Chapter 2; Weightless
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Brix pov
I came from a mission and I was gone for a long time. It's been almost a year "I guess,I can't count the days when I'm on a mission so I'm not sure anymore.
There was nothing else in my mind but to do what I needed to. My hands are often covered in blood.
Not because I'm afraid to die, but because I'm afraid to leave those who depend on me. I am a man who lives for others.
Every breath I take every day is for someone else.
And it started when I stepped on my eleventh birthday.
This is the day I should have celebrated happily but I didn't because on that day, I was separated from the people I call family.
My mother took me to the pack where she came from when she found out that my father was unfaithful and cheating on her.
That was a poor pack and had almost nothing to eat.
The land is dry and is blessed with rain only once a year. So there are no crops to eat. There is also no place for animals so no meat can be served on the table.
Everyone is poor and forced to go to far away places just to be slaves in exchange for a small amount of money to buy food.
Somehow I'm lucky, because I'm the son of my mother who is the only daughter of the alpha in this pack, My grandfather.
Our life here is not as luxurious as the life in my father's pack but somehow we manage.
Until I became aware of the fact that our situation cannot remain like this and it will not change if nothing is done.
On my seventeenth birthday I was assigned to replace my grandfather as the alpha of this Guerriero pack.
And it all started here.
Along with my beta Arlo and some of my omega, we went to different packs to get things we could use.
And yes, we forcefully take it from them.
It's them or my pack will suffer. Only one can survive.
We give them a choice, they will join us to be part of our pack or they will be burned to ashes.
And now more than ten years later, no one can belittle my pack.
We are not what we used to be. Sometimes there are casualties that cannot be avoided especially if I am not satisfied with what I negotiated.
Business is business to me, nothing personal.
I must know how to play the game in such a way that I should always be the winner.
I'm Brix Crisford, 27 years old alpha of Guerriero Pack.
Not like before.
Violence is no longer our weapon to get the things we want, we have learned to negotiate with the alphas of other packs.
I don't know why they give me what I want so easily, they are like scared kittens when I am in front of them but there are those who are stubborn, those who do not know how to fulfill what was discussed and need to be punished so that others will not imitate them.
That's why I'm now on my way to the reprimand alpha pack.
He moved my people back and forth in his pack several times and it seems he has forgotten what we agreed upon.
So I decided to take personal steps to remind him of what we talked about.
But I didn't expect to see my brother in this place.
In fifteen years, we met again just now.
It was as if I was looking in a mirror so I recognized him immediately but he didn't seem to recognize me. Maybe because I have long hair and a thick mustache and beard, unlike his face, I can say that our father raised him really clean.
After all, he didn't recognize me so I didn't bother to introduce myself as well.
I saw him going to the wide garden outside the three-story mansion where it seemed like a celebration was going on.
I don't know what his purpose is, of why he is here, my eyes just follow him as he heads to the garden.
Whatever it is, I don't have time to be curious because I have my own issue to attend to.
I took another path to the mansion itself with Arlo leading the way as he had been here several times. A man met us on the veranda of the mansion.
" We want to talk to Alpha Austin. Arlo asked kindly, who was immediately recognized by the man he was talking to.
But because I just came here for the first time, his forehead was scratched when he turned his gaze to me. I wanted to be annoyed by how he looked at me but I wasn't in the mood so I just turned my eyes in another direction.
My eyes went to the place where the noise was coming from.
Although I could hardly see anything from that side because of the obstructing foxtail palm trees, I was sure that there would be a big celebration tonight.
"Please tell him that the Alpha from the Guerriero pack is here."
I heard Arlo's voice on the back of my head talking to the man.
Based on what I can see, this pack is one of the ones that covers a lot of land.
These luxuries are just like the others, they also come from torturing their fellow wolf blood.
And speaking of low class wolf omegas, There was a woman who suddenly came into my sight while I was looking that way.
The wind carries her scent. I gulped as I inhaled it. Her long hair was braided and pulled back behind her head
My eyes follow her in confusion.
Even though it was dark and she was far away from where I was, I could clearly see how thin she was.
Her smell is sweet as vanilla and roses but it also includes the smell from her day at work.
It is obvious what role she plays in this pack.
It's sickening to think that this kind of life still exists these days.
Now I'm starting to get annoyed with their alpha who has the courage to make me wait for him.
A few moments later, a man dressed in black arrived. Although my eyes remain at the woman, I knew from the edge of my vision that a man had approached where we were.
It seemed to be the uniform of the alpha's henchmen because I had seen several of them earlier while we were on our way to this veranda in front of the mansion's door.
"Excuse me, if it's possible, can you wait a moment for the alpha? He has an important guest tonight that needs to be taken care of.
"Is that so?' I see. I replied without bothering myself to look on the man who just arrived.
"Please alpha, let's wait a little more.
Arlo said to me using the mind link.
Maybe he already knows that my head is starting to heat up because of waiting for the shameless alpha of this pack.
"I'm in control, Fox!
I briefly replied to him as I made my way to the path going to where the woman was standing.
I took slow steps towards where she was and as the distance between the two of us closed, her intoxicating smell grew stronger.
Only a few steps left when I stopped behind her and looked in the direction where her eyes were focused.
I found my brother over there, with his woman.
"So, his mate is the alpha's daughter from this pack. What a coincidence to witness this moment.
But my concern is this woman in front of me. I thought my breathing stopped for a second when she turned around.
Her innocent beauty was revealed in me.
Her eyes were on the ground but I could clearly see the sadness in her eyes when tears crawled from it.
She's weak as a fragile thing and before I could even think, she fell on her knees.
Good thing I'm fast to catch her in my arms. "Goddamn! She's weightless as book.
as my eyes rolled down to her face the crowd started to make noise.
A noise of fear from their mouths.
("Huhhh!) Concerted noise from some of those who recognized me
"What is he doing here?
"Why is he here?
“He's Alpha Brix from the Guerriero pack isn't he?
Great! Now they were all aware of my presence.
I looked at the small stage where my brother was and finally, he seemed to recognize me as I could see the anxiety and confusion on his face.
Same reaction from almost everyone here.
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