Depths of Darkness

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Chapter 6

I stared at him astonished. How was this even possibly?

"How? I don't understand how he could have taken over and led a pack against other Alpha's isn't he like weaker than you since you haven't handed your title over to him yet?" He may have had Alpha blood but he needed to wait until his Alpha status was passed down before becoming strong enough to fight another Alpha let alone several Alphas.

He shook his head "Hix was never like normal wolves even from a young age, he was stronger, smarter and much more perceptive than others. Even at the age of sixteen, his wolf was far bigger than mine. He had a hard time controlling his anger even from a little age but he was a good boy the fault lays with me" He looked pained. Sixteen, the age that Hix had left nothing but a boy turning to the wild to fend for himself. Who knew five years later his name would invoke this kind of fear from people?

He closed his eyes for a moment and sighed. "When his mother died I became a shell, closed off and angry, heck even before Maria's death I wasn't there for him or her being an Alpha meant I had responsibility you know? I can't remember a time when I wasn't working. I was trying to make our pack great, living out here who would have known our name? Who would have feared us? I was a young and stupid." I didn't miss the disgust on his face. "I was never there for him or Maria I was too busy trying to build an empire that was what I thought was important. Maria took care of Hix and he was a mommy's boy." There was a little smile of his face as if he was remembering something and then it quickly vanished. His voice was replaced with sadness and anger "When the hunters came I was away staying at another pack, busy, always so busy, Hix was three even then he was smart. The hunter shot my Maria with five silver bullets before Samuel's was able to take him down.

He stopped as if he was replaying the memories in his head and thinking. "I felt the bond snap, no I felt the bond shatter it was the worst feeling you could ever possibly imagine and I ran all the way back. But it was far too late my Maria was gone, and then I wasn't there for him too broken by what I had done to Maria, I had left my mate to die. I chose to leave my mate and so it's my fault she's dead. I became angry and closed off hating humans until I met your mother, she helped lessen the pain you know. And Hix only saw human when I had tried to tell him, he threatened she leave or he would kill her, hell he tried to attack me when I told him. I told him I couldn't let your mother leave she was helping fade the pain. However he only saw me replacing her. He left right after claiming I had made my choice, humans." Alaric shook his head in his eyes were pain and loss not had he lost his wife, his love, his mate he had then lost his son too.

It was heart-breaking, I hated Alaric blaming himself all this. The loss of his mate, his chosen and even his son it wasn't his fault, but I knew there was no point in trying to persuade him.

His son was now a monster, who killed and conquered and Alaric sat here blaming himself, because in his eyes he had failed his son. It was evident the monster had been created but by Alaric no, the hunters are the cause of this.

"You can, no we can bring him back together, and maybe he will listen. Maybe-"

He didn't even let me finish. "No we can't, you don't know how far his gone, the stories are all true. When your mother got ill I was not in the right mind to deal with the issue that was heading our way, and after" He stopped, it was still harder to him to say "after your mother, I didn't want to think about anything so I pushed it to the back of my mind even though I knew he would come, its revenge he wants." He was now frantic "You can't go anywhere near him, I wish I could protect you but now I can't protect myself."

He began wheezing. "You need to run if he finds you I can't imagine what he will do, go to the safe, take the money and run my child. Run."

I couldn't believe he was asking me to do this, he would think I would leave him in this condition not a chance. "I know you're trying to help me but I won't run and I sure as hell won't be leaving you"

His face twisted in anger "Thalia, this is not a game do you hear me? You won't help me by saying here. He is not the person that I was described to you. He is a monster plain and simple, you can't even imagine what his done. You're going leave do you hear me."

I wasn't going to leave him "no I won't, I'm sorry but I need to stay this is my home, you're the only family I have left" I was trying to make him see why couldn't he understand?

"YOU WILL GO!" he bellowed. I flinched I had heard him yell many times but never at me.

"Do you know what his done, what his capable of? You remember Raven Claw Pack? They are all dead yes that includes Leon and Eleona. All because they refused all the warriors were murdered on their own territory and left for their family members to clean up the horrendous site. Heck the Alpha Stephens head is still on a spike outside their territory, they're forbidden to move it. The boy I knew is long gone Thalia. "

That knocked the breath straight of my lungs, the Raven Claw pack where our neighbours although the actual distance between our packs was a long way away, we were good friends had been for years every four months they visited our pack. It was my mother that had originally opened her arms to this pack and the pull of my mother was hard to resist. The Luna of Raven Claw and my mother were close friends perhaps it was because they understood the role they played it was not ascribed to them like the alpha role had been. Leon and Eleona were my age that's, I guess that's why I felt a connection to them plus they were funny, there twin telepathy skills were hilarious but completely rubbish landing them in a lot of trouble a lot of the time. Leon was outgoing and Eleona liked to keep to herself. Two sides of a coin, they were both completely gorgeous and they were both warriors though, that's as far as their similarities went. Although I hadn't spoken to them since my mother's passing I had heard Leon had been promoted a front line warrior Amanda had always had a thing for him despite them not being mates. She kept me posted on the wellbeing of our neighbours. Perhaps the reason why I spent so much time with them was because of her infatuation with him. The alpha was the stern type but he was a good man, loved his pack and his wife so very much he would never have bowed before anyone. It seems as though since my mother's death Raven Claw had ceased all contact with us. Or maybe we had ceased contact with them. I had thought it was because they hadn't wanted to surround themselves with a failing pack who still grieved for their Luna it made them look weak, allied to a pack who was diminishing, would make them a target. Their lands were bigger than ours enemies had much more to take if they were weak. But now I was ashamed at my own lack of faith in them. I was ashamed that I had never bothered to even contact them, see how they were and now it was too late. They too were gone.