“Delusion?” I leaned back and laughed “Father, the earliest memory I have of you, is you and grandfather screaming at me for not mastering a fight technique, and you made me practice for two days straight, I nearly missed Teyana’s funeral because I wasn’t allowed to leave the training arena”
“I don’t want to talk about your sister!” He growled, and I saw pain in his eyes ‘And I’ve already told you, I don’t want to fight, change the f*cking subject”
Koda and I were seven when our sister passed away. She was only two, and her nanny had taken her for a walk in the woods, where they were attacked by a rogue.
My mother didn’t speak for months, and refused to leave the home. If it hadn’t been for Koda visiting her every day, I don’t think she would have gotten better.
“I’m sorry” I said quickly “I wanted to talk about the coronation, anyway”
My father exhaled “We’ve been over this. Once your uncle is back in jail, you and Koda can have the throne”
“You do understand that no matter when we take the throne, we’re going to kill uncle Fenrir” I said cautiously, and I saw pain in his face again “He’s a threat to Madelyn, Koda and I can’t let him live”
“That is between you and Koda” He said reasonably “But I won’t kill my twin”
“You had no issues killing Madelyn’s mother”
“She wasn’t my twin” He argued, as he placed some mashed potatoes on his plate “And she betrayed us”
“Not letting you control her powers, isn’t the same as betraying you”
“She created an entire race to overthrow us” He said angrily “For goddess sake Jaxson, why do you have to be so infuriating, enough, we’re not talking about this, why don’t you tell me about your mate, how are things going, I’m sure”
“Jax, you have to come” Cole’s panicked voice cut through my mind, and I dropped my fork onto my plate.
“What’s wrong?” My father asked, in alarm.
“What’s happening?” I said to Cole.
“Maddie’s hurt” He sounded terrified now “I swear, it was an accident, I didn’t mean to, she got in the way, and I”
“WHERE ARE YOU’?’
“Near her office, I swear Jax, it”
I cut the link, and jumped up “Madelyn’s hurt!” I told my father, and ran from the dining room.
Knox was fully alert as I ran as fast as I could through the hallways, I didn’t even wait for the elevator, it would be quicker to take the stairs, which I did, three at a time.
“MOVE!” I shouted at some staff, who were vacuuming the hallways carpet, and they quickly backed up against the wall.
I could smell Madelyn’s blood before I was her, and when I did, my entire body burnt with rage.
She was crying, and crouched on the ground, holding her bleeding cheek, while Cole and Molly hovered around her, and Noland was being detained by guards… Did he do this?
“MADELYN!” I shouted, and Cole quickly grabbed Molly and pulled them both out of my way. I fell to my knees and grabbed her hand, pulling it down to examine her face. She had a large gash from her chin to the top of her ear, and it was bleeding heavily. Why wasn’t it healing? Was this caused by silver? I turned to Cole, who was looking frightened “WHAT HAPPENED!?”
KODA’S POV
“Alpha” I felt cold hands shake me, and I growled angrily.
“P*ss off, Jax!” I snarled, and tried to pull the cover over my head, but it wouldn’t move. What was going on? Where’s Maddie?
“Alpha, it’s Joey” The annoying intruder to my dream spoke again “Alpha Jax isn’t here”
I groaned and slowly opened my eyes, to dim light, and the smell of smoke and fish bones, and then I remembered what was happening. I’d left the pack to track down Troy.
“Someone get me the map”
“Yes sir” Danny spoke, as I sat up and ran my fingers through my hair and stretched “Alpha” Danny handed it to me.
I yawned and looked at the map, and saw that Sky was still in her house “Has there been any movement, who was on watch last?”
“Me and Joey, Alpha” Jayden answered “But nothing happened, Ace and Milo are on duty now, but there 3 hour shift if nearly up”
“Ok, thanks” I climbed out of bed, and placed the map back inside my bag “Let’s go Danny, we’ll swap them out, and please, someone get coffee and breakfast going”
“Yes sir” Joey said, as he started adding more logs to the fire that had died down.
Three hours later, nothing had happened, Skyler hadn’t left the house, and she hadn’t even opened a window, so we switched out the guards and went for breakfast.
I have never been happier to have a coffee. The only thing that happened for the next two hours was a food delivery to Sky, who came out in a fluffy red robe. I guess the girl couldn’t cook, in the memories Maddie had given us, she had been the one to do the bulk of the cooking in the house.
It was near lunchtime when I gave an annoyed huff, Jayden and Joe had just taken over the watch, and I was pacing around bored. If the girl was just going to stay in the house, then this was going to turn into a huge waste of time.
There had to be a place she’d go.
“Maddie, Jax?’ I linked them as I took a sip of my second coffee.
“KODA!” Maddie shouted, sounding a mix of excitement and relief.
“Hey” Jax said, a little subdued “How’s it going”
“Wait, wait” Maddie said quickly “Just give me a second to get away from your grandmother, don’t talk yet”
A few seconds later, Maddie spoke again “Okay, she’s given me 5 minutes” She sounded annoyed now, and I smiled.
“Why are you with our grandmother?”
“Evet decided to get the ball rolling on the wedding preparations” Jax told me.
“And Jax refused to save me” Maddie dobbed him in.
I laughed, although, I felt a twinge of longing to go home and rescue her.
“Anyway” Jax sounded amused “Madelyn’s on the clock, what’s up, how’s the patrol?”
“Boring, she’s still in the house” Koda told us “Does the house have a basement and secret tunnels or something?”
“Tunnels?” Madelyn asked “What house has secret tunnel?”
“Ours for one” I told her.
“Really?”
“Please focus baby” Koda asked.
“Oh right” She giggled “Sorry, um.. I don’t know about tunnels, but yes, there’s a basement.. oh wait, there’s a hidden bunker, like the one you guys have. Maybe Alpha Troy is in there?”
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