At this point, I was becoming impatient and frustrated with the outcome of this trip. If only we had stayed in the night howlers’ territory, maybe, just maybe, it would make a difference. I am now feeling the same way I felt that day the war started, and I lost everything.
***FLASHBACK***
Most people believe people know the day they will die, that they have this feeling of abnormalities and make strange requests and comments.
To me, that day would have been every other normal day. There would have been no profound statement or ultimate speech that would make anyone believe that I had a little bit of premonition about my death. I don’t know about others who lost their lives that day. Maybe they did. But I speak for myself; I knew not the day had come. I didn’t eat any special meal or wear special clothing. The only thing that might have indicated my knowledge of the predicament was that I made love to Sonia that morning. I mean, we fucked real good before heading out.
I had already coordinated my packs.
“The gamma wolves would stay behind and hold down the ford. They will play defense.” I strategize with Ben.
“No, why don’t the Gamma wolves go out as bait? The omega wolves would be in the middle line, and we will be on the battlefront,” Ben suggested.
“No, we will lose too many soldiers,” I disagreed with him.
“But we will win, while they are focused on the Gamma wolves we will sneak from behind and ambush them, and then the Omega would have already left the middle line for the frontline and we will be victorious,”
“Hmmm,” I was entertained about his plan, it was too risky, and a lot of lives would be eventually lost in the process, was that worth it? Ben suggested sacrificing some valuable lives just to win a battle.
“Trust me. This is the only way we can win them. I have thought this through, and there is no other way,” he assured me, and he was the Beta wolf. He was more experienced in battles and war than I was. It was not all battles I engaged in.
“I don’t feel comfortable sending soldiers to their death just to secure victory,” I lamented, still struggling with the idea and rationale behind the plan.
“Would you rather we lose everyone?” He asked me. And I thought about it, even though these men had wives and children, they would willingly give their lives to protect and save them. And I would do anything to save my people.
“No, let’s do this, but let’s try our best to limit casualties, as much as we can,”
I never knew I had just signed a death warrant for over three hundred soldiers, and I would have been among them if my wolf had not emerged to fight and save me.
While making our way through the underground tunnel in order to ambush them from behind, the plan was going well, Ben stayed behind as the Beta, and I led the way as the Alpha, and the last thing I recall was me changing to my wolf form immediately in order to withstand the blast and had landed on my back.
I later found out the way we won, if that was even a victory or merely an escape, was when Celeb saw the lineup on time and knew we were going to lose. He commanded the omega to take the front line, and then the gamma wolves stayed in the middle line.
All this truth starts to make more sense now. Ben knew what he was doing when he gave that strategy. He knew what he was doing when he led us to that tunnel. No wonder he was the least affected by the blast. They had all thought I had died. He had even announced I had died and had been buried alive in the tunnel after the blast, but some group of Omega wolves commenced a search for my body and saw me lying down with a group of dead wolves, I wasn’t lifeless, but I had lost the life in me.
I can honestly say a part of me died that day.
***
We returned to the night howlers’ territory, and I immediately called Caleb to prepare the soldiers.
“What is wrong?” He asked, confused as I had not given him the complete details nor let him in on the full picture of what was going on.
“I think Ben is trying to escape, and the sizzlers might try to help him,”
“What? We need to go fast then… Wait, is that why they asked for Edwina? Because he is working with them?” He asked, immediately putting the piece of the puzzle together.
“Yes, most likely, and he was also in collaboration with them during the first war we had. That was why we lost. He leaked our plans to them.
“Shit!!” He exclaimed, “that’s messed up. Let’s head out fast,”
As we rode in the car heading to the prison, a lot of wild thoughts came to my mind. I might kill Ben if I get to see him there. I thought of all the good soldiers who lost their lives because of him.
I then wondered why exactly he did all he did.
Was it because of his relationship with Sonia? It might be that he was always looking for a way to go free with it. Since I had no children, if I had died in the battle, then I think it is almost acceptable for him to inherit my wife and my throne.
Was he doing it for power? He was always power-driven, and I thought I could tame him. As we reached the penitentiary, an alarming red light had already been raised before our arrival. And I feared we were already late.
“What is going on here?” I asked a guard who was trying to control the crowd and noise.
“A prison riot broke out,”
I looked at Caleb, and we both chorused “Ben,”
We quickly and hurriedly headed for his cell. I almost forgot myself in order to stand up and run; thankfully, I didn’t. As we got there, he was nowhere to be found. We searched the whole prison after the riot had been contained.
He was still nowhere to be found.
We were already too late.
Ben had escaped!!!
Ben’s POV…
“Welcome to the sizzlers community, it is good to finally get you to join us,” Alpha Bethel said, extending arms of a warm, gratifying hug. It’s been a while since I got such a warm, reserved welcome.
“Thank you, Alpha Bethel,” I replied, with only a smile on my face.
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