Alpha King's Brutal Love

Chapter 44

Aylee's POV

"Alright then. It's silver so be careful," Farrell said as he threw his silver knife high up in the air and my eyes were on it and Colton was walking forward to catch it before it fell on the ground.

I guess we are all so invested in finding out if Colton will be able to catch that or not, and we totally missed a crucial step that Farrell took.

He quickly pulled out another silver knife that he hid in his armor and threw it straight at Colton.

And before I realized it, it struck Colton's heart making him fall on the ground. A scream of horror leaves my body as I rush towards Colton's body, which has already collapsed on the ground.

I hold Colton in my arms to see his life is already on the brink of giving up. All he did was look at me, then at the sky and just like that his heart stopped beating.

I let tears roll down my cheeks, holding Colton in my arms. His body is losing its warmth and he is starting to become paler. But his eyes are still open as they look at the sky. I close my eyes for a moment to recall how he looked like when he was smiling and I can't help but let out a sob.

"Take him inside," I ordered my army heads and they looked at me, then at Farrell and looked at me again.

"Doesn't matter. The war starts only after we send him off with all the rituals," I promise my people as they bow to me and take Colton's body inside. Colton's body. It's still hard to digest that I am even referring to him as his body and not just Colton.

"Oops. I'm sorry Colton. It's my fault I didn't mention which knife you should be catching," Farrell says as he notices my people taking Colton inside.

I stand up and walk towards him. Even Sebastian looks a little surprised as he looks at his Alpha, and what he just did. I stand before Farrell, ready to storm him with questions but I don't know why my mouth seems to be glued shut in his presence.

I know this isn't about the war or something. He killed Colton just because I kissed him. He killed a person for the decision that I took. I don't know if I will ever forgive him for this.

"There will be no war today. Your Alpha played it real nice and now I have a job to do. To send off my pack member to the heavens even before the war started," I say and his army looks at me too. I bet even they might be thinking why their Alpha made such a move.

I give Farrell one last look before I turn around and walk into the borders through the silver gates. And I see everyone kneeling around Colton as he lays on the ground, looking at the sky.

I kneel before him and close his eyes. I can't help the lump in my throat as I look at him. He looks like he is sleeping and I wish he is. I wish he was sleeping and wakes up to tell me his armor perfectly shielded him. But too bad he wasn't even wearing his armor.

I look at the silver knife still stuck into his chest and hold the handle. I pull the knife out to see the edges smudged with raw hot wolfsbane. My idea that was. How clever of Alpha Farrell to be playing this game with the rules that I already set for different reasons.

I let out a sob, recalling all the laughs Colton and I shared. All the kisses we shared. The dreams we had about our future. And all the good times.

Even when my entire life was s**t, when my father had his mistress and my mother could care less.. he was my safe haven. I always found him when things got overwhelming in my life. Now I don't know where to go. Who to find.

I cry for the person I lost. Not the warrior my pack lost.

"I am sorry," I whisper to Colton and pray hard that he must be around here listening to me.

I bet his soul might already know the reason by now. The reason why Farrell killed him with just one blow.

It was Arya who held me. Her hands around me as she hugged me from behind. And I don't know why, I cried out loud this time. My heart is crying for Colton. The man I wanted to marry. The man who always stood right outside the pack house. The man who took me and my mother in when my father couldn't bear my presence. The man who helped me win many wars. The man who did so much for me. And all I did was bring him to his death earlier.

"I'm sorry, Colton" I whisper and place a kiss on his forehead before standing up.

"I am sorry I might have failed you people already," I tell my pack but they are crying with me too. I wish they knew it was unavoidable. I wish they understood that this was something even I didn't see coming.

"Along with Colton's funeral, I want everyone to find yourself an armor. Even an old one still works," I tell them and they all nod at me.

I nod back at them and turn around. I need to get out of there. I can't seem to breathe. Nadia is awfully calm. I don't know where to go. I don't know who to find.

Usually at times like these the one I find is usually Colton. But now that option is ruled out as well. I walk straight to the pond and I turn around to make sure no one is following me.

Thankfully no one did follow me. I fall on my knees at the edge of the pond and look into the water. There's the reflection of the gray clouds and I think the color gray is reflecting not just the clouds but me too. It's my heart. Turning gray.

I close my eyes for a moment and feel fresh tears rolling down my cheeks again. I cost Colton his life when I kissed him here last night. Something I shouldn't have done. Something that will haunt me until the day I die. If I die tomorrow, at the war I would still be happy because Alpha Farrell would become mate less and he would feel the pain of the mate bond ripping.

