Alpha King's Brutal Love

Chapter 31

Farrell's POV

I bet she winced. She did. Even if my eyes were deceiving me, the bond couldn't have lied. I felt a wince. I watched her walk to her border's gates and she didn't even turn around as she walked inside.

"Are you f*****g mad?" Sebastian asks me as soon as Aylee and her beta are out of sight.

I turn around and raise my eyebrow that silenced him and stood in attention. Ever since I grew softer thanks to Aylee, people have been testing my patience.

"When will the riders usually be back?" I ask Sebastian, as we walk towards my camp.

"Since they went out last night, they are going to come back here by tomorrow night. Takes two full nights and days for it," Sebastian says and I nod again.

So I need to wait until tomorrow night for the potion that Meghan is going to send. I have an idea in my mind on what to do, but I should see what Aylee makes me do.

Knowing her, she might be brewing her plan already. She is not someone who is going to go down without a fight. Not even one Alpha did that so far. No one was ready to even put up a fight. And even if they did, I killed them on spot.

I cannot kill Aylee. I will not kill her. I just want to see how far she goes to protect her pack when I don't even have any intention of killing her in order to get it. If she wants to surrender herself then that's a different story.

I get back to my camp and everyone is standing straight.

"How many of you are from The Nightfall Pack?" I ask them and they take a moment to raise their hands.

"To your left please," I say and they all form a separate group to their left, leaving almost half of the army in front of me.

Usually Sebastian takes care of all these things so I entirely trusted him while I studied all the packs maps and their Alpha histories. After meeting Arya this morning, I realized I don't even know who is fighting anymore and who's not.

For all I know there could be a spy one among us. It might be for Aylee or it might be for someone else who is dying for a change at revenge. Too bad I wouldn't even leave a gap for someone else to get revenge on me.

"Did I kill your Alpha?" Was my next question and a few of them raised their hand and I seperated that group again.

"Did your Alpha surrender?" I asked my last question and people who raised their hands moved aside as well. Leaving just Arya.

In this vast grounds, it was just Arya before me not belonging to any group. And he is standing with his head high but still not looking at me. I take just a step forward and look at the fifteen year old boy.

"What did I do to your Alpha?" I ask Arya and he takes a step forward and then bows to me.

"You are my Alpha," he says and I couldn't wipe my stupid smile on my face.

"Why don't you belong to any group?" I ask him again, this time my voice clearly saying that I am beyond impressed with this boy.

"I am not from The Nightfall Pack, so I don't belong there," Arya tells me as he looks at the larger group to his left.

"My Alpha wasn't killed or was he surrendered because you are my Alpha," he says again as he points to the other two groups.

I look at Sebastian and even he has an impressed look on his face. For a fifteen year old boy, the loyalty he has is dangerous. Dangerous to others and to me too. If Aylee wins over me, then he would be loyal to her. Loyal enough that if she orders him to kill me, he would gladly do it.

"How about we have breakfast together, Arya?" I ask him and he looks taken aback by that but still nods nonetheless.

I then disperse the entire army and they all go in random directions since it's finally a green signal for food. We have a different set up for food and a team of cooks who do everything for us. And the breakfast is already made and they are just reheating it again to make it a bit more edible.

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Sebastian and Arya both follow me to my tents and since I am the first to arrive, I spot Aylee's white dress on the small table beside my mattress in the tent and I quickly remove it and shove it under the mattress.

Sebastian grabs a chair and sits already but Arya is still standing. But when I ordered him to sit, that's when he actually sat and the level of loyalty was insane. It's things like these that make me feel like there are interesting candidates left in this world.

"So Arya, tell me about you" I ask the boy and he doesn't answer.

"And you can look at me," I say and he quickly looks at my face just for a second before shifting his gaze to one of the corners of the tents. At least he was curious enough to look at my face for a second.

"What pack were you born in?" I ask him, because apparently if I ask him who his Alpha is he just names me.

"The Little Stone Pack," Arya says in a whisper and I nod.

"And who was your Alpha when you were in The Little Stone Pack?" I ask the boy again.

He pauses talking when two people walk in with three bowls of food and hands it to us. In their eyes when they looked at Arya, I found jealousy and murmurs started as soon as they went out. I looked at Arya and he was just staring at his bowl.

"Don't mind them," I tell Arya and he just shakes his head.

"That's not the issue, Alpha" he says, finally looking at me again.

"It's your question earlier. Who was my Alpha when I was in The Little Stone Pack," he whispers and that catches my attention.

"Alpha Keith," he says and I nod even though I know that Alpha Keith was the ruling Alpha until I killed him as a part of my promise.

"And he was my master," Arya says that actually threw me off for a second there.

Sebastian and I exchanged glances and it is now clear that even Sebastian wasn't aware of this.

