CHAPTER 69

Asher's POV
Tommy and I were having a conversation about different random things. At first, I had thought that Tommy had called me to talk about what had happened as usual, and what had to be done.
I mean, we knew what had to be done, but that seemed like the only thing that we ever talked about that had made any sense ever since.
Speaking of senses, mine were over and all over the place and at the moment, all I wanted was just one thing. I mean, yeah, I wanted justice. I wanted to make things right, although it would not be that much of a right since we had lost members, good were wolves to Alpha Rick's hands and all of that definitely had to be avenged sooner rather than later,but now, I wanted my mate. I wanted her by my side as I discussed with whomever that was interested in doing so, and as I pondered over the decisions that weighed heavily on my shoulders.
I wanted Maya
I wanted her touch, her smell, her presence. I felt like I was about to go mad, and now I was beginning to understand how Edna felt about it all all the time. And now, would she feel this way for the rest of her life?
I could only sigh in pure agony as he realised that some things were just out of my control, and that I could not just go alpha mode and command Killian to come back to life for Edna, and for all of our sakes.
Killian was not one of my best friends, but he was a very good friend too, and even if he had not been a friend to me, he was a good worker. He did his job to the best of his ability which was better than a lot of my other spies and the fact that he was Edna's mate had made me to view him as a part of the family already. So, seeing him die, and knowing that I had come too late and that I could not do anything to stop it filled me with rage.
It made me want to break things, break were wolves and do a lot of things because I had failed as a friend, an elder brother and an alpha. I was angry, I was disappointed in myself, and most of all, I wanted my mate to hold me and tell me that everything would be fine, even if things probably would not be fine.
But was with Edna, which was understandable. I needed some consoling too, as I had lost a friend and it broke a lot of things in me, but I could not imagine how Edna would be feeling as she had not just lost a friend, but a mate. He was supposed to be her life partner, but now—
I wanted Maya with me, but Edna needed a friend more than I did at the time. Apparently, Shalom cannot handle Edna on her own because of how unpredictable my friend could get, so Maya had to go, which she happily did.
'Anything I can do for Edna." She had said.
I looked up and wondered why we were going through all this. It eldest like the goddess just wanted us to undergo all this trouble for no reason. Maya had always suffered since she was just a child, and Edna had suffered at the hands of the blood moon pack. And now, she was suffering again due to them as they had taken away what used to be the most important thing to her at the moment.
I swore to myself inwardly. They would surely pay for everything that they had done!
I was brought back to reality by Tommy's voice.
'Asher? Bro, are you even listening to me?" He had said and I nodded, hoping that what I was about to say would be related to what ever it was he had been talking about earlier.
'Yeah man, I was." I said and took in a deep breath. 'I mean, how did they think that they could take our friend's life? In fact, how dare they do that? They had given us five hours, had they not? I do not even think that we had spent up to two hours and they had just killed him like that. After building our hopes up." I groaned.
'Yeah, sure." Tommy said as if he still did not believe that I was listening to him earlier. I mean, I was not, but that was not the issue. 'And to think that they really wanted something, they just wanted to strike us hard."
Then he paused and stared at me. I blinked back at him, already creeped out by whatever it was that he was doing or thinking about, maybe.
'Okay, what is it?" I finally blurred out as I could not take his stare anymore.
'You were not going to give up Maya, were you?" He asked me.
'No, Tom. The plan was to go there, fight our way through and bring Killian and everyone back home in one piece." I sighed.
'Poor Edna. If we feel so terrible about this, how do you think that she would be feeling now?" Tommy asked, and I shook my head, provoked at my inability to provide a perfect answer or solution to the arising problems.
Edna had the tendency to be— unstable, even people and were wolves who did not know her well could figure that out from the first time. So the more people around her, probably the better. I could not imagine what she would do if she was alone.
Once, when we were younger, her stuffed toy had fallen into a deep river, but it was floating atop of the rapids and all.
