Chapter Sixty-Four – Triggered.
Jaden’s POV
My uncles had gotten experience. Together with my mother, they had ruled the pack.
The eldest had been her Beta, the middle her Delta, while the youngest her warrior. They only shifted the positions, after I was born.
So if they said they sensed a Lycan, they bloody did. Right now, they were on and on about their adventures and brave travels.
I used to enjoy their stories when they told Jake, but as they never cared to tell me, I ignored it. Now, they were bragging to Jonah about them.
“How close did you sense it to be?” I asked, interrupting them.
The middle uncle smirked. “Why, you don’t trust us?”
“I do. There has been rumor in our kingdom, I just need to know where you sensed it.” I replied calmly.
His furrowed eyebrows straightened. “Miles away and it had bad energy. It might have been close but only for a while.”
If that’s so, then it might not have came on a mission but was still searching for his victim. But he suspected Silver and Black Rose pack.
I nodded, leaving my seat. “If that’s all, then I’d be leaving.” Jonah jumped from his seat and stood with me. “We would be leaving.”
I smirked internally, wasn’t he enjoying their tales?
My eldest uncle stood up, towering me. “Jaden, you seem to underestimate this Lycan. Your bones should be shaking now.”
I sighed. “I am not a child, uncle, who shakes in front of bullies. Also, I have had prior knowledge of the presence of the Lycan so…”
“Don’t think you can handle it. You can’t. Ask for Lycan hunters around. They should be some somewhere.” The middle uncle interrupted me.
Lycan hunters stopped existing since we assumed Lycans didn’t exist in our part of the world. Where do you find those hunters?
“If you are worrying about me, which I doubt you are, then don’t worry. The Lycan is looking for something exactly. He won’t find it.”
“He better not. Nothing should make your mom nervous or worried. Be it you being unsafe or the pack being unsafe.” The youngest warned.
I calmly nodded. “I will be careful.”
“For your own sake and mother’s. You should know we don’t care.” The eldest scoffed.
“I know.” My fists clenched, did he have to be so plain? “I’d be leaving now to handle the Lycan problem. Thanks for noticing it.”
The middle uncle gestured his hand for me to leave. My fists unclenched and I rushed to the door, Jonah behind me.
I blinked severally, trying to fight the anger and dejection I felt. Whenever I walked into their house, I usually left feeling lesser than before.
Jonah walked besides me, in quietness. Any words he’d say could trigger me. I stopped walking, paused and exhaled.
I turned to Jonah. “Call Ralph’s brother and tell him to meet me at library. I need to be sure what exactly attacked the roses.”
He bowed and briskly walked off. I turned to glare at the house we just left.
If they weren’t my uncles, I’d have banished them from our pack due to the numerous attempts they’ve made on my life, since I was a child and teenager.
On getting to the library, I saw the red haired girl and her team till searching for the prophecy. Books were overturned everywhere.
A shelf of old documentaries had been emptied and one even got torn. The girl was dragging down another box with a friend to search.
“You are sure it’s in here?” I asked, startling them all. They looked down but nodded. “Yes.”
I glanced around the trashed room. “And there’s no better way to search for it than trash the place?” I raised my voice.
They didn’t meet my gaze and fondled with their hands. I didn’t want to scare them or pour the anger I felt for my uncles on them.
“Keep searching.”
They nodded and threw the box opened, bringing out the old crumpled scrolls that were in it. Many of them choking on the dust.
“Cover your noses with masks, please.” I said, quite worried for the stench.
I heard footsteps coming towards the library and caught the scent of Ralph’s brother, I leaned on the wall. “I’d be leaving now.”
They all snapped their head at me.
“Make sure you find the prophecy and send it to me. Unfailingly. Is that okay?” I asked.
They nodded, and kept on searching.
Ralph and his brother appeared before me. I frowned at Ralph.
I would be speaking condescendingly to his brother and will feel guilty if he was around.
“Do you need something?” I asked him through mind link. He turned to his brother and then at me. “You asked for him, didn’t you?”
“Yes. HIM.” I emphasized.
“Follow me to my courtroom, I have questions for you.” I told the brother, sparing no glance.
Ralph stopped him from following and I paused my steps. “I can answer the questions you’d ask. Let him go tend his wounds for now.” He said.
I cocked an eyebrow, looking at his brother’s arm, they were already taken care of. There were no wounds on him.
And I hadn’t I seen him earlier hurrying to treat them when I was left for my uncles’?
Perhaps there was something he wanted to say and he didn’t want his brother to know of. “Fine. I’d get back to you later.”
The brother nodded, quite obediently and strolled off. I expected a condescending speech or worse. But he seemed… regretful.
“Okay, did your brother do something?” I continued again towards the courtroom.
Ralph exhaled deeply, which was a sign that his brother did. “You know he doesn’t really know about the people around here.”
“Yes, did he kill any of my warriors? He should know his own packs scent, at least, shouldn’t he?” I raised my voice.
I barged into the courtroom and Ralph ran in with me. “Calm down, he didn’t hurt anyone from our pack. And he’s regretful as it is.”
“He should be if he messed up, who did he hurt?” I peered into the eyes of Ralph.
He twitched his lips then bit them. “If you want I can go myself and apologize to her. It’s just she didn’t give a message that she was coming.”
I didn’t get where he was going. His brother had hurt a female? None of the warriors around the border where female.
I made sure because sometimes they get kidnapped and raped. Also, their mates were quite possessive of them being out in the open.
I calmed down, sitting on my throne. Since it’s a female that wasn’t from my pack, it might be a messenger from perhaps Black Hills.
“Who the hell was it?” I asked Ralph.
“My brother accidently threw harpoons at Your Silver while she was visiting, none hit her but she ran off injured. He’s sorry.”
The amount of speed Ralph used to rap those words made me smile, but it slowly faded when they began making meanings.