Reuben POV
I was struggling to sleep. Just knowing Evelyn and my daughter were in the next rooms kept messing with my mind.
It also wasn’t easy having, technically, enemy warriors sleeping in my pack houses. My Alpha King senses were in overload readying to defend against an attack.
It would seem Evelyn couldn’t sleep either. I hear her soft footsteps walking down the stairs, no doubt checking on pretty boy. When I came back from my final boundary check, I found him asleep on the kitchen table. I wasn’t going to wake him, to encourage him to go up to bed with Evelyn. This was my pack, my house and she was still my wife. The thought of them having s3x next door made me feel sick.
After several minutes, I could hear her creep back up the stairs and then carry Elspeth down. Elspeth seemed still deep in sleep judging by her peaceful and steady heartbeat. Why was she taking her downstairs?
She was acting anxious, nothing would touch them on my pack…it would be the best night’s sleep they’ve had in a long time.
I finally start to drift off to sleep when one of my men on night patrol pushes on my mind–link.
“Alpha?”
“What’s wrong?” I had asked them to contact me with any strange activity, no matter how trivial it may seem. We had warriors on site that were from another pack, all usual rules were out the window tonight.
“Alpha Evelyn has left in a car.”
“What?” I sit up right, why would she leave now?
“Do you want us to follow her Alpha?” My man asks. “No, leave it to me!” I command before cutting the link and leaping out of bed.
I head downstairs to find Noah asleep at the kitchen table with little feet stretched out on his lap.– As I enter the room more I see Elspeth laying across two chairs, strategically placed so that the first one to wake will automatically wake the other!
For the first time I can see the child properly. She was always hiding her face behind that large bunny teddy, or being carried by Noah or Evelyn.
Seeing her truly for the first time, now knowing what she was to me. She was then most beautiful
creature that had ever walked on this planet.
Her white blonde hair partly covered her face…sticking to her as she snored gently. Her eyes were shut but she also had the same eyes as Evelyn. Evelyn wouldn’t know this but she had the same
nose and mouth as my mother, a cute little button nose.
But, just like her mother, I had the feeling Elspeth would push my limits. It angered my wolf that she called Noah daddy. I found myself growing more jealous by the hour of their closeness, a bond
that Evelyn chose to take from me.
The front door opens gently and Cassandra walks into the kitchen, gasping when she finds me in the dark.
“Alpha….”
“Where did she go?” I growl annoyed that Cassandra had assisted her.
“She found an email, it said to come alone.”
“Where’s the email?”
“On the laptop!” She points at the laptop that had been closed but when I opened it, it was only on power save mode.
Damn, it was password protected.
“Noah?” I grunt, pushing his shoulder.
“Hhmm!” He moans, the prick.
“Wake up.” I slap the top of his head, that ought to do it. He springs into action, openings his eyes and putting his glasses on.
“What’s the password?” I say as I grab the laptop and sit down on a chair.
“Like I’d tell you!” He scoffs, finally looking down to see Elspeth asleep across him. He looks up at me and then Cassandra, concern in his eyes.
“She’s gone. There was an email, to come alone….” Cassandra states looking down at the child across his lap. Her expression was odd, I couldn’t quite make it out.
“Gone where?” He growls at her.
“Knock it off…” I warn him.
“…what’s the password and we can find out.”
He pulls the laptop from me and types in the password. Once he is in, his eyes widen as he reads the message. I stand up and view the email from behind him.
“That’s an hour away. I’ll go, see what I can find out!” I pick up my car keys from the usual bowl on the kitchen island.
“Wait, I’ll come with you.” Noah says, but is still rooted to the chair with Elspeth laid across him.
“I’ll be quicker. I’ll let you know when I’ve caught up with her.”
“Wait….” He starts to protest but I cut him off, my frustration well and truly evident.
“I’m going, alone. Your daughter will want you when she wakes up.” I bitterly say, because in truth
that’s how I felt. Four years I had missed, they didn’t know me and I didn’t know them.
I hop into my sports car, it was fast and would help me catch up with her. I enter the location code for the address and zoomed in on the map.
Shit, that was Alpha Pierce’s lands. The wanker has always caused trouble for me but he wouldn’t steal a child surely?
