Alpha's Blind Luna



Warily, I looked into the doorway but there was only a few steps before a staircase went down into an underground part of the castle. It smelled like something was dying or decaying and I held my hand over my nose. I walked in and looked behind me, the door had a handle on the inside. Pulling it shut, I descended down the stairs slowly. Already, I knew that Alpha and Beta were out with Mark doing the rounds or whatever they did. No one would interrupt me for at least another hour. Not that they would be looking for me in particular, I just didn't know how often they came down here.

The stairs descended underground, where the stones became mossy and dripped with condensation. Some of the stones even had come out and there was just straight dirt behind them. I stepped as lightly as I could, but as I reached the bottom there was no door but it opened up into a bigger room. Peering in, the whole room was lined with huge cages and cells. It was definitely a dungeon and seemed like most of the cells were from when the castle was actually built.

Walking down the rows, I looked over and all of them I could see were empty. There were definitely some skeletons that had been left to rot here and the mold definitely didn't help.

'There has to be a reason why the Beta came down here. It definitely wasn't to clean.' Naresh huffed. He was suffering as bad as I was from the smell even with breathing through my mouth.

'Exactly. Why would he come down to an empty...' My thoughts were cut off when I looked at the furtherest cell in the corner.

Huddled together in the corner were tiny bodies. As I walked closer, I could hear their heart beats and I crouched down. They were tiny, dirty, and they smelled awful but all of them looked like they were asleep. I tried to count heads and my eyes glazed over.

'Naresh, they are all here. The witches were right. Six children. All six of them are here. Fuck. Fucking hell.'

Naresh couldn't even speak. He howled from the back of my mind. These kids didn't belong down here. I thought a third party was still involved and that checking the perimeters was going to yield something. But why bother when this fucking pack did steal the children. Suddenly, anger boiled up in me. I felt my ears pop up on the top of my head and my hands shift into claws. I couldn't shift here. I tried to calm myself but I was livid. Quietly retreating, I made my way back to the door. Opening the door, I had to figure out a way to save these kids. They didn't do shit and the Alpha and Beta were going to pay for their lies and their treachery. I couldn't just grab all six of them now and take them out. I couldn't fight an entire wolf pack without putting their lives in danger. Firstly, I needed some backup. I needed to talk to Ezekiel. Fuck, I needed to shift.

I closed the door behind me and raced through the castle. Once I made it out the back door of the kitchen, I shifted and just started to run. No destination. I just needed to run off this anger. I felt betrayed by my own kind. This was the exact scenario that we were trying to avoid. That I was now on the side of my kind but it turns out my kind were a bunch of fucking liars and kidnappers.

Were they trying to start a war? Were they trying to fuck the war up? Honestly, it seemed like some of their warriors were on Nova but it was hard to tell. I also couldn't just go around checking everyone's underwear drawers for drugs. The Alpha would know, he could even be taking them too, but he could easily lie unless I forced him to answer me truthfully.

Howling, I raced around the territory line. I passed a couple warriors but I knew the "front lines" were on the other side of the territory. It still was too laxed for being worried about children being snatched up. Was that a lie too? How much of this bullshit were they feeding us?

After a while of running, I felt a wolf trying to keep up with me. They continued to fall behind but finally, annoyed, I slowed to a stop and waited. Mark's wolf came into view and he shifted.

"Shift, Vale."

Naresh had taken over and he snorted. 'How dare this little shit not only try and force us to shift, but to not even call us properly.' 'Don't, Naresh. We still...'

"Shift, I said! Do you know how hard it was to ask Alpha Niles not to attack you while you ran around?"

Naresh growled but I took over, shifting. My wolf form rippled away as I walked up to him and grabbed Mark by the neck. Lifting him up, he clawed at my hand.

"Don't you dare order me around, High Councilor. I don't answer to you. The only person I answer to is my mate and my mother. I could kill you right now and no one would say shit other than needing to find another wolf for your position.” I let go and he dropped to the ground. "You will address me as, Alpha King from now on. I will not have you fucking disrespecting me. I'm in no mood for your bullshit and if anyone tried to attack me, they would be dead. So you tell Alpha Niles you saved his warrior's lives. Because I would have shown no mercy right now."

Leaning over him, I let my eyes glow golden, Naresh stepping forward. "Be careful, Alpha. You make a wrong move and your going to find yourself on the losing end of a war."

