Chapter 27: A lot you do not Know.

Alec:
I am back at the pack house. In my office to be precise, where Hera is waiting for me in her assumed meditating stance.
"You are back earlier than I expected" Hera says to me without looking up.
I roll my eyes at her blatant lie. "You knew I would not stay longer than a day, you said it yourself."
She chuckles with a shrug and then she slightly bows her head as she gets up from her sitting position. "Alpha Alec Knight.. Welcome back to your pack, there are issues waiting to be addressed and I hope you attend to them as swiftly as you can" She chuckles again and starts to walk away.
"Hera, wait!" She glanced back at me.
"You want to know, don't you? Why you have to let her go for now?" Hera states.
I gulp and nod my head. She is right, I really want to know why I have to suffer it all again, the never ending pain of not having my mate beside me.
"The balance between the two realms has to be mended as it has been broken for ages now after the battle between the two faery kingdom and at the moment, only your second chance mate can bring back the balance"
"And what exactly is the balance?" I cannot help but ask.
"You will know soon enough, Alpha. Now I must take my leave for you to attend to more crucial matters." She smiles at me and then vanishes with a snap of her a fingers.
I heave in an heavy sigh. Right now, I badly need to let Lex out on a run to clear my thoughts, and so I shift into my wolf form and sprint out into the woods through the window.
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Having let out Lex to run for quite a while now, I lay down beside the creek that runs deeper into the woods of our territory, already in my human form with different thoughts running through my head. The crunching sound of the dry leaves is what alerts me that I have company and of course I know who it is, I mean why would I not know the scent of the brother I so much resent.
"I see you are here, brother" He says as I sit up, his ever present pesky smirk playing on his lips and no one would miss the dark hateful glare on his face as he stares at me just like our Father.
I roll my eyes, disdain dripping from my voice as I acknowledge him. "Well for once in your life, you can see right"
"You amuse me brother" He says.. I hate that word, I so much hate that word coming from his mouth. "There are so many things going on that you do not know about, yet you sit down here enjoying the view of the creek while plans are being made to your destruction"
"Only a fool listens to the words of a traitor, you know?" I retort.
"Now I am a traitor, I see."
"Well there is nothing else to describe a man who leagued off with rouges to kill his brother's mate don't you think?" I yell at him. I hate it. I hate remembering that the first time Julianne had almost died, it was by the hands of my brother, thankfully he was caught by the Alpha King's guards and was sentence to two years in the Palace dungeons with his wolf yanked away from his soul as a punishment for treason.
Logan scoffs with a shake of his head. "How ignorant are you of the little clues that come your way, brother?"
"You know what?" I say getting up from my sitting position.. "I have a lot of work to do right now as the Alpha of the pack on which you stand, and standing here talking to your sorry ass is just a waste of time"
He scoffs again. "I wish you do not realize too...." Logan's sentence is halted by a sudden swish in the air just as an arrow whips past us and shoots right to the tree behind, only missing my heart by an inch. I instantly pull out my gun threading forward to where the arrow had come from.
"They are gone" Logan says.
It is true though, they are gone, whoever they are. I sniff the air for scents. "Rogues" I mutter.
"No, these are not rogues." Logan says. I turn to him to see him holding the arrow that was shot. "And yes, this shot was meant for you"
"What the hell do you mean? and what do you even know Logan"
"If you would just listen to me for once in your life little brother!" He yells making me roll my eyes.
"Little brother?" I scoff. "You do remember the last time I listened to you, don't you? I mean it was just like walking into my own death, do you not recall big brother" I finish my statement, sarcasm dripping from my every word. Well yeah, the last time I listened to him I ended up having my mate at the mercy of fucking rogues.
"Rogues do not need arrows to attack, and only one set of people are entitled to this kind of arrow" Logan stretches it to me definitely ignoring my outburst.
I do not know why I am entertaining his opinion though but I collect the arrow from him, rather roughly if I might add and examine it. "The winter arrow.. The monarchy?" Actually the winter bow and arrow is one of the rare weapons of the Monarchy.. The Alpha King's property and it is only used by the royal guards.
I am confused now as I stare at the arrow and back at my brother. I hate him, but at the moment the smirk on his face is enough to let me know that he knows what this is about. "Why the fuck is the winter arrow being shot at me?" Logan scoffs.
"Whoever thought it was right to make you an Alpha is definitely dumb" And with that he shifts to his wolf form and sprints away.
I fist my palms around the arrow tightly, thinking back to what Logan had said earlier. There is something going on and with this winter arrow on my hand proved it involved the monarchy and I had to get the root of it.
I need too see Ryan as soon as possible and as I try to mind link him, he actually reaches out to me as if reading my mind but with a kind of panic and then he speaks through the mind link. "Alpha! there is an attack and we need you right here, now!"
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