Chapter 77 - The Alpha King and the Shadow

LeeAca’s POV

After Alarick leaves Fen pulls back in my aura. I see Maleena and Lucas walking cautiously to my room. I take a deep breath to try and control my emotions.

“Everything okay?” Maleena asks when she gets to my doorway.

“Everything is fine. He is just being an idiot. Go back to bed.” I say to both of them and give them a reassuring smile.

“Why didn’t you tell him the full story about your mate?” Maleena asked and I get annoyed.

“Because he didn’t need to know the full story, Maleena.” I say and she sighs.

“You probably confused him though. If all you told him was that you killed your mate, what is he supposed to make of that?” She says. At least she didn’t hear the full conversation.

“He can bake a cake out of that for all I care. Maleena, look, I am tired of talking to people. Please just go back to your room.” I say and shut the door in their faces. I didn’t like doing that, but if I didn’t, she wouldn’t leave me alone till somebody else distracted her.

I go over to my bed and sit down. I slump down and go through everything that Alarick said. He saw my dream. “Fen, how is that possible?” I ask her and she huffs.

“I don’t know. Maybe it is because that mate bond is stronger? I have never heard of such a thing.” Fen says and I nod my head. Then reality starts to shine through the situation. Everynight I have a nightmare. Every Night I dream of something that has happened to me. If he can see my dreams… then… no. “We can’t sleep.” Fen says completing my train of thought.

“Fen. We need to do it now.” I say and I can feel she agrees with me. I go over to my “safe room” and punch in Maleena’s birthday. Once I get to my computer I type the passcode and look through my contacts.

“Óplo.” I type and wait. After about 30 seconds I got a reply.

“Kýrio.” I see on the screen. Man, he must spend all his time on the computer.

“I need the location now.” I type and wait.

“Are you sure? With everything going on, you might want to wait.” He replies back which annoys me.

“With everything going on, I can’t wait. He sees my dreams.” I type.

“Ah. I see. Well as it turns out I had a feeling you would ask me to hurry up. I should have the location by tomorrow.” He replies. His “feeling” is more of short visions.

“Thank you.” I replied.

“No problem.” He replies and the conversation disappears. I stay at my computer going through my research over the years. I have killed most of the hunters, but there are always more. The doctor that runs the “research” department is really the head of the operation and for the past 4 years I haven’t been able to find him. Keenan, the wizard, has been trying to help me locate him and before I moved here he had an idea that could help us find the good doctor. He was able to find one of the witches that was also trapped in the lab and he was going to reach out to her for help. I stayed in my safe room for the rest of the night. Lucas insisted that I needed more rest so he didn’t want to train tonight.

After what seemed like a few hours, but was really 6 hours, I heard a knock at my door. I quickly turned off my computer screen and walked back out to my room. I opened the door and saw Maleena standing there.

“You okay?” She asked.

“I’m fine. What are you doing so early?” I ask her, changing the subject.

“Warrior training. I wanted to see if you wanted to come.” She says shyly. Fen snorts in my head at Maleena’s behavior. She is like a little kid afraid of being told no.

“Sure. I’ll come. I need to see what skills you have that make you so good they decided to move you up.” I say jokingly. She smiles bright at me and starts jumping. I grab my shoes and we head down to the training field.

Everyone is staring at me and there are more people here than normal. Looks like some of the other packs and members decided to stay. I see each pack training separately. There are a total of 5 packs that are still here, including my home pack and the rogue pack.

I take a seat on the bleachers on the side of the field and begin to watch all the different packs. They aren’t interacting at all.

“They really should all train together. It would help mix things up. They would have different opponents and they could learn something new.” Fen says, clearly irritated by the scene in front of her. We dislike when people claim they train, but don’t take every opportunity to learn more. After another 5 minutes of watching, mine and Fen’s patience wears thin. I sigh and stand up. I start walking towards the center, where the royal pack is. People stop as I walk by bearing their necks in respect.

I stop walking when I see Gamma Garret. He stops what he is doing and looks up at me in surprise.

“Luna. What are you doing here?” He asks me.

“I came to watch Maleena, but instead I am getting irritated.” I say and I see a look of confusion on his face.

“Irritated?” He asks.

“Yes, Gamma, you heard me correctly. What type of training do you call this? You know what, don't answer that because I will. It is sh*t training at the moment. Not just from your pack, but from all of the packs here.” I say getting louder and louder. I hear gasps from around me, but I have not bothered to look. I am now the center of attention as we wait to see what the Royal Gamma does for the disrespect. His mouth is in a firm line and I can see his jaw ticking. You don’t have to be an empath to know he is pissed. Then I see the side of his mouth turning up into a smirk.

“If you think that the training is sh*t… why don’t you take over for today. Show me how it’s done, since I clearly cannot train a pack.” Garret answers me. He is putting me on the spot, trying to get me to concede that he knows what he is doing, but I won’t. All the packs need to be taking this opportunity they have while they are here.

“Fine.” I hiss and his smirk fades. He didn’t think I would do it. I walk further into the field on one of the platforms they have. When I jump up on it all eyes are on me.