Chapter 14 - Leo

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Having been busy with training, my mind was focused, as always, until rumours began to spread that a visiting warrior had been killed within our pack. A potential rogue attack was what was being said, and that was always a cause for concern. We had not had issues with rogues in a long time. My mind was far from training now, and I could not help but wonder if I should go and seek out my Dad to see if anything needed to be done. I may not be Beta yet, but I would be one day, and I wanted to be able to prove myself... It was only as I contemplated that, that I recieved a mindlink, which would change everything for one member of my family. My Alpha, suggesting I go and check up on my sister, initially seemed like an odd request, until he began to explain. And suddenly the rumours were no longer rumours. I was hearing from the pack leader himself a warrior had been killed within our pack. And that warrior was my sister's fated mate. I knew in that instant I needed to get away and hurry to the house. Mari needed me. My body flooded with sympathy for my little sister... of all the people she had been fated to, and he had to be the man visiting here today... the man that was killed within our pack... I felt shocked to the core. But a rogue attack here? It made no sense. Had we recently caused issues with some? I did not know, and was not able to ask, for Alpha Aaron had suggested Mari would need somebody there for her, because when she was last seen she was in pieces, understandably so. And, he was unsure where my Dad had gone to, as all attempts to reach out to him were going unanswered, Though, he would be the last person Mari would need, nor want to see right now... I have never moved as fast as I did upon hearing that. I needed to be there for my sister. She must be falling apart. No, there was no formed mate bond, but she had known who he was. All her hopes and dreams, that I just know Mari will have built around the knowledge of a mate will have been snatched away from her in an instance. She would need someobody to talk to. And that somebody was not going to be our Dad. He may well have lost his mate when Mari was born. A unforseen complication due to childbirth cost us the life of our mother, and cost my father the life of his fated mate. And it had changed him drastically in doing so. But, despite that, sympathy was not an emotion my Dad was skilled in showing. Least of all to my sister… The moment I stepped into the house I heard him. Answering the question as to where he had disappeared to, which instantly filled me with a sense of foreboding. Had he sought out Mari knowing of her grief? “Oh, you don’t know. Hmmm, you sure of that?” His voice was demanding. Angry. Even more vile than the usual tone he took with my sister. “You might want to think carefully on that answer, Mari.” I could sense from where I was at the front door that there was a threat within that statement, and I quickly moved further into the hallway, only to find my Dad leaning over Mari, who was sitting upon the lower step of the staircase, threateningly. “What is going on?” I interrupted. I hated him being like this with her. He had never treated my sister the way he treated me. Maybe he never wanted a daughter? Or as the truth seemed to be, he held an inexplicable resentment toward her for the loss of his mate. A blame he was unable to explain, yet unable to shield her from. Dad’s head turned to look at me, a darkened expression within his eyes. “Mind your own business, Leo.” He snapped. “No. I have been sent here by Alpha Aaron to check in on Mari.” I explained, and with that Dad stepped back. “Oh, is that right?” He demanded. “Is it feel sorry for Mari day now, is it?” He jeered, giving her a disgusted look. “All because she lost her fated mate. Aww poor Mari.” A gasp slipped from my sister’s lips. Dad slowly shook his head, while I moved to sit along side Mari, and placed my arm around her, in a bid to offer her comfort. “Yes, I knew.” Dad’s words were full of spite as he aimed his darkened gaze toward my sister. A gaze filled with as much spite as his words. “Thought you could hide it from me that your hero in his warrior attire had come to save you?” Dad laughed a short, almost evil laugh, before once again shaking his head. “Well, unlucky for you, the moment you went running to your pack Alpha in the hope of making a bid for escape, without letting me, your own f*****g father know, was the moment my good friend, the Alpha mentioned it to me.” He smirked, like he was proud of himself, and I felt Mari’s body sag in what felt like defeat. Was that what she had tried to do? Hide it from Dad that she had met her fated mate? I looked down to her, but she seemed to be avoiding my gaze, her eyes trained firmly to the floor, as they so often did when Dad was in the room. "Some f*****g warrior he was when he couldn't even save himself." Dad said with a smirk, causing Mari to begin to cry. I gently stroked her back, shaking my head in disgust at my Dad. Was that even neccesary? Why did he feel the need to make this worse for her? “Alpha was looking for you.” I warned Dad. “There was things they needed to deal with.” I added, I assumed in regards to the death of the visting warrior. The man I now knew was meant to the be the fated mate of my sister. I hoped in telling my Dad this he may leave and give my sister the space she needed to grieve, though, sadly I knew that space would not be there for long... Dad gave Mari a dark look. A look I hated, and I had no doubt that she did too, but it was one that she seemed to be accustomed to by now, before he walked away without another word, out of the house. I assumed, to find the Alpha. I looked to my sister again, gently brushing back her long black hair. “Mari, I am so sorry.” I whispered gently, not even sure what was the right thing to say in a situation like this. She had lost the man she was meant to be with. The man chosen for her by our moon goddess. The man she was meant to build a future with. And I don't doubt for a moment, the man she had already, within her mind, had a future all planned out with, starting with her escape from here... “I didn’t even get a chance to talk to him…” She began, before her body was wracked with heavy sobs. I pulled her close to me, bringing her into my chest, allowing her to cry. I cannot begin to imagine how she must be feeling. I was yet to find my fated mate, but I knew, like we all did past a certain age, from the lessons we received what was to be expected upon meeting your fated mate. The anticipation you build up within your own mind, and Mari was ever the romantic. I think Dad may have been right, I think she maybe had hoped her fated would be the one to come and save her from the hell her life was living here with him. And now, I did not now how it would end. Likely in death. But the question would be, who's?
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