Hector spun at Elijah. “You can’t fucking touch me!” he shouted.
Elijah growled, “I can even kil! you now and no one will say a word to me. Do you want me to demonstrate?”
This time Hector stepped back a little, scared of the Lycan. From the corner of his eye, he saw four warriors coming to capture him. He didn’t want to spend his time in the dungeons. He hated River more than ever and promised himself
2/3 that he was going to ***Elijah one day. “Okay, wait!” he snapped, holding his hands in the air. “I will go with you.”
Elijah narrowed his eyes. He tilted his head and looked at Victoria. “Stay here. I will get him back in ten minutes.”
Victoria mumbled a yes.
With Hector in the center of the four warriors, Elijah led them all to the main hall.
Hunter was standing over there with his hands clasped at the back. He had such a dangerous mien that Hector gulped. Lifting his chin up, Hector said, “I don’t have time for this nonsense. Get that ***here and I will accept the rejection!”
Hunter was in front of him in a split second, his hands on Hector’s neck, his expression twisted. “If I hear one more word about her, I will snap your body into two!”
Hector was shocked at his reaction. He grabbed Hunter’s wrists and coughed. The Lycan was too strong.
“Hunter!” Elijah came to stop him. Hunter left him and stepped back with the same expression.
River came along with Faria. She froze in her place when she saw the two of them out there. She had awoken only a few minutes back and the first thing that she searched for was her wolf. But Layla had gone back to sleep. “What is going on?” she asked, her face pale.
Hector looked at her with loathe.
“Say it!” Hunter snarled.
Hector took a deep breath in. “I, Hector, of the Crescent Moon pack, accept your rejection.” A sharp pain slammed into his chest and that of River’s. They both gasped, falling down.
Before River could touch the ground, Hunter had already scooped her in his arms. He took her upstairs barking the order, “Send him away!”
Hector was carried out by the Lycan warriors and was made to sit in the helicopter Victoria sat beside him, holding his hand She was happy on the inside that he had rejected her, but was nervous that the flight took off before they discovered that Ella was missing She hadn’t been able to wrap her head around the fact that Ella was Alpha Maxim’s sister. As soon as the flight took off, she breathed a sigh of relief.
In the castle. Hunter was sitting with River who had again fainted because of the immense pain after Hector accepted her rejection. The healer was called and he said that she would need a lot of rest Hunter couldn’t leave her side, so he canceled all his meetings for the day. He was least bothered about all the murmurs that were going on at the castle amongst the servants about how he was treating a breeder All he cared about was for River to become okay.
He was sitting next to her on the bed and stroking her hair lightly while she was sleeping Feeling mentally exhausted, he rested his head at the back and closed his eyes. He jerked open his eyes and realized he had slept for an hour when Fana came inside, rushing and looking nervous. Hunter’s eyebrows furrowed deeply when he sensed her fear “Alpha Hunter!” she said, almost crying “Ella Hunter narrowed his eyes as his body stilled with tension
Fana looked like a ghost Blood had drenched from her face. “Ella has escaped!”
“What?” Hunter growled loudly and was at Faria’s neck in less than a second. “What the fuck do you mean?”
Faria grasped his wrists as she tried to wrench herself out of his grip, but Hunter was such a powerful Lycan He lifted her off her feet. “How did this happen?” he snarled on her face. “What the ***were you doing?”
She coughed as her eyes filled with tears at the want of oxygen. “P-please, A-Alpha Hunter!” she spluttered. Asher rushed in after her. When he saw Hunter with Faria, he ran to them. “Alpha Hunter, this is not her fault!” he said and bowed to him.
Hunter’s eyes flickered an amber. He left Faria who dropped on the ground and then snarled at Asher with his lips peeling back. “Then whose fault is it? Ella had been in that prison for the past twenty years.
How did she manage to break it? That was a ***place!”
Faria scrambled away from them wheezing and coughing and crying. She was so nervous that she was sure that the Alpha would throw in the dungeons. When she had gone in the morning to give breakfast to Ella, she saw that the prison was empty and that the door was partially blasted. Panicky, she had informed Gamma Asher and rushed to tell the news to Alpha Hunter.
Asher pursed his lips. “Her door was blasted by what looks like a dynamite strip.”
Hunter’s muscles bulged. “Who had the gall to free my prisoner? Tell me the details!”
“It would be better that you come with us to the site.” Asher and the other gamma warriors had taken a decision long back to remove guards from the tall tower on the south almost ten years back. “It seems like she used an external support but none of the guards were present over there at the time when the blast took place and her cell was breached. I do believe that it is the work of someone else.”
Hunter clenched his jaws. The only ‘someone else’ in this equation were Hector and Victoria. But would they take the risk of helping Ella and then also why? Nothing made sense. Yet he couldn’t wonder about the timing. Also, where was Ella hiding now? Had she run out of the Veil that was filled with demons or she was still hiding in the Dark Moon pack? “Send warriors to scan the forest and look at every nook and cranny in the Dark Moon pack. I want every place to be combed. Now!”
“Yes Alpha,” Asher replied. There was a lot of tension in the air. Elijah too came running after hearing about Ella’s escape.
Hunter glared at Faria and snapped, “Stay with River while I come back!”
“Yes Alpha,” she replied, bowing to him. She was shaking visibly and praying to the goddess internally that they found Ella soon.
Hunter left in a hurry with his beta and gamma while Faria stayed back. Her gaze went to River who was still sleeping and was unaware of what was happening. She remembered that River had asked as to where she lived. Faria’s suspicion rose because she still couldn’t understand why River would ask that question. Also, a few days back when she had come, she didn’t find River in her room. She had become panicky and had asked the servants about her. They all had said that they saw her going to the south wing.
Faria took a ragged breath. Surely, River couldn’t have done anything in Ella’s escape. But what if she aided Victoria
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