Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Alpha's Brother : Kabanata 161 - Kabanata 170

The moment I stepped across the border I knew there would be trouble. We were not exactly amicable with our neighbors. I mean we weren't at war, but we weren’t friends either. They were not about to be happy about me strolling onto their packlands no matter how I was about to dress it up, yet I knew I had no choice…Our two packs were rare because of the fact that they bordered on one another. Often, when it came to werewolf packs, there would be none-packland sitting between packs, no man's land, we tended to call it. Neutral ground that separated packs, which made it safer, because accidental trespassing into other packs would then be less common. Any invasions of borders were assumed to be planned. But our pack, and Night Cedar Pack had once been one pack. Although this was going back many centuries, and this was why they were now bordering. One former pack's packlands divided into two. As the old tale goes, it was land split between two brothers, twins, that a father could not dec

I rushed through the trees, thankfully garnering no trouble from any guards from our neighboring pack. The guard I came across must have done as I asked and given my word to his Alpha that I meant no harm. Surely they would not be foolish enough to believe I would try to take their land. No trouble from them meant my focus could be on the she-wolf within my arms. And that was soul-crushing enough...My heart ached at Cora's heart-breaking words. She asked me to let her die. She felt so hurt, and so done with the pain that she could take no more. No she-wolf should feel that way…Ace whimpered. He was struggling with the thought of it all as much as me. Every step that we walked felt heavy. ‘Help her.’ My wolf begged.‘That is not our place. Look, you know that Lena is here. Who better than her own sister? She can help. She will know what to do.’ I told my wolf, as I looked down toward the she-wolf currently collapsed within my arms. I hated to see her this way. No matter the irritatio

I could see the distress that Lena was in. She was terrified she was going to lose her sister. And with every attempt the doctors made to help Cora, Lena looked like she was flailing. I was sensing the pain my brother felt for not being able to help his new mate, and it was agonizing. I had doubted his matebond. Doubted why he had rushed to be with her, but there was no denying the way he was feeling for her. And it hurt me to see my brother struggling to know what to do...I had desperately hoped that our pack hospital would be able to help Cora. Hoped that her wounds were nothing more than superficial. But the longer we were here, the more the doctors looked hesitant. They seemed to be greatly concerned about Cora’s wellbeing, and that concern only seemed to be increasing the longer they treated her.As I stood observing the scene, pacing the room, praying to the moon goddess, that the outcome was a good one, the only thing that came to mind was for me to mark her. It seemed like su

Long after Lena had left her sister’s side, and the emotional tension had finally evacuated the room, I was finally left on my own with the angry eyes of the she-wolf I had earlier marked. She was hard to decipher. She had said she understood my reasoning for marking her, yet the darkened glares in my direction spoke volumes and said otherwise.‘You can’t sense her unease?’ Ace questioned, as I did all I could to avoid meeting her intense stare, knowing it would mean being dragged into some form of awkward conversation.‘The matebond is weak, isn’t it?’ I asked my wolf and he grunted in response. I could not sense a great deal from Cora. But I was unsure, truthfully, if that was due to her blocking me, or due to the weakness of the matebond. We currently did not have a fully formed bond.‘It won't be strengthened unless she marked you, and that wouldn't happen because she was only ever marked to help her heal. You

I had no clue what time the pair of us had fallen asleep, but at some point, despite the awkward conversation, and the incessant thoughts running through my mind, sleep must have found Cora and I, because we were rudely awoken by the doctor as they came into the room to check Cora over. The sharp gasp of her breath as the doctor went to touch her was enough to waken me, and as my eyes adjusted to the light within the now bright hospital room, and glanced across in her direction, I could see the spark had gone from within her eyes. She looked lost. Truth be told, I think that spark had likely faded before I had even collected her from her escape from her sorry excuse for a boyfriend. The experience with him had seriously damaged her, and it pained me to say, I didn't know if there was a way to repair that...Ace grumbled angrily at the very thought, he seemed to dislike her being in pain. And, as we watched the doctors do their checks on the she-wolf we were currently partiall