We may have our differences but he was still an honourable alpha. What qualms would he have. with Evelyn, he wasn’t part of my alliance…in fact if anything he’d be more inclined to join hers.
After an hours drive, I quietly drive the car up to an abandoned warehouse. I see Evelyn’s car parked outside and pull up next to hers. I’m not sure how far behind I was, I put my foot down but Evelyn did get a good head start.
I take a walk around the outside of the building, trying to find a suitable entrance. This place looked as if it could collapse at any moment. It was in desperate need of repair which led me to believe even more that Alpha Pierce had nothing to do with this. He was wealthy, if this place was run down then it was human fault and he decided to keep his hands clean.
Fear washes over me as I hear a scream from inside of the warehouse building. I curse internally, trying to find a way in. That sounded like Evelyn!
“Move, she’s in danger!” My wolf sends a surge of adrenaline into me. I lend on his hearing and can make out her short struggling intakes of breath.
I manage to break through a boarded up door and following her shallow sounds of breathing, find her pinned to the floor with a male on top of her.
“You’re fucking dead!” I roar at him as his hands were wrapped around her throat. He bolts, running into a pitch black corner of the warehouse.
As much as I want to chase after him and rip his body to shreds, Evelyn was struggling to breathe and needed help.
“Evelyn?” I rush towards her before crouching down next to her.
“Fuck!” I look at the marks on her neck, stroking the hair from off her forehead. I could smell
blood as well.
I slowly sit her up, pulling her into my lap.
I could see blood on the floor where her head was. Pure red hot anger enters me from someone daring to touch her. From someone injuring her and at her for putting herself into a dangerous
situation.
“Reuben?” My name quietly enters her lips and I never realised how poetic my name sounded before. I place my hand behind her head, trying to support it. She was growing more limp by the
minute.
I had to hide my anger, my emotions…so as the monster she thinks I am, I reprimand her for coming alone.
She had broken down, started to cry about Rex. I kept looking into the shadows. The dickhead didn’t have a car onsite. If I left now I could track him, I could maybe find Rex.
She seems to guess my thoughts and suggests that I go, that I chase after him. But she was in no
state to be left alone.
“Right now admit it or not but you need me.” I cockily say trying to give her back some fight in her. Trying to annoy her.
“I just want Rex back.” She whispers, her eyes tired and sore from forcing them to remain open for too long. My wolf could sense her wolf had already passed out.
“We’ll get him back, I promise.” I say as she follows her wolf into unconsciousness.
“Evelyn?” I try to shake her gently. I remove my hand from behind her head to see it is coated in thick blood.
Fuck! She needed a hospital and fast.
“Just hold on Evelyn.” I urge as I pick her up, cradling her in my arms. I pick her phone up off the floor and place it in my trouser pocket.
I carry her with ease out of the building and towards our parked cars. Before I turn the corner I can already smell new scents, fuck’s sake!
To add to my current problems, Alpha Pierce was now sitting on my bonnet, smirking as I walked slowly towards him. He had brought several warriors who were also blocking mine and Evelyn’s
car.
“Alpha Reuben…trespassing..” He tuts, shaking his head in amusement.
“I don’t have time for this Pierce…” I growl continuing to my car, warriors or no warriors, they better not dare get in my way.
“Who’s this?” He quirks an eyebrow at me looking at Evelyn in my arms, before noticing the blood still dripping from the back of her head.
“Shit Reuben, what have you done?”
“This time nothing…she’s been attacked and needs a hospital.” I go to open my car’s back door but a warrior is blocking me.
“Move.” I growl menacingly at him before Pierce orders for his man to stand aside.
“What’s happened?”
“She came here for information and was attacked. Luckily I followed her and her attacker legged it. Did you feel any trespassers on your pack?”
“Yes that’s why we are here!” He rolls his eyes at me.
“Who is she?” He asks, jumping off the bonnet to get a better look at Evelyn. He brushes some of her white blonde hair away from her face which only angers me more. Why were males touching my wife.
“Don’t touch her!” I seethe at him through gritted teeth. She may still be in my arms but I could easily kick him unconscious.
“Why, who is she?” He looks at me with fascination at my protective behaviour. “She’s my wife!”
