Kolten wiggled his eyebrows, batted his eyelashes, and said in a low voice, “Wasn’t the Frost Wolves expelled years ago? I heard that their previous alpha Andrew was so ruthless during his reign that the power of the Frost Wolves grew so fast where they even raged war against our clan. However, ten years ago Andrew died for practicing the forbidden arts, and he died by his own hands due to an accident. Their current Alpha is incapable at all and hasn’t done any deeds during his reign. The Frost wolf clan’s numbers have also gradually dwindled and they rarely show up in front of other packs thereafter, so there’s no reason to worry about them being a threat to us for a long time.”
I heaved a deep sigh, looked into Kolten’s plain face, and suddenly felt that Patrick and I had protected the boy so well that we had failed to let this child see what the real world was like. He knew nothing about this ruthless world, and thought that the world was peaceful, but he didn’t know how many horrible killing machines were hidden beneath the calm lake. As a future alpha of the Inferno Wolf Clan, this child is too capricious, simple and kind. Under the prosperous and peaceful world with our rule, it does not matter. But now that the Frost wolf clan aims for our backs, how can he compete with the carefully cultivated heir of the cold-blooded Andrew? The good thing is, Patrick and I are still in our prime, so we can let this kid live under our wing. It’s not too late to slowly teach him later. The most urgent thing now is to let him find his mate.
“You rarely see the Frost Wolves in the world, but do you know that they have been secretly building up their strength, waiting for an opportunity to make a move. If we are not careful and keep our guard up, what awaits our clan will be demise. It’s been ten years since Andrew’s death, and no one has ever seen what the current alpha of Frost Wolves looks like. I’ve only heard that it was Andrew’s eldest son Aron who inherited the throne, but it’s the second prince of the Frost wolf Clan, now the prince, Alex, who rules in his place.”
“Doesn’t that rather speak aboutthe incompetence of their new alpha?” Kolten batted his eyelashes and said naively, as if it didn’t matter.
“On the contrary, that is precisely why we think this man is very dangerous. In any case, we will celebrate your Bar Mitzvah tomorrow. According to the rules of our clan, you must travel to the human world three days after the bar mitzvah to find your chosen mate. You must be careful on this journey. I fear that the Frost Wolves will take this as anopportunity to attack you.”
I gave the order.
“Yes, Alpha.” He nodded, but I could see his hesitation.
I had a feeling that Kolten’s journey was inevitable, but I should let him experience the outside world and grow. My only hope for his journey is for him toreturn safely.
Patrick’ pov
Looking into Kolten’s pure and poor aghast face, I gently touched his head and comforted him.
All of a sudden, the boy was told that he was the son of two men and shoulders the future of the clan, the boy must have been in a panic and finds it hard to accept.
I tucked him under my arms.
“Alpha, do I really have to do this?” he asked in a shaky voice.
I pondered for a while.
For the first time in my life, I felt so selfish that I didn’t even want him to go on a trip to find a mate under the clan’s rules. I thought that Elvis and I could protect him for the rest of our lives. But as the alpha and priest of the Inferno Wolf Clan, we can’t do that.
“I’m so sorry Kolten, as a Prince of the Inferno Wolf Clan, and also as a future Alpha, you have to take the responsibility to find your mate and have a baby.”
I buried his head in the back of my arm.
As for the Frost Wolf Clan…
I suddenly remembered the paranoid teenager Andrew, the former alpha of Frost Wolf Clan. Everyone said he was cold blooded, ruthless, tyrannical and toxic, although he was a prince of the alpha, but he was not as favored as the other sons of the alpha, by his father, perhaps he was the least favored prince of the Frost Wolf Clan, and after his father died , he quickly married Kristen Scott, the female general who adored him at the time, the daughter of Jeremy Scott, a Beta who held the military power of the Frost Wolf Clan, and thanks to the marriage because he managed to become the Alpha of the Frost Wolf Clan in a short time. After ascending to the throne, in just 3 years under his rule, both of his brothers who were an Alpha and a Beta died one after the other. Shortly after the birth of his second son, Kristen died from a sudden illness. After that, Andrew naturally seized the power over Kristen’s men and became the strongest force of the pack and thus became the only ruler of the Frost Wolves, right therein that he revealed his true nature.
He waged war after war with other packs everywhere and treated the prisoners without mercy, all the prisoners disappeared, no one was seen alive, not even a body was found, everyone said he burned them to ashes and dumped their ashes into the sea. Others say he had them devoured by the tiger who starved for at least a year. He was so cold-blooded.
Since then, the Frost Wolves became the public enemy of the other tribes. However, since the royal family and the priests of the clan mastered the forbidden dark arts, other clansexcept the Inferno Wolf Clan tried to avoid frontal conflicts with them. Until one day, Andrew died due to an accident while practicing the forbidden dark magic arts, the Frost Wolf Clan changed then and gradually turned to the dark side.
That was the most common version of the story. Though I am convinced that there was something strange about the story, knowing that the Andrew I knew wasn’t that kind of a person. Although he was a bit paranoid, he never was as vicious and belligerent as others claimed.
The Frost Wolves and the Inferno Wolves were onceallies. I, Elvis and Andrew were even close friends when we were young.
There was a time that the clans were in constant conflict, but the powerful sword master Liondidn’t participate in the war between the clans and always remained neutral.
Although Lion was an Alpha, he believed that an Alpha was not superior, in his eyes Alpha, Beta and Omega are the same, and there is no difference between them. And that is the reason why he is deeply loved by all people from all packs.
Royal families from different clans wanted to win him over, so they all sent people to learn swordplay from him. The Inferno Wolves sent me and Elvis over, while the Frost Wolves sent the only most unpopular prince at the time, Andrew. My father and the previous Alpha did this because they really wanted us to learn the art of sword fighting, and had no intention of pulling Lion in. But it was said that Andrew was sent by his father, Henry, the alpha of the Frost Wolves, as an outcast, Henry was worried that if the Frost Wolves didn’t send someone, Lion would feel dishonored and hold a grudge against their clan, so he sent his least favorite son Andrew to learn from the master. In case someone used Andrew to threaten the Frost Wolves, he didn’t care about his life at all, instead he would rather let him die. Therefore, Andrew was in a very awkward situation at that time.
Lion had the ability to look into people’s hearts and he of course understood everyone’s intention for coming to him, but he didn’t make it difficult for anyone who came to learn from him. He treated us all equally during his classes.
When teens first got here, they would unite and fight against werewolves from the other packs so fights always occurred, but it all was stopped by Lion. No one dared to wriggle any fight in front of him, so after a few months, we all mingled into one harmonious and peaceful class.
When Andrew first arrived, the apprentices who came in with him who knew that he was the prince of the Frost wolf clan, they pulled him in, trying to flatter him but later when they heard that he was just an unpopular prince who was sent as an outcast, they changed their attitude towards him, not only did they become aloof from him worst wasthey bullied him.