Chapter 19

Alexander's POV

I felt everything around me standstill when my eyes laid on the man I didn't expect to see.

I didn't know what to think.

I didn't know what to do.

I didn't know why.. Why on earth it had to be him?

Why it had to be you!

Malka

I stared at him just to make sure if it was really him, that my eyes aren't fooling me.

'It was really you..'

You are the Alpha of the rogues. But why?

'Why do you have to do this? Why do you have to go against me?'

There are so many questions I wanted to ask him right now. We're only a distance apart and yet I can't make a move to reach him. I was still a bit stunned when I saw him with my own eyes. When I had confirmed it myself that it was truly him.

But when my eyes traveled down to the shewolf he was carrying, I felt the world had stopped spinning. Everything in me had stopped functioning: my brain, my lungs.. my heart.. my wolf.

And when her eyes gaze up to me my heart started to beat differently. It pounds hard inside my chest and I can't take my eyes off of her. She had the most peculiar eyes I had ever seen. I felt like her eyes were telling me something that I don't know. That somewhere inside her wants to reach out to me. Her aura as a shewolf is different from the others, somewhere in my gut tells me this shewolf had something in her that I need to know.

My wolf stirred wildly inside me but I push him away and control him inside me.

'I need to be in control to face Malka.'

I have to pull back my eyes away from the shewolf and set back my eyes on the man that once had been close to me. As I drifted my eyes to him, a thunder hit the sky and Malka was looking at the shewolf in his arms. I suddenly felt a pang of jealousy about the way his eyes gaze down at her and that his hands were on her fragile body. My wolf had wildly boiled in anger deep within me and I felt the same. My eyes changed color from black to gold and I felt like I need to grab that shewolf away from   Malka! A sense of possessiveness suddenly bursts out of me over that shewolf. Another lightning strike again and this time our eyes met. Malka and I we're now looking at each other. Our intense gaze had my wolf on edge. The wolves around me felt uneasy for the power that I was giving was intensifying, emanating off of me that I can't stop myself but also to be on edge to the point that I was now struggling to keep a tight rein on my wolf.

I felt her eyes were on me but I struggle not to look at her. My only focus now should be on Malka.

'I need to confront him right now and end this chaos that he had made or else I had no choice but to seize him.'

My eyes never left Malka. I will show him that I will never back down from him. My eyes hold the determination to face him to resolve this once and for all.

'It's what we need. For the good of the kingdom.'

The rain continues to pour as my warriors held their position bearing their canines to the rogues across from us. Waiting for my signal to attack the rogues.

Still looking intently at each other, I was about to take one step forward when Malka shake his head at me with a wicked smile on his face. My wolf let out a low growl as Malka stepped backward and turn his back on us and started to run. He started to run away from us carrying the shewolf.

'He is now escaping! You are letting him run away? With the shewolf?' My wolf viciously growls at me but I put on the wall between us, blocking him off.

'No one would tell me what to do! Even my wolf will not take hold of me for I am the one whose in control. I am the Alpha King!'

I shifted to my human form and let out a powerful roar that resonates throughout the whole place. The rain had stopped but the wind gets wicked and the only sound that echoed the whole place was my gut-wrenching roar.

'Yes, I had let you escape me, Malka. But assure this, I will and will always find you wherever you hide.'

I took a deep breath before I turn to face my warriors. No one didn't say a word when Malka had to tuck his tail away from us.

"I had let him escape, for now," I travel my eyes on every wolf around me "But I will assure you all that I, will be the one who will hunt him down." They all kneeled as the dominance in me had them bowed down.

I clenched my jaw as I move my way towards the treehouse. The treehouse was now all burned down. I almost forgot about this when I saw Malka.

'Damn you, Malka! You had ruined all the remaining memories we all once had! All the happy memories we had shared in this treehouse!'

Our childhood memories. All our plans and dreams we had shared.

You, me, and Paul.

I took a step closer to the treehouse that was now falling apart and bent down to pick up something on the grass. I crumbled and crashed the thing with my own hands.

All our hard work and effort to put up and build this treehouse. Our treehouse. Is now burning down.

All I felt now was anger and hatred towards him.

'I was once been mad at you two years ago Malka.'

But I had forgiven you long ago and had forgotten what happened to us for I know it wasn't your fault but now, this time is different. You had changed. You changed into someone I didn't think you would become. I maybe had been harsh to you when I had you excluded from my kingdom because I had to. I had to do it for I am the Alpha King and no one can take down my dignity and the pride I hold in being the Alpha King. I had to do it for myself.

To protect myself from the pain I was in. I was hurt and broken when I found out about the truth.

The truth behind you and...

Denise

Everything was good. Until came Denise. When I met her I was very much in love and happy. I thought we were all alright. But that was just me.

I thought wrong.

You and Denise had betrayed me. She lied to me! And so are you! You both used me for your own good! If Paul hadn't seen the both of you and if hadn't heard the truth about what you are truly is with each other then I shouldn't have known.

You should have just told me then I wouldn't have to be hurt and betrayed like this! I was ready to give my all to her, for you know, you had always known that I was longing and yearning to meet my mate. You should both have just told me that you had already found each other!

That you were true mates!

But instead, you both had kept it a secret from us. From me! While you both continue to be around us like nothing is happening! While I, was a fool still loving Denise when in fact behind my back it was you whom she truly loved!

And so I had decided to both exclude you from my life!

But as the years passed, I told myself to forgive you and just cherished the memories I had shared with you.

And now, all that's been happening and the fact that it was you behind these tragic cases of the she-wolves, it was unforgivable.

All the heartache was now slowly coming back again but I push it farther away from my heart. I fisted my hands and stand up. The painting of us was now trash.

Shattered and broken.

Like us.

'If this is what you want then it shall be. I will not back down to you!'

We've been brothers for so long. A friend, a partner, and a family. But now it was all gone. You are just now a rogue to me.

An enemy that I should fight and seize!

You are ruining the lives of the other wolves! You have to stop now and be punished for your crimes!

I was sad to know that you've become like this. That you choose to be like this. I have no choice now but to hunt you and put an end to your foolishness!

The sudden buzz on my wall within me had me retort back from the present. Paul was trying to mind-link me so I open the communication link to him.

"Alpha King, you need to get back here in the castle now" came his troubled voice.

"What is it?"

"Just please get back here immediately," he said with a pleading tone.

I didn't respond to him and I blocked him off. I was really pissed with this kind of attitude that they wouldn't just tell me and spit out already what they had to say but instead, they always tend me to abide by what they said and I had to personally come to them just to know what is it they're going to tell me!

Isn't that annoying and displeasing? This suspense they're giving me made me want to snap someone! I was already on edge and they are really testing my patience!

But I had no choice and get back to the castle immediately.

'If what Paul had to tell me, it might be really important.'

Then I had to be there as soon as possible.

I shifted to my wolf form once again and head my way back to the castle.

Leaving all behind the painful and bitter memories with Malka and the treehouse that are now gone and was just now ashes.