"Master? As in?" I ask Arya and he looks around once, and then he shakes his head.

"So you are ready to betray your own Alpha?" I ask him and he looks at my head, eyes wide and shaking his head frantically.

Arya slowly stands up and walks to the door of my tent and pulls the curtains and then zips the entire thing so no one could see what is happening.

Sebastian is now about to say something until Arya turns around and quickly removes his top.

That's when I saw and realized that Arya is not a fifteen year old boy. But a girl. Underneath the boy clothes and shorter hair, Arya is a girl and she did not let anyone know.

The bowl of porridge slips from my hand making noise and the food spills, making Arya take a step back and look at me in nothing but fear.

"What?" I ask her and she quickly puts her top back on and then kneels before me.

"I was originally born to a tribe. The tribe where they sell girls to Alphas as slaves. To be whatever the Alpha wishes to be. And my mother got pregnant through Alpha Keith," Arya says.

Sebastian is equally shocked because this is the kind of thing that we are hearing for the first time. I didn't even know such things ever existed.

"So you are Alpha Keith's daughter?" I ask her and she shakes her head.

"He never acknowledged me as his daughter. Because he already had a wife and a son. No one even knew that I was his daughter. I was trained to be a slave to Alpha Keith even though he was my father. I was allowed to call him Master or nothing else. He often enjoyed watching his Beta force himself on me even when I was just twelve," Arya says, tears running down her cheeks.

"I started learning Archery. I wanted to do something. I wanted to take my mind off everything that was hurting me. And every time I shot an arrow, I pictured Beta Henry's face. It gave me temporary relief until Henry came again on Alpha's orders. I remember falling sick once and my mother gave me a medicine that made my stomach ache. It was just three months prior to your arrival, Alpha" Arya tells me and I look at her, even though I have a slightest bit of idea on what actually happened.

"Turns out I was actually pregnant and my mother gave me a medicine to kill the child. I thought it was just medicine for the fatigue I was feeling. My mother revealed this to me on her deathbed. She got infected by pox and Alpha Keith refused to get her treatment afraid it would spread. She was confined to a hut and I visited her even though there was a wall between us. I couldn't tell her proper goodbye. When she died, the entire hut was burned down to the ground. And then you came all along and killed Alpha Keith. It felt like a touch of freedom. Something I only dreamt of, all the time," Arya says.

And I raise my hand. She doesn't have to say anything else about her past. I got the picture of it now and I don't think anything about it is pleasant enough for her to be recalling it all.

"But why did you choose to live like a boy?" I ask Arya.

"Because everywhere I came across, girls were never given importance. I don't have a father or a mother. Only half brother who went missing after Alpha Keith was killed. I had nowhere to go. So in order to survive I needed to hide my sexuality. And I joined your forces. Dying in war at least seemed like an honorable option," Arya says and I have no words at this point.

"But how did you even manage?" I ask Arya and she laughs.

"Everyone is focused on themselves only, Alpha. No one even knew I existed until now that I have your attention on me. So it was easy, actually. Like I said, being a boy with no name was still better than introducing oneself as a high born girl," Arya says.

I thought about it often too. How egocentric the Alphas were. But to a point that Keith didn't even acknowledge his own daughter? That went a little too far.

I look at Arya and I instantly know that she is going to have a better life from now on. Technically I killed her Alpha and became her Alpha. I couldn't become her father but I could be a brother.

"Open the curtains now," I say and she complies without saying a word.

"Go to the cook and tell him that Alpha Farrell dropped his bowl of porridge and he needs another one. Bring that to me," I tell her and she nods, walking outside leaving just Sebastian and I.

"I don't know what kind of strings you are going to pull. I need that Beta Henry to be here by tomorrow. And if possible, today would do good as well," I tell Sebastian and he smiles, already understanding what I mean.

I can be brutal. I can be a bad person. I can kill people. I leave people no choice once I set my mind on something. I am f*****g walking bomb.

But at least I don't act like a heartless person. And that poor girl has seen hell the fifteen years she was on this planet. I don't know what else to do for her. Maybe I have an idea but I should think about it a little more and then act on it.

Just when I was thinking about it, Arya walks in with another bowl of porridge and I smile as I take that from her hands.

"Thank you," I smile at her and she sits again to eat her bowl of porridge as well. Her porridge somehow looks thinner, almost like soup, compared to mine and Sebastian's.

But she doesn't complain as she eagerly eats all of that. I couldn't even understand what to do with her at this camp. I can send her back but I don't think people are just going to accept her once they come to know who she actually is.

True Meghan would be there but she has an entire pack to run with no help. Both Sebastian and I are here and she is all alone there. And she is working on a potion so she wouldn't come to protect Arya even if she tries so hard. Moreover the journey back to Nightfall Pack takes two days and who knows what this fifteen year old girl in disguise of a boy will have to face before she reaches the destination.

