“Honey, I am here. I am here to take us out of this damned place.” Maya said. Her voice was shaking with nervousness although she forced herself to calm down. She did not know the extent to which Ashton was hurt but she knew that she had to hurry.
“You came?” Ashton said in a weak voice. It seemed like he had not yet fully lost consciousness. His whole body was covered in sweat and from their mate bond, Maya could feel that he was in a lot of pain.
“Yes, I came. How can I leave you alone?” Maya asked. Although tears were threatening to fall from her eyes, Maya forced them back. She hugged Ashton gently with the fear of hurting him and looked at him with affection. Her eyes were filled with love only for him.
Looking at her loving eyes that only had him in them, Ashton felt the discomfort in his body eases a little. He was glad that he found and fell in love with someone who cared about him unconditionally.
“How did you escape?” Ashton asked. His voice was hoarse and he coughed a little. But when he coughed, although it was light, Maya felt something come out from the corner of his mouth.
When she saw the color of the blood, she was startled and her face paled. Her heart hummed in her chest as she thought about how badly injured Adams was.
Maya covered his mouth with her hand to prevent him from speaking any further. “I will tell you later. For now, I need to get us to Eliphas, this place is too dangerous for you.” After Maya finished talking, she immediately opened a portal and pulled Ashton with her to it.
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By the time Kelly came back to his senses, Maya and Ashton were long gone. He stood at the center of his bedroom, dumbstruck about what had just happened.
When he thought about how Maya had tricked him, he was exasperated and furious as he howled at his subordinates for being insolent at their work.
“Find them no matter the cost,” Kelly ordered coldly. He could not imagine that he had actually been played by that bitch!
He knew that he had been tricked but he did not know how it happened. He only knew that by the time he came back to his senses, his subordinates told him that both Maya and Ashton were gone and they were nowhere to be found. The plan that he had spent so much time and manpower to create had been foiled just like that.
He did not know how Maya managed to do it but the more he thought about what transpired between them, the more he felt that Maya was more than a wolf. He remembered that she was lying on the bed and he was going to get her, but the next moment, he could not even lift his leg. And when he came back to his senses, Maya was nowhere to be seen.
“Alpha, I don’t know how they managed to escape without anyone noticing. There are no traces of them leaving the house or anyone seeing them.” Kevin said.
He was puzzled by everything. Just a moment ago, his alpha had dragged Maya to his room and the next moment, she was gone. He could also not fathom how Ashton managed to break free from his ‘specially made cell’ and leave no traces behind.
“What are you being nosy? If I guessed correctly, that woman is a witch and she used some kind of magic to blind everyone.” Kelly said. He could not admit in front of his subordinate that he had been made into a statute. Wasn’t that laughable?
“But how did that happen? Weren’t you with her?”
“If I knew how that happened, would I be asking you to find her? Besides, I have told you that she must a witch, how could I have stopped her when I had no idea what she was planning? We have worked so hard and done so much just to get that son of a bitch, I never imagined that he had such kind of tramp card on his side.” Kelly said.
He had trashed any breakable thing in his room and it was now in a mess. The victory and thrill that he had felt when he had the whole pack feeling disgusted by Ashton were long gone.
He had thought that he already had his brother in the palm of his hands, but now he did not even know where to begin.
“Fu\*k! I have never felt so useless in my whole life!” Kelly cursed. If he had known, he could have killed his brother when they were fighting outside.
He remembered his brother telling him that if let him stay alive, it will the worst decision he had ever made in his life. He had thought that his brother was bluffing at that moment! Only if had known!
Kelly pulled his hair in frustration. He had not even been alpha for a few hours and he had already failed his first mission?
“Calm down my alpha! There is no need of being mad. We have to think of something.” Kevin said.
“I don’t want to think about anything. I don’t want to think! What is there to think about?” Kelly said, he really wanted to kill someone right now. His eyes were bloodshot and he was on the verge of breaking down.
“Send search parties on all borders, do whatever you can, and make sure that my brother is brought alive. If he is dead, I want to see his corpse. And that vixen, make sure you capture and bring her to me! I will make her beg for her life!”
“Yes alpha,” Kevin said. Although he knew that it will be futile if Maya was truly a witch, he did not want to agitate this young alpha of his anymore. He will agree to anything that he said as long as he managed to calm him down.
“What about the old man’s dead body? What do we do about it?” Kevin asked.
“Don’t you know how to bury a person?” Kelly asked in a displeased tone.
“He is the patriarch of the pack, he can’t just be buried like any other normal person. His funeral has to be presided over by the alpha of the pack.” Kevin said.
“I am the alpha! Are you trying to teach me the rules?” Kelly asked. He was finding this damned uncle of his more and more annoying.
“If you don’t do what is required, people might get suspicious. They already know that he was killed by Ashton. Actually, Ashton leaving might be a good thing for you.” Kevin said after thinking about something. His eyes also lit up and he almost could not hide his excitement at the plan that had formed in his mind.