Alpha King's Brutal Love

Chapter 41

Aylee's POV

I wipe the sweat off my forehead until Sebastian looks at me wide eyed.

"What?" I ask him, fanning myself with my hands and he looks even serious this time.

"You need to get back to your pack," he says and I feel the uncontrollable need to tear the dress off my body. It's unbearably hot here.

"Why?" I ask him, despite the fact that I know something is wrong with me.

"You are about to shift," Sebastian says.

I just laugh at him, but still fanning my face with my hand for a little bit of air. It feels like someone put me in a boiling cauldron and all I can feel is the immense heat. And only heat.

"You should get back to your borders, alright? First shift closer to the enemy camp is really not easy," Sebastian says as he takes a step towards me but I let out a growl.

A freaking growl! I couldn't growl until now because I don't have a wolf. And that's when it hits me. I am actually shifting and it's full moon tonight. I momentarily forgot about that after receiving the letter saying Farrell had gone missing.

Rowan runs towards me, probably after learning that I left for the enemy camp and hasn't returned. He looks at me concerned and then at Sebastian.

"Take her. Fast. She doesn't have much time left before she shifts," Sebastian says and Rowan lets out a low growl at Sebastian again. Rowan keeps forgetting that Sebastian can rip us both off if he wants to. But he has other problems to deal with at the moment. Very important ones.

"I know what happens during a shift," Rowan mutters and I just start walking towards the borders.

I really need some cool air. Everything feels hot. My entire body is on fire. I don't know anything about the shift, other than the fact that my entire body is going to deform and take the shape of something it hasn't been before. A wolf.

Rowan might have mindlinked my family and alerted them, because they were all waiting on the other side of the silver gates. My mom throws a blanket over me and I rip that off. It f*****g burns!

She doesn't say anything as she helps me walk steady, and towards the clearing at the end of my pack. My vision is getting blurrier by the second. I don't know what organs of me might give up next. I am already walking like I have been drinking alcohol ever since I was born.

I just collapsed on the ground, as soon as I reached the clearing. Since it's midnight most of the pack members are asleep, and the very little portion of my pack population are already here. They want to witness my first shift but I am not sure if I will even survive one!

I close my eyes and take deep breaths. That's what my father kept telling me as he stood a little farther from me. The entire pack is actually shocked to see my father encouraging me at such a crucial stage of my life.

Tears pool around my eyes as I look at him. All the years I have missed my father's love and all the years I only pushed myself the harshest possible way, just because I thought I was never enough. Here we are now.

Sometimes I still don't want to believe if this is all real. How did one heart to heart talk with Arya change my father this much? Did he-

I screamed when a sharp pain shot up my spine. I close my eyes and take short breaths again, as I wait for another wave of pain to hit me once more. Just when I thought it might take time, another wave of harsh pain, this time in my limbs is making me cry.

Everyone kept on telling me all these years that the first shift is usually painful. But no one.. absolutely no one prepared me for this level of pain. I feel like I might die at this moment.

I open my eyes again, but this time I see nothing. My entire vision has gone black. All I can hear is the buzz. I don't hear a single word. Is this death?

I try moving my body but I am unsuccessful so I just lay down, on the ground hoping for this to be death. At the same time I don't want to die this fast either.

I scream out loud when I know my limb is slowly starting to deform the first. My entire body feels like it's being bent and crushed in a hundred ways. I'm not dead. I am just shifting. And this is the process of shifting.

I shut my eyes with all my might, even though the pain is unbearable and I feel my own body changing. And for a while, it even felt like my body was floating in the air. It was that light or maybe I am just light headed after screaming that loud.

All of a sudden, I hear screams. Lots of screams. And claps. And cheers. And laughs too.

I try opening my eyes and blink to adjust to the image around me. Everything is so freaking heightened. Why am I seeing a drop of sweat rolling down my mother's forehead this clearly when she is standing a good fifteen feet away from me?

I stare down and notice I am standing on my paws. I look around and try looking behind me and I sure as hell have a tail too. I am a brown wolf. And I bet my wolf is by far the prettiest in the werewolf history.

"Hello, human" I hear a voice in my head and get startled for a second but then realize it's just my wolf.

"Hello to you too," I say. My mom told me that she communicates with her wolf through her mind. The strongest thoughts are the thread connecting the wolf and human.