That is the least amount of pain I could give him after what he had done today. I pray to the Moon Goddess that he should suffer.

When all the other Alphas called him a bad news, I didn't believe them. Because he was different from me. He was never cruel. But I guess it was because he didn't know what I was doing behind the silver walls. When he knew that I was doing something he didn't like, he was quick to react. And in a not so good way.

I open my eyes and I know he is here even though I don't see him. His scent is making me feel anger and so many other emotions. I don't even turn around to notice him walking towards me. I don't know how he knew I was coming here and I don't care anyways.

I finally see his reflection beside mine on the pond. He is just standing beside me. Looking at me. I am still kneeling at the edge of the pond, while he is standing and probably waiting for me to stand up or whatever.

And I do. I stand up on my feet and look at him. He is staring at me with no expression and emotion.

"I really hope you are happy now," I whisper, and my voice comes out rasper than I thought. But it's alright. He should know that I cried and that is not for him.

"I mean, it's a mate bond. At least one of us should be happy, right?" I ask him again and still he doesn't say anything. He is just staring at me. A straight face. And I am growing tired of it.

"Say something," I say and all he does is a simple shrug. As if that means something in his language dictionary.

"Oh wow. You kill someone just because I kissed him. And now all you have to tell me is nothing but a simple shrug. Is that it?" I ask him, and I find my voice raising up slightly and it doesn't even seem to matter to him.

Because all he is doing again is staring at me. And I am boiling with anger right now. I wish I could kill him. But that would be too easy. I want him to suffer.

"Okay. So how about I walk into my pack straight from here. I grab the first man I find and kiss him again?" I ask him and see him clench his jaw. Finally something is working.

"I love that idea," I say smirking again and Farrell is now taking a step closer to me, but I take a step back. I cannot bear standing this close to him after what he did today.

"Oh. Maybe do it with Rowan. He doesn't have a mate either. Or maybe ,I can replace him with Colton. After all kissing was the least intimate thing I did with Colton," I say again and I hear a low growl coming from Farrell that made me flinch just a little but I masked it up real quick before he found out.

"Yes. Judging your reactions I think that's the best thing to do," I smirk at him and turn around.

But a feral growl from Farrell makes me stop, but when I take another step towards my pack he grabs my wrist and pulls me towards him.

My back meets with his front and the sparks are making it impossible for me to move away. Why of all people in this world, did Moon Goddess make him my mate?

"Let me go," I say, fighting to walk away but he is only twisting my arm even more. My right hand is free but somehow it's glued to my side.

"And what will you do if I let you go?" He asks me, a whisper in my ear.

Fuck the mate bond. f**k these goosebumps. And f**k him for being my mate when I didn't even want a mate.

"Why does it matter to you?" I ask him again and I feel his breath on my neck. I feel the warmth from his body. I don't like how my body is reacting to all this and I feel like I am cheating on Colton right now. Not in the cheating kind of way.

It's not even an hour since Colton was killed and here I am, with Farrell at the pond. I can't seem to pull away from him and I hate and blame the mate bond for it.

"It matters to me, Aylee" he says and the way he says my name is making me go crazy. Even my wolf is howling in the back of my mind and it took me great measures to push her inside again and lock her up in the back of my mind.

"Let me go, Farrell. You have no right to do this," I say and with an ease, he turns me around so I am facing him now. But with my arm still in his. His grip is surely leaving a bruise on my wrist but that is the least of my concerns right now.

"Don't do anything stupid, Aylee. You already did it once. And trust me you don't want to know the consequences if something like that happens again," Farrell says and I smirk at him.

"The last time I checked, you weren't my father" I told him and now he is smirking back.

"And you should be happy I am not your father. He is at my camp again anyway. He was the one who told me you might be here," Farrell smirks and I feel betrayed right now.

My father went to his camp and told him that I might be here? I thought he changed. I thought he wanted a new beginning and to restart his life. I thought he finally got back to his senses.

But all he could ever think was ways to trade me and become the Alpha again. If that's the case I wonder why he made me the Alpha in the first place.

"Why did you kill Colton?" I ask Farrell and he just stares at me, his hand silently leaving mine.

I know I am insane, because it feels different when he is not holding me. Even when his grip is equivalent to death. I glance at my wrist and it surely is already bruised.

"Give me a reason why I shouldn't," Farrell asks me back.

