Chapter 81 - The Alpha King and the Shadow

LeeAca’s POV

I wake with a start. F*CK. They poured a wolfbane and silver mixture down my throat and I passed out. I am still hanging by the ceiling and I see that they haven’t at least touched my clothes.

“Fen, are you still with me?” I ask and hear a scoff.

“You think a little wolfbane and silver will keep me away? It takes more than that to get rid of me.” She spits. I sign in relief, she may be pissed but that is where we need to be to get the plan done.

I hung there for about 3 hours listening and forming a plan. I have yet to see the space, but I remember the way out. There was a camera room when you first walked in that had a guard watching all of the camera’s. That is all I could get. After a few more minutes I hear guards walking toward my cell.

“Spray the b*tch down. You know the doctor don’t like them to be too dirty.” The man says right outside my door.

“LeeAca we need to hurry.” Fen says as she paces in my mind.

“What is it Fen?” I ask. She never normally rushes me.

“I can feel Alarick. He is within 20 miles.” She says slightly panicked.

“How could he have found us?” I asked, slightly panicking myself. Before either one of us could continue the door opens to reveal two men. One holding what looks like a hose nosile and the other a bucket. I feel the cold water being sprayed in my face. I find it hard to breathe so I hold my breath. Once the guy is done the other steps closer, but before he could throw the bucket of whatever on me, Fen and I break our chains and break his neck. The guy that was holding the hose just stood and stared in disbelief. Before he could do anything I grabbed the hose from him and wrapped it around his neck, successfully suffocating him. Alarms start to go off and I see people running towards me.

“This is gonna be fun.” Fen growls in my head. We start racing toward them and make a long sword appear in our hands. They made a mistake racing for me in a crowd. I successfully slice all of the men in front and begin work with the rest. After about 5 minutes I look around to see all of the people dead or barely breathing. I quickly go to the front room and find an all release button. I hit it and I ran out.

“EVERYBODY FOLLOW MY VOICE! THE DOOR IS UP HERE! EVERYBODY RUN! I WILL BRING THE CHILDREN OUT TO YOU!” I yell and I see many people rushing out, mostly women, and some frantically looking around. Once I am sure that everybody knows the general direction to the door I start busting into the locked rooms. Killing guards and nurses, having women take children out. The last room I go to and kick in I see guards and doctors. There are two children laying on operating tables, one is dead. I quickly kill the guards and doctors when a woman runs down from the observation room.

“MY BABY NOOOOOO!!!!” She is screaming. I froze as I remember 4 years ago. My children. I look at the children on the table and see mine. I shake my head and start backing up, still staring at my childs unmoving faces. I black out.

Alarick's POV

After running for 2 hours we start to slow. We see a small cabin, on the outside it seems to be a normal cabin, but after we creep closer the smell of blood mixed with gardenias and fresh rain,. LeeAca’s scent. Onin starts to go mad and push me to enter the house, but before he could I took control from him and shifted back to my human form. I quickly ran into the house, not caring about anything else..

As soon as I pushed open the door blood trailed to my feet. I slowly walk in, trying to hold in my panic. I look around to see blood everywhere, but it isn’t LeeAca’s blood. I let out a long exhale and looked around. It looks like there is a person laying on the floor. They are completely butchered. I have no idea if it was a man or a woman, but looking around at the décor I would assume that it was a man. Who could have done this? Why be so violent with it?

All of a sudden there is a scream. I whip my head around to see that one of my men is standing next to the TV.

“Alarick you need to see this.” I hear Marcus say. I walk toward the TV that is still screaming when I see it. LeeAca is strapped to a table surrounded by what looks like 1 doctor and 3 nurses. They inject her with something and her screams chill my bones. I quickly turn the TV off and run outside. I need to find her. Where is she?

“Alarick! Over here her scent picks up again this way!” Maleena shouts. I quickly start running towards her while I mind link Marcus.

“Leave two men at the cabin to take pictures and collect everything they can. Everybody else needs to come with me.” I ordered.

“On it.” Marcus answers back. Within minutes we are all following Maleena through the forest. When we reached a small clearing we saw a small shack. There are 4 guards standing and they smell human. I look at Maleena curiously.

“Looks like a hunter’s zone. I am positive LeeAca is in there.” Maleena says through a mind link. It’s a good thing her and Lucas mated or else she wouldn’t be able to mind link me All of a sudden we see the door burst open and women start running out. Some stumble and a couple are grabbed by the guards. We all start racing towards the women and now men and children and they all start to cower in fear, thinking we are with the hunters.

“Kill the guards. Make sure the people are safe.” I order through a mind link. I race through the doors trying not to tumble over people as I rush in. Maleena is following me, but I couldn’t care less. The only thought I have right now is getting to LeeAca. Once I reach the end of the hallway I try to smell for her scent, but it is everywhere and mixed with blood. I stop and stare when I go to turn into another hallway. There are at least 10 people lying dead. Maleena runs into me not realizing that I have stopped.

“Sorry.” She says. I pay her no mind as I listen to my surroundings.

“Come on baby. Come with Mommy.” I hear a shakey and hoarse voice speak. I also hear a child crying. I follow the noise until I see a woman holding a child. She stops and I can feel her fear of me.

“I am here to help.” I say with my hands in the air to show her I will not hurt her.

“She.. She.. Saved us. You need to help her.” The woman says point towards the end of the hall.

I don’t say anything, I just rush towards the room at the end of the hall. When I walk in I see a child on an operating table and four people lying dead.

“My babies, no. Not my babies. My babies.” I hear, murmured. I look around and see a woman, covered in blood, huddled in the corner holding her knees to her chest and hiding her face. She is rocking back and forth.

“Are you al..” I stop as I get a whiff of her scent. Gardenias and fresh rain. “LeeAca?” I ask as I take a step towards her. By now Maleena and Lucas walk in and are standing by the door.

“My babies. No. No my babies.” Is all she says and keeps rocking back and forth. Unsure of what to do I look behind me towards Lucas who might have an idea of what is going on.

“I think she might be in a coma-like state. I can feel her emotions, but they aren’t normal.” He says and I nod. I walk over to her and slowly crouch down. I touch her arm, sending sparks up my arm, and she doesn’t move. I move her closer to me and I still she doesn’t move. I sigh and pick her up slowly. The only thing that happens is that she stills in my arms then starts slightly shaking. I start to walk with her out of the lab. When we get outside I see all of the people are calm and are waiting. Some are being attended to by my warriors with some medical training.

“Is she okay?” Markus says as he walks up to me.

“My babies. Not my babies.” I can hear her mutter. Markus looks at me questioningly.

“I don’t know.” I answer.

“Oh.. Well I have mind linked others to come and collect the hunter’s lab as well. What do you want to do with the people that were freed?” Markus asks. I sigh.

“Have them follow us to the castle. I will figure it out when we get there.” I say and he nods. We start heading back to the castle shortly after.