Chapter 84
Heading to my suite I need some rest my wolf is jumpy. I have missing pups I can't go looking for or my delta lashes out at pack members. I have wolves marked with a mark only an older than dirt witch who never outgrew being ten can see. A lot of images are from looking through Artemis's eyes. Okay, I get it she went through a lot. Did she really think I wouldn't understand I mean the whole supernatural world knows about what happened to my mother? So why would she think I wouldn't understand she had some shit to work out. “fuck” I growl out as my fist makes contact with the stone wall next to my door. The wall vibrates under my fist. The crunching sound of my fist melting into the stone wall. Wall 100 me 0. one day wall ill break you not my hand. Pulling my hand back and shaking it out I head in to grab an ice pack. No point in having it set I have a feeling I will be re-breaking my knuckles a few more times soon.
A sense of relief washes over me when I make it inside. My wolf settles down and a feeling of something missing is gone. Maybe I really do need a nap. Tomorrow will be a long day need to change up training. Drive the herd and lock down the lower levels. Oh and at some point, the rogue king's men will be here. Yep, life is pretty amazing couldn’t ask for anything better. If you missed that mood goddess that was sarcasm. Looking around my suite I can't find the source of my relaxed feeling maybe Ambrose did something to help me calm down ill have to thank him. In the morning not right now my bed is screaming to have me between the sheets.
I swear I just closed my eyes when the alarms go off. Jumping from the bed I rush out the only door open to the outside is the door to mine and Ty's floor. Rushing out I link to find out what is going on. “report” stopping on the porch as I have no idea where to go. So I wait for someone to get back. “all clear alpha” all teams report in. Looking around I see no one. The house is wide open as it always is. What the hell. I feel a pull in my chest or more like a yank to the southeast. So I do. Should I have called for backup yes did I? no. Why? I'm dumb that's why. The whole time telling myself how stupid I am not to call in for backup instead of I don’t know calling for backup. Logic somewhere. The feeling stops all of a sudden leaving me standing near the border. Well if I was gonna try and breach I would pick here it's the closest border to the house. Why are there no patrols here? Looking around in the dark I start walking the border to see if I could see well anyone. This is so being brought up tomorrow. We are left wide open here for an attack. In the corner of my eye, I see a flash of something.
Kneeling down I see a silvery something. Reaching down to pick it up the second my fingers touched it snapped around my wrist. Locking in place with no seam. Letting go with my other hand the cuff shrunk to just almost cutting into my skin. A stab of pain and a line of blood coming from under tell me I had been cut. A second link path opened. An odd feeling of having two separate sets of people in my head yet not together either. There’s a pressure on my skull that's not very comfortable ignore-able possibly but not comfortable in the slightest. Reddish eyes blink into the dark all around me a raspy voice enters my head. “we are here as ordered. We will be watching I will report anything to your and the rogue king. We do not have loyalty to you nor should you act as we do when this is done we will be gone.” then the eyes were gone. I can feel them in my head but I can't link to them. It's like a line that's only open when the other end is picked up. So unless they open the line I can't speak to them. But then how do I control them. And what the fuck I was gonna have Ambrose look at this before I put it on. Well, there goes that. Fuck. Okay I got this he can see look at it he will know what and how to get this off.
Storming back to the pack house I find it almost time to get up the sun is just peeking over the mountain. “alpha um well I didn’t expect to see you out um no one said you left the house where is your guard?” a young warrior rattles off. Come to think of it things seem a little fuzzy now “I think I was sleepwalking or something” I shrug he nods as he thinks it over it's as good a guess as any I suppose. I need a way to call Ambrose when I need him this only when he wants shit is annoying. “and what is it that you require my presence at this ungodly hour. You do know I require sleep right?” his tired voice comes from behind me. Catching myself from reacting just in time. No one needs to see the alpha get frightened over something so little. I don’t say anything I just hold up my arm. “I thought we agreed you would wait to put on whatever it was until I gave you the okay?” “That was the plan the thing had its own plan as I barely touched it before it was on.” I tell him as he makes his way around me looking at the cuff. “you bleed?” “ya the thing clamped down real tight I felt a stab then a little bit of blood then nothing it's like it's not there.” nodding he thinks for a moment “well whoever is working with this rogue king is very smart it's a blood link. So you can feel a link to them almost a bond one can speak to you but you cant link or talk to him. They can feel what you want to be done when you want it done and will react as though they are you. So in a sense, there are however many puppets. So if you attack the southern tribe they would attack the southern tribe what you do they do. Very complicated mirror puppet spell. I would very much like to pick this witch's brain.” “Ambrose we are not trying to find you a date we are trying to save the pack from Apollo and his lies.”
“oh very well then.”