"Maybe because he had nothing to do with the mate bond between us," I tell him and take a step closer, feeling powerful with the answer I gave him.

I expected him to take a step back but he didn't even move an inch. In fact he is just standing there and smirking at me, his body now dangerously closer to mine than ever.

"He wasn't your mate, was he?" Farrell asks me and I don't answer. Of course Colton knows he isn't my mate and everyone knows that as well.

"So why shouldn't I kill someone who kissed my mate even when he knows he wouldn't stand a chance?" Farrell asks me, and takes a step forward this time.

Now our bodies are touching again. The sparks are exploding and I am even slightly dizzy even. It took me so much of my energy to just pull away from him and these intoxicating sparks. No one told me that the mate bond would be this strong.

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Farrell's POV

I stare at her and her eyes are looking at me like a hawk. I know she thinks of herself like that but she actually looks like an angry kitten to me. She is just angry that I killed her lover boy. But she will come around. She surely will.

"I am walking inside. And I am kissing Rowan," Aylee says as she pulls away finally. Thank God. Because the effect of sparks is giving me unimaginable ideas. I would have kissed her if she stayed for two more seconds.

"And your pack will lose a lot if the Beta gets killed too," I say and she scoffs at me. I know she is angry and I am only making her even angrier. But this is how she will learn not to be an i***t again.

"You are Alpha Farrell to everyone. But to me, you are the most self centered asshole who thinks of no one but you. Colton kissed me back, so what? Was that such an offense that he had to pay for it with his life?" Aylee asks me and I shrug with my eyebrows raised and my lips forming a sarcastic frown.

"Well, if you put it like that I guess-"

"You are unbelievable," Aylee tells me.

"I have heard worse," I smirk at her and I bet she is growing even more infuriated right now. But it's funny, watching her this way. She was witty. She was funny. She was faking courage. She did so many things. But watching her get angry is by far my most favorite thing.

"And all the truth, I suppose," I heard her say and I momentarily forgot what I said earlier before focusing on how funny she looked when she was angry.

"Whatever truth means in your language," I say hoping she wouldn't catch on to the lie that I don't remember what we talked till now.

She is making me go crazy. I always played by the rules in all the wars till now. I always made sure I won fair and square. This is the first time I let my personal life get in between my professional one.

I let my anger do the deeds for me. I was actually trying to be civil and see what Aylee had to say once she realized I was her mate. But then, he walked out of the silver gate and I watched her smile at him.

A smile even I didn't get from her. I realized she wasn't ready to see the reality because of him. He was the dream she had in her mind and she felt it was the safest place. I was more than ready to show her that it was just a dream. And me, her mate, standing before her is real.

Moreover she was just being a brat. She didn't even turn around and look at me when she found out she had a mate. If I caught her scent and she shifted, making her catch my scent too.. that means she knows her mate was around. But she just wanted to put on a show.

"What happened to playing by the rules?" Aylee asks me softly and I shift my attention back to her.

"I respected you when I walked into your camp the first day, and saw all your army smile at me as a greeting. And you said you play by the rules and do the killing only on the battlefield," Aylee says again. Now if she asks me the same question I've been asking myself as I walked here, then I am afraid I do have an answer.

"Why did you kill him when he did nothing to you personally? Colton just kissed me, Farrell. No. I was the one who kissed him. That's wrong I admit. But I know that his life wouldn't be the price to pay for the decision I took," Aylee shakes her head and I just stare at her not knowing what to say. I did kill him on the battlefield but the war was nowhere in sight. I let my anger do the best.

"Honestly, I don't even know why I thought people might have been mistaken when they told me repeatedly that you have no heart. When I sent letters to Alphas asking them for help with my war against you, they said the best I could do was surrender. Because you were a heartless asshole and would do anything to win. I wasn't sad that they didn't send me help. I was sad that they called you heartless. Maybe now I understand. Maybe now I see," Aylee says again.

She pulls away even further and looks into my eyes. All her anger slowly dissolves and I see only pain in her eyes. Something that I caused her. I know it was immature of me to kill Colton like that. But I don't regret it.

"Call me whatever you want," I pause and she looks at me,"but I don't regret what I did"

Aylee throws me a look of disgust before turning around and walking away towards her pack. I don't know what I'm supposed to do next. But maybe I should come up with an explanation not just to her or my army. But to me as well.

Something in my heart says that the war actually started now. Not the war between packs but the war between two mates. Me and my mate.