CHAPTER 3

Leila POV

I needed to be sure, my heart was racing with a ton of different emotions. I could feel my wolf’s grief towards Liam, her comfort in Henry’s hold and yet the pull towards Elijah.

I pulled away from Henry, wanting to touch Elijah but just then, Liam lunged at him and Elijah moved away, only for Liam' claws to swipe me, cutting deeply into my arm.

Henry shifted immediately and rushed at him as I crashed to the ground. My mind was confused, I was hurt and in pain.

This was supposed to be the best night of my life but it was quickly turning into a nightmare, one that I did not want.

I shifted into my huge wolf, a ball of smoke forming as I shifted fully. I watched as everyone gasped in awe, the attention shifting from the brawling brothers to me and I took off into the darkness.

I saw Henry and Elijah’s wolf running after me but my wolf was much faster. I was too hurt, too confused and too upset to stop running. I just needed to run, to clear my head.

LIAM POV

The party was over, or perhaps no one had it in them to dance anymore and everyone returned to their respective homes all still trying to make out what had occurred moments ago.

I heard a knock on my door. I went to check who it was, "Who is it??" I opened the door to see a guard standing by my door. I didn't need him to tell me what his message was. I immediately understood who was calling me.

"I will be there shortly." I said, the guard nodded and walked away. I threw on my shirt and began walking towards the Alpha’s chambers. I knew that he was calling me regarding Leila's issue but I figured that she should be back already sitting in her room.

I reached the chambers, my two brothers were already there. I didn’t give a fuck about them. Henry looked saddened and Elijah was visibly enraged. I still owed him a punch.

I bowed down paying my respects to my father, "You sent for me father." I said as I waited for the scolding I normally receive after my usual mishaps. But I didn't hear anything nor was I being yelled at.

I looked up to see my father looking at me with disappointment in his eyes, he stood up from his chair and walked around, "Liam, you broke one of the wolves greatest laws today. Not only that, you made Leila run away and there is no trace of her." He said with a very low tone.

I was surprised, Leila hadn't returned yet? But how was it any of my fault I didn't tell her to run away nor did I tell her to leave she left of her own accord. I tried to defend myself, "Father, how can I let someone of her class be my mate? I didn't chase her away; she ran off on her own! And she should be punished-"

Before I could finish my statement my father was standing in front of me, before I could react I was smacked down. "The only one that deserves punishment here is you! You insolent child, how did I raise you to be such a spoiled brat!! You hurt her, you always used any given opportunity to torment her, did you for once think what the young girl thinks of you!"

My father roared as I laid on the floor, my entire body crying from the pain of an Alpha’s hit.

I looked up and saw my brothers didn't move a bit. I wasn’t expecting any less. It was obvious they had discussed something before I arrived.

"Leila, is the last survivor of the feared Blood Oak pack! She was the daughter of the late Alpha Ure! I brought her here because it was the only way of keeping her safe from the dark wolves!" My father added as he picked me up from the floor.

My mind was in utter confusion, how weak Leila was, the daughter of an Alpha, and not just any Alpha, the strongest after my father.

"Leila? How is she the daughter of Alpha Ure? Isn't Alpha Ure and all his pack dead? How can she be his daughter?" I asked, looking my father straight into his eyes.

"I kept it a secret from you and your brothers in order to keep her and our pack safe from the dark wolves! If they found out that she is here there is nothing stopping them from destroying everything to get her." My father calmed down a bit.

"Liam, if you don't have Leila back in this pack in three days! I will have no choice but to remove all your Alpha rights. You will no longer be able to be an Alpha and would have no rights to contest for it in any way." Father ordered.

I turned to look at him, there was no sense of a joke on his face, "Father, perhaps that's a bit too far, Liam is a fool but you cannot do that to him,” Elijah spoke up to help me, ever playing the messiah that I hated but a small part of me knew it was genuine.

"Father at least let's help him search for her, the three of us together we might have a chance of finding her quickly and she is my mate too. I can’t just stay here. My wolf is restless,” Henry also spoke up.

My heart pounded as realisation hit me. They weren’t fighting me for disrespecting her, she was also thier fucking mate. Well they can fucking have her.

My father turned back and roared, making the two of them to bow immediately, "The two of you stay out of this, this punishment is meant for him and only he would find Leila! It was him that made her run away and not the both of you!"

“I’m not staying!” Henry, the normally shy and more reserved of us, challenged my father for the first time in his life.

“You will do as I say!” Father growled, his Alpha aura swirling around him, forcing me and my brothers to bow to him.

"Father, you're saying I should find her or I shouldn't return to the pack? What sort of harsh punishment is this? I didn't murder anyone nor did I break any of the pack's sacred order or rules." I tried to reason with my father.

I watched as he walked back to his chair and sat down, he looked at me, the next thing I heard was, "I have given my order, as soon as you leave I will tell the warriors to make sure that you don't enter the pack without Leila, now leave." He said as he waved his hands signalling me to leave his presence.

I turned and began leaving the throne room as I went to pack supplies that should last me while I look for Leila. I left in order to find her, this was by the harshest punishment I had received in my life.

Before I left my room, Elijah was standing by my door. It was quite unusual for him to stand there looking at me like that. "If you're gonna say something brother out with it, I don't have all the time." I said, trying to make him leave.

"I really expected more from you but it seems that there isn't any getting through to you. Well no matter how much you try to push her away, you're always the one that she falls for. So bring her back, if not for anything be the one that saves the woman that loves you." Elijah said before leaving.

What was he saying? Leila loves me? That's impossible!