Edna had jumped inside without thinking about it twice to save her stuffed toy and almost ended up drowning. If I had not been there to save her that day—
A shudder ran through my spine at the thought and I shook my head.
Thank the goddess I was there anyway, but now that she had not lost a teddy bear, but a life partner, it was a bit refreshing to know that she had were wolf friends at her side, ready to do anything to make her feel comfortable.
Then I felt a presence in my head, like someone probing it.
It could be likened to someone trying to push a door that was shut open to get in or something.
Someone was trying to mind link me. I let the barrier in my head crumble and immediately I heard-
'Alpha."
It was Daniel, and it seemed like he had important information for me.
Daniel's POV
The clouds look white and fluffy, the sky is such a bright shade of blue, and oh, that cloud is shaped like a muffin, I would love to eat that. The day is clear, and I am full of positivi— oh, who do I think I am kidding?
Definitely not myself, that one is for sure.
I was not at Asher's house, and I was not at the pack house. I was outside, obviously, since I was looking at the sky and clouds and all. Edna looked so broken, it made me hurt so much, and I could not imagine her pain.
I also could not stand seeing her like that, so like the cowardly Beta that I was, I took flight and decided to stay here where no body was. I wanted to be alone, as I had lost a friend, and I had a grieving best friend crying over the loss of her mate.
Just days ago, we were cheering each other up and talking excitedly about how we were all going to kick the Alpha of the blood moon pack's ass when we fought, and now, here we were, resenting him even more for killing our pack member and subdued by the smell of death that lingered in the air.
I needed to take a breather, but how would I do that if the air everywhere was choking me?
I had never seen Edna this way, but once. And that was a very long time ago, when her parents had decided to not allow her to stay with them anymore, and Asher took her in. That was many years ago, and although she was pained at that time, the pain on her face today was much more worse than what she had on her face when she left her parents forever.
And that time, she was so sad and beaten up figuratively by life that she had felt the constant need to take her life for the next few months. She had even made an attempt to take her life, but Asher had rescued her that day. She had hung herself.
The moment he saved her he gave her a slap and a good scolding, and pampered her for days after. She never tried to do that again, because she was convinced that all the love we had got for her would make up for the lack of love her parents had shown to her since we were all little pups.
I hope she realises that, even till now. And I definitely hope that she does not try something stupid as she had once done.
I stood up and began to walk around, trying to let my thoughts drift off into space or something. I watched the little animals as they ran around and the plants and the insects. I watched our pack members, waving back at some who had seen me and waved at me. They had no idea about all the commotion that had been going on, because we had decided not to make them worry, hoping that we would be able to get everything settled. So to them, the kidnapping of Maya and Edna and the saving them was the last exciting ‘out of the park episode' that had taken place since.
That was how we liked things to be. Simple, and no worries.
Like from cartoon the humans love to watch, the Lion king.
Hakuna matata for them, leave the worries for us.
I had let my thoughts run so far that I did not even realise that I had already got to the border of the Royal pack, our pack. I sighed and decided to go back, knowing that I could not just stay out forever.
I had turned when something I saw something black out of the corner of my eye. I turned around and saw that it was a bag that looked like it belonged in a mortuary; the large one for carrying corpses. I walked to if and discovered that it was indeed a corpse bag.
What was it doing just lying down around here though.
Thank the goddess that I was not afraid of death, or of the bodies of the dead.
I zipped the bag open and saw that it was actually Killian's body in the pack and there was a note taped to his chest.
It was a note of anger and remorse? For what it was worth?
If the Blood moon pack thought that killing our friend and sending his body home would wipe out the wrong they had done, then they did not know how mistaken they were.
I zipped the body bag back up and decided to contact Asher using the mind link.
His mind was blocked, but I had probed hard enough so eventually he had opened it up to let me in.
'Alpha." I began, willing my voice to not be shaky.
'Beta." He replied, and it seemed like he was doing the same as I was.
'I found a body bag at the pack's borders. The body belonged to our friend, Killian. And the weres who had dropped it left a note." I told him.