For the next two days, he didn’t come out of his room. Every time he would get up, he would pick up something and throw it against the walls to vent his anger. He had drained half the bottles of whiskey in these two days. His wolf wanted him to go to his mate, but he was denying him. He looked like a wraith by the end of the second day. It was impossible for him to attend any meeting or give attention to his Alpha jobs, but how could he?
When he didn’t come out of his room for two days and refused to eat, Elijah and Asher went to meet him.
“What is wrong with you, Hunter?” Elijah said as he took the glass from Hunter’s hand that was tilted and was half-filled with whiskey. Hunter’s hair was disheveled, he wasn’t wearing a shirt, there were bruises on his knuckles and feet and every inch of the floor was filled with shattered pieces of glass or metal. There were dents in the walls and plaster scattered over the ground Hunter ***in a shallow breath. “She has a mate…” he said in a slurry voice as a fresh pang of jealousy filled him
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17:55 with rage all over again. He just didn’t know how to deal with that situation No wonder she was not having feelings for him and was suffering so much, when he was so fully invested in her Elijah stared at him, shocked He looked from him to Asher who was just as surprised “Who?” he asked Both his beta and gamma knew that River was his mate but they never revealed it to anyone
“Hector..”
“That dimwit?” Elijah barked instantly, making Hunter chuckle. “But I know that he has another female”
“Yes, I saw him around with Victoria,” Asher added as he stepped over a broken glass and came nearer
“In fact, both of them were pretty close.”
“That ***!” Elijah barked.
Hunter closed his eyes and rested his head on the wall he was sitting against.
“But it is not River’s fault,” Elijah said, his eyes full of sadness for his Alpha who was also his best friend.
“I know…” he rubbed his hand over his forehead. “He marked another female.”
Elijah scowled. “What a ****! She must be suffering a lot. Has he rejected her?”
“No…”
Elijah jerked his head back, unable to fathom his Alpha’s despair. He was silent for a few moments when he said, “Why don’t you take her to her pack and ask her to reject him?”
Hunter’s brows furrowed. “I have thought of that, but it would be too risky for her. Alpha Maxim doesn’t want her anywhere near the pack after he washed his hands off her.”
“Then why don’t you get Hector here?” Asher suggested.
Hunter looked at his gamma and said, “I haven’t brought male werewolves in the Veil, Asher. It would be a huge problem if I bring him here.”
“We can be discreet about them,” Elijah said. “But this problem has to have a solution. Get Hector over here and then he can reject her.”
“But would that scumbag agree? And if we bring him here, he is sure going to act important!” Hunter growled.
“We can force him to reject her,” Elijah said with a twinkle in his eyes and wiggling his eyebrows.
And for the first time Hunter laughed in two days. “But on what basis are you going to bring him here?”
“Leave that to me,” Elijah said with a mysterious smile.
For two days, River was feeling miserable. Hunter was in his room and ever since he had heard about her mate, he was acting bizarre. She would hear glasses shattering in his room. Sometimes, the walls would shake as if someone had punched them heavily. She heard him muttering curses one after the other. And not even once did he eat food. River didn’t know why, but she was beginning to get gloomy.
She had asked Faria as to what was wrong with him, but Faria had no answers. “Alpha tantrums,” she would say, rolling her eyes.
Not having seen him for two was really terrible. She missed him more than she could admit. She wished that she had rejected Hector before coming here to make her life better. She regretted every moment of knowing Hector. He was a heartless boy not worthy of being an Alpha or being anyone’s mate.
River had tried so many times to reach Hunter, but was too scared that he wouldn’t let her in his room or his heart. She had spent such a wonderful time with him and this was how it was going to end?
He had got her here as his breeder and then she told him that she had a mate. Her troubles only doubled from what they were earlier. Often, she would be scared that Hunter would throw her in dungeons and get another breeder. Nightmares haunted her.
By the third day, she had lost all hope to talk to Hunter and knew that it was time for her to run away, else she would be in dungeons like Ella. That morning she went to meet Ella.
Ever since Hunter had closed himself in his room, River tried her best to divert her attention and for that she spent extra hours at the training center Even though Nancy would ask her to come to the pub or other places where the young Lycans hung out, she didn’t go Mia was a nice distraction but Mia had her studies and since she was in an elite Lycan high school where she was being trained to be a Luna, she was available for very less hours
It was on the third day that River went back to the tallest tower of the castle where Ella was imprisoned
“You didn’t come back to meet me,” Ella complained, her voice weaker than usual “I waited for so many days and then lost all hope that you would help me.”
River ***in a sharp breath. She had met Ella a few weeks back and after that Ella had gone at the back of her mind. River was making up her mind to talk to Hunter about Ella but the topic never came up “I am sorry” she murmured.
“Don’t tell me you are in love with the Lycan King!” Ella said in a sharp voice. “He charms you at first and then just throws you here. Don’t you fall for him. Use your logic. And the logic says that we must escape!”
Drawing in a rough breath, River said, “But how do I free you? I don’t even know how to unlock you from this prison can’t find the door.”
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