Chapter 7: Loss of A Pack
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*Keaton's POV*
"I'll see you later, baby," Blair purrs in my ear.
I slap her ass, smirking when she yelps and scurries down the hall giggling. My mind drifts to Lola.
'You're a monster. You almost destroyed her!' my wolf growls.
'Almost' I grunt, a smile stretching across my lips.
'You know it kills you to hurt her,' he barks angrily.
He's right. But it's only the f*****g bond. I'm doing this for a reason. My pack is too powerful to be lead by a weak wolf like her. She's too kind and gentle. Blackwood needs a strong ruthless leader to rule along side me. My father would only hand me the title if I had a mate. Well I have one, but there's no rule that says I have to keep her.
What'd she expect when she found me? Surely she's heard the stories about me. I enjoy f*****g whores. I love the thrill of killing and conquering. I don't care about anyone but myself. She's stupid for thinking I'd be anything like the mate she imagined. Everyone knows and fears me, just like they should. I'm a lone wolf, not even Lola Evergreen can change me.
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I wake up to the sound of a heart monitor. Dull pain hums about my body. I lay staring at the ceiling, trying to remember how I got here, and then I remember everything. Keaton. Blood pouring out of my mouth. Searing pain. My heart breaking.
Inside my head I hear my wolf whimpering in pain. She feels everything I feel.
'Why would he do this to us?' her pained voice asks.
'He played us. It was all an act to make sure he got the Alpha position. Its official. He's now Alpha. He has the title,' I reply to her.
'We can't leave. We are bound to him,' she snaps.
'Not unless we reject him,' I whisper.
'We could endure it.'
'I don't want to be stuck in this life. He won, he doesn't need us anymore. They can't take the title from him once he has it,' I try to make her see.
'We could go home,' she suggests.
'Yes, home. Let's go home,' I agree, finely some hope.
The door to my hospital room opens and Christina rushes in when she sees me awake.
"Oh thank god! I thought I lost you!" she cries, frantically.
"How long have I been out?" I my throat feeling like sand paper.
"A week. But Lola, something happened."
I now realize her eyes are swollen from crying and there isn't life in them like there usually is.
"What is it?" I ask slowly, hoping to god Keaton didn't do something to her.
"Our family," she chokes, tears falling. "Our whole pack is dead."
My eyes grow wide. My parents. I just saw my dad. It's not possible.
"Rouges wiped out our home. Our dad's went back when they heard. They were killed on site," she sobs falling onto the hospital floor.
I feel a stab of pain, this time not related to my mate. This is a pain of a mindlink being torn from me. I brace myself against the bed as the howls and cries of my pack members dying fill my ears. They're all dead. Everyone.
I scream in pain. Doctors, Rose, and Josh run into the room. Their expressions, they know what's happening. I'm being ripped away from my dead pack. Nurses rush in to hold me down so I can't tear myself from the monitors around me. But I can't feel through the devastation.
I cry for my family. I cry for Christina's. I cry for my dead pack. I cry because all I have left is Keaton and he's a monster.
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