Chapter 74 - Match 74

Alex looked at Mark confused. It wasn't like he could move or go outside even if he wanted it too but when he heard another sound like almost a building was being teared down he couldn't stop worrying. When outside was probably something very serious happening how he could just lie in his bed like a well raised princess. He took the covers off of him and he tried to support himself to get up. His bare feet touching the cold floor, sending weird sensations all over his body. 

"Stop, no. You are injured" mark scolded him and ran to where he was trying to make him get down again. He didn't really want him to see what was happening outside. 

"What's happening out there?" Mark had now become his human crutch and was taking him towards the door.

He revealed the unwanted sight to him and he noticed Alex tensing. They still hadn't noticed them; they were too preoccupied by the other to see how Alex looked at them both. Mark could see it and honestly, it scared him. It was anger in his eyes. Pure death and for a second he found himself wanting to get away but he couldn't, he would fall to the ground if he did. 

He was righteously angry, mad even at the view in front of him and Mark could be described as a bastard for not wanting to show him but his health was the top priority at the moment. It wasn't every day that you survived a fire and even if you were some thousand-year-old elf prince with immeasurable power you needed rest. 

"What the hell are you doing to him?" Alex shouted looking at them. They finally noticed him and their eyes were filled with a blend of shock and guilt. So they didn't know Alex's room was here, Mark thought.

Right in front of the two humans stood around to five wolves. Faces Alex could recall from memory. He had definitely seen them somewhere, probably the dining hall or from the team. All of them seemed to be very well built, indicating that they exercised. He did remember clearly Julius, White Fang's goalkeeper who had teased him and kind of sabotaged in a way his entry to the team. It seemed unreal how that was the last happy day he had, the only happy day he had in a long time…ages it seemed.

All of them had made a semi-circle, almost like a wall of bodies. The long corridor had obviously two pale blue walls, two sides. The semi-circle they had formed was being cut by the right wall. Inside their circle was his mate Luke, bloody filled with dirt and scars and as Alex observed he realized all of them were like that. Filthy, their skin tinted red and he felt like he was about to throw up. One of them had the side of his cheek ripped open but he stood around like it was nothing even if they could clearly see the inside of his mouth and the skin, draping barely holding on to his face. 

That wasn't the reason while Alex seemed to be so angered that his breathing sped up, his nostrils widen and his brows furrowed as he shouted from the top of their lungs at them. It was what they were doing. The atrocity and the nerve to do something like that in front of him.

They had pinned pour Joe to the wall. He was looking at him scared his deer like eyes widened, he seemed as he was facing death, his tanned skin turning somehow deathly pale as he shivered. Luke had a grasp on him, from the neck as he pushed him brutally on to the wall, raising him from the ground.

"He is a child!" Alex said "Let go of him" he told them and their little circle that was made to protect their so called leader dispended letting Alex get a full view of someone he could only call a brute.

"I swear I don't know what you're talking about" Joe whined "Please don't hurt me…my family…what did you do?" He asked them while crying and Alex's eyes widened. 

"What did you do?" Alex screamed at him, grasping slowly the idea. He needed to confirm it though. Hear it from his lips that he could do something like that.

"I did it for you." Luke simply said letting go of Joe. The boy fell pitifully to the ground and began crying hysterically, curling into a ball. Alex could not bear the sight. He had never seen anyone like that. He was being slowly broken by the thought of losing everything. Did Alex look like that too? Like the spark of life was slowly burning out like an old candle? Did his green eyes not glisten anymore? Probably and Luke had done the same to this poor boy. 

"I did not ask who you did it for but WHAT did you do?" he told him, clenching his fists. He couldn't move, he couldn't react because even just breathing hurt! He was trapped in this useless body watching everyone around him make idiotic decisions and using him as an excuse!

"We went after the hunters. We gathered a small group with the info the human boy gave us and tried to sneak up on them. But they had weapons and talismans made by witches. All of our friends went there, so many were killed" Julius replied, his head falling as he announced the death of his own.

