KADE’S POV
Drenched, heart racing and fear gripping my soul.
Another dream about my family, the ones I could not save.
“Why didn’t you save us Kade? Why did you let them take us away? Don’t you that we’re hurting?”
These words have haunted me since I lost them. The same dream, the same scenes and the same death, playing every time I shut my eyes for a sleep. It didn’t matter what time that sleep came, it always came; the dream that is.
I ran my hands across my face and let out a sigh. When I scanned over to my watch to check what time it was, just noon.
For days I went on without sleep, avoiding the inevitable that waited in that world for me.
I sat up from the couch I had laid down on and stood up to head back to my table, the one place I could bury myself in – work.
Olivia was my world. She taught me what love meant and through that we had our first child.
I felt a nudge at the back of my mind and instantly, I knew someone was about to speak to me even when I ordered that I was not to be disturbed.
When I let my walls down, I heard my Beta, Drew’s voice.
“Alpha, your sister is at the border. She’s coming through and she’s pissed.”
Great, another drama I had to deal with.
“Let her through.” I replied curtly before shutting the link back.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my twin sister, Mia to death but her presence wasn’t what I needed at the moment. And deep down I knew what she was upset about.
I readied my mind, for what she had up her sleeves this time.
And not long after, the door to my office banged open, revealing an angry Mia indeed.
“Did you forget your manners at your mate’s pack?” I asked not in the mood for her behavior.
“Don’t you dare growl at me mister. You got married and didn’t tell me?” She roared, her voice making me wince.
“First of all, there’s no need for you to yell, it’s just the two of us here.” I said to her.
“Where is she?” she asked her voice much calmer and I felt like I could breath again. She didn’t even let me finish what I was going to say.
It wasn’t that I didn’t know who she was talking about. I just didn’t want to have to think about where said person was.
“Where’s who?” I asked feigning ignorance.
“Your wife Kade! Who else? Where’s she?” I didn’t know why she now had a smile on her face but I didn’t like it. It always simply meant trouble.
When I didn’t answer, Mia huffed and walked out of the office making sigh in relief that she didn’t actually push it.
What I thought would be peace and quiet f*****g became a chaos. Mia came back fuming more than she was when she arrived.
“You had your wife locked up in the dungeon? Have you lost your mind?” she yelled frantically like I had just murdered someone in cold blood.
If the girl hadn’t embarrassed me and defied me, she wouldn’t need to be locked up but Mia doesn’t know that.
“The only reason I married that girl is because of what her father did to Olivia and Nathan.” I exclaimed anger finding it’s way very easily at me.
“So? If you wanted revenge why marry her? You know what I’m going to get her out of that dungeon.”
Mia said and the way that she looked furious, I hadn’t seen her this way in a long time.
“I am your Alpha, you will not defy me Mia! “ I bellowed at her, reminding her that my orders were final. Anger radiated off me. I could never hurt her but she was testing me. She was disrespecting me.
“I am an Alpha blood too, don’t you forget that Kade.” Mia bellowed back, her voice changing as well. She glared at me icily before stalking off.
She had been here for what, a few minutes and we were already at each other’s throat for that girl?
That thing?
This wasn’t how I wanted to spend my night. I was already always too angry and depressed to want another drama added to it.
Mia knew what happened, she saw it happen.
She was there when it did.
So I couldn’t understand why she wasn’t on my side.
She hadn’t even met Zaya and she was already picking her side instead of mine, her brother’s.
Talk about betrayal
I felt a wave of it crash through me. How could she even care about her when her father was the one who took her best friend away?
Was this what she meant by she loved them?
When she walked out of the office, she didn’t shut the door and I thought that was the end of her I was going to see today.
I was wrong.
She came back, her face holding two distinct emotions; anger and worry.
Behind her followed a stench that almost made me puke. It was Zaya.
When I had her locked up I didn’t even realize that she had been there for days because I made myself forget.
The anger she had was undoubtedly for me and her worry for Zaya.
Deep down I wanted her to rot in there so that when her father saw her corpse, he’d have nothing left of her to bury other than the maggots that have already eaten their way out of her.
But there she was, looking all frail that I was tempted to end her misery.
“I’m going to have her cleaned up. And you and I are going to have a talk.” Mia said, taking a scared, broken and weak looking Zaya with her.
Mia sounded more like our mother than she did like my sister.
Since they came, she couldn’t look me in the eye.
Good
It meant she was afraid of me.
Just the way I wanted it to be.
When they left, I picked up the air freshener spray that was on the shelves behind my chair and sprayed it everywhere to get rid of her smell.
I sat back down in my chair and before I knew it, I was drawn into another sleepless dream. I was awake and my mind was alert but I was also with Olivia and our boy in what used to be OUR living room.
It was a nice memory and left to me, I’d have loved to stay in it forever, a place where I’d never loose them again.
I didn’t realise how long I had been in my own world, but I snapped out of it when I heard tapping on my table.
Seeing who it was, I frowned.
Why couldn’t she just go away already?
“What do you want now?” I snapped at her, not really meaning to but she had been on my case too many times today and I didn’t think I had the patience to keep up with it.
“I’m not here to fight with you Kade.” She answered, her voice much calmer and softer.
I rolled my eyes in annoyance. Now she wanted to be calm when she had successfully ruined what was left of my day.
“Yeah sure.” I muttered, adjusting my position.
She took the seat in front of me. “I’m really not here to fight with you. Sure I was upset because you didn’t tell me, your twin you were getting married and then I come and find out you had the girl locked up? Kade this is wrong. The poor girl is more than traumatised right now.”
I shut my eyes to control my breathing which seemed to have picked up pace in anger.
What was she getting at?
Whatever it was, I didn’t want to hear it.
“I don’t care if she dies today. I will have my revenge either way. And if you don’t want to be on my side, that’s alright, just don’t meddle in my business.”
It was getting hard to control my anger. The mere thought of the girl not suffering was repulsive. I had to do something, but first, Mia had to go.