They hopped in the car and took off to the west side of the woods to the cave. The car ride was quiet and an eerie silence was filling the air because of what happened earlier and that was until Abel pinched Zadkiel’s upper arm from the backseat and Zadkiel yelped.“I’m sorry.” Abel put up his hands in defence when Zadkiel looked back with one hand carrying his phone in the air. Zadkiel instantly understood what he was trying to say.“It’s alright.” He turned back to look out of the window but a few seconds later, he subtly pulled out his phone from his pocket and checked it. Indeed there was a recent message from Abel. He ignored the older ones and read the last one he received.Bro, I saw him outside the woods. Your uncle. I didn’t tell Irvin because I don’t want anything to happen to your uncle as it happened to your mother.Zadkiel looked at him through the rear view mirror and gave him a look before turning his head down to type a message.I told you that he isn’t lying this

The next morning when he woke up, he was already jumpy because he was going to see his mother. Irvin had woken him up and told him she was already out, waiting for him in the living room. He was nervous and everything around him seemed to have a little bit more impact on him than usual such as the clinking of the spoon with the bowl from which Irvin was eating his cereal.“She is downstairs?” He asked for the hundredth time and Irvin didn’t seem to mind answering again.“Yes, love. She is downstairs.”“You know I keep thinking I’m gonna say this and this and this to her and ask her about everything I want to know but I know that when I’ll be face to face with her, I’m just gonna glue my lips together.” He showed his concern.“Babe, it’s alright. You’re going to talk to your mother after 20 years. It’s normal. Just breathe in and take all the time you want. She isn’t going anywhere.” Irvin put a hand on Zadkiel’s shoulder.“Yeah. Too much time. I have all eternity. Which is scary

The next thing they did in the next couple of weeks was that invited the Onyx Tails pack over as their guests which triggered the old members of the council but Irvin was clear that if they wanted to threaten their alpha position, they could but he would have a fight to the death for the throne and if he wins then he would exile them. The council already knew that beating Irvin was always a challenge. They only used it to scare Irvin but it wasn’t working anymore.He was so furious and he wanted to right everything. He couldn’t find peace with the fact that his father destroyed a whole pack, snatched their loved ones and left them with nothing. He wasn’t going to sit around and just not do anything.His father, well he was in the cell and he had asked Zadkiel multiple times that he could take revenge all he wanted to but Zadkiel always said one word, ‘later’One thing for sure, Zadkiel was right about not letting his mate weaken him because ever since he made him his strength, he g

Zadkiel thought a lot about the responsibility that lay on his shoulders to provide justice to his pack for about a month. He kept thinking about Irvin’s offer and he could see that it was the only way he could provide justice to his pack without killing anyone but what the ancestors of the Rabid Shadows pack did, had nothing to do with the people now living here so it was straight up cruel to just kick them out of their homes.He sighed resting his head on the dining table. He just had his breakfast. Irvin was in the headquarters to deal with missing pack cases, which have been escalated recently and he was very worried about it. No one had any idea what was going on.His mother saw him sitting alone at the table, looking exhausted at the start of the day and sat across him.“What’s on your mind?” She spoke which brought Zadkiel out of his thoughts as he sat up.“I want to provide justice to my pack but I don’t want to do something that in providing justice to one innocent, I uni

Even though Irvin tried to convince him to stop, even begged him but Zadkiel was persistent in healing everyone so he could rest, knowing that no one would die just because he was being lazy.“Zadkiel, if you don’t stop right now, I’ll use my alpha tone. I’m very serious.” Irvin spoke sternly.A whimper left his mouth, hearing this but he couldn’t stop. He didn’t want to slack off and let people die but he understood that seeing his pack die was hurting Irvin as much as it was hurting him so, he decided to take a breath deciding not to add more to Irvin’s worries.“Thank god! You don’t even listen to me anymore!” Abel scoffed at him, glaring at him while Zadkiel rested his back against Irvin’s chest, closing his eyes. He could feel his body healing itself.“You’re a stubborn piece of shit! Do you know that?” Abel again spoke, still making him the target of his hard glare.“Shut up, please.” He answered in a tired voice, nuzzling his face in Irvin’s neck and inhaling his scent to