Preston snorted, “That’s the wrong question, big brother.Whois your mate?” I shook myself asking, “How old are you?” I winced, “I mean how old am I here? God, this is weird.” The other me answered, “I’m twenty-one.” I shouted, “WHAT DAY IS IT?”
I desperately looked for a calendar. Cassie spoke softly, “Alexander, calm down. It’s going to be ok. How old are you?” I answered, “I’m twenty-five. WHAT DAY IS IT? We have to get to her now!” My dad assured me, “Son we will get to your mate, I swear. Let’s just get some details here first.” No.
Dad asked, “Do you know why all Werewolves went down a few days ago? I’m assuming we’ve solved that mystery in four years.” I cringed, “It happened already here? Her birthday past?” The other me snarled, “Melanie! This is about Melanie? What happened to her? The McAlister’s said she was fine.”
Elise offered, “Ladybug is fine. She’s living her dream.” I cursed, “FUCK! Mom, go get Arthur. EJ, call our allies. Specifically, get Red Run here NOW! Particularly the McAlister’s. In answer to your question dad, we recently discovered why we went down. It was because a wolf was suppressed. Melanie’s wolf.”
Everyone gaped at me. Phil moved into action calling allies with Toby, Gage and Genevieve. My dad asked, “Wait, what? That’s not possible. I have someone watching Melanie. She’s in New York and I know she shifted.”
Elise was rocking back and forth crying repeating the phrase, “She’s living her dream. She’s living her dream.” I sighed, “Has anyone eaten any of Karina’s peanut cookies today?” As I said that Karina walked in. Oden offered, “That’s good timing.” It was.
I asked her, “Karina, is Robert still here?” My pack member smiled answering, “Yes, he is. In fact, he’s in the pack house kitchen waiting for me.” I urged, “Why don’t you go wait in our kitchen with Zoe for a minute?” She replied, “Of course Alpha Alexander.”
Karina dropped the platter of cookies when she saw her reality’s Alexander was behind her. The other me offered, “It’s trippy. I came in to discover another me on the couch in ouroffice. I dropped a glass of whiskey.” Karina stuttered, “It is a little odd. I mean it’s cool, but odd.” She left.
I spoke quickly, “Get Warriors on her now, and detain Robert. Immediately.” EJ agreed, “Done. I have been waiting to kill that asshole for years. Are you sure about Karina though? She’s not betraying us.” I winced, “She’s the one who has been betrayed. Robert is using those cookies to spell us and her.” Everyone growled.
Cayden portaled in with my uncles and Mom came back with Sir Arthur, Brianna, and Robert. All our allies popped in. Peter asked, “What’s going on? Phil was not direct with his answers. What’s the emergency?”
I ignored him ordering, “Robert, Arthur, and Breanna, release all the Werewolves that aren’t my siblings from all their compulsions.” Everyone stared at me. Oden groaned, “They need to hurry. Are we not emitting with our aura and tone how urgent this situation is?” I was pretty sure we did.
Tristan asked, “Why are there two Alexander’s? HOLY SHIT! You are in the Ribbon? That’s kind of awesome.” Robert, the Vampire, started releasing people. I told Arthur, “You’re going to have to get rid of Red Run’s. Particularly Drake.”
Drake growled, “I was not compelled by a Vampire.” I argued, “You were and yours is particularly strong. As is your family’s.” Elise had been released and started to cry. EJ picked her up whispering, “Elise, it’s ok.”
My sister in law cried, “It’s not her! They way Ladybug is acting never made sense! Melanie would come home or enact her plan Z. She wanted to go to New York and call her Xander with an emergency. That was her plan, but she’s never done it. Melanie always follows her plans.”
Jason consoled Elise gently saying, “Mel’s living her dream, Elise.” Elise shouted, “She’s not!” Once everyone was released, Iexplained, “Elise is right. Melanie is not in New York. We went down because her wolf was suppressed.”
