Chapter 102
Erik’s POV
I have missed my mate and longed for her touch, but now that she is in front of her, I can’t even get close to her. She is full of fear and anger that she bursts out at any moment. That night, we slept in a different room. Saying she wanted to be by herself, and I respected her decision. I am thankful to Luna Rica that she chose the room beside Clara for me to use.
It was already morning, and I planned on asking Clara to join me for breakfast, but when I was about to knock on her door, she opened it and was fully dressed. “Good morning,” I greeted. She walked past me, and I followed her from behind. My wolf whined at our mate’s rejection of us.
“Where are you going?” I asked softly.
“Alpha Louis’s territory,” She replied, and I hurriedly grabbed her hand to stop her from walking.
“What?” She asked me with an annoyed voice.
“Why would you go there? Let me go instead,” I offered, and she removed her arm from my grasp. My wolf whined again.
Clara looked at me with an annoyed face, and I pursed my lips.
“INSTEAD OF WORRYING ABOUT ME, HOW ABOUT YOU GO OUT THERE AND SEARCH FOR OUR MISSING CHILD!” She suddenly shouted at me. I couldn’t take it anymore, and I grabbed both of her shoulders and faced her properly.
“I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE BOTH OF YOU FOR MONTHS! YOU HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU! OR EVEN SHARE YOUR PLANS FOR GOING TO ALPHA LOUIS’S TERRITORY! AND HERE YOU ARE SHOUTING AND GETTING ANGRY AT EVERYONE WHO HASN’T SLEPT FOR DAYS SEARCHING OUTSIDE! YOU CAN’T EVEN SHARE SOMETHING, AND YOU ONLY BLAME US?!” I shouted at her and let go of her shoulders. I turned my back on her, “What’s wrong with you?” I asked with a sad voice. She no longer replied, so I left her there and headed straight to Alpha Kyle’s office.
Vincent looked at me and gave me a sad smile. I smiled back at him sheepishly and walked straight to the seat. I sat down. Vincent and Alpha Kyle exchanged glances, and I could tell they were both nervous. “Report,” I said with a serious tone.
“We followed your orders and sniffed out her majesty’s scent, and we found something,” Alpha Kyle said. I looked at him, expecting he found some clues about my child’s whereabouts.
Alpha Kyle gulped nervously, and I just waited for him to give me the thing they found. In a few seconds, Alpha Kyle gave me a dress, and instantly, I recognized whose dress it was. The dress was what Clara was wearing on the day she got kidnapped. The dress was full of blood stains mixed with dirt and mud. I gripped the dress tightly and began to imagine what Clara had been through. I gritted my teeth in anger and realized I had to talk with Clara properly.
“I will go after my mate,” I said. Vincent gave me a confused look. “She went to Alpha Louis’s pack,” I said.
“I’ll go with you,” Vincent said, and I nodded in reply.
“Alpha Kyle, widen your search around that area. List down all the territories that are residing in the north,” I ordered.
Alpha Kyle bowed, and I left the office with Vincent following from behind. “Did you talk with Clara?” I asked Vincent while walking. He shook his head, “She refuses to meet me. I want to see my little sister, but she needs more time to adjust back here on the outside,” Vincent said, and I just stayed quiet and focused on walking through the pack house until we arrived outside.
“Let’s use the car. Some of the guys that followed us brought one,” Vincent said while playing with the keys on his fingers.
I nodded and rode in the front seat, and Vincent was in the driver’s seat. As we rode toward Alpha Louis’s territory, I kept thinking about how I would ease the pain my mate was feeling. It also pains me not even to have the chance to see my child. How about Clara, who bore the child for months and instantly got away? I should be understanding and wait for her to return fully.
Vincent skillfully drove in the middle of the forest at an insane speed. He really needs to control how fast he drives. We arrived early, as expected since Vincent thought that what he went was a racecar. Some of the pack members recognized my face of Vincent, and when they turned to me to look at my face, they soon realized who I was, and they all kneeled down before me.
“Where is my queen?” I asked coldly, and they all glanced at each other. “The king asked a question!” Vincent shouted at them, and they winced at Vincent’s voice.
“Her highness is inside, but,” One of the werewolves said but stopped talking. He was hesitant to tell me what was wrong.
“What!” Vincent shouted again, becoming impatient.
“Her highness is killing some of our members, saying they are rogues!” The other werewolf answered. Instead, he shouted his answer while closing his eyes.
“Killing?” I asked myself. I rushed inside the territory until I smelled some blood mixed with Clara’s scent. I followed the scent and saw countless werewolves on the ground bleeding, while Clara was standing in the middle choking someone while lifting the werewolf in the air. Blood splattered all over Clara’s dress, and in the blink of an eye, she snapped the neck of the werewolf that she was choking.
“My Queen,” I hesitantly called.
Clara turned to me and looked uninterested. “What? Is it wrong to kill some rogues? Especially when they infiltrated one of my territories?” Clara asked calmly, and she looked at me with a confused expression.
“Our mate is drowning,” Liam said, and I looked at Clara with wide eyes, worried about what would become of my one and only Queen.