Chapter 202

Rakari's POV

She growled and shifted and just when she was about to lunge for me, Rhylie shifted along with Charlie, Adrian and Carl and they all stood in front of me in a defensive stance which made Sharise stop in her tracks and back up a bit.

I walked in between Charlie and Adrian,

“You may be my sister but you seem to have forgotten that I am also your alpha female, you listen to me”

She growled, ‘I listen to no one but alpha Marcus’

I growled back at her,

“He’s dead! He is no longer your alpha and sooner or later you’re going to have to accept that! Until you decide to listen to what I have to say, I have no choice but to send you to the cells for betraying your pack”

‘I wasn’t part of your pack’

“You were on our territory, I can do whatever I see fit! Shift back now!”

I used my alpha tone so she had no choice but to shift back and when she did I gesture for Carl and Adrian to restrain her,

“Take her to the cells, guard her”

They both nodded and shifted back and starting walking off with Sharise in their grasp, she did put up a fight but it didn’t really faze them as they continued to drag her towards the cells.

I turned around to face everyone else,

“Everyone go and get dressed, the wolves that were previously in Marcus’ pack, my pack members will kindly give you clothes, I want everyone back down here in an hour max, understand?”

They all nodded and walked off into the house and I started running towards the study where I immediately put in the code and ran over to Darius when the shelves opened. I bent down to his level and tried shaking him awake but it wasn’t working so I called for the pack doctor, that’s if he’s awake because Marcus said he put everyone to sleep,

I didn’t get a reply so I tried calling him a second time, ‘Dr Hyam! Answer me!’

The alpha tone must’ve triggered something in him because he replied in no time,

‘Alpha female, what is it?’

‘The alpha is unconscious; he was injected with some sort of drug’

‘What colour was it?’

I closed my eyes and tried thinking back to when I was in the study and I remembered seeing a flash of green,

‘Green’

‘Luckily I have an antidote for that one, where are you?’

‘Meeting room’

‘I’ll be there as quick as I can’

I cut off the link and looked down at Darius and I let my tears fall. He’s never going to forgive me for this. I’m the one that caused his mums death, I’m the one that caused him to get drugged, I’m the one that put all my trust in Sharise which led to an ambush, everything comes down to me,

“Alpha female”

I turned around to the entrance to see the pack doctor,

“My names Rakari”

“Okay then, Rakari, I apologise for this but can you step back so that I can get nearer to him?”

I nodded and shakily stood up on my two feet and he bent down towards Darius’ level and started feeling around his neck, probably looking for the right place to inject him with the antidote.

He finally stopped searching and took a breath before injecting him with antidote and a few seconds later, Darius took in a large breath and quickly sat up searching frantically around the room. He took out the needle from his neck and threw it across the room before standing up and looking down at his mum,

“I wasn’t dreaming” He whispered,

“She’s really gone”

He dropped to his knees again and placed his hand on his mum’s heart,

“I’ll always remember you, just like you told me to. Why did you have to leave me? Now you’ll never see me get married or have pups. You didn’t deserve this! I shouldn’t of had to lose you mum! You were my everything! I’m gonna miss you so much”

He let out a cry and pressed his lips against her forehead before wiping his eyes and standing up to face us with rage in his eyes,

“Where is he?”

“Dead”

He looked at me,

“That isn’t what I asked, the question was, where is he?”

“Out the back”

He shifted in the room and ran out and I quickly ran after him just in time to see him pick up Marcus’ body in between his teeth and run off into the woods and I just dropped to the ground and let my tears go. The way he looked at me, like he hated me, like he saw me as just another pack member. The way he spoke to me as if he blamed me for what happened; I knew it was going to happen eventually.

I heard a howl come from the woods and I knew it was Darius signaling the death of a pack member. Everyone in the pack house howled back in reply and I shifted and did the same, it just shows respect to the person that has died.

Everyone stopped howling and it turned eerily quiet. No more than 5 minutes later, Darius emerged from the woods still in wolf form so I just ducked my head in a sort of bowing like manner and I could see him walk up to me from the corner of my eye.

He nudged the side of my head with the tip of his nose so I looked up at him and he licked the side of my face which is the equivalent of a Everyone stopped howling and it turned eerily quiet.

I whimpered and took a step back away from him and he tilted his head in confusion before walking towards me again and licking the other side of my face. I moved back again until I hit the wall and lay on my stomach, which showed submission to the alpha,

‘Rakari’

Hearing his voice made me whimper and just made me feel even more guilty about what I caused,

‘I apologise alpha’

‘You’re my mate, we don’t call each other by title, you’re alpha female’

‘I don’t deserve that title’

He growled lowly, ‘Don’t talk rubbish; you don’t think I’m not upset about my mum? Of course I am but she would not want this! She loved you! She would want to see you get up and face the world, just like I’m trying to do!’

‘You might as well say that I killed her because that’s what it feels like’

He bent down and nudged me with the side of his head,

‘Don’t say that’

I looked up at him to see him look at me with sad eyes and I knew that because he ears were dropped low,

‘I just lost my mum; I can’t lose you as well’

He lay down on his stomach in front of me and put the tip of his nose up against mine but I stood up and walked over to his side so that I could lay down and lean my head on his side and he turned to face me and licked my face again to which this time I returned the favour and his ears perked up again and he started wagging his huge tail just like a dog, a sign that his wolf was happy,

‘What are you going to tell your dad?’

‘I don’t know, the truth I guess’

‘He’s gonna hate me, everyone is’

‘None of this was your fault but how did you even kill Marcus?’

