Alpha - Forever #1 (Complete)

Chapter 23 - Part 2

Scarlett

I gave him a playful glare as I sat down across from him. Cade took the spare chair beside me and sat down as he laughed at the two of us.

We'd come a long way in a short span of time. It was hard to remember how much I'd disliked Blake and Cade when I'd first met them. I cared for Cade in a way I'd never cared for a guy, and I cared for Blake as family.

A few minutes later, Gary arrived and we started to eat.

"So, you said you had some stuff you needed to tell me?" Blake asked Cade.

"Scar and I had an eventful day," Cade began. "Kyle came onto our territory without permission."

"He can't be that stupid," Blake remarked, all humor and playfulness gone. He was all alpha.

"He was desperate to find his sister," Cade replied.

"He doesn't have a sister," scoffed Blake. I kept quiet as they talked about my brother. Before Cade continued, he glanced in my direction.

"What am I missing?" asked Blake as he witnessed the brief look.

"I have a brother," I revealed.

"You have a brother?" he repeated in disbelief. "But how?"

"I only found out about him today," I added, setting my fork down beside my plate.

"You have a brother you didn't know about and Kyle has a sister no one knew about. What are the odds," he said, shaking his head. It took him a few moments to put those two puzzle pieces together.

"Kyle is your brother." He gasped when he finally got it.

I nodded my head.

"But, I don't understand," he said, still looking bewildered at the shocking revelation.

"Remember the stories about Kyle's parents abandoning the pack?" Cade began to explain.

"Yeah, I remember the stories."

"Well, they didn't abandon the pack. They left Kyle and their pack to keep them safe," Cade explained further.

"Why?" Blake asked.

"Victor."

Blake's features changed from confused to angry. For the first time, I wondered how well they knew Victor.

"What did he do?" asked Blake. He clenched his jaw as he pushed his plate aside. Clearly the subject of Victor was enough to ruin his appetite.

"You remember the story of him losing his mate."

"Yeah," Blake confirmed.

"When he met Scar's mom, he wanted her as his mate despite the fact that she was already mated to an alpha," Cade explained.

"I can't say I'm surprised—the guy is a fucking lunatic," Blake replied.

"They couldn't reason with him. He even went as far as to try and kidnap Scar's mom," Cade explained. "They decided that it was best to leave the pack to keep them safe. Victor didn't know about Kyle so they thought it was best to leave him behind. Nate, their dad's brother, took Kyle and passed him off as his own son."

"Holy crap," Blake muttered as he shook his head in disbelief. When our eyes met, he gave me a sympathetic smile.

"Their parents ran and kept a low profile. But he found them ten years later and killed them," Cade said, emotion starting to creep into his voice. "He didn't know that they'd had a child at all, never mind two."