Chapter Hundred and Seventy-Eight – More Lycans.
Jaden’s POV
We arrived at the spot where Logan was to be expected. I let go of Chris and noticed how he breathed in relief.
He had heard when Beatrice spoke on me being Lycan. I’d have preferred if he’d figure himself.
“I sense my Alpha, south!” Beatrice pointed and attempted running off but I blocked her.
“We should work together now. Alpha Chris, Beatrice and I will look for Rihanna.” I said.
Chris frowned. “And I?”
“Why not stay here till your legs get better. Wait for the rest too, someone needs to direct them.” I replied. “Direct them to where we are.”
He nodded, gesturing for us to leave. “Fine. I didn’t think I’d be fighting Logan again after escaping death.”
Neither I. I hoped the last fight was the last we’d ever have with him.
But after he killed my Beta, I don’t want it to be. I’d like to whoop his ass so bad that he feels every tinge of pain my pack felt.
“Don’t worry, Alpha Chris. You’d get your Beta back.” I said.
I didn’t wait for his reaction before bolting off.
Ray was Jake’s friend and my mate’s brother so I wasn’t just saving him for Chris.
Beatrice followed behind me. She was fast and soon overtook me. “Rihanna is that way!”
We arrived above a hill and found two Lycans. One had the Lycan Slayer on his head and the other was breathing slowly.
Rihanna was sitting on his chest and speaking softly. I felt uncomfortable seeing my mate in that position. “Are you alright?”
She grunted, then slapped the Lycan she was sitting on. She rose from him and glared at Beatrice, “Treat him. Treat that one!”
Why should we treat him? I tried sensing for Logan or Ray but they weren’t close.
“He’s the only one that knows where Logan and my brother are. He can’t die.” she mouthed.
This was bad. I didn’t want her having these Lycans in her prison, they could break out and cause havoc in her pack.
“Rihanna, where did Logan go?” I asked her.
Her eyes were red. Had she been crying?
She glanced at me then back at Beatrice, trying to stop the Lycan from bleeding. “If I knew, I wouldn’t be saving him.”
Good point. I forgot.
Then did we come all he way for nothing? Instead of trying to save him, why not we search around for Ray?
I really didn’t want it to end like Ralph. It would be another hit to the hole in my heart.
Beatrice left the Lycan and wiped his blood of her hands, disdain etched on her face.
“His wounds are healing. He keeps saying ‘to the land of gold.’ I don’t know what it means..”
“That’s the promise Logan gave them. Only this time, he might actually do it. They are from his pack.” Rihanna said.
He’d do it? And how where these Lycans from Logan’s pack? Aren’t they from Sun Burn Kingdom?
“Wait, is Logan’s pack at Sun Burn Kingdom?”
Rihanna turned to me. “It seems like. Liam’s mother is from there and if she and Logan were mates then yes, Logan might be from there.”
I should have asked Liam this. His father was an Lycan Alpha under Sun Burn Kingdom or the jurisdiction was created after he went mad?
“Maybe the Kingdom created a jurisdiction to control Logan’s pack members after he killed some.” I thought out loud.
Rihanna tilted her head. “We always thought he killed all his pack but it seemed that’s false. He still had pack members that are loyal.”
“You mean deranged!” Beatrice cursed. “Why’d they want the extinction of werewolfs when a werewolf kingdom housed them?”
“They are ungrateful!” Rihanna spat out and went back to the Lycan.
Using my wolf’s vision, I scanned the Lycan and saw he was growing his energy back. He would be a threat soon.
“Hurry and ask him, Rih. We still need to search for Ray.” I told her, staying besides the Lycan.
His eyes went to me and enlarged. “You.”
He must have sensed I was Lycan. “Yes, me. I’d kill you if you don’t speak. Where’s Logan and the wolf he’s with?”
The Lycan’s eyes dimmed on me, he darted them at Rihanna and Beatrice then back at me. “You should be with us.”
In the side of deranged Lycans? I’d pass. Not all should be deranged. “Don’t waste my time.”
He breathed in and out. “Even if I tell you, you can’t beat him. He’s changing, changing to what you can’t defeat!”
He was unlocking ranks as well? “Where?”
“At the cave besides Black Hills. He told my brother and I to meet him there.”
I glanced at the other Lycan with the sword on his head. They two did look alike.
Rihanna backed away from him and Beatrice followed her. I bet they expected me to kill him.
“You have served your purpose.” I leered, my claws coming out.
“Yes, I don’t mind you killing me, little one. Your mother had killed my father as well.” He sneered.
Little one? That sounded endearing? Did he know me? I narrowed my eyes at him.
His father was Logan’s son so was he Logan’s grandson? “And I, her son, will be killing you, history would always repeat!”
“This isn’t history! It’s your ignorance and denial!” he snapped immediately.
I was dumbstruck. Denial? Ignorance?
“Well, it’d soon catch up with you. Now you’re Lycan, the uncontrollable rage will catch up with you.” He cackled like a mad man.
What was he saying? How did he know I had uncontrollable rage? I was transfixed at a point before I felt energy coming to me.
I didn’t care to enquire what he meant and slashed off his throat. I dragged out the gullet and watched him bleed to death.
My brother sped to me, stopping just before the body. “Chris told me there were more Lycans!”
“Yes, five. Rihanna killed these two. Come, he said Logan and Ray are at the cave besides Black Hills. Rihanna know where that is.”
“I do as well.” It was Chris. “That was Logan’s last hideout before he moved to Blue Fire. I guess he’s running out of places.”
He surely was. This Kingdom wasn’t his play ground. He better believe it. I noticed Edwin wasn’t with them. “Where’s Edwin?”
“We couldn’t leave the pack empty so I decided he should stay.” Jake replied.
Chris sped off, Jonah and Jake followed him.
I stared at the dead Lycan for a while. How did he know about my rage?
Wasn’t it something all Lycans experience or there was a reason I had it?
And how’d he know that reason?