“Mel fought valiantly for hours to complete her shift, but she was all alone because a fuck face pretender to being an Alpha blood ordered it to go down that way. More Witches, and it actually sounds like a whole Coven, were brought in. Along with a very powerful super dark Witch to complete the spell.”
Sam cried, “Melanie would come home to us.” I shook my head explaining, “My mate was put in an illusion the night of Elise’s Luna Ceremony.” Sobbing followed that declaration. My dad’s voice was tight as he instructed, “Tell us all of it, son.”
I sighed, “Mel was shot in a home invasion and believes T died saving her life. She also thinks Sam and Drake died that night. My mate was just recently told on her sixteenth birthday that Drake is not her biological father, and she thinks that’s why she doesn’t have a wolf.”
Drake roared in anger, “SHE IS MY FUCKING DAUGHTER!” I held up my hands acknowledging, “I know that.” I turned to my cousin, Brody Cambridge, “You need to bring a medical kit because Mealnie’s hurt, and if me or mom don’t get to her first, you should.”
The other me snarled, “What do you mean? I’ll heal her.” I admitted, “I don’t actually know how badly she’s hurt. I know that she believes Jase disowned her and Peter requested she be punished for the McAlister’s deaths. They told her a Hunter is her father, and that was who killed the McAlister’s. Robert is betraying your pack and it’s how they got her.”
“We need Corbin, Aunt Katie, Darius and…” I trailed off then said, “Hell, all of the Cambridges with Witch or Warlock blood. There will be a barrier up at the punishing fields. There is so much more than we know going on in our unallied packs than we ever knew.”
I rubbed my face adding, “Melanie is in the thick of it. By the way Cayden, Melanie’s alias in Black Path is Ashley Griffen.” Cayden stiffened then shouted, “WHAT?!” I nodded, “It’s really Melanie. She’s also Red One, which you know.”
Cayden admitted, “Yes, I do that. Ashley’s a source for us. No fucking wonder she’s so scared at the mention of the Conners name. It’s because she thinks you all know she was disowned and turned your backs on her.” I replied, “Not us but she thinks we know she’s there.”
Elise started to sob. Peter whispered, “It’s us she thinks turned our back on her.” I hummed saying to my sister in law, “My Melanie didn’t think you knew so yours probably feels the same way. Mine was not sure about EJ and she’s been told I’ll reject her if she comes to me.”
The other me snarled, “WHAT?! WHO SAID THAT?” I replied, “His fuck ass name is Trevor, and I’m pretty sure the entire pack leadership said it too.” My dad sighed, “You know more than you’re saying.”
I conceded, “I do but not because my mate told me. Melanie is in the Resistance. Specifically, she’s our sniper. Have Everly and Julianna been kidnapped here yet?” Tristan snarled, “WHAT?! Ladybug is our sniper in the blue circle group? WHO THE FUCK WOULD TAKE MY MATE!”
I answered, “His name is Dante. Everly is planning a trip to see her parents and that’s where they attack because Robert gave them the details. The Hunters/Ring trick Julianna into joining her. Melanie saves them and gave us a wonderful thing called Laxenread.” My mom’s lips twitched into a smile.
I added, “It’s a counteragent for iron poisoning for Fairies. Oh, and because the situation isn’t fucked up enough Melanie is also a fighter in the Undergrounds.” Drake snarled, “I’ll kill them all. WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS?”
I sighed, “Remember when I said Alpha Ezra is involved?” Drake paled and whispered, “No. No! He came after Melanie?!” My mom cringed saying, “The Ring often targets women.” I added, “There’s a lot of bad shit going on in these packs than we ever though. They are selling off she wolves to be forcibly marked.” Everyone shouted angrily about that.
I cut them off, “I’m not done. The pack leadership are forcing males to mark women who aren’t their mate. The Alpha’s rape the marked she wolves on the first day of their first heat while the male is knocked out on drugs. They are a bunch of assholes who have pack slaves, which is the rank they gave Melanie.”
