Chapter 65

KIRA:

“I’m sorry, alpha. I thought she was an intruder which is why I decided to put her down on the ground,”

From a distance away, I watch as the already-risen wolf that has shifted to his human form apologizes to Alpha Reid. It was at that point that I realized the wolfling was a warrior.

Alpha Reid runs his hand through his hair, looking a bit shaky. I don’t know why he was reacting that way but it was definitely different from how he has been since.

“Don’t worry about her. She's with me,” Alpha Reid says to the warrior. “Now go back to doing your duty while I send her back to her pack, okay?”

The warrior nods in response and then looks in my direction. He bows his head apologetically to me and then walks away from here, leaving Alpha Reid and me alone.

I was not sure what to do in this situation because I could tell from Alpha Reid’s body position that he was not pleased with me. Makes me regret doing what I did initially. I guess I should have listened to him when he offered to help.

“I’m sorry,” I find myself apologizing when I cannot take the whole situation anymore. I felt that was the right thing to do to make him know I was in the wrong.

Saying that made him turn around to look at me and I was sure that I could notice a glim of surprise in his eyes. Was apologizing to him that surprising? Or was there more to that?

He becomes neural soon after and then says to me in a scolding manner this time around, “I am seeing you off to your pack. And this time, I am not asking.”

I have no choice but to nod in response to that. Immediately after that, he approaches me and then says two words in my direction which I adhere to instantly: “Follow me.”

He goes through another route unlike where I had been instinctively passing through while on my own. It was a good thing that he came back for me lest I would have lost myself on the way. It was now obvious that I had been going the wrong way.

There is silence between us all through and I must say it was for the best because there is nothing I would want to share with him right now. And obviously, he would not want to share anything with me as well. So I could make do with the silence until I reach my pack.

Along the way, we come in contact with more warriors. Twice. They were in groups, unlike the single one that had almost attacked me. One word from Alpha Reid and they had gone their way without bothering to spare me a glance. Not sure if it was right but at least I knew I was safe from being attacked again unknowingly.

Eventually, I notice the borderline. I wonder where we had gone through just to get me to the borderline because I was certain that I had not seen that when I had unconsciously come into his own pack.

He stops. And I do the same.

“We are here,” I hear him say as he stares right in the direction of the borderline where I could notice the pack warriors of the Green Dales on the other side. I was instantly skeptical about what to do to cross over without getting into trouble with them.

“I don't think I would be able to get through without them asking where I was coming from,” I tell Alpha Reid my fear. There was no way I was going to go through the borderline like this. It just wouldn’t work.

I was trying to come up with something until I hear Alpha Reid say, “Who says I was going to let you go through there?”

“I don’t understand,” I have to admit because truthfully, it was weird hearing him say that.

Instead of getting a definite response to that, what I get is another “Follow me” which I have no choice but to adhere to as well without question.

It looked like we were going straight down to the borderline at first until Alpha Reid decides to surprise me by taking a turn at almost the last minute of being discovered by the pack warriors of the Green Dales. Funny how he was in full control of the warriors here but couldn’t get an atom of respect from the Green Dales warriors if he wanted to.

I have no idea where he is taking me now but I do not question him. At least he was not taking me straight into the hands of the warriors at the borderline so I was safe.

In no time, he stops again. And when I look ahead this time around, I could notice something about where he stopped. There seems to be an entryway through the woods on that path. This means I could most possibly be going through there just to get to the Green Dales.

He turns around to look at me. “I discovered this route on the day I had unintentionally trespassed into your territory. Figured it would be useful in the future. Guess I was right,”

I decide not to stare at him for too long because I noticed how many butterflies I could feel in my stomach by staring at him. Instead, I look back in the direction of the route and notice that it was something that I could pass through if I wanted to.

“You want me to go through there, right?” I ask.

“Yes,” is his response.

I am suddenly skeptical about going through there. And it is not because of the route. I have this feeling of staying here for a little while longer and ky seems weird that such a thought would go through my mind.

“Aren’t you going to leave now?” Alpha Reid interrupts my train of thought and it prompts me to look in his direction.

“Yeah, right,” I say as I swallow a gulp in my throat. Immediately after, I was going through the path but stop for a brief second to look behind me at the alpha.

Disappointment floods through me when I realize that he was not there anymore. How could get just leave like that? He could have at least waited until I left before doing so. So pathetic.

With a scoff, I continue down the path until I have finally made it to the woods of my territory. It was at that time I decided to relax my nerves knowing it would be much safer for me now.

But the instant the thought of what happened to my parents comes through my mind, I suddenly feel tensed again and the next thing is that I have taken off to my quarters with so much speed accompanying my legs.

In less than ten minutes, I have arrived right in front of the quarters which I notice was a bit crowded with warriors.

I sight Bradley among the warriors as I walk slowly to the quarters after I stop with the run. When he notices me as well, he leaves the ones he is standing with and comes rushing at me.

“Where have you been?” is the first question he throws at me when he is right in front of me.

“I don’t know,” I tell him without looking straight at him. But I could notice that he was not looking any good and it was because of me.

I feel him pull me in for a side hug which I do not resist. I think I needed that.

“How did you find out?” I ask after he releases me from the hug.

“Your friend informed us. He says his name is Kelvin,”

“Right,” I state, recalling that I had left Kelvin here before storming off to her my head in order.

“I’m sorry, Kira. You should not be going through such. I wish there was a way I could help you,” Bradley says and I find myself smiling instead of wallowing in self-pity.

“It has happened already and there is nothing I can do about it,” I tell him without cracking my words. And when I glance at him, I could see that he was surprised about how I could be so chill with what is going on at the moment. But I wasn’t. Just have to bottle up my feelings like I always do.

“Is there anything you need right now? I could get it for you,”

I shake my head to decline. “Not at all. I only want to know if their bodies have been taken away,”

“That has been arranged already a little while ago,”

I nod in agreement as I start to make my way over to the quarters with him by my side.

“So what are you going to do now? Will you be able to sleep in there knowing what happened?”

“For now, yes,” I state. “The first thing I need to do now is get to Adam. He needs to be consoled more than I need it.”