"I am Nadia. Your wolf," My wolf tells me and Nadia is by far the most beautiful name I have ever heard.

"And I am Aylee. It's my pleasure to have you as my wolf, Nadia," I tell her back and then shift my focus to my family who are still smiling wide.

I see Arya. She just reached the clearing and she looks like she just got up from her sleep. She smiles a wide smile, something I didn't see her doing. And she walks even farther to get a good look at my wolf.

I shift my focus again, and I can't find the mate scent actually. So that means my mate is not here. Good thing. If he is not here, then there is a high chance I will never find him.

And if I never find him, my steer is clear with Colton. It's him who I choose if I don't want to end up like my mother for half of my life. My mother is blessed that she got a happy reunion with her mate, but I guess that's just not me. I believe I have the most foul luck that I don't even get anything I want, let alone the love of a mate.

"Go have a run and be back. Your wolf needs some fresh air," Rowan says, to which my father agrees.

I don't even mind another second late, as my wolf Nadia sprints through the woods and I know she is running towards the pond. Because her mind is partially being controlled by me as of now. And the pond is where I want to be at.

My wolf howls as she runs even faster. Everything is a blur. But everything is beautiful. I can see every tiny detail so spectacularly. I have never known that the nature could be this beautiful!

I stare at the reflection of my wolf, Nadia, in the pond. She looks so beautiful. I stand there, admiring her through her own eyes. I can see everything clearly. Even the way Nadia's brown fur is moving due to the wind.

I turn around when I catch the scent of Sandal. And I see Colton. So he smells like sandalwood, I guess. He is smiling as he looks at my wolf and Nadia lets out a growl. I bet that's not a happy growl.

"He is not our mate," Nadia says.

"Yes. Yes, I know. But he is who I chose. He will be the one for us. He will take care of us," I explained to Nadia because if she is to be my wolf for the rest of our lives, I think we both should agree on at least one point about life.

Nadia doesn't say anything as she growls again. I close my eyes and think of myself in the human form. The transition back to the human form was even harder than I imagined. Like I said, strong thoughts are the communication and all I had to do to shift back was channel all my energy to my mind and to the human form.

I open my eyes to see Colton unbuttoning his shirt as he walks towards me. I smile at him and he chuckles.

Colton then throws his shirt over me and it reaches till my thighs, thankfully. I am not entirely naked now. Even if I was earlier, only Colton saw it. He already saw me naked several times in the last three days.

I smile at him and close my eyes, asking him to kiss me. But that was when it hit me. The intoxicating scent. This uncontrollable need to just move the f**k away from Colton and to follow this scent that seems to be a hundred times stronger than an average werewolf 's scent.

Nadia takes partial control as she growls at Colton. I know she is acting this way because of my mate, and if my mate is here around somewhere and is already coming towards me, I want him to see what I am doing.

I pull Colton grabbing the back of his neck, and kiss him. Colton seemed confused at first but he didn't take any more time before kissing me back.

Oh dear mate, suck it. Because I don't want you.

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Farrell's POV

I have Katherine with me on my horse, and we are moving towards my camp. According to the supernatural board, my slave is going to stay with me from here on. And apparently the leash she has around her neck also has a tracker that will tell the supernatural board if I am safe or if I need help.

Katherine didn't say a word and it's been a while since we already walked out of that gathering. I guess this is how she was trained. To keep quiet. To not say a word and to blindly follow any order given by a Royal. Which sounds like bullshit, absolutely.

"Don't you seriously know where you came from?" I asked Katherine again, and all she does is shake her head.

"So you are only allowed to answer me. You cannot talk about anything else? You cannot touch anything without my permission? And what else?" I ask Katherine and she turns around just a little, to face me.

"I am allowed to provide you with pleasure whenever you seek. I am allowed to do all your dirty work. I am allowed to be your play thing. And I am allowed to put my life on line for you," Katherine tells me.

"And all these rules are .." I trail hoping she would fill in the blank and she did.

"Because I am chosen to be your slave. And that is what I am fated to be," Katherine says as she bows to me again.

She is not older than Arya, that's for sure. Who even asked this small girl to pleasure her master? She should be learning about life at this age. I wonder what all they made her do during her training days. It might have been even worse.

