Page 89 of The Alpha's Fated Destiny

“Why are you carrying a man on your back?” Nathan demands, his tone outraged as he approaches us. “How dare you touch our Alpha Female!”

I shift back and Logan jumps to the ground.

“Where’s Alex?” Nathan looks around. “Sophia…”

I hold up a hand, stopping him in mid-sentence. “We need food. Get Brian and the others. We have a situation to attend to.”

His face pales.

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“What are we waiting for?” Nathan slams his hand on the desk, causing the food on my plate to lift a few inches in the air. “We should go after them now!”

“We have no proof!” Patrick retorts. “We’ll be going in blind. We don’t even know where he is!”

“I’m with Nathan here.” Jared looks angry.

Saul shakes his head, looking at Patrick. “We at least need to infiltrate Karina’s pack. We’ll figure out where she’s keeping Alex and we go from there.”

As the others argue, I chew on the hastily thrown together burger, processing my thoughts. Brian, who’s been silent up till now, looks at me. “What are your thoughts, Sophia?”

I pick up the glass of water before me and take a sip, trying to push down the dry bread of the burger bun. Setting it down, Ilook at every face in the room. “She wants me to go in blind. She’s attacking on two fronts. Me and the humans. She has all the witches in the North under her control now. If we choose to prioritize Alex, we won’t be able to prevent the war. If we prioritize the war, she might dangle Alex at the end of the conflict to force me to switch sides.”

“Which is exactly why we say fuck the war and go after Alex!” Jared raises his voice.

I ignore him, turning my attention toward Brian. “You told me that you were told a prophecy about the war and the Silver Wolf. Can you tell me exactly what it was?”

“Not off the top of my head,” Brian frowns, “but the gist of it, was that a war between alliances would take place and the Silver Wolf would be the deciding factor. Around the time you were born, several witch covens began to come to me with prophecies about the Silver Wolf. At the time, I still considered you a myth, so while I listened, I didn’t pay much attention. But Karina probably listened. She’s probably trying to get you under control to turn the tide of the war in her favor.”

I point at him, looking at the others. “What he’s saying.”

“He’s talking witches and prophecies,” Nathan snaps. “Why can’t you see…”

“A war is about to break out.” I meet Nathan’s gaze steadily. “Out of all the people in this room, I am the most desperate to get Alex back. But I know that if I walk into Karina’s trap, not only will three alliances be destroyed, Alex will be lost forever. I cannot afford to let that happen. She’s not going to kill Alex. She’ll hurt him, but not kill him.”

I feel queasy as I say the words, but I harden my heart. “If Alex was here right now, he would be telling you the same thing. Don’t you dare deny it.”

Everybody falls silent. After all, these four people know Alex best. They know I’m right even if I hate to be right in this moment.

“I want nothing more than to go after Alex right now. Believe me, if he had been nearby after the attack, I would have. But they used a portal to transport him, and I don’t know to where. Brian, Alex told me that you have an extensive spy network. Can we utilize it?”

He nods. “I’ll start sending out feelers. Somebody out there must know something. I’ll find out what I can.”

“Patrick, after Alex, who is in charge of his underground spy network?” I look at Alex’s righthand man.

“That would be me.” Saul lifts his hand. He exchanges a look with Brian and says, “I’ll do the same.”

“You need to look for two other things. One, see if you can find out any information about the witches who have gone missing. And…” I hesitate, knowing that my last request might not be as important to them, and one they might consider selfish. But my mother is not dead yet, so I will be selfish.

“I need to look into my father. I’ll talk to Elsa and see what she knows, but I need some people looking into his location. There’s a chance he might be alive, and Robert has stashed him somewhere like he did my mother. If he is alive, he’s the only one who can save my mother now. All I can do now is extend her life by a little bit more, but that will be it.”

To my surprise, the others nod in agreement. “We’ll do that.”

“Tomorrow morning, let’s convene here again, and let’s hold a meeting with the other Alphas. We need to mobilize all our forces. Once we get an idea of where Alex is, myself and a few others will go after him, and our soldiers will protect the humans. Even if we are unable to stop Karina’s attack entirely, the human governments will know that we are on their side. It might negate some of the ill will toward us. We cannot afford a war to break out. The South Alliance is now declaring war on Karina. She’s an unfit ruler. She has to be removed.”

Brian goes still. “The other Alphas of the north will not agree to it. They have no choice, but to obey her because of the children…”

“You leave that to me,” I say, simply, my brain cooking something up. “I’ll handle them.”

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