Alpha Rising: The Wolf Runs
Chapter 17

ALORE

She is here. I felt her the moment she moved around the city and got close enough to me to where the tingling hit my spine. Sighing, I start rounding up a silent team. I told her I didn’t want her to come here but I also knew she would. We have her mates.

“We are ready, Alore.” I turn towards Marcel and nod. We are going to lure her further into the city and then take her.

“She will resist and make sure you get her with the shifter poison, because if she shifts, she will kill us.” I don’t say she may not kill me if her wolf is able to recognize me as a mate. I follow Marcel to where the others are waiting, and I make sure they are all listening. “Make sure to follow me. I can tell where she is.”

“How do you know where she is?” The suspicion from the back of the men pisses me off.

“I don’t have to answer you.” I say letting the anger leak into my voice. “We need to move now.” I motion them to follow me, and I follow the feeling.

Krisna is skirting the outside of the city and she moves around slowly making sure she is not heard, unfortunately for her she doesn’t realize what our connection was, or I am sure she wouldn’t be this close to the city.

My fingers itch to have her but I know that she won’t feel the same. My goal is to take just her but I have a feeling I am going to end up taking them all. I have been practicing a spell since we came back and I don’t know how well it will work but mother assured me it will stun them, along with the shifter darts we have the next few minutes should be easy.

I wait until I feel her close again and I cast the spell, I hear the gasp as it hits her, and I have darts ready to keep her down if the spell didn’t work or if one of her mates are close to her.

I turn the corner seeing her trying to shift and to my surprise she almost shifts. I shot a few darts at her making sure she can’t shift, and I run to her. I do hear the footsteps behind me and pray it is one of my men, but when I look up, I see her mate.

His hair is long and dark, and he looks angry. He is charging towards me, but I again hit him with some darts.

“Ren, run.” I look down at Krisna and see her eyes starting to droop and the wolf in front of me halts, his eyes taking her in. I only shot him with a few darts, and I notice the moment he feels it. I watch him turn and run. I didn’t think he would, but he does.

“Krisna.” Is being shouted and a moment later men from my team surround us. I notice they only have one of her mates making it a total of three. He has long blond hair and his eyes are droopy letting me know that he is not an Alpha.

“Take him to my home, follow me.” I scoop Krisna up into my arms and I start running to my home. I don’t know how many wolves followed her, but I don’t have any more energy to create that spell again and I don’t have the dart’s either.

We rush to my home and enter. I yell to the guards and the rest of my team to surround the palace and make sure to be on guard. My mother had a cell set up near her other mates and I make sure to take her there and have the other male placed with the other Gamma. She had these cells commissioned months back to make sure we can hold shifters.

I don’t know what my mother has planned from here, but the selfish part of me doesn’t care. I plan to leave. I have been thinking about this for so long. I want to leave the city and never look back. My mother is one that is constantly controlling and because I was gifted with her magic, she puts a lot of pressure on me.

The cell is plusher with a single bed in there with pillows and blankets. I don’t know why she is allowing this and honestly now that I look at this, I am becoming more worried. My mother must know she is my mate, and I am wondering if she is going to try and force Krisna to take me as one.

Leaving her there I go and replace my mother. Walking through the mansion and making sure the guards are not panicking meant that Krisna came alone. She didn’t come with anyone but her mates and with her being a new shifter has not come into her power yet, and I only saw the marking on the one mate, so she hasn’t fully shared the power.

“Alore. Please come here.” My mother is in her room with my father and Alana. I enter already not liking the feeling that is coming from my mother. My father Cade is leaning against the wall and avoiding eye contact which means he is not agreeable with whatever my mother says.

“Mother?” I look at her waiting for her to spit it out.

“You have the Alpha female, great job son.” She smiles at me and moves closer to me. “Now it is time for you to make her yours.”

I move back away from her in shock. “You want me to be with her?” I don’t know what she really wants and I need her to explain to me more than she is.

