Chapter Thirty: Alpha Ceremony (Part Four)
Sunday
Azrael's POV:
I was seething inside, but I kept my cool, so I didn't scare my love any more than she already was.
How motherf*****g dare that bitch Aria hurt her Luna like this, hurt my love like this. I was livid. From the look of it, so were the rest of my brothers. I never thought Aria would have the guts to attack my love; yes, they were upset when we broke everything off that night, but I thought everything went pretty well, and they didn't hold any grudges. I was severely wrong, and now my love had to pay for it.
"I'm so sorry, Alphas, I should have never doubted you. Just with your past and how they were so confident claiming that you'd leave, left me completely at a crossroads. I'll never do that again; I'll always come to you first,” I heard my love say.
Please, Luna, stop. I can't take this!
It's our fault, not yours, not one bit.
"My love, shh, calm down, please. You're breaking our hearts. We believe you. We were just shocked for a second. We thought we'd had done enough for you to believe that we are utterly devoted to you and you alone, my love,” I said, licking her tears and kissing her eyelids.
"But...,” before my love could finish her sentence, Ezekiel cut in,
"Little Luna, listen to your heart. You'll know we hold no animosity and understand why you believed them. It was just a lapse of judgement, it's alight, my Luna, our Luna,” Ezekiel said.
My love couldn't feel the bond as strong as us. Therefore, she couldn't feel our emotions like we did hers. However, she could still tell if we lied to her or not. Hopefully, she will start picking up our emotions slightly sometime next week.
My love looked up at Ezekiel, and he held her stare; I knew she was trying to find something in his eyes that may resemble anything but what he claimed, but I was sure she could only see the love and understand the same emotions that were showing in mine, Zeke's and Sam's eyes for her.
"I can feel you're not lying, but the look in your eyes when I asked you that question is something I don't think I can ever forgive myself for,” she said.
I'm going to kill those three she-wolves for this. I wasn't in favour of violence against females, but harsh crimes call for harsher punishments.
'I want those three in the dungeon and shackled, and before you all go off about how to treat pack members, they assaulted our mate and their future Luna. This is punishable by death,’ I heard Sam snarl over mind-link to us all.
'I second that. Those bitches need to be put in their place,’ Zeke said, his voice so deep that it almost sounded like Rowco was present.
'I have already mind-linked Luca to hold the three in the dungeon, they have been chained and collared with silver. I'll chat with them once the ceremony is over,' Ezekiel said over our link.
Sam and Zeke smiled in response. They knew Ezekiel's form of 'chat' was done by his hands and torture tools rather than his mouth. As much as I knew Ezekiel wanted to handle the three, I wanted to be the one to deal with them. Aria was my ex, so it was my fault. Therefore, if anyone was going to teach her her place, it would be me.
'Big bro, I want to be the one to deal with Aria. The other two are all yours, Sam's and Zeke's,' I linked back.
They all looked at me a little apprehensively. I wasn't the one that participated in torture or went down to the dungeons. Even though Ezekiel probably didn't want to agree, he nodded, thinking I might let that bitch off easy. He was very wrong though; I may not participate in the dungeon and torture activities, but I was an Alpha and any form of dominance ran in my blood. This time, they dared touch my love and worse than that, they tried to break our Luna's trust in us, trying to take her from us. Now they'll know an Azreal they have never seen!
"Baby, calm down now, we don't want the lady of the party out and about with Rudolph's nose now, do we?" joked Sam, trying to cheer up our Luna, who had thankfully controlled her hiccups and was sniffling.
We heard her giggle at his comment and a sigh of happiness left us all. To her, maybe she'll never forget our expressions, but I'm sure for my brothers and I, we wouldn't forget this day. The day my love let her tears fall so freely and in our names. Those three she-wolves will pay.
Ezekiel's POV:
My little Luna looked so broken, even though she wasn't crying anymore and giggling in response to Sam's suggestion, her aura radiated guilt and sadness. Those three she-wolves were living on borrowed time at this point. First; they dared approach our Luna with malicious intention, second; they insulated her, third; they dared touch her, and last; which was making Ace claw in my head for control, was that they dared try to take our Luna away from us by lying.
I always knew those three were trouble, especially that bitch Aria. I wanted to shred her to pieces, and I would have if Azreal didn't ask to take care of it. I was skeptical at first handing over the reigns, but the glint in his eye told me he would show no mercy, that today he would put to full use to his Alpha dominance when it came to torturing his victim. Sam and Zeke also wanted to deal with their excuses of exes, and I would let them. However, I didn't plan to miss out on the fun; they would die, that was for sure, but that would be done by my hand.