"Y...yes, Alpha King." Suddenly, that authoritative Alpha tone disappeared into that of a scared child.

My jaw locked and my lips pursed together. Those children needed to be saved and I wouldn't be able to do it alone. I wasn't about to trust Mark with this. Shifting again, I headed back towards the castle. This time, I didn't even bother to grab pants or a shirt. Naked, I strode through the castle, much to the shock of anyone who happened across me. Slamming the door behind me, I grabbed my phone of the nightstand and called Ezekiel.

"Ciao, mio re." ["Hello, my king."] Ezekiel's Italian was getting smoother and sounded incredible. It never failed to bring a smile on my face. "Vale, are you naked?"

"Maybe. That's not the fucking point. Fuck, I'm so glad to hear your voice. To see you." The tension that was coiled up inside me seemed to flow out just a bit.

Ezekiel's brow furrowed. "Everything alright?"

I shook my head and then pinched my nose. "I need a shower. Talk to me about you day while I shower." Going into the tiny bathroom, I propped the phone up on the sink and turned on the shower.

"Well, there really isn't much to report from our side. We've just been working on continuing to put out fires where we can. Hector is gone right now putting out a vampire fire with Morgan. Auri and Bryan have been balls deep in the construction of the new houses and businesses. I've been doing a lot of the paperwork behind the scenes. Auri has been slowly giving me more and more to do. I thought my pack had a lot. The first day she gave me the equivalent of that paperwork but now...it's nearly triple. And it's not even all of it!"novelbin

I laughed, his frustration and annoyance clearly coming through in his rant as he continued.

"You don't get it! How does she do it all when she's blind and mute? How the hell can she just easily manage everything and still look like she is thirty years younger than she is? I feel myself greying already!"

"I'm sure it's not that bad." I poured some shampoo in my hand and scratched my scalp, lathering up the soap. My hair had gotten ridiculously long and I think it was about time for a cut. Part of me wondered if I should try and see if I could outgrow my mom's hair.

Ezekiel huffed. "You have no idea. You get back here and I'm throwing all this pack paperwork on you and see how you feel."

Shaking my head, I grabbed the conditioner and started to comb the conditioner through my hair. "I told you. You will always be better at that than I will. You handle that side and I'll handle the king side of everything."

"The king side he says. Fuck off with that. Does your majesty also need a throne room built, since we are building shit out here?"

Throwing my head back, I laughed whole-heartedly. “You don't think the Italian Villa vibe is enough?"

"Goddess, you're as insufferable as your mother."

I rinsed off and shut the shower off. Grabbing the towel, I dried off before coming out of the shower. Not bothering to wrap the towel around my body, Ezekiel went quiet and even through the camera I could see the redness fill his cheeks.

"I miss you, my mate."

"I miss you too. I need you to pass the phone off to Bryan and my mom, if you don't mind. Just for a few minutes. They will fill you in, it's just..." I looked out the window at the warriors running some drills outside. "...your sign language isn't quite up to par."

Ezekiel huffed again. "I'm getting better."

"You're Italian is definitely getting better. I'll give you that. But there is too much I need to convey."

"Why don't you just speak in Italian?"

My mouth pursed. "Because this is too big, my mate. Don't worry. You're not going to be kept in the dark. Quite the opposite actually. Just for now." He got up from his desk but not without sighing. I chuckled and threw on some jeans and a t-shirt. There was a knock on a door and it opened. Through the phone, I could see my mom sitting, looking absolutely bored out of her mind in the office chair. Bryan had been leaning over her shoulder but he stood up, looking curiously at Ezekiel.

"Vale needs to sign with you."

I chuckled at his choice of words. "If you don't mind conveying everything to my mom and Ezekiel, Bryan, that would be helpful."

He furrowed his bow. "This seems..."

My mom slapped him in the chest and he coughed. I smiled. Setting up the phone on the dresser, I sat down on the edge of my bed and cracked my knuckles.

"Oh god, okay, hold on. Let me get a chair. I have a feeling I'm going to need one." Bryan disappeared for a moment but my mom's hand reached out and pulled Bryan into her lap. I snorted and I could hear Ezekiel laughing in the background too. Bryan was bright red but he cleared his throat.

"I guess...I found one. Proceed, Vale."

My hands came up and I started to sign. 'I found the missing witch children. They are here, in the dungeon of the Crescent River pack.'