Falling in love with my Ex's Alpha Chapter 219: Book 2 - Chapter 52

***The Healer***

Another day is ending, and he is gone. He’s not here anymore.

To my sadness, Nox did precisely what I asked him to do.

He disappeared.

At first, I thought he would come back later, or he would come back the next day. Not that I would have taken him back, but I thought I was important sufficiently to him for him to bother trying.

But no! He just disappeared.

I’ve been focusing my energy the last few days on finishing what I planned to do in the pack. Without Letum and Dana here, I’m kind of doing everything while I zone out without as much urgency as before.

Even though I’m not feeding as well as when Nox was here, my baby continues to grow a lot.

I’ve been avoiding Rose and Nigel. Nigel has been leaving the pack to run some errands that I asked him because I don’t have the strength to leave here.

Rose has been going with him, sometimes she just stays at home. She cooks for the three of us occasionally, and our relationship has improved a little bit. I think she changed her behavior after she found out that I was pregnant.

It’s been days since I visited the trees that Nox said were sacred. I haven’t been there, because just like remembering his name, seeing the trees still hurts.

So I’ve been staying in the calmest place in my pack at the moment, in the place where Letum created the statue of the Goddess Selena.

They were such happy days. As I sit on the bench that Letum made, I rest one hand on the bench, and with the other hand, I pat my pregnant belly, remembering Dana and me sitting on the ground next to this bench, watching Letum work.

Dana teased him with every step he took. I smile at the memory of her as a tear rolls down my face.

On one of the statue’s hands, there is still a ‘D’ that Dana wrote as soon as Letum said he had finished the statue. She said she always wanted to be in the hands of the Moon Goddess.

Fuck... I blink hard. It’s starting to get melancholic here, just like where the three trees are.

I should have destroyed the fucking little door I made with our initials, but I’m too cowardly to go there.

The moon hangs low in the sky. Despite being in the crescent phase, its brightness is intense enough that I can see the ground covered in fallen leaves, which look like a red and orange carpet.

A cool breeze rustles through the foliage, carrying with it the scent of damp earth and decaying vegetation.

I feel goosebumps on my arms, but it has nothing to do with the autumn breeze because there’s nothing about peace in the air.

‘There’s some danger approaching,’ Tyra warns me.

‘Do you think we should shift?’

‘No. Mindlink Nigel.’

‘Nigel? Where are you?’ I mindlink Nige. I wait for him to respond, but he doesn’t. ‘Nige, where are you?’ I repeat.

‘Rose, are you home?’ I try to talk to her.

But since earlier, I haven’t felt her anymore. It was as if she had given up on the pack. I have felt so much sadness that I no longer know if it is the pregnancy or my own feelings. It’s difficult to determine.

‘I wish our mate was here,’ Tyra whimpers.

‘You know what he did to us!’ I scream at her. ‘He doesn’t deserve us!’

I feel more and more shadows getting closer to the trees, reaching where I am as if they knew where to go.

‘You didn’t let him explain himself. You didn’t hear him!’ Tyra protests.

‘And what else should I do, Tyra? He could have saved Dana! And don’t forget that he would abandon us anyway. It was better that I kicked him out than waiting for him to abandon us. I’m pregnant. We need to take care of our baby now!’ I answer her breathing heavily with anger.

They’re almost here! ‘Nige! Nigeeee!’ I try once again to talk to him via mindlink. ‘Nigel, where are you?!’

Fuck! I’m alone!

‘Alexa... There are too many!’ Tyra says.

‘But you can protect us, right?’ I ask. I can feel the sweat running over my forehead.

I get up from the bench and turn my back to the statue of the Goddess Selena and my face to the invaders.

‘I smell rogues and... poison! They’re carrying something that has poison, human!’ Tyra growls.

‘We need to run! To escape!’ I hold my belly protectively. ‘They could attack our baby!’

I never thought about running away. However, this is the first time I find myself in this position because I have to put my baby before me.

‘There’s no point running away! They will find us. The territory doesn’t have mountains, so there’s nowhere to hide!’ Tyra utters firmly.

‘Not all of them are rogues... I recognize the smell of some of them. They were there when our pack was attacked!’ Tyra says. Now, I can hear the savages’ unsubtle footsteps approaching.

‘The Bloodmoon pack!’

Seeming to conjure them, they step out of the shadows with unwavering ferocity, growling as if they knew where I was and who I was.

But how could they know?

I move backward until my back touches the Goddess Selena statue.

Now I can see them better. Not all of them came as wolves, although there are five dark wolves, some in mixed gray and dark brown tones; among them, there are some rogues with a large backpack on their backs.

“Well, well, well,” a tall, skinny guy with a bony face sings. “Do you see this here, pretty girl?” He shows a small bottle. “Poison!” he smiles sinisterly. “I would just kill you, but after seeing the territory, so many good houses without anyone... That seems too good to be true, mate!”

I smell the stinking stench of a rogue coming from him, but the other three guys next to him aren’t rogues. And they look at each other as if they are talking to each other through mindlink.

The smelly guy comes closer to me. The only light around us is the one provided by the crescent moon, yet I can see all his ugliness as prominent as its stench.

I move it backward, but there is nowhere to go. “Don’t come near me.”

“Shift right now!” the guy beside him orders me, lifting the tip of his chin. “I want to see your wolf.”

Hell, no! If I do that, I’ll make everything worse!

The guy with the bony face looks at the guy next to him with a frown, and then he turns to me. “We already know that there is no one here to save you, pretty girl! I think it’s good for you to start doing everything as you are told.”

The wolves growl, promising violence. I feel more wolves approaching. Where were they? Hidden? or looking for something in my territory?

‘Tyra, what do we do?’ I ask firmly. Looking into each of their eyes, I dare them to approach me as if I could deal with all of them together. Fuck!

‘We might fall, but we will go down fighting, defending what is ours — our baby and our territory!’ Tyra growls in my mind before she takes control of my body.

A second later, she is in front of them, bigger than all the wolves present here.

She takes advantage of their awe time and immediately attacks violently, killing two of the nearest wolves at once for daring to growl at us.

But while we are attacking, others attack us, and suddenly, I feel something strange in our body as we fight against claws and fangs.

Despite the chaos unfolding around me, the forest remains eerily silent, save for the sounds of the savage struggle echoing through the trees.

‘They poisoned us!’ Tyra growls, turning around and biting the guilty fucker’s neck.

Although outnumbered, Tyra attacks them fiercely. She doesn’t yield. Each blow lands with bone-crushing force, however, they attack us back, targeting our belly, our baby. Tyra tries to dodge, but this just hurts us in the back.

Blood stains our fur from the wounds of the frenzied attacks they give us.

More rogues arrive.

Chaos erupts.

Tyra tries to fight back with all her strength, but I think it’s too late.

‘Our baby!’ I scream in our minds as Tyra defends us.

This is our end!