“You must know by now, Alore, she is your mate. She is destined to be the one that brings forth a new breed of shifter wolf, and the baby you will make with her will hold all the power of a warlock and it will be doubled.” Her eyes look mad as she says this and a look to my father. She can’t really believe that I will force myself on her.

When he looks at me his eyes are pleading. I am missing something, and I don’t know what. “Alore, please do what mother says.” Alana pleads with me, her eyes filling with tears. There is something seriously wrong and I take another step back only to run into my mother’s guard.

“I will not rape her mother.” I am completely appalled that she would even suggest something so barbaric. “Would you want someone to do that to Alana?” I ask hoping for her to see reason. What I don’t expect is for her to shrug her shoulders and look at me with a bland expression.

“If someone thought that my daughter would bring power to their country then it would be a sacrifice, I would hope she would make without it going that far.” My mother states this so matter of fact that it surprises me.

“I’m not doing it mother.” The crazy that everyone states they see with my mother and with her mother before her seems to sink in. They were so bent on being welcomed into the shifter world that they were willing to do anything to gain the power. My mothers mother went crazy when she was not accepted as a mate.

“I was hoping you wouldn’t say that my son. I truly hoped that this would go a different way, but I guess you have your mind made.” I turn around to try and pass the guards when they make sure to block me. “Guards, please show my son to his new room.” Before I can open my mouth, I am hit with a stunning spell being unable to move and I am dragged through the halls, followed by the sounds of my sister crying.

I am taken to her. I should have seen this coming. I should have known my mother would want to keep me locked up with her during this time. During the time she is in heat. All shifter females go into heat when they shift for the first time, needing to mate with their mate or mates and mark them.

She is still asleep on the bed and when I am tossed in with her, I land on the bed next to her. The stunning spell. I can now feel the magic surrounding the cell and know that my mother had anticipated.

When the spell wears off, I stand and pace slowly watching her wake up. Krisna eyes meet mine and the snarl that leaves her throat shakes me to the core.

“You did this you piece of shit.” She stands and I am suddenly scared for the first time in my life. There is fury in her eyes that I have never seen before. She immediately runs at the door only to be flat on her back a second later.

“Krisna, we tried, we can’t get through.”

“Ruse?” Her eyes replace her other mate and lock on to him. I see the relief and the sadness. “Are you ok?”

He smiles at her, and I see the love pass between them. “I am now that I see you’re okay.” She looks around at what we are in, and it is a bunch of cells with beds in them. They are close together but leaving enough space to where they can’t reach out to touch one another.

Krisna turns back to me. “Why am I here? Why are you in here with me?”

Krisna

Alore looks at me like he doesn’t know what to say. I don’t think that he even thought that he would end up here.

“My mother.”

“Meaning what? You kidnapped me to place me and my mates here not knowing why?” I am pissed and my body is still in heat, and the pain from being in heat is almost crippling.

“I didn’t think this through.” Alore starts to pace again and it takes everything in me not to put my foot out and trip him. “I had no idea that she was going to try and force this.” He pauses before he paces again. “Well I should have, I should have known from the beginning but I was blinded.”

Frustration spurns me as I grab him. “What is happening, why am I here?” Why are they here?” I just want to touch my mates, touch Ruse. Kale and Juniper are also here and from the feelings I get from Kale he is struggling with everything as much as I am. For a moment I am grateful for the mate bond it makes me feel less alone.

“I will try and get us out of here but my mother is powerful and everything she has set up is going to be hard to break out of. The security alone is rough.” Alore looks around and the way his head drops back exposing his neck makes parts of me wake up.

“What the f**k is happening.” I’m frustrated in more ways than one and I stomp around making the guys in their cells stand and get as close to my cell as possible.

“You haven’t figured it out yet have you?” His eyes meet mine and I stare into them.

“I figured out that you are not human.” I snarl at him.

“True but I know you feel the spark.” He eyes me letting me try to make the connection. He is saying he is my mate and that this is why I feel the spark between us.

“You’re lying, that cannot be possible.” I feel it so I know that some of this is true, but could it have been a faux mate bond? Is that even possible?

