Your Mistake, Alpha Red

Eight

Chapter Eight:

Red’s POV

My eyes had been on the young pups, watching them play, laughing heartily yet I felt some sense of loneliness inside.

Someone came into my study but left afterwards then found me outside. “Alpha, there’s a message for you. From Yamada.” I left where I sat immediately and marched into my study.

Yamada was a warrior in charge of protecting my father during his vacations. What trouble did he come to report? I found a letter on my desk that wasn’t there when I left.

I quickly opened and downed it’s contents. “So he’s already here, huh?” As if I didn’t have enough trouble to face, my ruthless older brother was returning to my part of this world.

Luckily, I had foreseen this.

I still remembered the cold words he said to me, his younger brother, as he was banished by my father.

“Ah, Little Red. I’m going to make sure I take everything from you, including this pack, your mother, and eventually what ever unlucky b***h that’d be mated to you.”

I tore the letter and threw it into the furnace, I gestured for the guard to leave but he bowed again. “I have one more message, Alpha, from Nathan.”

That was another warrior I placed to protect someone. My mate, Aida Sundew. “Yes? Did something happen to her?”

“Well, he said there was a human male around the Lady Aida. He doesn’t know the identity of the man except that he attended the same university with the Lady.”

She had spoken of a date on the day she banished herself from my pack. She was haughty if she was already distracting herself with a human male. “Tell him to only watch them. Don’t get close.”

The messenger bowed and walked away. I was alone with my thoughts again, in the empty study. I hurried out to distract myself with the pups playing.

When I got out, I saw their mother’s calling them in for lunch. It was that late already? I got nothing done since morning. Perhaps I was affected by the departure of my mate than I thought, even if I barely knew her.

Still, I knew it was the right call. If White finds her, he’d kill her.

Aida lived majority of her life as a human so she had no basic fighting skills. I knew she wouldn’t immediately lean on me and White could be really cunning. It would be easier confronting him on the same page, where we both had nothing to lose.

I locked my study and returned home. I could already tell I’d be useless to myself for the rest of the day. My mind link was nudged on and I sensed it was my Beta, Klaus.

He was the last person I wanted to meet right now. He knew of Aida Sundew being my mate and faulted me for rejecting my mate. He even dared call my decision cowardice.

Maybe, if he had even the slightest clue how lunatic White was, he’d appreciate my decision. “Yeah?”

“Alpha, Aida Sundew and mother has moved out of the pack. Have you heard of this? It must be because of your rejection, You have to accept her back immediately!” he sounded like he was almost panicking.

“It’s this panic because you know you’d be the one to replace her at the Black Bite’s Business?” I asked.

“Ugh! Would that be your only reaction to your own mate leaving you!” He raised his voice. “Listen to me, really!”

He was so tiring. Maybe because we both grew up together and attended all the official classes together, he thought we were buddies, of some sort. Still, I felt too tired to scold him.

“Klaus, I am aware Aida Sundew left our pack. She had banished herself in front of me. And I permitted it.”

He was about to protest again and I broke our connection. I had trailed towards the forest. There were scents coming from there, even if it was still faraway.

Rogues. But I was too down to do much.

I alerted the border guards, who had been watching me since I absentmindedly crossed the border into the forest. “They are rogues here. Stay put. If any one tries to cross, kill.”

They nodded and I advanced deeper into the forest.

There was a smell of dead meat. Could it be what attracted the rogues? I always told the pack members not to kill the animals to avoid uninvited guests.

I sped to the scene and caught sight of a rotting boar with wolves digging into it. On sensing my presence, some of them ran away but one stayed, growling lowly at me.

These were werewolves who always stayed in their wolf form and gave in to their primal wolf instincts. It’s degrading to see lifeforms similar to mine, eating dead animals from the ground.

It would’ve been better that whoever killed this had taken it home to cook later. The wolf lunged at me but I caught it’s neck before it’s jaw reached me.

“You should have ran.” I sighed. “It would’ve been easier for both of us.” My claws crawled out, digging into it’s neck. It wriggled in my hold and whimpered.

It’s right hand shoved at my face but I caught the hand and squeezed it. “You should leave now I’m not in the mood to kill.”

It whimpered again, before running off to meet the rest who had been watching him. They were like natural wolves now. Pathetic creatures.

I returned to my pack and nodded at the guard who bowed as I passed through the border. I felt my mind link get nudged on again. “Klaus.” I called tiredly.

“White is back!” he announced, like I didn’t already know.

“Yes, he is. That’s why I sent my mate away.” I didn’t plan to tell him. Heck, he shouldn’t know about my plans but it left me.

“Ah! So that was why! But then, shouldn’t you keep an eye on White too? You know he knows about the human world more than you do. He could easily find Aida…”

“That’s if he knew she’s my mate. And he doesn’t. Only you, my messenger, the warrior I asked to watch her, and I know she’s my mate.” After listing the names, I began to felt there were a little too much people.

“Hmm. I don’t know. Let’s hope then. But it seems Aida staying at the pack would have been a better—” I cut his the link.

There was another incoming. “Alpha, this is Nathan. I’m currently close to the pack but I still want to tell you this. I saw White with Lady Aida in the same car. I don’t know what’s happening.”

It felt like an axe was thrown to my chest. White was with Aida? He found my mate? How in the hell had that happened?