Chapter Ninety – Stone Cold.
Jaden’s POV
Watching my mate lay there, motionless and injured was a different kind of pain.
My wolf was eager to run out and find the Lycan but I couldn’t leave her side. I bet he has an excuse now to shred the Lycan to pieces.
Someone barged into the room and I quickly took my hands off Rihanna’s.
It was her Delta, Camilla. She arrived so quickly. Her eyes went to her Alpha and then I, who was standing besides her closely.
“I just checked her temperature, she’s warm now.” I gave an excuse.
Camilla stepped towards her, breathing heavily. “Beta Ray said she was left at the mercy of the Lycan. Earlier she left with Chris and Edwin.”
Chris and Edwin? Edwin like the Delta of Black Hills? What were they after?
“Before I left, Beta Ray was yelling at Edwin for leaving with Chris and leaving his sister. I don’t know if that’s what they really did.” She sobbed.
Her fists clenched but I released, realizing that it was a reaction from my wolf. I wasn’t sure if that was what happened.
“You know it’s very possible that they left her there to die, right? Chris always hated her, even as Your Silver.” My wolf argued.
Still I was sure, and shouldn’t incite negative thoughts about the Alpha King.
“Sometimes your loyalty to Chris baffles me. Even against your own mate!” My wolf charged.
I shut my eyes tightly, trying to get him out of my head. It was not like that. If he kills Rihanna, he’d gain nothing but satisfying his ego.
“And you think he wouldn’t want to?” my wolf asked again.
I ignored him, wrapping my hands around Camilla. “It’s alright, your Alpha will be okay. Maybe it was a misunderstanding.”
She sniffed. “I doubt it was. First they came and accused a warrior of ours of being behind Sasha’s disappearance. Then this.”
She touched Rihanna’s head then turned to me. “You said she is warm, but her head is stone cold. What’s happening to her?”
I rushed to check, it was. Was she dying? I squeezed her hand but felt no warmth in them.
“She’s awake!” Camilla shrieked, going backward. “I feel her in my mind link.”
How’d she be in her mind link when she was unconscious? Another perk of a Silver Wolf?
Camilla frowned, “What?”
Where they communicating?
“That jerk!” she turned to me angrily. I went back, wondering had been said to her.
“Was she speaking to you? What did she say?”
“That Chris tricked her into meeting the Lycan as exchange for the Blue Bloom Princess. He’d try to deny it now as she lived.”
My eyebrows arched as the words made meaning to me. My mate was sent as bait?
“He came to her for help then sacrificed her. What a King!” the Delta yelled, running out of the room.
My wolf started an uproar of laughter. I couldn’t place why. I inched closer to Rihanna. “Can you hear me? Did Chris really do that?”
There was no movement in her body. Was she paralyzed? She hadn’t woken or moved for long.
Using my wolf’s vision, my eyes scanned her body. I dreaded doing it since, in case I’d see a broken bone that’d break my heart.
But she would be healed by now. There was nothing broken so she must have lost blood.
“Rihanna, are you in there?” my mind wondered far and wide on what made her able to use her mind link but couldn’t move her body.
There was a message on my mind link. “Alpha, the Alpha King and Ray are here. They want to see Rihanna.” Jake reported.
My fists clenched, this time by my will. What was he seeing her for after attempting to kill her!
“Whatever excuse you can give, give. I don’t want him seeing my mate!” I replied, shutting my mind link immediately.
I paced around till the door opened and Jake rushed in. “Jaden, you can’t stop them from seeing her. Chris is with her brother.”
“And he doesn’t know Chris was the one who caused his sister to be like this?!” I barked.
My brother sighed. “Wasn’t it a Lycan…”
“Well, Chris set her up. I am not letting them in. She hasn’t even moved or anything. No one is coming here.” I was resolute.
Jake knew that and shook his head. “I can’t tell them that verbally.”
“Say whatever then. I won’t even host him.”
My brother frowned. “No, you would. Or you’d just be exposing that she’s your mate or else why would be so emotional.”
My wolf scoffed. “I still wonder why we hide that she’s our mate.” I ignored him again. Rihanna wanted it that way, I should respect that.
I sighed. “Fine, give whatever excuse, I’d meet you in a minute.”
He nodded, leaving the room.
My eyes shifted to Rihanna. I squeezed her hand gently hoping she’d react but still nothing. She was cold but not dead, I felt that.
“Don’t worry, I’d be back.” I promised before leaving the room. I wiped the worried expression off my face and replaced it with a brighter one.
But my eyes dimmed on Chris on my seat, at the dining table. Was there a reason for him to be on the biggest seat?
On his left was Ray and the supposedly Edwin, Delta of a Black Hills. I specially had a bone to pick with him.
As I got closer, a scar on Chris’ face became pronounced. And it was recent.
“What happened to you, Alpha King? Accident while teaching the warriors?” I acted like I wasn’t aware he left with Rihanna.
He stood up from the seat. “Actually it was an uncanny encounter with the Lycan. How’s Your Silver?” he shook my hands.
Why did he still addressed her as ‘Your Silver’?
Either he was quite obedient about her request to never call her ‘Rihanna’, or he hadn’t gotten over her being his dread.
“As Jake said.” I answered, taking a seat besides Ray who was oddly quiet.
My brother looked blankly. “Um… I had said you’d report to them when you meet them.”
“Really?” I asked him in mind link.
He shrugged. “Yeah.” he smirked, walking off.
I turned to the visitors. “She is asleep. And would be better. No visitors are needed till she awakes. Meanwhile, how had that happened?”
“We weren’t there. And believe me, it could have been avoided.” Edwin replied.
I faced him but from the corner of my eyes, I noticed Ray’s fist clenched. Perhaps I shouldn’t dig more into what he meant.
“Well, since the Lycan is the sole cause of her predicament. Why not we go look for it?” I suggested.
Chris shook his head. “He should be badly injured now. I don’t think we should search for him now…”
“If he’s injured, that’s better leverage against him. He attacked an Alpha and Alpha King. Who next? We should do something.” I remarked.
Ray shifted uncomfortably on his seat. “My warriors can’t help here. How do you suggest we go about it?”
“We don’t need warriors. Alpha King and I can go, alone.” I increased tone at the last part.
That was actually suggested by my wolf, and I doubt he had good intentions. But I wouldn’t stop him.