'Alpha, the ceremony is to begin in two hours, your mother and Hannah are looking for Luna to help her get dressed, and you all have been summoned by the Kings to your office again,’ I heard Luca's mind-link come in.
The triplets were getting on our nerves. The fact that they were intrigued with our mate during the meeting wasn't helping with the agitation. They had gone on about an hour with questions regarding our Luna. As much as they were intrigued, we were as well; our Luna was not entirely affected by their aura yesterday, yes, she was a bit as much as the twins, but nothing compared to the rest of us. If it weren't for the extended meeting with their questions regarding her, we would have been able to save our Luna from all this misery. The triplets have become relentless; hopefully next time they visit, or we have to, they have found their mate or rest in peace the lycan and werewolf multiverses.
"Little Luna, Hannah and mom are looking for you. The ceremony starts in two hours, and you have to get ready,” I said.
"Let's go, baby! Gotta get you ready, since you're gonna be the showstopper tonight!” said Sam, winking.
My little Luna paled, thinking about the attention. She was adorable. I knew she wasn't close to pack members, and students at the academy had shunned her. However, that was going to change. My Luna was above all of those arrogant fools, and I'll make sure everyone knows it. Especially since I heard that no one came to her aid in the dining hall, if it wasn't for the twins, who knows what else could have happened.
I realized they were still here; I could feel their aura around us. The twins were powerful Alphas, next in line to become the Supreme Alphas; they were just one step below the triplet Kings. Even though we've been friends for far too long, I couldn't get over the infatuation they had with my mate. The rest of my brothers and I had seen them staring intensely at her on multiple occasions since yesterday, deep in thought. It was impossible to know what they were thinking, since being so powerful they could hide what their auras depicted. But as we grew up with them, we could tell from the look in their eyes. Their eyes held sadness, as if my little Luna reminded them of someone, and amongst that was this fierce passion for protectiveness. That, to be honest, pissed me the f**k off. She was our responsibility to protect and cherish. I knew they didn't hold anything remotely romantic towards her, but that they held any feelings kept eating at the rest of my baby brothers and I. As much as we loved spending time with them and chilling, I couldn't wait for the ceremony to be over so they and the triplets could get back to their pack lands, and we could get some much needed time with our Luna.
Emerald's POV:
"Let's go, baby! Gotta get you ready, since you're gonna be the showstopper tonight!” said Sam, winking.
I heard Sam say that and blanched, I didn't need the attention. With everything that went down today, everyone must know how excellent their future Luna is; she can't even speak up for herself and was a damsel in distress, saved not by her mates, but by the Supreme Alpha twins. Plus, this was the quads’ day, accession was a big thing for a new Alpha, in this case, Alphas, and I didn't want anything to ruin that for them. I had already screwed up in that department, but if I could help it, I would try my best to make them happy, maybe, just maybe, for one night, I'll let my guard down for them. In a sense, they did deserve it after I had accused them of faking their feelings for me.
Gosh, that was still sending jolts of hurt to my heart.
I knew they weren't upset anymore, but I didn't need to make them upset in the first place for something that I should've known was a lie.
I let go of Azreal and stepped back from the quads, looking into their grey orbs.
"This your day, I want all of you to be in the spotlight, not little old me...,” before I could continue, Zeke cut in,
"First of all, angel, there isn't anything little about you...,” flashing me his black eyes with a smirk, "...and second, you will always be above us, my angel, no matter what. We are here because of you. You are the air we breathe and the sole reason we exist. Without you, there would be no us,” he finished, leaning down a leaving a chaste kiss on my lips; all the other brothers followed suit and agreed with their brother.
By Goddess, my heart just did ten backflips simultaneously. These four gorgeous Alpha males were all mine and devoted to solely me. Why did I even for a second think they weren't? I had messed up bad, but I would make it up to them on their dates. That was a promise for sure.
'Em, where in the name of Hades the f**k are you?' I heard Hannah's mind-link come in. I chuckled; by the sound of it, she would kill me if I didn't get to her in the next five minutes.
Looking up at the quads, I saw them patiently waiting for me to finish the mind-link.
"I'm guessing that was Hannah?" asked Sam, chuckling while shaking his head. He was probably picturing his sister throwing a fit at the moment. I chuckled back at him and nodded my head yes.
"Let's go before she decides to pick up the entire packhouse on her head,” said Azreal, grabbing my hand and steering me away from the clearing.