Hers To Claim

Chapter 28: His To Hide.

~ As A Warrior The More Broken You Are The Stronger You Get ~

Chapter Twenty Eight: His To Hide

"Who's Blair", I asked trying to bury the little fear I had and put my best poker face out there. King Adrian looked at me, trying to make me succumb and his gaze but I stood strong. "At least we'll die with pride", Lycan said and I told her to shut it if she wasn't helping.

King Adrian tore his gaze from me and back to the view from the balcony.

"A warrior I met once, you look just like her, she was a warrior too", he said and I relaxed a bit but didn't let my guard down for ninja wolves. Yah that could be a real thin, if turtles could do it why can't we. "Blair focus", Lycan reminded me. Oh yah right mission. "How did she die?" I asked.

"What would make you think she's dead", Adrian asked. "You said was", I replied. "I did hmm anyway, she came to one of these trying to spy and assassinate me but my men found her so I ripped her head off with my teeth", he said and I kept my eyes alert for any sudden attacks but didn't show that I was on guard.

"Okay", I simply stated, 'Die with pride', Lycan whispered. "I'm kidding", King Adrian laughed.

"I met Blair shortly after her brother was murdered by rogues, she was angry and feisty. I haven't had anything about her for nearly seven years but I know she's alive somewhere, I know still feels the need to claw out the throat of whoever killed her brother", Alpha King Adrian said.

I felt anger start to flare up inside me, but I couldn't show it. It affected me because everything he said was true, that monster could still be out there and if it's dead I still feel like clawing at it body. That part of me that longed to see their blood on my hands still burned bright inside of me. I wasn't afraid of it, even though I knew that the flames of that fire, of that hatred will never fade.

"That flame, that spark of vengeance that", the Alpha king continued to explain, "That's what great warriors a made of, their horrible pasts that shaped them into this painless remorseless killing machine. What people don't know is that as a warrior the more broken you are the stronger you get", he said.

"I need someone like that in my pack Beta Winston, my beta isn't mated so how do you feel about becoming the Royal Beta Female", he asked and I was slightly taken back. So my cover's not blown?

'He's asking me to become the Royal Beta Female', I quickly mind linked Fazirya. "Tell him you'll think about it", she replied.

"You said it yourself the price is insuring you're on the winning team, no one wins like a King Beta Winston", he said.

"Kings don't reign forever, I'm a Beta I don't want people to just know me as a mate to someone who has power. I'm a warrior not just someone's female", I said. I could tell he hated when people questioned him as is the ego of a king.

"Fine what if I made you the Royal Female Beta not just a beta female", he said. "I'll have to think about it my King", I said. One of the guard came up to Alpha King Adrian and showed him something on a tablet which had the king clenching his jaw before he put his mask back on.

"Don't think for too long, Beta Winston", he said before leaving with the guard. I left the balcony as well shortly after and tried looking for either Orobeau or Fazirya but I couldn't find either. I couldn't even get Fazirya in the mind link. I tried to find her scent but I wasn't accustomed to it so I lost it and trailed Orobeau's.

She had the most unexplainable scent about her it seemed older rarer more unique so it was simpler to single out. I followed it all through the castle, down some weird hall and some sketchy looking steps. I was almost sure I'd ended up in the dungeons and I was about to turn back to go to my room when I heard someone growling.

"Didn't I tell you not to see the oracle you accursed wolf", the person who I was now sure is Alpha King Adrian roared. "I'm sorry Adrian, he called out to me", I heard Orobeau struggle to say. I followed the voices only to see Adrian holding Orobeau by the throat and choking her.

Her feet way so far off the ground as she struggled to get out of his hold, kicking and clawing at his tight fist around her throat. The king didn't budge though, his eyes were pitch black like a sea of pure darkness, dark veins crept up his hands and neck as he half shifted. It was his more primal self. He was going to kill her.

"Let go of her", Lycan and I roared with a sudden rush of protectiveness over the little wolf. King Adrian was slightly taken back by our presence and loosened his hold on her. Orobeau took the opportunity to shift into her wolf and race out of there.

"Tell anyone about her and I'll kill you", King Adrian said before shifting and running after her but that's not what shocked me most and left me standing stunned at what I'd just seen.

"That's why your wolf looks like that", the memory of Adrian telling Orobeau that she can't have a mate resurfaced and the fact that he'd called her an accursed wolf. Accursed wolves are rare werewolves that the moon goddess reincarnates to live a miserable life as punishment for a crime they committed against her in their first life.

They usually have silvery grey fur like rogues but are stripped with circular rings all around their wolves. In short they looked horrible. But Orobeau looked nothing like that. I went looking for Fazirya to tell her everything and found her in her room meditating. I almost face palmed myself for not thinking of that sooner.

"She's a gold wolf, we have to tell Noni and Banner", I burst in telling her. "Who?" Fazirya asked as she merged with her wolf and sat on the bed. "Orobeau, she's a gold wolf", I said then continued to tell her everything I'd found out.

Orobeau's wolf was different she had gold wolf fur but with two red bands and one black one on each of her limbs. Sometimes are wolves can change due to who we are mated to, where we shifted from and a lot of other different reasons? Orobeau's not an accursed wolf, she's just not a Royal Crimson wolf.

"We have to tell Noni and Banner, she's a gold wolf and I doubt she even knows it", I told Fazirya.

"We will, after the mission okay", Fazirya said. "But..." I went to complain but she cut me short. "I know you care but we can't afford to blow this B", Fazirya said.

I know she didn't mean to be cruel and it was just her being a proper alpha. All wars have causalities. Actions have consequences. I knew this but something in me wanted to protect her from being either and I just couldn't explain why.

I huffed and left Fazirya's room and just laid on top of mine. Sleepless for the second time in a row.

I just couldn't keep the thought that she could have a family out there that thinks she's dead or worse. I'd love to know if it was Orso. I just hope we can finish this mission and save her as well because from what I've seen from Adrian's behaviour she might not make it out of this alive. 

Author's Note

Update in less than 14 hours, go me