“I’m not, even magic is not able to fake a true mate bond.” Alore says looking at me calmly. He is waiting for me to put the pieces together but between my heart and my human side fighting to think I’m struggling.

A shift of movement behind me and the low growls from my mates has me turning around and looking into the eyes of what I know is the red witch. She is stunning, dripped in red. Her skin is so fair and delicate looking, not a scar on her is seen. The red dress she is wearing hugs every curve of her body and showcases her figure.

“Oh Alore, you are absolutely correct.” She eyes Alore and it is hard to wrap my mind around him being her son. “My name is Astra, Nice to finally meet you Krisna.” Her green eyes meet mine and while she is smiling it doesn’t reach her eyes.

“Mother, you think you can let me out now.” His tone is bored, and I know he really doesn’t think he has a chance of being let out of the cell. “I’m not a child, you can’t keep my locked away.”

“I can in fact dear. I knew when we made these you would not agree one hundred percent with my plan, so I made some secret accommodations.” Alore rolls his eyes moving to lay on the bed and stare into nothing. He expected this.

“What do you want from me?” I ask her, drawing her emerald, green eyes back to me.

The smile she gives me is radiant, almost like this was what she was waiting for. “I want a grandchild.” It sounds so simple, but I know there is so much more behind this, so much more to this than I know.

“You kidnapped me for a baby?” I snarl at her.

“I kidnapped you for his baby.” Her eyes flick to Alore. “He is the most powerful warlock I have ever seen, and we are dying out. It is easy, I want you to mark him and make him yours and use the rest of your heat to have his baby.”

The audacity of this bitch. She really thinks she can tell me who I need to mate and mark, and even have a baby with. I cannot even begin to explain the anger I feel coming from the pit of my stomach and making its way up to my throat.

“You have to be joking. I am not marking him. There is no way that he is in my pack, he is not a shifter.” I feel the spark, but I don’t feel how I feel with the other men.

Astra tosses her head back and laughs. “Again you shifters think your better then the rest of the world. My mother was supposed to be mated to a male shifter, she went to him begging to be with him. She could feel the pull on her heart and when he rejected her for some wolf who was already pregnant and had a family, she broke.”

“What?” I heard every word but things are starting to make sense. I turn to Kale and Juniper whose looking at Astra wide eyed.

“You didn’t know? My mother was a powerful witch, who fell in love with a shifter. Finding out that she was his destined mate was the best thing for her. She looked to the stars and in them she saw how powerful children would be with him and showed him as well. He could have powerful pups with another woman, and magical powerful children with her. They would all posses the ability to have magic which in our culture it is usually only the first born.”

“My mother.” I whisper. He wanted my mother.

“The Alpha abandoned my mother and tried to take the wedded female that was already a used up wolf and make her have his babies since he didn’t believe in mixing of witches and wolves. My mother was heart broken, she wanted revenge but sadly she never got it.”

Astra paces and looks at my mates and the grin on her face is discomforting. “As fate would have it, I had a beautiful baby boy.” She turns and with the silence I hear the dress swish around her feet. “When the vision of his future came to me, imagine my surprise when I see that he was to be mated to the first female Alpha in decades.”

“Wolves don’t mate with anyone that is not of our species.” Kale growls at Astra.

Astra spins on her heel and her face is full of rage. “You damn wolves think you are so damn special because you have an animal in you. I can do magic and have managed to trap the now most powerful wolf in the world.” Her eyes flick to mine before she looks back at Kale. “Now you all have no choice. I will kill you if she doesn’t mate with my son.”

I watch her mumble something under her breath before Kale drops to his knees screaming. He is in pain and with the bond I can feel it as well. It starts as a low burning feeling until I am on the ground in my cell screaming as well.

Alore is holding me and all I want to do is bite him, not to mark him but to destroy him. When Astra finally lets up, she looks at me, getting to her knees she makes sure I am looking at her.

“You will mate with my son, or they will die.” Astra slowly stands and I watch her leave, and for the first-time fear really starts to creep in.