The Tripartite Mate Bond Chapter 30: CHAPTER THIRTY

“AXEL'S POV”

I have never broken down before. Not when I saw my father's body, bloodied and dead. Not when Mama drew into herself and stopped being my hiding place. When my first mate drew her last breath, I tried to kill that red-faced idiot who didn't know he was supposed to do the ritual in my absence. I'm an Alpha and my mate's life will always be too precious for me to stand by helplessly as she screams. When Lunas give birth, their mates are chained in the dungeon until it is over to prevent him from, well, so many things.

I was going through the security cameras of the pack, looking deeply at the events of the last few days while lost in thought.

Being an Alpha Wolf was tough on all fronts but it meant three times the emotions but yet, you must keep it hidden from the world. That's one of the reasons our mates mean the world to us.

Before they come along, we are simply just going through life, not really living it. My brother has never had a mate so he doesn't really know what he is planning to miss out on.

I was mindlessly scrolling through the feeds, the usual bloodshed present in all the scenes. We haven't had this much action in a while. The entire pack was a war theatre and even though my wolves were strong, it hurt to imagine what could have happened. I kept scrolling through though, I was looking for something but I didn't know how to pinpoint it exactly. It was a nagging feeling that had been in my head since I woke up.

I have been strong all through the past four years when everything began going downhill but then, when Aurora looked at me in the way she did, I lost my senses. I had bawled my eyes out like a little child and broke apart in front of her. She picked up my broken pieces and carefully put them back by holding me tightly as I cried. I really wished she had been allowed to grow like every other supernatural. If she had, her senses would have been properly developed and she would feel what we felt. Maybe we would have completed the mating process and damn the consequences. The goddess gave our wolves the ability to share but our human forms were obsessed with rules and all of that. But it is what it is, until she could melt at the sound of our voice, or pine for us like we do for her, it'll be unfair to go all the way. Her first time should be perfect and I knew the rest of us were on the same boat.

This added to my dilemma. Here I was, picturing her first night, as if I'll even get the chance to experience her. I was a strong Alpha but I'd been reduced to this simpering fool.

No one would have dared come close to me. I was the cheerful Alpha of our duo but that had its place. The mood I was in earlier would have ended with someone getting hurt if she hadn't thrown herself on me and wrapped her curvy and petite form around me.

Her scent was stronger in that proximity, the mixture of citrus and the way the earth smells after rain. My wolf was always itching for a run every time it rained. I guess he was longing for her.

Now that she was here, I didn't even take two business days to fuck it up. I had a chance at happiness again but I probably hated myself too much that I went and botched it. The words I said to her were still ringing in my ear, I called a whore for fuck sake.

I rubbed my temple as I felt a headache forming. I was beginning to lose hope of ever finding whatever it was that I was looking for before I saw it.

I quickly scrolled back and watched the scene again.

We had believed the wards we put were weak and the superior wizard had been able to break it in order to gain access but now I realized something else was eerily wrong.

Our pack was unified by the need to defend ourselves against the DarkMoon Pack, our feud was one that was buried deep within our senses. It was one of the reasons I feared for Aurora.

No matter how much we tried to protect her from the outside world, the fact that one of my pack members could lose their minds for a second and hurt lingered. But when she gracefully got almost all of them to fall in love with her during the attack made me fall for her more than I already did.

“Ares, please come to the office with Kane. Something is awfully wrong” I quickly shot a message to my twin using our mindlink.

Now that we had marked our mate, there was a link connecting us with Kane but I refused to talk to him in such a personal manner. He was planning to take away the only part of me that made sense without even caring how it'll affect me.

The thought devastated me so much that I threw away my pride and knelt down for Aurora to convince him otherwise but it seemed she was done with me as well.

All that aside, my pack was more important and I was going to focus on that.

The door opened and they strode in together, creases on their face suggesting they were worried by my tone.

Good. They should be. Something is happening here that makes no sense.

“What's wrong brother? I was thinking we're finally getting a break” Ares says as he pulls out a bottle of scotch from the liquor cabinet that was on the side of the big office before sitting down in front of me.

This was my own office and it had a very masculine tone, just the way I liked it. My table however was devoid of the many stacks of paper Ares was always swallowed in. I was in charge of the technological aspect of running the pack, hence the security footage.

I watched as Kane also sat down after giving me a once-over. I didn't have much of a reaction to it, there was a bigger issue at hand.

“I guess we all assumed something must have happened to the wards we had Elizabeth put in place” I began.

“Yes, but it's barely a month old. It made no sense to me so it was one of the things I was going to deal with once we were done with this mate situation. I can barely concentrate” Ares grumbled.

“So what did you discover?” Kane asked, obviously impatient. He can't wait to take her away from us.

“Well, there was nothing wrong with the wards, the process was still the same. Someone from inside needed to allow someone outside of it to get in.” I told them.

“That doesn't make sense. There are very few people that know how that works, and for good reason too. Who could have done that?”

“It makes sense, you guys have a mole in your pack and it's someone very close to you. Someone in your pack wants to wipe you out, or at least take the two of you out so they can take over” Kane said.

The headache in my forehead spread all the way down to the back.