The Alpha King's Heart
The Alpha King’s Heart – Chapter 124

Adira

Two days passed by and the mark on my neck was not healing, my body was rejecting it and I was pleased however, it made me sick. I was often nauseated and had a high fever.

“Are they looking for us?” The quiet voice of Rachel spoke.

“Yes, they’ll find us soon, trust Chance and Wyatt,” I told her gently, she nodded and closed her eyes. Rachel acted tough not to worry me but she was panicking and I heard her cry at night.

The door opened and the woman who brought us our meals walked in.

“Hello,” I greeted her today again, I’ve been trying to gain her trust by talking to her and asking how she was doing, from the looks of it, she wasn’t alright because she came in with new wounds every day.

“Hello, Luna. How are you doing today and how is the pregnant lady?” she asked slowly.

“We are alright. Thank you for the medicine,” I said.

My eyes went to her arms, she had bruises there and when she noticed I was looking, she seemed shy and tried pulling down her top, hiding her bruises. I grabbed her hand and she jerked back.

“Who does this to you?”

“Alpha Zion’s right-hand man, Kinslee,”

“Why?” I asked. She sighed and looked away from me.

“They have no respect for women, they rape us, and abuse us. I’m his favorite,” she said and my heart dropped in my chest, I hugged her, making her a promise to help her, all of them when I could.

“Where’s Zion,” I asked.

She glanced at the door, scared that someone will hear. With what my ears could pick up, I knew there was no one close by.

“In his chambers. The alpha is not himself since marking you. He coughs out b***d and is often sick,” she whispered. I inhaled, I was not his mate hence, he was reacting like this. Good.

“And Corey?” I asked. I haven’t seen him since. She frowned, hesitating before answering and I got worried.

“Alpha Zion ordered his men to beat him up and lock him in the dungeons, they had a misunderstanding,” she told me. He probably confronted Zion about marking me.

I needed a plan to get out of this place, I couldn’t stay any longer.

“Are there a lot of people in the pack?” I asked and she nodded.

“It’s a whole pack ma’am. With about over three thousand warriors,” she informed me.

“How did he get a huge pack?”

“He killed our former alpha and took over, he then brought in his warriors and have been staying here ever since,” she informed me.

“How come no one knows of this?” I asked.

“Zion is a very cunning man. He told everyone that he challenged the alpha and he killed him in battle but that’s not what at all happened, he poisoned him and then killed him, taking his body to our warriors,” she narrated.

“And where are the pack’s other leaders?”

“He killed those who didn’t follow him and submitted the rest, we are all submitted under him hence we can only do as he wants,” she said, tears brimming in her eyes. When a wolf is submitted under an alpha, he takes away free will and uses them like puppets. Alphas stopped submitting their pack members decades ago, it’s frowned upon and has dire consequences.

Wyatt

My mate, I couldn’t feel her, and I was desperate for any sort of connection with her. The only thing that comforted me was that Rachel’s link wasn’t broken to her pack hence she was still alive and my mate was too.

We were in the conference room, having a meeting along with Richard Tarion and Chance Lafayette. We have been looking for my mate in all of Azriel’s villas but our efforts were futile.

“Why was her link disconnected,” my mom asked with tears in her eyes. She had been crying ever since we learned that Adira was kidnapped by Zion’s men.

“He could be that he marked her as he planned,” Philipe answered, hugging her.

“Or that she is-“

“Don’t,” I growled at Faye. I didn’t want to hear about death. My mate was alive, I knew it in my heart.

‘I f*****g told you to mark her!’ Rolf growled. He’s been telling me to mark our mate since Rachel’s mark faded but I didn’t because I wanted it to be special, so I waited and this happened. I had no one to blame but myself.

“Jett, try calling Corey, find out if he knows something,” Azriel asked, Jett tensed and I was curious to know. Everyone in the room looked at them.

“Who’s Corey?”

“A pal of mine?” he asked quickly, not looking into my eyes.

“And why would this ‘ pal ‘of yours know where my mate and Rachel are?” I questioned in his alpha tone. Jett was acting weird and I marched towards him, patience was exactly my forte right now.

Azriel put a hand on my shoulder and I eyed him.

“What do you know?”

“Corey is Zion’s nephew and has a… Friendship with Jett,” My brother was looking for the right words.

“Argh, the black sheep of our family,” Chance g*****d, shaking his head.

“Is this the man we held in dungeons? Did you help him escape that time?” I asked him, and he nodded slowly. I sighed, disappointed.

“Alpha, I’m sorry. I – I was-“

“Save it,” I wasn’t in the mood to deal with such issues now. ” Does he know where my mate is?” I asked.

“He hasn’t been responding to my calls… Something must be wrong,” he said.

“Rachel’s necklace,” Richard suddenly stood up. ” My sister’s necklace has a small tracking device in it, Baba, put it in there during her rebellious stage,”

“Is it still there?” Chance asked.

“Yes, but was she wearing it when they were taken?” he asked to no one in particular.

“The diamond necklace with a T and your insignia? She never takes it off,” Chance said.

Richard immediately pulled out his phone and boomed orders to his people in the ICT department while I readied the men, we were going to go with our people and give them an out war, it was time to finish this.