chapter 59

KAELION POV

Rex was getting away.

“I will be back, Kaelion. I will come to take what is mine,” He stated, swinging the door wide open while I continued to run towards the gate.

“Damn it!” I muttered as he ran out.

I then reached the gate but heard a loud thud before I could go after him.

“Rex,” I called out, looking out of the gate.

If Rex was right about this being a bigger conspiracy that Alpha Thane was a part of, it only meant I had a huge problem.

The one who orchestrated the plan to attack my pack was still out there.

“Found him,” I heard, Jackson say walking into the house while dragging Rex by the legs. “I also knew the one who attacked Zack would try to finish him off.”

I had never been happier to see Jackson.

“Shut the gate,” I muttered, staring at the guards.

Tonight was a full moon which meant I only had about two hours to get Rex to talk before transforming into my wolf form.

Rex would also be transforming. He would be much stronger than he is now.

“You will have to kill me, Kaelion, I will not say a word. You will only continue to wonder why Misha was killed, you will never get the answers you seek.”

“Tie him up,” I instructed, looking back at the guards behind him. “Do not let him escape!”

Afterwards, I walked towards the house. I needed to see and talk to Seliora.

Once again she has managed to save me despite her hatred for me.

I made my way to her room and knocked on the door.

She opened up almost immediately and walked out like she had been waiting for me.

“Has he talked? Did he tell you who he is working for?” She asked, walking outside. “I saw Jackson drag him in.”

“Where did you keep the stone, Seliora?” I asked.

None of the pack members could know there was a kysnite stone in the house especially in the hands of the one person whom they hated and blamed for the attack on our pack.

“You can’t take it from me, Kaelion. I have survived so many attempts to kill me by your pack. This is the only way I can make sure I get back to my family safely,” She answered firmly.

“As long as that kysnite is in this house, none of my pack members are safe. I have to get rid of it!” I insisted. “I will keep you safe, I promised to get you back to your family and I will.”

Although I understood Seliora’s concerns. The most important thing to me was ensuring my pack’s safety.

“I just saved you from being killed and the next thing you do is try to take the one thing that guarantees my safety,” She said, locking her eyes onto mine. “I’m not giving it up.”

“It’s the full moon tonight, we have to get Rex to talk if he transforms with the rest of us and escapes,” I muttered.

“Well you better hurry, the only way I am giving this back is when he talks and you let me out of this house,” She answered.

“You never believed I was going to let you go. Did you?” I asked, finally understanding why she was so adamant about keeping the stone with her.

“There’s no way I would ever be able to trust the one who murdered my pack,” She responded, walking away.

I followed behind her and we both went into the pack cell where Rex had been locked in.

It was one of the strongest cells we had but it still would not be able to hold him in his wolf form.

“You are helping him,” Rex said, staring at Seliora who stared right back at him. “Have you forgotten so easily his he tainted the floor of that ballroom with your pack’s blood of how he chained your little brother just to get you to surrender.”

“Trust me, I haven’t and I never will,” Seliora stated. “I just need to know where my father is and what big conspiracy this is.”

I was well Seliora would never be able to forgive me for what I did to her pack but hearing her say it made my heart sink.

“If I talk, he kills me and if I do not, Kaelion kills me. I am dead either way,” Rex said standing up from the floor. “The only regret I had was having to kill Lexi because she was beginning to figure it all out.”

I parted my lips to further convince Rex to talk but before I could, he pulled out a small bottle that he had tucked inside his shirt and gulped it.

“I will rather die than be your prisoner, Kaelion,” He stated right before he collapsed on the ground.

“No, you cannot let him die!” Seliora stated, as she struggled to open the cell gate.

I could recognise the poison Rex consumed from the colour. It was an ancient poison named necrium, which kills in an instant.

“It is over, Seliora. He’s gone. We only have one more person who could tell us all what this is all about.” I stated.

“Zack,” She muttered. “We have to talk to him right now.”

I hurried out of the pack cell with Seliora and we both made our way to the pack hospital.

“How is he now?” I asked the doctor who we ran into just by the door to the room Zack was in.

“I checked up on him ten minutes ago, and he is going to be fine. He just needs a lot of rest,” The doctor responded.

“I need to talk to him now,” I stated, storming into the hospital room, only to be met with an empty bed.

Zack was gone. He must have woken up and escaped while the guards were distracted.

“The window,” Seliora muttered. “He must have escaped through the window where I had earlier left it open.”

“Damn it,” I growled, feeling my anger surge as the full moon rose.

I was back to square one.

Maybe Rex was right. Maybe I would never be able to find out what really happened to Misha.