I give Arya my bowl of porridge too and she looks at it once, and then back at me before taking it and eating it with her eyes closed and she looks like she is enjoying thicker porridge.

"Come with me," I whisper as I stand up once she finishes eating.

Sebastian looks at me a little confused but I don't tell him what I am planning on. Because he wouldn't like it and he would even oppose it.

I walk outside with Arya behind me carefully walking with her head down. She said no one really noticed her until now. She was trained to be Loyal to Alpha and that quality made her stand out today even when she didn't try to.

I walk with Arya all the way towards The Moon Set Pack's border gates and stand there with her behind me. She is already looking at the gates in wonder because according to her there is a layer of magic potion on these walls.

Rowan looks at me through the cracks of the gates and raises his eyebrow at me. This punk should really know his place before raising his eyebrow at me.

"I need to talk to your Alpha," I say and he looks at Arya behind me.

"What for?" He asks me and I don't answer anything until he asks me the same question once again.

"Oh! I thought I asked for your Alpha. Not your questionnaire," I tell him and he mutters something under his breath and walks away.

Probably to bring Aylee. I turn around to look at Arya but she is looking at the silver gates as well. She is amazed by the magic potion, clearly. If only she knew it was hot wolfsbane and that the only female Alpha on this planet actually played a trick on Alpha Farrell.

Just when I was about to ask someone else to bring Alpha Aylee, I saw her through the crack of the walls, staring at me. I smile at her and she doesn't smile back. She noticed Arya behind me and I do know what she thought or what she told her army, but she ordered the gates to be lowered.

"Alpha to Alpha, please. That is exactly why I didn't allow Sebastian to come too," I scream for Aylee to hear if she is planning on bringing Rowan with him.

Half the reason why I don't want him before me is that he is acting all almighty when it only takes me a second to kill him and bury him right where he is standing. It's my own decision to not fight against Aylee, that is stopping him.

The gates are eventually lowered and I see Aylee walk out. Alone. Without her Beta. Once she is out and starts to walk, the gates are pulled up quickly. Measures that do not allow me to see what exactly is happening inside. She is one good gamer, I must say. And I am loving these mind games. Makes me do better every single day because she is giving me such competition.

"What is it now, Alpha Farrell? Shortage of food?" She asks me even though she knows I have an entire team ready just for those purposes.

I move aside and her eyes fall on Arya who is silently standing behind me. Now that I stepped aside, Arya finally saw Aylee from a close distance. Neither of the girls smile as they look at each other.

"She is Arya. From The Little Stone Pack," I introduce Arya to Aylee and she just nods in acknowledgement.

"And she is-"

"Alpha Aylee. The only female Alpha. From The Moon Set Pack," Arya finally smiles at Aylee. And Aylee smiles once Arya smiles too. Good thing they at least acknowledge each other.

"She is a girl. A truth I came to know just minutes ago," I say and Arya's eyes go wide at the fact that I put her well kept secret out. But all she had to do was trust me at this point.

"I don't think my camp is fit for a girl to be amongst the sea of men soldiers who still think that a war is no place for a girl. And I don't want her to live in the disguise of a boy like she did until now," I tell Aylee and now she is looking at me with those curious eyes.

A gust of wind makes her blonde hair move and cover her face a little. She tucks her hair behind her ear and then nods at me to keep talking.

"I know this is a bit too much to ask of you as an enemy who has a camp with an army right outside your borders, but can you please look after her? I don't think I can trust anyone for that. Except you," I finally tell her and her eyes go wide, clearly not expecting what I just said.

"Alpha!" Arya almost screams as she looks at me wide eyed too.

"What was your motto? What were you trained for?" I ask Arya and she hesitates a bit, looking at Aylee.

"It's okay. I trust Alpha Aylee. And I brought you here so you can understand that she is someone you can trust too. Now, what were you trained for?" I ask Arya again.

"To impress Alpha," she whispers, a bit ashamed of it.

"Good. And since I am your Alpha now, I should let you know what impresses me the most when it concerns you," I say and she turns around to look at me again.

"You being somewhere safe and healthy. I couldn't be a father to you. I killed your father and it's not my fault or his. But the least I could do for you is be a brother to you. So if you want to impress me, then grow well under her," I tell Arya and she doesn't even hesitate before she hugs me, crying.

I look at Aylee and her eyes are soft as well. Clearly not expecting me to be like this. For a fifteen year old girl, Arya did see a lot of hell and I don't want her to go through anything again.

Moreover I see myself in her. Losing both parents and having nowhere to go. I've been there. But only, I was already an Alpha and I had a plan ready. She is only fifteen. A girl in a world of egocentric men. This is the least I could do for her.