"Are all the hunters dead?" Alex asked not commenting on anything else. "Even though I promised. I said not to harm them! That there is another way!" No one ever listened to him, it was like he was mute. He couldn't make any decisions or force anyone to follow them, he was just there, a broken soul a broken body observing as every time he was losing glimpses of his hope right in front of his eyes.

He was never like this. He had always been hopeful and wanting to smile. But beating after beating it was hard, it was so hard watching poor Joe like this. He had helped him only to get that. Only to sit at the cold marbled floor or a corridor with pale, dreamy like walls inside an icy palace that was stuck in time so far away from home. If he even had that.

"We managed to kill a lot of them but some of them escaped." Luke finally said and he almost looked proud. Everyone else looked so sad by the death of their own but he looked proud by the success of the hunt! He was a true predator and know he knew why they would choose him to be their next Alpha. Why Adam was their Alpha now. 

It was simple because he could do the dirty work unfazed. Drowned in their brutality and endless lives they needed someone not to be scared or afraid to spill blood. It was ridiculous, the way they chose their leader like they were some kind of criminal organization. Alex had seen kindness in his eyes, he had heard his laughter and laughed back at his jokes but where was this person now? Who was the one in front of him?

Joe kept crying. Alex heard him and he wanted to hug him, console him, try to say anything to make that poisonous sound stop. He wasn't even eighteen and the world had swallowed him up in just a single bite. At the word kill he stopped. He raised his head, his bloody eyes scanning all of them. He was silent but Alex wanted to know more. He needed to. In the middle of the night, he knew there would not be a beautiful moon in the sky tonight, darkness was eminent everywhere and it was like Alex could feel it licking his bones, that hatred.

"How can you be so stupid? He helped me. He saved me and is this how you repay him?" Alex asked Luke feeling his eyes burn. Please don't cry, not here, not now. Don't look weak, please.

"He is still a hunter! An enemy. I took revenge for you. I hurt the people that hurt you!" Luke screamed at him. It was obvious that he didn't understand. It was obvious that he was oblivious to everything and something felt extremely wrong here but Alex was too angry to sense it. 

"It wasn't them who hurt me! It was you and your people! It's always you and your people that hurt me! They tried to fucking burn me alive and you were simply conversing with her! They wanted to kill me so no, you idiot, they did not hurt me and you did not avenge my lost honor. If you really wanted to do that you would deal with that blonde witch of your but oh god no. Let me turn the other eye for the girl I used to fuck! You try to make me think that you care when all you are doing is satisfying your own ego. Shut up! Were you all into this? Everyone?" Alex asked and he wasn't specifically waiting for an answer from Luke.

"What is this commotion here?" Theseus suddenly appeared turning at a corner with Ea tailing close behind him. They would probably had heard them by now. Alex had been screaming at the top of his lungs. "Alex you should be resting."

"Who told you to do this?" Alex asked once more ignoring Theseus. 

"It was Theseus. The elf king told us to attack" Julius replied and suddenly it was like a cold stormed had flew in from the closed glass doors. 

Alex couldn't breathe. He looked at him Theseus staring right back. He opened his lips to say something, tell him it wasn't true but he couldn't. Joe looked at the king too. The man he had put his trust into keeping his family safe. He looked at him filled with hate and then he fainted. 

Ea ran to his side and picked him up, for a second Theseus whispered something to him and the elf and the human disappeared. Everyone was quiet. Even Luke had not dared to utter a word as Alex and Theseus were looking at each other. 

Then Alex surprised them. He began laughing. A bitter laugh that echoed the long halls, that reached everyone's ears and poisoned their hearts. A laugh filled with detest and tears. It was a cry, it definitely was. It was just wearing the mask of a horrid sound. Despair.

"Of course you would be a liar too. Mark please let's go back to the room." He said 

"Alex wait I…" Theseus tried to speak but again Alex's eyes left him frozen. He was the king of ice. Locked in his snowy palace embraced by an eternal winter and the sun of his life was looking at him like that. He believed that nothing could hurt him after everything he had been through but Alex's words did. 

"You disgust me" he told him.

Theseus had been rooted to the ground like a lifeless tree, his lips had been sewed and his eyes had been pricked by a thousand needles. 

The icy king had been defeated.