Chapter Hundred and Fifteen – Lacking
Jaden’s POV
The sunlight pierced into my eyes, driving out the sleep in them. I was in Black Rose. The scent of morning roses made me aware
But was I supposed to be here? My last memories were of being at Silver Pack with Rih. We were dueling. I couldn’t remember what she did that had annoyed me.
I jumped from my bed. Why couldn’t I remember anything? That meant my wolf had been in control.
“What did you do?” I asked him sternly. “How did it go?
“I certainly didn’t win the duel,” he muttered.
He didn’t? That was kind of embarrassing. After all his desire to battle a Silver Wolf, he hadn’t won?
“To be fair, she was my mate, so I went easy on her, I think,” he defended.
I chuckled, walking to clean up. Then I paused. “Wait, you
nk? You don’t know if you/went easy on
her?”
“I don’t, okay? All I know is that Jonah brought you back here, and a nurse came to check on you.” He sounded frustrated.
A nurse checked me? How badly had I been beaten that a nurse had to examine me? I searched him for answers, but he didn’t know either.
Why couldn’t he remember? And why couldn’t I? What exactly had we done?
A few hours ago, I had helped a young boy solve a problem with his wolf keeping memories from him. Now, my own wolf didn’t even have memories.
“It’s not that bad. Just ask Jonah,” he sighed, his frustration and disgust unexplainable.
Did I have a choice but to ask Jonah? I slammed the door, stepping into the washroom.
I walked out minutes later with a towel around my waist and another on my neck. I sighed. The fact that I still couldn’t recall anything that had happened at Silver Pack, even after my medicinal hot bath, weighed heavily on me.
My wolf didn’t think he had gone easy on our mate and was filled with frustration and disgust. Didn’t that mean he had messed up?
“Jonah! Where’s Jonah?” I called out.
“Training the wolves!”
I stepped back, startled by the voice behind me. I gasped when I saw my younger brother, Jake.
“What… how long have you been here?”
“My stealth has gotten better. I got in while you were showering and have been here since you sighed ten times already. So, what’s wrong?” he grinned.
I threw the towel from my neck onto his face and walked towards my wardrobe, changing into
my
clothes.
“Don’t want to talk about it? I’ll keep bugging you,” Jake sighed, resting on my bed.
My eyes shut tightly, suppressing the anger my wolf was sending me. It wouldn’t be ideal to vent on my inquisitive brother.
“Get Jonah to wait for me at the courtroom. Send the guards away; I need to speak to him privately…”
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It’s about your pretty mate, right?” he smirked. “Jonali said you two dueled, but you ended up unconscious. He alto caid the ema
My hands froze. Rihanna was mad at me?
“Jonah didn’t tell me whether you lost the duel or not, but he did seem disappointed. I’m riot sure if it’s in you or Rihanna, he added.
I clenched my fists. “Whatever. Did Jonah say why she was mad?”
“I’ll ask him if you want. But why duel with wolves when you know your wolf gets cranky? You even hurt your own warriors,” lake scolded.
Honestly, I had been paranoid, slightly jealous, and interested in dueling with a Silver Wolf. I hadn’t cared about ‘restoring lonah’s dignity
“She dueled with Jonah. I took it as sport. From what I remembered, she seemed to be enjoying it,” I answered, avoiding his gaze.
Jake left my bed and strolled toward the door. He paused just outside, then spun to face me.
“If she enjoyed it, she wouldn’t be mad and refuse to treat you. You were unconscious, but she forced Jonah to take you away.”
That was right. My wolf had confirmed that Jonah had taken me all the way here for medical attention.
I sighed, plopping down on a nearby couch. “I don’t remember anything, Jake… I don’t know what my wolf did.”
“Ask him.”
“He doesn’t remember either!” I retorted.
I felt a pang of frustration hit my wolf as I yelled those words. Jake was silent for a while.
“That’s why you need Jonah,” he nodded. “Well, it’ll be embarrassing for him to know his Alpha is lacking. Don’t ask. I will.”
I looked up at my brother. I was lacking? Not knowing my wolf’s memories?
True, it was lacking not to. An act only common with young, recently shifted wolves, yet here was my Alpha wolf, lacking!
“Do that for me,” I faked a smile. “Thank you.”
Jake exhaled, then walked out of my room.
My head fell back against the headrest. This wolf would be the doom of me. Stubborn and now lacking.
“Must you rub it in?”
“Yes, I must,” I replied. “At least you have guilt now. Maybe because it’s your mate, but when it’s my warriors, you don’t care.”
He whimpered, retreating into his shell of frustration and self–disgust.
I was absorbing too much of it, so I left the room, looking for something distracting.
“Ralph, where are you?”
My Beta was close. “On my way to you. Good morning. Hope you had a good sleep?”
I smiled, feeling better already. “Yeah. You?”
“Well, kind of did. You know I’m married now.”
I nearly chuckled.
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“But Black Hills didn’t, sadly. The Alpha King least of all. And they need our help,” Ralph added.
Black Hills had no sleep? As well as Chris? Was this Logan again?
“Logan attacked and took hostages,” I met Ralph at the courtroom. “Chris saved them but lost his eyes.”
“He’s blind?” I blurted.
Ralph nodded, then looked down. “In the letter, Ray reported he can’t see. Logan’s badly hurt again, and all hostages were saved.”
I turned the letter upside down and downside up. This was filled with bad news, apart from the hostages being saved.
“Chris is a really good King to lose his eyes to save his warriors. I admire that,” I whispered.
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