Chapter 82 - The Alpha King and the Shadow

LeeAca’s POV

I feel like I am moving, but I am not the one doing it. Like somebody is carrying me. All I see though are my two sweet angels laying on a table.

“…Wrong…her?” I hear muffled speaking.

“Not… think….. hurt…” I hear.

“Fen? Fen.. What’s going on?” I ask to get nothing in return. All I feel is her despair and hatred. All of a sudden I feel little tingles start to erupt all over my skin. It feels nice. I continue laying there for another couple of minutes when I remember what those tingles mean. I feel Fen bounce forward and take control then I feel my a*s hit the ground. And a big umph sound with it. We look up to see Alarick standing there with a shocked expression. I look around and see that everybody has stopped with a shocked expression. I get up and dust myself off and realize that I am covered in blood. Then the memories of the past days come rushing back to me.

“What the hell are you all doing here?!” I yell and glare at them all. Then look around to see that we are in a forest.

“We came after you! How could you be so stupid as to think we wouldn’t come to find you?!” Maleena steps out and yells at me.

“What the hell are you doing here?” I ask dangerously.

“I came to help track you. They would have still been searching if I didn’t come. You are seriously stupid for thinking that you didn’t need help.” She says angrily. Without thinking I march up to her and grab her by the throat squeezing.

“Don’t think that because you are blood I will tolerate your disrespect. I will snap your neck without even thinking twice about it.” I threaten dangerously and I see the fear in her eyes. I feel anger coming from the side of me and hear a growl. I look to see Lucas coming to save his mate from me. I threw a dagger at him and hit him in the shoulder, causing him to collapse. I hear gasps from around, clearly surprised that I am treating my family this way. I throw Maleena towards Lucas and resume walking. Too consumed with anger to listen to anything else.

Alarick’s POV

After LeeAca falls from my hands I freeze, not knowing what to do or say. Her demanding why we were here had me irritated, but I let Maleena take the brunt of responding to her. After all, she wouldn’t hurt her family, especially her sister. Mate on the other hand, I know that she killed her first mate for reasons unknown. I don’t want to risk that. Once LeeAca turned around I looked toward Lucas and Maleena.

“She won’t actually kill you. You’re her sister and she mentored you, Lucas.” I say, trying to calm everybody. When Maleena looked at me I could tell that what she had to say was going to be unsettling.

“She would kill me. She has killed family before. Family means nothing to her if she is disrespected. Especially in this state.” She said glancing to LeeAca’s retreating figure. I could feel the atmosphere change after her statement. Sh*t, it made my blood run cold. Had LeeAca actually killed family before?

LeeAca’s POV

As I walked through the castle I could feel everybody’s eyes on me. I ignored them and walked to my apartment. When I walk towards my bedroom I see that the door is half off its hinges and my room is a mess. There are drawers open and clothes and books are all over the place. I huff in annoyance and pick some clothes off the floor and a towel that I know are clean and head to the bathroom. I close the door and look in the mirror and sigh. I am covered in dry blood from head to toe, making my green eyes look brighter than they are. I turn and start the shower, emptying my mind from the thoughts. Numb that is all I am. I feel nothing. I step in the shower and take a good 45 minutes cleaning all of the dirt and blood from my body. I step out of the shower and dry off, changing into my clothes. After I towel dry my hair I open the bathroom door and walk out into my room. I look around feeling somebody else’s presence there and a person I haven’t seen since the last time I infiltrated a hunter’s lab.

“LeeAca. Good thing I came when you were decent this time.” Keenan says. He says as he turns around. I see his glowing violet eyes. He is lean and tall, with long dirty blonde hair. As always he has a smile when greeting me. I roll my eyes and smile at him.

“Yea good thing.” I chuckle. “You ready?” I ask as I go over to put a pair of my boots on. I look over to see that he is staring at me reluctantly. “What?” I ask looking over to him.

I have a message from Mother Selene. He says and I smile at him as encouragement to continue.

“You know I get creeped out when you smile like that. Don’t do that.” He says and I roll my eyes.

“Just spit it out and stop avoiding what you need to tell me.” I say with a raised eyebrow. He sighs and comes over to sit next to me.

“You need to give your mate a chance. She has given him to you for a reason.” He says and I outright laugh at him.

“This has to be a joke right?” I ask and his look tells me he is not. Fen snorts in my head. “No way am I giving that mutt a “chance”.” She says and I look down and sigh.

“Weren’t all the others supposed to be a reason too? Why all of a sudden does she care what happens with my mates?” I growl out. Keenan is not phased at this and just puts his hand on my knee to show that he understands.

“I know this is frustrating. Hell I have stood by and watched as you deal with everything LeeAca. I am just as upset about this as you are. But she told me that everything you have endured, with the hunters has messed with her pairing the mate bonds. You are not the only one who has had more than two mates. She is not sure how it is possible, but your second chance mate was always supposed to be Alarick. Not the one that led you to the forest.” He says as he looks at me.

“That is bullsh*t and you know it. Just an excuse to reconcile her messing up the past 8 bonds. I am done with it and have been done for a long time now. We need to get going before we lose control of the situation, Keenan.” I say as I get up and start to walk towards the door. I smell Maleena, Lucas, Sebastian and Redna not paying them any attention. I walk out of the door with Keenan on my heels. Once we reach outside I hear a loud growl. I turn to see Alarick mid jump frozen in the air.

“You want to handle this so we can move on?” Keenan says and looks at me.

“WHO ARE YOU?!” Alarick screams trying to move, but to no avail.

“He is a special friend of mine and you will leave him alone.” I say sternly. Fen growls in my head not liking the way Alarick is threatening the only person we both trust completely.

“He’s the reason you don’t want a mate isn’t he? I knew there had to be an explanation and now here he is. You don’t want a mate bond because you already have somebody. How could I be so stupid?” Alarick starts rambling. Keenan stares at me. begging me to tell Alarick the truth with his eyes. I don’t make a move to say anything. Keenan sighs and looks back at Alarick.

“No your highness. LeeAca is a dear friend of mine. We have been friends for years now, nothing romantic has ever gone on between us and never will. She is a true friend to me. as I try to be to her. Now if I let you down could you not attack me?” Keenan asks Alarick. I huff, annoyed that Kerrrian felt the need to explain that to him. He should have just let it be, maybe I would have been left alone for once.