Third person’s point of view.
(King’s office)
Edward knocked on the door, he heard a faint come in, he pushed the door open and walked in.
“Your Majesty” he greeted his King with a bow.
“Hm” Wymond hummed in response.
“I just got news from her highness’s secret bodyguard”
Wymond paused what he was doing at the mention of his mate, he raised his head and nodded at Edward to continue.
“Her highness has asked her brother for help”
“Help?” Wymond raised an eyebrow as if he’s confused.
“Yes, she asked him to help her search for the pearl bead”
Wymond frowned slightly as his mind flashed back to how he was tricked last night, he clenched his jaw and narrowed his eyes.
Hmm, so she tricked me for this? he wondered.
He sighed deeply.
“Assign some secret guards for him too, he mustn’t encounter any dangers during his search and I don’t wanna see even a scratch on him or else…. ” he trailed off.
Edward nodded quickly, he already knew the words Wymond intended to say.
“Yes, your Majesty, I’ll make arrangements right away” then Edward rushed out as if his @ss was sent on fire.
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Arabella’s point of view.
After leaving Arthur at home to clean up his mess, I decided to drop by the pack infirmary to see mom because she does cleaning job there -mom isn’t learned so that’s the highest and safest paid job she could have.
She’s naturally a pack warrior but she’s retired for years now, after dad’s death and doing this cleaning job is the only way to maintain our family -that’s why I was doing part-time job.
My driver had offered to give me a ride there, but I rejected his offer because I wanted to exercise my legs.
A frown appeared on my face as I walked down our street, I realized the street is unusually quiet and there aren’t any pups running about like they used to -none of them were even in sight.
What’s going on? Shouldn’t the pups be playing around by this time today? Or were they sent on exile?
I chuckled mentally and shook my head at such a crazy thought, but it’s weird that none of the pups are outside because today’s sunday and every pup loves sundays.
Well, I’ll ask mom about it later, I increased my pace bearing that thought in mind.
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(Pack infirmary)
I arrived at the pack infirmary in no time, as usual the smell of disinfectant and bitter medicines hit me which made my stomach churn, making me wanna puke.
“Arabella” I heard mom’s voice just a few steps away from me.
I raised my head and saw mom approaching me with a mop dipped in a bucket of soapy water, I quickly rushed to her and carried the bucket from her.
“What are you doing here?” she asked.
“Oh, I forgot one of my textbooks yesterday, so I came to get it and decided to drop by here to see you” I lied smoothly.
She nodded.
“Where should I take this?” I nodded at the bucket.
“Outside, I’m done moping” she answered.
I nodded and we headed towards the exit, then a pup ran past us and almost bump into the bucket, that’s when I recalled the question I wanted to ask her.
“Mom, the streets seemed empty, where are the pups?” I asked.
“That’s because something very terrible happened yesterday and it’s been making everyone edgy”
My eyebrows furrowed at her words.
“Everything was okay when Wymond and I left the park, what happened?”
We’re already outside by now, mom collected the bucket from me and sighed.
“About seven pups mysteriously went missing last night and it happened during the bonfire time”
“Seven pups went missing?!” I shouted in a panicked voice and earned a very harsh glare from mom.
Luckily we’re already outside and we aren’t surrounded by too much people, or I should say the people around don’t care about our conversation.
“How can seven pups just go missing like that? In a pack as big as ours?” I asked in a calm tone this time.
“We don’t know how it happened” she paused briefly. “Alpha Jarek immediately sent people to look for them when they noticed the pups were gone, they searched all night but up till now they haven’t found even one of the pups yet….”
How can they just disappear with no trace? What’s gonna happen to those pups?
“… so, to be on the safe side, Alpha Jarek made an announcement that every parent or guardian is to keep his or her pup indoors for now -at least, until we know what’s going on” she concluded her explanation.
Isn’t this similar to what happened at the palace? I wondered quietly and I tried to find any familiarity between the two incidents, but couldn’t find any.
The infirmary suddenly became rowdy as nurses started rushing out with stretchers towards a van, my brows furrowed even more when I saw them transferring wounded people on the stretchers and rushing them into the infirmary for treatments.
Their wounds seemed very deep and serious since their clothes are soaked in blood, from the look of things, they were all wearing bright colored clothes -like, white, blue, green, yellow etc.
But right now, those clothes had completely turned red as if they were soaked in a red dye.
Some of them had loss consciousness, while others are groaning and turning agonizingly on the stretcher.
Where are these people coming from? What happened to them? And why are they so badly injured?
My frown deepened, I shivered as cold breeze blew past me and my heart twisted in pain when a very familiar face was carried by in a rush, although his face was covered in blood due to the deep cuts on his face, but I could still recognize him.
He’s Daphne’s twin brother, Dante.
Didn’t Alpha King assigned them to visit our neighboring pack? Why did they all come back with injuries? And where’s Daphne?
I was about rushing after them, but my legs halted when I heard Daphne crying bitterly from behind.
“… my brother.. save my brother.. someone save my brother for me…”
I turned around, tears quickly brimmed up in my eyes when I saw my best friend, from her head to her toes are covered in blood and her blue blouse has completely turned red just like the others.
I rushed to her without wasting time and grabbed her right hand.
“Daphne” I called her.
I guess she didn’t recognize me at that moment, because she pushed me off and made to run after the nurses, but I grabbed her by her blouse and pulled her back.
“Daphne, it’s me, Ara” I told her clearly.
She paused when she heard my name, she stared at my face with her teary, red and puffy eyes. She pulled me into a hug and started crying on my shoulder.
“Ara, Dante.. he… he… he’s…”
“Shhhh, Dante’s gonna be fine” I told her in hopes of comforting her, but it just made her cry more.
She continued patting her back gently, because I don’t know what I can tell her now that’s gonna comfort her.
Daphne and Dante are just like me and my brother, they pretend like they don’t care for each other on normal basis, but they hurt deeply when the other’s in trouble.