CHAPTER 42
SEBASTIAN'S POV
I did not trust Barton. All the time, I had known Henry and Zoya. Zoya had not seemed like a woman who would be strong enough to handle anything and not be dependent on medications. I would have to find a way to talk to her. Why had she not come to me forty years ago? I would have taken her in and helped raise Aaron. I was not going to get any sleep anytime soon. I had too many questions. Some of them were for the rogues in the dungeon. I went up and changed my clothes, then headed down to get some answers. When I got there, I only found the woman who had tried to kill Quin.
"Guard, come here." I yelled.
"Your Majesty?" The guard said.
"Where are the eight rogues that were caught?"
"Your Majesty, when Alpha Colt and Beta Robert left, Lord Barton had us release them and were told to tell no one."
"Yet you told me?" I said.
"You are my King, and I fear you rath more than Lord Barton's." I smiled.
"Thank you as you were." I said, and he went back to stand by the door.
This was very interesting information. There could only be one reason Barton let them go. I would call my beta Richard to come with one hundred of our best fighters, it seamed the Alpha King, and queen had an enemy sleeping under their roof. I went back upstairs and called Richard. I could not sleep. This was weighing heavy on my mind. At five a.m., I picked up the phone and called Alpha Colt. I knew I would be waking him, but I had waited all night. After the third ring, he answered.
"Alpha Colt?" I asked.
"Yes, who is this?"
"Alpha Colt, this is Sebastian. I have 50 of my best worriers headed your way. Can only Zoya bring them here with the mist?" I asked.
"I don't think she has shown Sasha how to do it. Why, is what going on?" Colt asked.
"It seems the king and queen have a traitor sleeping under their roof!"
"Who?" Colt asked now very concerned for his son and daughter in law.
"Barton, he released the rogues that were caught after you left. He also has been giving
Zoya antipsychotic medication for years. I would assume to control her and her abilities."
"So, Sasha, appearing in his home when she came into her powers, put a glitch in whatever he was doing with Zoya." Colt said.
"Part of what I was thinking, he has Quin in his back pocket. Quin trusts him to a fault." I told him. Everyone here is working for him other than the two nanny’s and Maggie, of course."
"No one can get in or out without Zoya opening the mist. What can we do it will take three days to travel there." Colt said.
"Barton has the huge gates closed, and he controls the guards." I said
"Can you talk to Sasha to see if she can get Zoya open the mist?"
"I will try. I have meditation with her in a few minutes to help her relax more. I will call you back this afternoon."
"Lucas and Morgan will be back tomorrow, too." Colt reminded me.
"Talk to you in a few hours, colt." I said and hung up. I went downstairs and grabbed two bottles of water, then went down to the gym.
I pulled out two floor mats and had just sat them on the floor when Sasha came into the gym.
"Morning, Sebastian, did you sleep well?" She asked, walking over to where I was standing.
"Unfortunately, no. I found out some things last night that have me very troubled." I told her. I pointed for her to sit on the one mat, and I sat on the other.
"Sasha, have you tried to open the mist?" I asked.
"You mean to travel from say here to the pack?"
"Yes, exactly."
"No, I have not tried, I thought it was something Grandmother needed to teach me?" Sasha said.
"Do you trust me, Sasha?"
"Yes, why? What is going on?" She asked.
"Sasha, I say anything right now. But I need the mist opened to the pack soon."
"Can't we just get Grandmother to open it?"
"Unfortunately, no. I don't know how much time we have either. So, I need it open before Lucas and Morgan come back."
"I'm sure Grandmother will open it if you ask. You are not a prisoner here."
"Ah, my dear Sasha, I believe we all have become prisoners here." She gave me a strange look. I was about to say something else when we heard someone out in the hall.
"Did you say something about being a prisoner?" Barton asked, coming into the gym in workout clothes.
"I was telling Sasha we are all prisoners of our own minds if we let our negative thoughts overtake us." I told him thankfully. Sasha went alone with what I was saying.
"I did not know you came down here in the mornings to work out." Sasha said to Barton.
"Have to keep in shape and the reflexes good." Barton told her.
"Funny, I have not seen you down here in the time I have been here, Barton." I said.
"Well, I have had pressing matters to attend to the past week to deal with." Barton told me. I decided to move Sasha's and my conversation somewhere else. He would not follow. He would risk being exposed if he did.
"Sasha, let's put away the mats and go for a jog around the grounds." I suggested.
"I could use some fresh air. It is a bit thick in here." We put the mats back and left the gym and went outside.
When we got far enough away from the guards, we sat down on a bench.
"You suspect Barton of something? Don't you?" Sasha asked.
"Yes, I have one hundred Lycan worriers on their way here to Alpha Colts pack. I spoke with him this morning, but we need to open the mist, Sasha."
"But I don't know how, grandmother says she will show me but doesn't." After a long pause, Sasha turned to me.
"Iet me know when they are at the pack I have an Idea." She said and got up to go inside.
"Sasha, what are you going to do?"
"Trust me, Sebastian." She said and went quickly inside.
COLT'S POV
I was just sitting down to lunch when I got a link from the front gate.
"Alpha, there are over a hundred warriors here requesting entry. What should we do, Alpha?"
"Do they were the Kings uniform? “I asked.
"Yes, alpha, some of them."
"Let them in. The Lycan King is expecting them. Show them to the main hall so they can get something to eat."
"Right away, Alpha."
I was just about to put my fork in my mouth when my phone started to ring. Dam, it doesn't anyone eat lunch.
"HELLO!!" I said into the phone.
"Sorry, Alpha Colt, did I catch you at a bad time?" Sebastian said.