‘I challenged him to an alpha’s battle’

He growled and stood up, ‘You what?’

I stood up as well and buried my head into his fur, ‘I’m sorry but I had to do it’

‘You could’ve been killed and then what would I have done? I would’ve lost my mum and my mate in the same night!’

I whimpered at the anger in his voice and ducked my head, ‘I’m sorry’

He softly leant his head on top of mine, ‘No, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have shouted at you like that, I’m just a bit upset, she didn’t deserve to die’

‘I know, she was a good person so we’ll be sure to give her a proper send off’

‘She’d like that’

I moved from under his head just in time to see Rhylie walk out with some clothes and he put them on the ground and turned away from us so that we could both shift back and put on the clothes.

We finished putting the clothes on and only then did he turn back around,

“I heard the news, I’m so sorry Darius”

Darius smiled sadly,

“Thanks, does everyone else know?”

He nodded,

“The majority yes, I’ll be sure to tell everyone though so they won’t say the wrong thing”

“That would be great”

He nodded and then looked at me,

“Sharise wishes to speak to you, both of you”

I nodded and followed him towards the cells and when we got down there I could hear her shouting to get out and it was so annoying,

“Sharise! Shut up!”

She went quiet and I looked at Carl and Adrian,

“You’re dismissed”

They nodded and bowed before leaving and going back upstairs and I looked at Sharise,

“You asked for us?”

“When will I be let out?”

I laughed humourlessly,

“You think I’m going to let you out so soon? After what you’ve caused I should give you the highest punishment there is!! But I still have the bond towards you and I would never forgive myself even I banish you or even worse, kill you, I’ve had enough deaths today”

“Yes, one of them being my alpha!”

“He killed Darius’ mother!! If you thought for one fucking second that I was going to let him get away with that then you must be sick in the head Sharise! He killed an innocent life!”

“So did you!”

"Marcus was far from innocent!! What lies has he been telling you?! That we hate you?! That we never cared about you?! Or that we were using you?! He’s brainwashed you Sharise, can you not see that?!”

“I refuse to believe that!”

“You’re my sister! Why would I lie to you?! Tell me?!”

She opened her mouth to speak but then closed it again before ducking her head,

“Exactly, you can’t tell me because you know that I wouldn’t lie to you, I have no reason to lie to you”

“He told me that no one cared about me, that I was just at the bottom of the pack, before you came Darius didn’t even take any notice of me”

Darius replied,

“Because I was a cocky alpha, I didn’t notice anyone, I only cared about status but when Rakari came, she changed that, she made me into a better person”

“I’m sorry, I was just so sure that he was telling the truth”

Something must’ve triggered inside her head because all of a sudden she broke down crying,

“Oh my gosh! This is all my fault! Your mum died because of me! I’m so sorry!”

“We will never be the same again Sharise, I hope you know that, I will never be able to trust you again because of this and neither will anyone else, I can’t believe I’m about to say this but I think it’s best if you left the pack for a while”

She looked at me shocked,

“What? Why?”

“People won’t be able to handle it if you’re here, there would be chaos so it would be best if you left the pack, you may come back when I deem fit”

She sighed, “Okay”

“For now I’m going to keep you locked up, I just can’t believe you Sharise, I really thought I knew you better”

I shook my head in disappointment and walked away from her upstairs and I walked into the back to see everyone waiting for me and Darius to address them so I stepped up onto the stage and went in front of the microphone,

“Okay so as you know, we’ve lost a pack member, someone who was very dear to all of us… Sadie Kepler”

Some people in the crowd gasped and others started crying,

“We must kill whoever done it!”

The crowd agreed and I put my hand up to silence them,

“It’s been taken care of, by me personally. I wasn’t going to let them get away”

“Who was it?!”

“It’s best if you didn’t know that information. There will be a funeral for her at a later date and everyone is invited, me and Darius will discuss everything and we’ll get back to you. I know that nearly everyone loved Sadie so feel free to say a few words about her when the day comes, she’d like it”

“What happens now?! We have 100 more wolves with more to come; the pack house isn’t big enough for two packs of large quantity!”

“I’ll sort it don’t worry, I know it will be hard but Sadie would want us to carry on with our lives instead of sitting around moping, things will be better in the morning, well afternoon now”

Everyone nodded and I dismissed everyone before turning to face Darius who had his eyes closed,

“Darius, you okay?”

“Just remembering my mum, like I promised”

I smiled and walked over to him and he wrapped his arm around my waist and we both looked up to the sky,

“She’s in a better place now”

He nodded and looked at me,

“Marry me please”

I looked at him shocked about how sudden that was, “What?”

“Marry me, I don’t care when and I don’t care where, just please say yes to me, right here right now” He took my hand in his, “Please”

I looked into his eyes and they were pleading me to say yes, “Darius”

His face looked devastated and I realised it was the way I said his name, he probably thought I said no,

“Darius no, I mean yes! Yes, of course I’ll marry you!”

His face lit up,

“Really? You mean it?”

I nodded, “Yes”

He pressed his lips against mine,

“I promise I’ll get you a ring soon and do this properly”

I smiled, “Okay”

He pulled me in for a hug before whispering up to the sky,

“You were right mum, she said yes”

At that I buried my head into the crook of his neck and we just stayed in each others embrace. This is finally a fresh start for us. I know that a lot of bad things have gone on in the past few months but tonight is the end of that and from this point on, it can only get better.
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