as his veins that were numb started popping out of his skin as blood rushed through them vigorously. Zander pushed aside all the thoughts and focused back on what laid before his eyes."Do you get it?" the long haired villainous man asked, his voice oozing fear and warning.The cubs sitting there stuck together on the floor, bobbed their heads in agreement, looking at his face with dread. The expressions seemed so scary and helpless that Zander urged to go and release them from it. He desired to beat the long haired bitch to death or until his half of the bones wer
51“Zander!” as soon as his eyes unlatched, he saw his mother and father’s worried facade.There was a wave of relief bursting on their cheeks as they curiously erected their backs and looked at him while Zander tried to focus on his surroundings, "Mom... Dad," He whispered in his dry voice that hardly hit their ear drums.Zander tried to sit straight but failed when his mother threw her arms around him and wept, "Zane, I am glad you woke up, darling. I thought... I thought," She choked on her words and paused, taking Zane by surprise.What the fuck was wrong?He wondered, looking at his father's face that only conveyed one emotion— relief.He tried to stay put. He difficultly wrapped his hands around his mum while on her back, he attempted to look at his surroundings. He was in a hospital room, in a blue patient's gown. There was
52Zander stared at the closed door of his ward without a blink. Whatever Ryley was saying went straight from the top of his head just because now his attention was at something else. Precisely at someone else!He smelled the same smell that he termed as unwanted and unworthy, invading in his nostrils. A sudden power rushed through his muscles and Zack squealed inside of him, 'MATE'It was relaxing. Her presence relaxed his body and mind like she was some drug he was in need of.He wanted to avoid her who was probably standing by the side of the door against the wall but failed. He knew it was somewhere because of her why he woke up. He cannot neglect that her face was the cause why he got up that night and fought that bastard."And there are still a lot of things you need to know but before that," Ryley fixated his gaze at his friend's face while his eyebrows creased.&
53"He is fine. And as you had said earlier, he is mad at Reyne." Ryley shared the words about their conversation with Valen over the call.He had just come out that his phone buzzed, flashing her name on his phone."I told you so. Anyways, I need to go, dadda is calling me. You take care of him. If possible then I will come to see Zander today." Valen sent virtual kisses over the phone to Ryley before she ultimately hung up."This girl, I love her so much." A dreamy grin appeared on Ryley's face, he stared at the screen of his phone at Valen's picture that was saved as his wallpaper.After a minute of admiring his mate, he decided to go back to Zander. It was injurious to leave him alone as this guy was known for running out of the hospital.When Ryley came back to his room, he was stunned to see the bed. "Zander?" The bed was empty.He ro