Chapter 15 Chapter 15
Sophia's POV
Ethan’s tall figure appeared in the hall door, his usual slicked back hair was now a little messy, and he looked as if had just run over.
Max was now standing next to me at my side, I never even knew when he had arrived.
“Ethan!” I rushed down to him in relief and my heart that was seized with panic settled just about as quickly as it could at the sight of him.
“It’s all right, now I’m here.” Ethan said softly, as he pulled me into his arms to soothe me
he could tell right away how rattled I was.
“Ethan, listen to me…” I looked up at him like he was my savior as I tried to explain the situation to him, but I was somewhat incoherent, as a wave of anxiety was continually escalating inside of me.
“Sweetheart don’t stress now I know a little more on the situation Max has informed me of the basics.”
I looked over to Max, but he seemed quite embarrassed.
He looked disheveled and tired. “Forgive me for not being able to greet you properly Miss Sophia, keeping pace with the Alpha is no simple task.” He smirked.
“Thanks Max,” I said softly. it looked like he had used that argument as a pretext to rush over to Wolfalpine Pack to inform Ethan of what was going on here.
“Alpha Ethan, what is it about my family’s affairs that you need to involve yourself in so often?” Marcus was holding on to his furious voice as it shouted.
"I decided I was going to bury you myself in my mate's pack," Ethan sneered.
"Kill me and Sophia's father is lost forever!"
"If I kill you, then I can also save the witch right behind you," he said with a nod towards the cloaked figure.
Ethan stepped back from me and got his coat off, prepared to go after Marcus.
Marcus was visibly concerned at Ethan's obscene power and in his panic spat out: “I’ll tell you the truth! I’m the only one who knows where the antidote is! The witch is just a ruse… she doesn’t know anything!”
He took off the-long robe and the lucifer hat of the trembling woman who stood behind them, and showed her thick black hair beneath.
Something about her and how she looked said loud enough that she was Pack born And nothing else.
“Fuck! That son of a bitch was lying to us the whole fucking time!”
“No surprise! I wondered how Kira managed to locate another witch so easily – after all, most witches are lone wolves if they’ve cast out the coven…”
Ethan snorted arrogantly and mocked by clapping his hands with his laughter.
Max vanished for a brief moment, and then reentered through the door holding a rope. Six people’s hands were tied to this rope, six people all of them wearing a robe of one sort or another and also sharing the same vibrant red hair which Kira had in her actual form.
They were all witches! All of them!
“Where the hell did you get so many witches?” Marcus snapped, his anger flaring at the unexpected appearance of so many witches and aggravation in Ethan’s inflection.
“I was just passing through the witch's land, so I picked up a few and brought them here.”
Ethan shrugged as if it was nothing. I grabbed Max and told him to come with me to my father's room, he was to bring the witches with him.
"Please help me save my father!" I cried.
Only then did I realize that the poison that my father had drunk could only have been manufactured by Kira.
I didn’t know if any witches could make the antidote, but I had a feeling that Ethan had brought several witches for the same reason.
Moon Goddess if you can hear my prayers, save my father!
So I went out to wait outside the room, slowly as the minutes passed. "They were dirty, and had fleas, and infested with lice and I just couldn't stand to be in there while they worked so I left Max with them and went outside to get some air." And just as my heart began to ache so much that it would surely break from its own despair, Max came out of his room, followed closely by a witch.
My father had at last unclosed his eyes.
“Father!” I exclaimed, as I was running toward the foot of his bed; I then flung myself upon his bed and seized his hand with mine, the tears streaming as I sobbed loudly.
“Sophia… you’re back.”
I told my father everything that had happened and with my emotions collected, I recalled Marcus and his whore were still waiting in my father’s home. I had a score to settle with them.
At the door, the painful voice of Marcus and Kira’s scream could already be heard inside.
“You can’t kill me! The allies of the Pack won’t let you kill me!”
When I entered I saw that both Ethan and Marcus had switched, and Ethan's sharp claws were clenched around Marcus's neck, while his other hand hovered over his chest with his claws extended as though ready to tear out his heart.
I heard what Marcus said and I thought about his words and the pack alliance.
The Pack Alliance is a pack organisation that all clans have to join by law.
Each Alpha was obliged to attend a monthly alliance meeting to talk about the growth of the entire wolf clan and foster cooperation amongst the packs.
The Alliance had been rulerless since its formation, but there were rumors for almost 2 years that one or several Wolves with higher-ranked wolves within the alliance would be elected to command the entire alliance as the highest-ranking Alpha King to command the whole wolf clans.