3RD POV.
The woods are in disturbance with the heavy turbulence being released by the two strong wolves in them. Their hastened paces cut weeded paths within the woods.
Kade is almost catching up with the attacker. His brows furrow in response to his thoughts and anticipation in eagerness to know the reason behind this attacker, attacking Kaya, only when she is left alone in the room. He has sniffed the attacker, and he doesn’t know his scent, which means whoever hired him must have done that for a specific reason; they must have traveled far away from their kingdom just to hire this assassin.
Kade’s now rhymes with the assassin, and brutally, he cuts through the distance between them, his body biting past the woods till he catches the assassin, but when they lose their momentum into the air, his hold on the assassin is released.
They tumble continuously in the air at the loss of stamina, both their bodies hitting hard against the woods. As soon as they stop, Kade hurries up and proceeds towards the assassin. He doesn’t even show an ounce of painful facial expression as his bones reset and heal.
Arriving in front of the assassin, he grabs him by his neck as he is naked, having been forced to change back into a human shape by the hefty loss of equilibrium.
“You will tell me in this instance why you’ve decided to hurt that girl. Who sent you?” When the assassin opens his lips in response to Kade’s command, blood is the only thing that spurts out. He coughs out more of them, the crimson liquid streaming down one side of his lips.
“My job is either to kill her or make her run into that room. I’ve achieved one of them. I’ve got no reason to tell you any damn thing. Take your dick and go fuck yourself if you’re so pissed, cunt.” The assassin mocks with a glint of joy in his tone. He’s achieved his goal, and that’s his own joy. He cares less about anything else.
Kade tightens his hold on the assassin, causing more blood to stream down the side of his face as he groans out in pain.
“I command you...” Kade lets out his alpha aura, bending the assassin to his will.
“But unfortunately, that won’t work.” Says the assassin just before he hits Kade on the wrist, breaking his bone enough for him to release himself.
“It seems you don’t hire assassins as much, do you?” The assassin begins, and he’s right. The triplets themselves are too much of an assassin to ever need to hire one to do their dirty jobs for them. Plus, they aren’t cowards. They would kill a person with the person knowing that it was them who did it. They would poison with the acknowledgement that it was their doing. “Any trained assassin is immune to the aura of the likes of you. It’s an advantage we have.”
Kade grits his teeth, snarling with utter fury within him, but before he could grab the assassin by his neck and crush him to death, the assassin grabbed a branch and poked it into his own chest. It cuts through his sternum to his heart and comes out of his back.
Kade is not one bit shocked as he mutters, “such a waste of information and time.”
His brain picks back to Kaya and his brothers, followed by him dashing with insane speed back to the kingdom.
“You’re a betrayal to all of your subjects and to this land.” Alpha Damon starts before he yanks his claws at Kieran’s face.
But he crouches, dodging the attack. “I don’t want to attack you. It would be treason to beat an Alpha, wouldn’t it now? Stop this insanity, and everyone can go back to their nation to prepare appropriately for the war.” Kieran is trying to reason in a sarcastic manner with Alpha Damon, who is even more pissed at his words.
“Treason is everything you have done to betray this land. And how dare you still speak of a war that was even caused by your mistakes? We are all players in your games, aren’t we?”
Kieran evades another one of his attacks, but he almost didn’t see the other one. Alpha Damon’s claws almost bite into Kieran’s chest, but he staggers backwards to avoid it.
The effect causes him to lose his balance, and he falls to the ground. He settles back on one of his knees before he finally stands upright. His jaw twitches, and through his lashes, he watches Alpha Damon.
“I have tried to reason with you, but since you’d act dirty, let us get dirty.” This time around, Kieran is the one starting the attack.
He rushes towards Alpha Kieran with might, slashing his claws at his face, but Alpha Damon is quick to evade it, shifting with one step backwards, away from Kieran’s attack. However, what he didn’t see was Kieran already outstretching his left leg over the ground in an attack to swipe Alpha Damon off of the ground.
Achieving that, he twirls into the air, wanting to jab his elbow at Alpha Damon, who also quickens to roll out of the way.
They both stand up again and go into attacking each other. The air releases sounds of their claws scratching each other. There’s grunts coming from each other and clashes between Kieran being through the window to the outside and Alpha Damon jumping through the broken window to continue the fight as well.
Since he’s an alpha, he’s able to utilize his aura, which dampens Kieran’s senses and is hence a hindrance to his being able to make use of his best skills.
Kieran’s face has been cut many times and healed. There are broken glasses inside his skin, which he hasn’t removed. And for Alpha Damon, the bones of his ribs, even though they’ve partially healed, have been misshaped from the way they actually were and focused on the fight; he is yet to reshape them back so they can actually heal well.
The both of them want to attack each other again when Kade arrives between them and growls so loudly that the both of them stop and focus on him. His growl lasted a few seconds, unstopping until their minds calmed.
Kade is more than pissed off, and Kieran bows his head slightly. Alpha Damon, however, hisses before he walks away. He joins the others, including Luna Olivia, who starts.
“You have performed an act that is most frowned upon, and the consequences shall soon be upon you three. When it comes, I can only wonder how you’ll be saved. In two moons’ time.” She finishes on behalf of the others as they leave.
Kade helps Kieran remove the fragments of glass in his face before they enter the meeting room, where Kyle has calmed Kaya’s heart rate so that she doesn’t bleed anymore. Since she didn’t lose much blood, they moved her to their room and helped bandage the wound.
While she rests on the bed, the brothers have a discussion on the matter at hand.
“It is absolutely clear that someone caused what happened today—someone in this kingdom. We have a traitor, and we must find them out.” Kieran is burning with anger inside him. He has a hand mirror in his grip, which he’s looking into to see if his face is clean from wounds or not. He has completely healed, so he looks as though nothing had happened to him in the past few minutes.
“We have a lot on your table right now to even think of such a matter. I have no idea how we’d do it, but trust me, we have a traitor to capture, we’ve got Kaya to protect with the baby inside her, and we’ve got a war upcoming. We still don’t know what else the future is preparing for us.”
“Babies. That crazy woman of a Luna said they were twins.” Kieran corrects Kade, which makes Kyle groan.
“I can’t cope with this.′ Kyle throws his hands into the air as he releases an exasperated sigh and slouches his shoulders in tiredness.
Kade turns to the brothers. “The future is controlled by time. And time is an essence, just like the wind is a measurement. Whether we work with it or not, it would fuck with us. So, instead, why don’t we cut through it? I have an idea.” Kade speaks with such collectiveness. “We’d do this one at a time, hence having a clearheaded comprehension of how we win in the end.”
Kade steps away to connect his mind with Chester. His eyes glow a shade of scarlet as his mind connects through the miles of distance between them, but since Chester is a close subject of theirs, their blood is connected through trust and loyalty, making distance a negligible thing.
The connection locks, and Chester submits, “Alpha Kade.”
Kade doesn’t waste time saying his reason for connecting his mind with Chester. “Chester, it is time that I need you here. Come before tomorrow’s sunset.”
“Yes, my Lord. I may have a surprise for you as well.” He is being sarcastic, which makes Kade overlook his words. Chester is a helpless drunkard. It’s okay for him to be unserious all the time.
Kade turns back to his brothers. “One way or the other, I am certain we’d win this war.”