Alpha Wolf - Mate Mine

Chapter 64 ~ 'Did you touch my mate?' - Part 2

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape." 

― Charles Dickens

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Mirko was marching towards the scent of his Beta. He did not blink, his nostrils were dilated.

People scurried away or scattered when the Alpha approached, like a shark crossing a group of fish. Like a predator passing through a herd of herbivores. Like an alpha wolf going for the kill.

It was rare to see both Mirko and Craken emerge, sharing the same body in such a harmonious and terrifying way.

His ears were those of a wolf, his fangs were full on display, his eyes were completely black with electric blue thunders and the pupil thinned like that of a viper. Mirko looked bigger and taller than usual, his feet, legs, arms, and parts of his chest covered in black fur and his tail was sticking out, whipping the wind.

A steady, low growl came out of him.

It was the beast everyone was talking about. It was the Black Alpha.

You wanted the Black Alpha? Now you got it.

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Crucifero did not look him in the eye and kept them firmly planted on the ground. The Beta was aware that the Black Alpha was in control, however he also knew it would take a breath to blow him up and possibly cost him a limb or two.

Behind Crucifero stood two warriors assigned to the western border, Joakin and Obelix.

Both paler than the pallor itself.

The Beta quickly filled Mirko with what he had discovered. Straight to the point. Straightforward and honest. The way his Alpha expected him to do.

He had told him how Elena had tried to infiltrate and find him.

How the two guards, Joakin and Obelix, wanted to take her to the interrogation cell but she refused and tried to fight them.

How Frerea had appeared and how she had insisted on taking Elena into custody ... and apparently taken to the freaking Underworld, instead of a normal cell.

With each sentence, Mirko's veins got bigger and bigger, the claws thickened, the fur began to cover larger parts of his body.

When Crucifero finished his report, a piercing roar stabbed the air as he smashed a tree with his claws.

Obelix and Joakin had been identified as the ones who had had the misfortune to cross paths with Elena last night.

Mirko was about to slaughter them both in that instant. But, unlike Crucifero, whose wolf was simply crazy, Craken was always in control of the situation, like a superior Alpha wolf. He did not let the killer instinct prevail.

Oh no.

Because Craken knew that instant death would be a too simple punishment. An easy way out. That was the reason why the guards he had placed around Elena's pack to protect her and that had failed miserably, were on the verge of death. It was a favour because Elena had managed to sneak away somehow and had fooled them.

Joakin, the shortest of the two, was the one wearing most of Elena's smell. Hence, Mirko decided to leave him for later as he focused his penetrating eyes on Obelix.

A warrior as tall as Mirko, almost as big, Obelix resembled an ancient Viking.

Starting to circle around the man, Mirko kept his hands behind his back.