As the horse comes to a halt, I shift my focus to what's before me. And that's when I see a part of my army, looking relieved when they see me. Leading them is Sebastian.

I get down the horse and when Katherine is about to get down, I ask her not to. So she sat on the horse but her eyes were glancing between me and the army who were looking at her back, confused.

"So you went for the girl?" Sebastian asks me.

"I am afraid I don't speak riddles," I tell him, to which he hands me a letter as his response. I see the Royal seal and I know it's from Meghan.

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Sebastian,

I cannot seem to locate Farrell's talisman. I just want to know if he is safe or not. If he is not, then I will be on my way. I want to come right now but there is no one to look after the pack.

Do write back to me in an instant. And please please help Farrell if he is in danger. You know the witches are against him. And his entire life had been on thin ice. I don't want anything to happen to him and if anything happens, then I am going to draw blood with my magic on the battlefield.

You stay safe too. I can't bear losing any of you!

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"So what? You came because you thought I went missing?" I ask Sebastian and he nods, absent minded because his entire focus is on Katherine who is just staring at him back.

"The location of the supernatural board is unknown to everyone outside the board," Katherine explains to me, but with her eyes on Sebastian. If someone saw them they would think they are mates.

"Well, you heard her. Who else did you alert telling them that I went missing?" I ask him, only because I want to know if Aylee knows about it too.

I want to know if she felt sad or happy. If she felt tense or relieved. Or if she even gave a f**k about me going missing.

"She was the one who brought the letter and claimed it was delivered to the wrong address," Sebastian says and I resist the smile creeping on my face.

Of course. She intercepted the letter so it's only fair for her to read this as well. So she came to Sebastian after knowing that I have gone missing instead of letting me stay missing.

Lyon purrs inside just knowing that our mate at least cares. Which is a miracle apparently. I know I have an effect on her, but for her to do such things in my absence is making me go even crazy for her.

I am addicted to her and I am not ashamed to say that out loud.

"She ran to some pond that I had never seen. But I sent her back because she was about to shift," Sebastian says and that's all I needed to know.

I got on my horse again and started riding faster. I felt Katherine tense a little but I assure her that it's only because I am happy. She doesn't say anything though, but I just know that she is trying her best to be calm.

"Didn't they include horse riding in your training?" I ask her and she shakes her head, holding on tight to the leather that's around the neck of the horse. I smile a little mentally noting that I should ask one of my army men to teach her how to ride a horse.

I turned around to see the army somewhere far behind only because I was riding insanely fast. The reason I chose this horse when I got the Alpha title was because this horse was claimed to be the fastest, and I bought it in an auction after riding it myself. There is no one like this.

When I was closer to the pond, that's when I caught a whiff of her scent. I take a quick glance towards that direction only for my heart to break and shatter into a thousand pieces.

I don't know if it's the disappointment or the rage or both, but all I want to do is to kill the one who is shirtless with my mate and not only is she wearing his shirt, but she is holding his hand and looking at him the way she should be looking at me. Her mate.

Katherine looks at Aylee and then at me. But she doesn't say anything. Maybe for the first time I feel glad that she is trained not to say anything unless she is asked to.

I look at Aylee one last time, as she kisses him with her hands around his neck and his hands holding her waist.

I thought it would be a grand gesture when she catches the mate scent, and she would realize I am her mate. And that all this stupid war will come to an end. And I could finally tell the world that she is my mate and that's why I haven't made a move against her pack yet.

But now I can't stay here longer and risk revealing everything. Sebastian will understand why I am here if I am staring at Aylee kissing someone else, with an emotion in my eyes. I don't think I am ready to face that now.

So I silently rode back to the camp and once I was at the camp, and my army reached back, that's when I gave them my first order ever since we came here and set the camp.

"First thing after sunrise, I am going to negotiate with Alpha Aylee," I tell my army and Sebastian doesn't look pleased with what I just said.

"And if things don't go our way," I pause and look at everyone,"we are going to wage a war"

With that, my entire army screams and they all look a little thirsty for blood. I don't blame them. They are the finest of all werewolf army packs combined and they are here to fight. It's been days already since they last fought and it's natural for them to be this excited.

While walking into the pack, I take a quick glance at Katherine and she looks at me for the first time with her eyes silently telling me that I am about to make the biggest mistake.