Chapter 45: Regrets
Dominic
Our parents had died when we were just coming of age; it was a very hard blow, and at times I thought we would never recover. My mother was attacked while fighting in a rogue invasion; she was a Luna warrior.
My father did not survive; her loss was devastating to him, as they were true mates and loved each other as I'd never seen anyone love. I thought I would never feel a pain equal to their loss.
In time, I came to understand that their time had come, and no matter what I did, I couldn't change it. But losing my mate proved to be an equal or greater pain, especially because I could have stopped it, done something.
I had her by my side, and if I hadn't fought with my brother, she would still be with us. It had been my carelessness, and I couldn't forgive myself.
I hadn't slept all night, walking from one side of the territory to the other, searching for her scent, haunted by the image of her dirty, torn dress. I had seen her that night, beautiful; I had touched her with my own hands, made her writhe... and now she was far away, who knows where.
"In Gerard's hands, where else would she be?" Kurt growled, who was having just as much trouble as I was.
Logan was busy with his own problems, nothing good for sure, but he also looked worried and exhausted. Everything was chaos; we were giving contradictory orders and I could feel my wolf fading away. We were about to lose our minds; what would we be without her? We would go mad, I was sure of it.
"Alpha, over here," Rowan, the chief warrior, said to me, and I knew it couldn't be good, that his men had found something. To my horror, it was more clothes and belongings, and also tracks lost in a stream.
"They were fleeing alone," Rowan adds, and I did not like the idea.
"Maybe they were running from their captors," my brother suggested, and it was a possibility.
I saw their shoes and her little things and sadly realized that I hadn't appreciated her as much as I should have. Maddie was a treasure; even without being our mate, she deserved everything, and we were assholes.
"We'll find her, but not here, brother," Kurt growls.
I knew that eventually we would have to go to the enemy; everything we were doing here was delaying the inevitable, and that would end up causing the death of our mate, and I couldn't bear that.
"Our uncle won't let us go near the Night wolves," I reply.
"To hell with him! He's got his mate in his arms, and his plans, and those things running around, and we're here, losing our minds!" he shouted desperately, and I had to admit that he was right.
Our uncle had hardly helped us, in fact he showed that he didn't care about our suffering, only about scolding us and the image of the pack. It wasn't the first time we had stood up to him, and I believed we had every right to do so. A mate is untouchable; all the wolves knew that!
"Then we'll do it," I said, seeing hope in Kurt's eyes. I didn't have that quality; he still had hope, even when I had lost mine.
We talked to the most loyal warriors, those who had trained with us and were our age, those who would follow their alphas, and we already had a plan, even if it wasn't the best.
"We found the clothes at the end of the creek, but what if they were discarded earlier and carried by the water?" my brother concluded, and it was a good and possible idea that would undoubtedly suggest another strategy.
"The human town," I whispered.
This strengthened the theory that they might have escaped by themselves, which to me was the worst possibility. Something told me that Robin didn't want to leave the twins; they were desperate, and the three of them were deeply connected.
But our mate hated us... maybe the mate bond could make her desire us, but she does not love us. But we would see how to deal with it later; the main thing was to find her safe and sound.
"Then let's go" one of the twins said, and a few hours later we left behind several warriors who had gone ahead of us, because we couldn't waste another minute.
On our way, I thought about all the things we could have done differently, if we could have controlled ourselves and avoided all the mistakes, all our terrible actions with her.
"I am sure that if we had acted differently, she would be with us" my tormented wolf said.
She would be sleeping with us, even marked and mated. Instead, we are here, heartbroken, while my wolf cries, afraid he will never see her again.
"I think you're right, Alpha. We're on the right track," one of our warriors pointed out when he saw footprints that reached the road leading to the town, and I put aside my doubts and suspicions, even the resentment in the back of my mind, and we prepared to follow the trail.
"We need to split up," we all communicated through the mind link. Several warriors came with us as, as others continued beyond the town, just to have options.
"The scent is back. At least they were here," I said, feeling encouraged.
If I found the slightest evidence that the Night Wolves had done this, they would pay dearly in blood, I swore it. But when we lost the trail again, the twins came back with another idea.
"We know where Robin's house is" they suggested, and Lionel left with several warriors while the rest stayed with us. I regretted that we hadn't seen where Maddie family's house was to have an accurate idea of where to go. We didn't go in, but by chance we saw her mother and brother.
It seemed like we were walking in circles without finding a way, and my brother was getting desperate. I cursed Logan again for not being here to help us. Each of us had different abilities, and together we could have solved this dilemma. We were about to leave the town, when we got a call.
"Lionel found something," and we ran over. The scene we found broke our hearts and gave us hope at the same time. Liam ran, and Robin was already in the arms of her mates, crying and shaking as if traumatized.
"This can't be good," Kurt whispers. She was terrified, and it was as if the worst hadn't happened yet.
"Mate, our beautiful goddess," the Golden Boys said, relieved and crying.
But when Robin saw us, she began to shiver even more, and I couldn't understand it; we had never been unjust to her, on the contrary, we had been cooperative. We just wanted to know how we could help our mate.
"It's okay, mate, they're worried about Maddie... they just want to know where she is," but the girl curled up even more in the twins' arms, trying to avoid any contact with us.
She didn't seem hurt, although she was very upset. They managed to talk her down until she finally spoke, and what she told us filled us with rage.
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