“AAAAHHHHHH!!!” screamed Diwa in pain, falling to the floor. At first, all that registered in her mind was the intense hurt on her shoulder. But then, a few seconds later, realization flooded her thoughts…
I can still feel him! Even if he closed the link!
“DIWA! What happened? Why did you scream?!” Ma’Heron cried out as he rushed into the Beta’s apartment and found Diwa clambering up to a kneeling position on the floor.
“Brother, Aaron left! Here’s the note that he left for V. But I can still feel him even without the mindlink!” She blurted out while M hugged her and then helped her up. “And he’s being attacked, somewhere up in the mountains!”
“Did you see where?”
“Just a little bit, but I think I can find him. I can feel him M and I… AAAHHHHH!!!”
“DIWA!” The Gamma immediately held her as she shook in his arms. “If he is trying to connect with you again while he’s fighting, I’ll kill him myself!”
“I told you… he cut me off…” she gasped. “But I can still feel him…”
“What’s going on? Diwa, what’s wrong?” asked the Luna as she entered the apartment with V and Alexia right behind her.
M was quick to respond, “Alexia, please check the apartment for anything we can use to find him. V, here’s a note from the Beta. And Siel, please bring my sister to the hospital and have her checked. I think she needs medical treatment…”
“Ma’Heron! Are you even paying attention to what I’m saying? I can help you find him!”
“No! The Alpha and I can put together a search team. You don’t need to go out there, Di. He can take care of himself. Now go on, you need to be checked up.”
“BROTHER! DAMN IT! WILL YOU STOP OVERPROTECTING ME! I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF!”
“You can’t even fight Kaiden without freezing. No, Diwa, I’m not risking you!” “Come on, girl, let’s just go to the hospital,” coaxed Siel.
Di turned around when they reached the front door. “Just promise me you’ll find him, Ma’Heron!
ALIVE!”
“We will! Now go. Siel, please…”
“Of course, come on, Di.”
As soon as the door closed behind them, Siel suddenly brisked-walked Di towards the elevator and pushed the button for the ground floor. Diwa did a double-take at what her friend had just done.
“Siel, the hospital is just a floor below us. Why the ground floor?”
“So, you can go after him, Di.”
Di looked at her best friend’s smirking face and realized what Siel intended to do. She squealed in pleasure then hugged her ‘sis’ tight.
“Thank you, Siel!”
“You’re welcome. So go get him back, Diwa!”
The lift’s sliding doors opened and soon a light brown wolf emerged from within, sprinting swiftly towards the open double doors of the Packhouse and out into the sunshine.
Wait for me, my mate… hold on…
+++
GAMMA! Kaiden’s rogues found Aaron, and they’re attacking him!
Myron, tell me where you are! I need details of the place so we can find you!
We’re at the clearing on top of the mountain, right after the southern border!
How many rogues do you see, Myron?
Silence.
Myron?! MYRON!
Myron, along with his wife Raquel, tried to help the Beta by taking down a few rogues before he contacted the Gamma. However, in the middle of their mindlink, Myron was hit from behind and was knocked out cold.
Raquel, who was making sure her hubby was safe while he linked their superiors, had already been rendered unconscious by one of the rogues only a few seconds earlier.
Their attacker then pulled their unconscious forms under piles of leaves, hidden from many of the other rogues, who were now enjoying the ongoing fight between their leader with the one he called “the fake mate”.
Aaron was still up and fighting, but he was now suffering from severe fatigue, several gaping wounds, and loss of blood. True, he was splattered all over from the thirty-plus werewolves that he had made quick work of, but his own blood now gushed out from him while an overconfident Kai continued to relentlessly attack him…
And the ten more rogue warriors Kaiden joining in the “fun” didn’t make it a very fair fight…
Exciting, for sure – judging from the cheering of the audience – but not at all fair.
Damn it, how can I be a good mate to her if I can’t even take this bastard down?!
It’s not that you can’t! It’s that he didn’t attack you alone. I told you to link the warriors!
If we die, we won’t even keep this maniac from our mate, you idiot!
Shut up a moment, Onyx, I’m trying to fight here!
“Trying” being the operative word…
Eventually Onyx had no choice but to shut up. A few more minutes into the fight,
Aaron could no longer hold the merge with his wolf, and he quickly reverted back to his human form. Panting heavily, bleeding from several gashes, yet holding his body as straight as the pain allowed him, the Beta was still posed for combat… He was obviously very determined to keep fighting to the last breath.
“Tired so soon?” chuckled Kaiden, shifting to his human form as well too just so he could continue provoking his competition. He did love to tease them way back when they were in their teens while they were still being trained as warriors. And now, in front of his bloodthirsty werewolves, he truly felt that his victory was at hand.
“Everything you have, Aaron Keizer, will soon be mine!”
Every word felt like a knife going through A’s body, “NEVER! I’ll die first… before I let you take… her from… me…”
“THAT can be easily arranged!”
Kaiden was already starting to merge with his equally crazy wolf Xion when he felt a hard blow to the back of his head, and he fell facedown to the ground. Good from him that it has been softened by the fighters’ movements and spilled blood during their continuous battle.
“WHAT THE…” he yelled as he spat out dirt from his mouth.
He then looked up to see a vision so orgasmic that he felt himself go instantly hard. “Ooooh, I can’t believe what I’m seeing! MY TRUE MATE! Have you come to watch me murder your fake mate?”
Diwa changed from her cinnamon-colored wolf to her human form, no longer caring who was in front of her or her being naked. She fearlessly walked between her hated molester and Aaron. Meanwhile, her mate was now speechless at how brave she was in confronting her demon and his would-be murderer…
“You demented CRAZY BASTARD! You really are so STUPID AND SICK not to understand what I’ve said OVER AND OVER AGAIN, even back then when you first tried to take me. YOU. ARE. NOT. MY MATE! Aaron is my mate, and I love him! YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT!”