Chapter Nine

MARCUS'S POV

Everything was brimming hard and everyone was ready for the upcoming match. I stood up from the bed and walked around my father's mansion one last time. It was do-or-die time for me. It was either I pulled it off or it pulled me off, I was ready for anything that was to come, everybody was set but the focus was on the two young Alpha's sons. I walked around and saw my brother, his mom, and my father talking.

“Let's get everything together and finish this match off.” They said, without even noticing if I was standing there.

I walked out into the midst of twenty young men at their full strength, power, and raw wilderness and a taste for blood filled the air, I felt it and I could own it. I went out and I could see everyone's focus on my brother cheering him up.

The fight began and it was my brother who changed first his claws grew and he howled with intense power, with speed as fast as lightning he attacked the guy opposite him and brought him down, within the flash of some minutes he had already taken down eleven men and I was still there looking without attacking anyone and no one attacked me.

They felt I was weak, I changed and my claws came out. I howled and went after three at once and brought them down. I could feel the people's gaze staring but I wasn't after them. I looked at my father but he wasn't interested in me at all. The anger in me grew and I made the run to finish the others off.

It was the highlight of the match and my brother was the only one remaining standing facing off against me, the pain that rolled up in my heart all turned into raw power I was ready to do all I could, to get what I wanted we ran after each other and attacked, claws clattered and we rolled and rolled, but I was going to win at all cost, I changed back into my human form and with a knife imbued with poison I had kept it near the ground beforehand I stabbed my brother and shifted off ge started to bleed and he was weakened, he couldn't withstand it and he changed to his human form, with the blade in my hand I stabbed him multiple times and the poison circulated within his body and he died immediately.

“What have I done?” I thought to myself as I saw his lifeless body “Wake up! Wake up!” I shouted but he was dead. My father ran into the match and moved him but he was gone, “what have you done you bastard!” He shouted as tears dropped from his eyes. At that point, I lost it all “What was I fighting for? Was it worth it to kill him? Everything I wanted had ended and I was hated more. I was seized and thrown into the dungeon. It was dark and no one came for me until the tenth day and I was brought In Front of my father.

“You violated tradition, and you shall be killed, you were born a curse and you were to be killed, your mother lay down her life for you and you still showed that you were supposed to die, you shouldn't exist but you showed you should have still died, your life has no meaning and your life is nothing. Every time I look at you I feel the pain your mother went through because of you and you should have been dead but here I am mourning the only true son I had. You just had to make me sad, you should not have existed.” He said as he stood up with fury in his red eyes.

I could feel he was going to kill me but I stood there looking at him, as he approached me. “Is this where I die? Is this how I won't get anything? I thought. And as he was about to take me off I changed and snapped his neck. I had killed my father and brother, I was a curse to everyone, I became respected with fear, and I became the Alpha but nobody loved and still loved me, I'm alive but the pain hits my joints every time.

I had done everything for my pack but my mistakes are the only thing they've always seen and here I am away from them finding respite trying to leave off. Our mistakes make us who we are but it isn't who we are. All these pains, fear, and fury you're feeling I've felt all before, and my life is still a mess up until this point. That's why everything you're feeling at this point, I've felt, I've known, I've seen but more importantly I've conquered. We always need love when we make mistakes but people don't think that way; they think of us as the mistake and tell us our mistakes are what we are. You could have died and all these would have happened, and I could have died and everything would still have happened, it's all fate, our fate and our destinies entwined with the occurrence of our life, but being alive is a choice we were given and this is why we have to do everything to get it right without being weakened with these pains that engulfed us.

That's why I would do anything to protect you and stay here for you.” I said,

“ Wow! All these, thank you so much you don't know how much all these means to me, all these words. Thanks.” She said as she gave me a hug.

“Who's there?” I asked, as I heard footsteps, I stood up and looked outside the door but no one was there. I wondered if there really wasn't anyone there. “Did you hear anything? I asked her, but she nodded left to right indicating negation. But my sense doesn't lie that someone else was there and there were prying eyes looking at us.