The Alpha's Eden

Pinky promise?

Eden PoV

It took me two weeks of arguing to convince Jace and Blake I was ready to see Sawyer.

But it didn't come easily.

They insisted I train both physically and mentally with wolves and vampires to ensure I was truly able to face him without freaking out and pushing my wolf into a more isolated state than she already was.

The vampires were staying at Blake's house and Sadie was banned from the pack grounds on the basis I'd kill her on sight or if she said one sly remark to me.

But Natalia and I were becoming good friends and I loved seeing her and her brothers regain their close bond.

I couldn't help but feel slightly sad that I didn't have that sibling relationship anymore.

I'd often watch the Andersons and recall all the wonderful times Sawyer and I had as innocent.carefree kids. I had idolised him.

He was my everything and the only person in my family I truly felt had loved me. I had loved him so much.

I'd recall how he had always been the one to protect me from the monsters I feared so much that I thought lived under my bed, only it turned out it was him that was the monster.

Jace has an air of contentment about him that he had never had before Natalia was here and it was obvious how much he had missed his younger sister. He was a great big brother, he lived and wanted nothing more than to look out for his sister.

He wasn't like my big brother. He'd never hurt her.

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I'd learnt far more than I expected to from all the training and I put it to good use here.

I had to breathe in and out deeply through my nose as the stenches hit me harder the closest we got to the cells of the dungeon under the packhouse.

The dungeons, where my brother had been held all this time, right under my nose quite literally.

I couldn't help but shudder at the thought of what punishments Jace and Hayden would dish out down here but from the strength of the smell of blood both old and new I'd say it wasn't pretty.

Jace has held a tight grip on my hand all the way down here whilst Blake had placed a hand in the small of my back comforting me with the warmth his touch gave me. I was drawing strength from both of my mates because as much as I knew I needed to do this the truth was I was absolutely terrified.

Sawyer had tried to kill me, he'd tried to rape me until something changed his mind and he left me for dead instead but at one point in time he had been my hero.

The guards had Sawyer bound so tightly to a chair that I wondered how he could breathe easily. Silvers chains were tied around his ankles, wrists and chest so tight that I could hear the sizzling of his skin before I even laid eyes on him.

I sat across a table that acted as a barrier between us but the huge gaping memories of his actions served as a bigger space between us than any object ever could.

I recalled everything Jace and Blake had been teaching me during our training sessions. I kept my shoulders straight and my head up, eyes targeted on my brother and not showing the deep fear that made bile swirl around in the pit of my belly like a tornado.

I maintained a steady heart rate and took smooth, even breathes not letting fear take control of me.

I had learnt that fear wasn't so bad when you understood it. Fear was the bodies way of alerting you to what it perceives as danger. The injection of adrenaline that fear gives you often makes your judgement clouded and panic sets in.