Chapter 22: Rogues

Alec:
My head is literally spinning and it is as if my heart is breaking into a million pieces. My wolf isn't making it any better either as he is howling in pain in my head. Do you think men cannot suffer heartbreaks? I tell you... You are definitely wrong. If there is anything much more worse than heartbreak, that's what I'm feeling right now.
I keep wondering, why my is life never perfect? Growing up, I had an asshole of a Father.. An Alpha who didn't care a bit about his family and certainly not his pack, I had a brother who was so fucking selfish and wanted all the pack's wealth to himself. He was my Father's favorite son, after all birds of same feathers flocked together.. As for my sister and I, we were the good ones.. And my mum? Well she rejected my Father and left us alone until later though..
As if that wasn't enough, I found my mate, so beautiful and sweet yet death cruelly snatched her away from my arms... It was over, or so I thought until she came around – my second chance mate, I was only just starting to accept that maybe my life wasn't all that messed up.. Well until now. She is a wolf hunter.. A fucking wolf hunter... She kills my kind for the fun of it.. That alone hurts a lot more than an heartbreak.
"That's it huh? You're just gonna let her go? You lost Julianne and now you are going to give Bellatrix up for execution."
"Hera, can you learn not to intrude on my privacy by appearing out of thin air? Please?" I say, not opening my eyes to acknowledge her presence.
"Alec—"
"You knew, didn't you?" I finally open my eyes. Hera is standing by the door, arms folded as she stares at me. "You knew and you didn't think to tell me? Hera you are really crossing your boundaries. I am your Alpha and you should answer to me! Have you forgotten?!"
"If I had told you, would it have changed your reaction?" Hera replies me calmly ignoring my outburst.
"Still doesn't change the fact that you knew and I didn't."
"Now you do.. And all you can think of us sending her off to the Alpha King for execution?"
"She is a wolf hunter, she should be killed no matter who she is."
Hera sighs. "I hope you won't regret this." She says with a shake of her head and vanishes.
It is my turn to sigh, Hera doesn't have to know about my plans although it is surprising she doesn't, isn't she supposed to know everything going on the pack?
I am right.. I assure myself even if Bella's betrayal is eating me up from my insides. I am right in doing what I am about to do. I am right in fooling the Alpha King (who somehow already got to know about Bella's being a wolf hunter and has requested her) into believing that she would be brought to him. I am right, I tell myself once more as I stare at my phone waiting for Ryan's call.
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Bella:
I'll probably count the fourth time I am waking up with an aching head since I got myself involved with the winter pack. See why I said myself and Lycans do not mix?
"You are awake?" I glance at my side, it is then I realize I am actually in a moving car and Ryan is the driver. I sit up and look outside, seeing thar we are definitely outside of Howls and we are moving fast in between trees. The place looks deserted even.
I groan at the never ending throbbing in my head just as the memories of earlier start to flood back in. Alec found out I was a wolf hunter and... My eyes widen immediately and I try to open the car door, but it is locked. I keep pushing it.
"What the hell Fallon!" Ryan snaps at my sudden behavior.
"Open this damn door, Ryan!" I snap back, flinching a bit at the pain it shoots to my head.
"Are you insane! The car is in motion for goddess sake, you can't possibly be thinking of jumping out."
"Well, you'll be surprised if you do not let me out right now!"
"I told him you were a psycho." He mutters and stops the car. He then turns to me abd says. "Listen to me Fallon, you have no right to demand anything from me at this moment,, because right now I decide whatever happens to you."
My reply is instant and filled with as much anger as I am feeling. "Nobody and I mean nobody decides my life!"
"You didn't think of that when you lied to him, did you?" I feel a strange feeling of guilt flash through me at Ryan's words but just ad soon as it comes, I instantly shake it off, I will not feel guilty at something I have spent all my life doing just because a wolf man I barely know, but still the guilt doesn't leave.
"I didn't lie to Alec okay, he never asked–" I stop, biting my lips.. He did ask, that night I had a fight with Karen. Ryan raises his eye at my abrupt stop, obviously guessing why I did.
"So?"
"Okay fine, he asked but how the hell was I supposed to tell him? Listen Ryan, I have spent almost my whole life as a wolf hunter, my coming here even was as a result of that and then suddenly I am a mate to your Alpha which is so fucking ridiculous... What was I supposed to do huh?, and to make matters worse, he is not even giving me a listening ear.'' I say.
I do not know why I am explaining myself to Ryan, but yet i feel I like i need to, not because I am going to be killed bit surprisingly because I actually wish he understands me. Perhaps somehow, I have allowed myself get more involved in this Lycans world more than I wished too and shockingly i do not feel bad about it..
Well, I think I am finally going insane.
Ryan sighs. “You know what I still do not understand is why you left out our pack from your assassinations... I do not get it.”
I scoff at his question. "Is your plan to keep me talking to get me distracted so I won't know when you start the car and drive me to my deathbed? Because sincerely that won't work." No sooner have I spoken, I start to hear growls from either side of the vehicles.
"What's that?" I ask Ryan.
He throws a gun at me in reply and hands over a bag of silver bullets. "Load the gun."
I raise my brow in question. "Seriously?"
"I can't do it okay, else I get weak, you should know that by now... Please Bella"
I start to load it, not without asking though. "Why are we even doing this?" The growls are getting more closer and I think I am starting to understand what this is.
"Rogue attack." Ryan and I say simultaneously. We have barely even finished our statement when a black wolf sprints out of the trees landing on its paws right out our front. It gives a loud howl, and four others join in.
I smirk, cocking the gun. "Well, this is gonna be fun." Ryan looks at me and shakes his head. I wink back at him, nudging him with my shoulders. "Drive" I say.
"Seriously?"
"Just drive dude.." I wink at him again and stick my head out through the window. "Hey dogs, come over here..." I yell, clicking my tongue as the wolves begin to draw closer. Ryan starts to drive.
One... Two... Three...
I fire a shot at the wolf nearest to me, ducking my head as one prances on the car. I glance at Ryan and I am relieved thst he isn't judging me with look... I fire three more, eventually leaving none of the rogues alive just as we drive out of the unknown place into a bigger road.
I collapse back on the chair and drop the gun down on the back seat.
"You saved our lives" Ryan mutters.
I chuckle , leaning back on the seat with my eyes closed. "How do you fight off rogues? If I were not here I know you still would have come out of there alive."
"What's the point of fighting them off myself, when a well trained wolf hunter is right beside me." My heart skips a beat at that sentence and certainly not the good type of skip.
I do not really know Ryan, but he will never talk like that. I immediately sit up, I grab the gun from where I had dropped it and point it to his neck. "Who the fuck are you?"
Whoever he is, turns to me with a smile. "You are one smart Lady, Bellatrix"
My eyes widen in shock as Ryan's face suddenly starts to... What the hell is the word for this? I gasp.. "Tee?" I must be dreaming.
He grins at me. "My acting skills are out of this world, right?"
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