Chapter 80

REID:

I find Venice in her room about twenty minutes after my father left. Didn't even need to knock to get into the room because she left the door ajar.

For a while, I stand at the entrance as I contemplated going over to sit beside her. She looked like she was thinking through a lot of things and I didn't want to meddle. But then I was here for a good cause.

I eventually pushed myself to the bedside, taking a seat directly beside her. She doesn't even flinch or reacts to the fact that I've joined her and I stay quiet for a pretty long while until the courage to say something kicks in.

“You sure about your decision?” is what I ask her. Trust me, I was not truly fine with speaking yet.

She says nothing for such a long time that I thought she was going to ignore me totally. But then she speaks:

“Why wouldn't I be?”

I find myself nodding as if in understanding. Seems she has made up her mind about the whole thing before even confronting our father.

I can't say I was a hundred percent in compliance with her decision but one thing about my sister was her adamance. It was hard to change her mind when already has it set on something.

It was awfully quiet between the two of us. A way of trying to set her mood right before anything is said again.

“I think he's being selfish,” Venice says, annoyance swirling in her tone. “He wants me to go back with him when he knows how bad things are at the moment. Shouldn't he at least think about that first before telling me to leave with him?”

“We can't fully blame him. Wanna know the truth?” I feel her gaze on me and it prompts me to look at her. “I would have done the same if I was in his shoes,”

She frowns at that, scoffing as she looks away from me. “That's ridiculous,”

“It's not,” I counter. “It's just protective instinct, I promise you. But you standing your ground on what you want proves that you shouldn't be treated as a child any longer. Father has to respect your decisions and make you do the thinking for yourself,”

It seems that got through to her because the next thing is her mood changing. The deep frown leaves her face and she looks like she already was in line with me.

“He's gone already?” she demands to know.

I nod. “Yeah. Not too long ago,”

I have it in me to talk about the consequences of her being here but I push it to the back of my head. She already knows what she signed up for by not choosing to leave yet. It would only seem like I was trying to change her mind if I decide to say anything else on the matter.

I stand up from the bed. “I'll be in my room if you need me,” I say as I look down at her.

“Alright,”

I turn my face in the direction of the entrance as I begin to walk away from the bedside and out of the room. A strange feeling overwhelms me a few steps into walking off.

I try to neglect it but it keeps hitting me more and more until I realize it wasn't something I can push aside.

It wasn't until I felt a pull in the bond did I realize that it was not just a strange feeling. Something was wrong. I think my young mate is in danger.

*****

KIRA:

Seeing Bradley holding on to the side of his waist despite him saying he was fine made me displeased with him. He didn't have to lie about feeling alright when he clearly wasn't.

I really want to confront him but it would lead to a big argument between the two of us and that was for sure. I just left the pack hospital and still needed more time to recuperate so it was best I let that slide for now.

The both of us were on the way to his family quarters after the pack doctor told us we could leave. But she did remind us to rest more when we head back because even if it was clear that we were fine now, we weren't fully functional enough for activities that could take a toll on our bodies.

Fighting against Kelvin really did a lot of damage to both of us. I never knew what berserk was until that day. I don't think rogue wolves could even do what he did that day.

Kelvin should have told me that he was going through a phase that he didn't understand. He could have warned me about his condition. Of course, he did mention that he was going through something he didn't understand, I didn't expect it to be like that.

I think it's my fault too. Taking him to my family quarters must have triggered the whole thing. But then it was an agreement between us to check through the place just to find out what caused my parents' death.

All of a sudden I hear a scream. It prompts me to look at Bradley and I realize that he too heard what I just heard.

We were still far off the path leading to where most of the quarters were situated so it means that the scream we heard was from there.

It didn't feel right all of a sudden. And the fact that the scream came again made me worried.

“What's going on?” I find myself asking Bradley who looked confused as hell.

“I don't know. It seems something has gone bad,”

I wanted to tell him that we should go check what was going on but I didn't like the sound I heard.

The instant I knew that it was all wrong as expected was when the screams intensifies. And this time it sounded like it was from someone else.

I then heard a sudden movement around us. It was so fast but I was able to decipher that it was indeed a movement. Bradley's lingering eyes around the area proved me right as well as I look at him with curious eyes.

“Something's here,” he whispers as he moves close to me. He makes a protective stance around me and starts to look around with caution.

I was not feeling okay now. Knowing I was in danger made me scared. I hated this kind of feeling and I hated that it was happening just after I got out of one.

That is when I see it. No, them. They were running in full force in our direction. All of them in their wolf forms.

They looked crazed. It was clear that they weren't themselves. And from the look of things, they were out to attack us.

I linked it to what happened days back. It was the same feeling I went through when Kelvin attacked me.

And just like that, Bradley and I were in the middle of a crisis that was much bigger than us.

I survived against a crazed Kelvin. But I don't think I'll survive against a bunch of crazed others.