Chapter 78: THEY WERE TURBULENT EMOTIONS

Alpha Sebastian POV


The journey was long and haunted.

I sat at the back of the automobile staring out of the closed tinted windows.

My eyes were fixed on the glass, on the moving things outside of it. There were the tall green trees which lined each side of the long winding road but my eyes were not actually processing the sight. It was because my mind was busy elsewhere.

It was fixated on the thoughts that plagued me, of my impending meeting with the imperial prisoner.

It was Ellen, my mate's twin sister who was carrying my child.

My mind was consumed by the silence that reigned in the car with my Gamma Miller, driving and My Beta Zedd sitting still in the passenger's seat.

My mind drifted to different thoughts of her, my heart in turmoil as I wondered how she was getting married to the Alpha of the Kane pack the next day.

It felt like just yesterday, that fateful night that she had escaped from the imperial prison. I remembered all too well how I had returned to news of her absence and her pregnancy.

Ever since then, I have always been eager to find her. I had wanted to find her and keep her, have her by my side always.

I did not want to let her go.

Thoughts of her racked my mind every now and then, quite too often. I wondered if she was alive and well or if she had eaten and stuff.

I had told myself that it was not for her but for the imperial child growing inside of her.

My seed was becoming a life inside of her stomach.

But it was all lies and I knew that deep down inside my mind.

I knew that I felt a certain way for Ellen. It was a mix of different emotions that I was yet to understand. But I admitted to myself that I missed the night we had been together.

That one planned night was still deeply etched in my memory.

I remembered once again the feel of her body on mine, her hands against my back, holding unto me while I stroked her core with my thick meat, thrusting into her slow and gently.

I remembered the way that her eyes had rolled back into her skull from pleasure and the note at which she had sang my name.

It had felt right.

And that was the reason I had been mad at the discovery that she, that night was fake.

The feeling of betrayal, anger, and pain had taken me in a chokehold at this discovery.

"Where had she found the courage to do that?" I thought as I mulled over her planned deception. She was usually a calm timid person unlike her outgoing sister.

That was why people said to fear the quiet ones because they were capable of murder.

She had been so good at playing Elena and he had not noticed anything out of place. She had even laughed like Elena that night, mimicking her sister to the Tee.

It was impeccable, her acting skills, the one she had tried to use on me when I had visited her in the imperial prison to question her.

All that I could think about as I stared at her face was that night. I was still unable to shake off the memory of our one passionate night together. The night of body and soul meeting in a surreal ignition, every touch creating a spark and then flames.

She is not yours.

She is your mate's twin sister and she was about to be wedded to another the very next day.

My heart was quite heavy with conflicting emotions at the time the news had been brought to me.

A form of jealousy had suddenly washed over me, taking me in a firm grip for a second or two.

I had wondered why it was all happening and if having thoughts of Ellen counted as cheating against my newly wedded wife and mate. My conscience was torn in this back of forth of my heart. And it did not help matters that they looked like one.

Ellen and Elena.

Twins.

The view changed through the closed tinted glass from tall lush forests to high hills, a sign of inhabitation. This time I noticed because I was no longer lost in my mind. The werewolves were yet to reach and settle here.

"This is the border of the Kane pack Alpha," Miller said to me in particular. I nodded at the information.

"Drive carefully. We are no longer in familiar territories," I cautioned him. He nodded his head behind the wheels.

"We should arrive at the heart of the city where the pack's palace is located in no time," Zedd murmured.

As we crossed over the borderlands and into the Kane pack, I prepared myself for my encounter with Ellen.

My heart began to beat nervously in my chest as various emotions seriously plagued me.

They were turbulent emotions.

A devil be damned mix of anticipation, betrayal, disappointment, unnurtured desire, and a far more greater one that I would never admit to myself.

Would I ever do that?

The uncertainty of the reality gnawed at my heart as Miller came to a halt afore the pack's palace.

"I am going in Alpha," he told me. I nodded a go-ahead which he saw from the rearview mirror and resumed driving.

We were received in the palace by a tall unsmiling man who called himself Drake. I came to understand from his introduction that he was the Beta to the Alpha of the Kane pack.

He led us to the throne room where he sent someone to get the Alpha, telling us that the man would be with us shortly. We were made to understand that he had just arrived from an imperial gathering not too long ago.

We waited, seated in the throne room, my eyes dancing around, noting and admiring the opulence that reeked off the entire structure.

The Kane pack was wealthy.

Ellen had found a good man.

I did not know why that realization hit me squarely in the face, but not as bad as when the Alpha walked into the throne room.