The Failed Rejection
Chapter 68

Penelope pov

She came to confused and to a bright light that was in her eyes. Penelope kept her eyes closed and tried to make sense of what was going on but her memories were in a muddle. She heard some scuffling and a door open and shut. Penelope could hear voices but couldn’t make anything out.

“I think she’s waking up,” a voice spoke from above and close by. Penelope was unable to respond and she felt helpless.

“Penelope can you hear me?” Her mate asked and then she felt sparks running up and down her arm. She had felt his presence in the room, but this was first she felt the sparks. It took a few minutes, but she finally managed to open her eyes. The first person she saw was LB with a worried expression on his face.

“How do you feel?” He asked her and Penelope quickly took a moment to assess her injuries.

“I feel like I was hit by a Mack truck, my head is killing me,” she said softly.

“It was an SUV,” Dash’s voice said and Penelope turned her head and severe pain lashed through her skull like nothing she felt before.

“Ahh!” She cried out and gripped her head which only made her hurt more.

“Easy Mrs. Black, you suffered from a grade three concussion and you needed stitches in your forehead,” a different voice clearly the doctor stated and settled her back into bed. A grade three concussion was bad for humans and werewolves, the brain is a funny thing for anyone.

“So Penelope just a couple of questions, do you know your name?” The doctor asked and she looked at the room of people looking at her.

“Penelope…” she trailed off for a minute apparently she was married to Braxton. “Black.”

“Good a little delay there, but that’s perfectly normal, what year is it?” Penelope rolled off a few common facts that were normally asked of patients who have severe concussions. Penelope answered them all with little delay. Who the president was, what month and year is was. The doctor asked the last question and smiled,

“Well I don’t think you are suffering from any amnesia, but you still need to stay here for at least a night. We need to monitor you for vomiting, dizziness, slurred speech, and you have to be waken up ever three hours for at least twenty- four hours, maybe longer depending on any symptoms you start displaying.” Penelope started to nod, but she stopped herself and gave a low,

“Okay.” The doctor hesitated then started speaking clearly trying to replace the words.

“You also may be more prone due to dizziness as you had a significant amount of b***d loss Mrs. Black.” The doctor informed her and her first thought was her head wound. Head wounds tend to seem more serious than they are as they can bleed significantly. Penelope slowly lifted her arm and felt her stitches. They still hurt quite a bit for stitches. The doctor looked from her to her mate.

“Your forehead may hurt more than normal as there was quite a bit of glass in your forehead, but…” the doctor trailed off.

“You were pregnant, Penelope,” Braxton’s gently told her and happiness rushed through her until reality stopped brought her up short.

“Wait…were?” Penelope looked down at her stomach as if that would bring back the tiny life inside her.

“Yeah, you lost him,” Brax told her his voice breaking. She looked up and saw a few tears in his eyes and then the dam within her let go.

“No!” Penelope sobbed at the loss of the baby she didn’t even know she was carrying. “No!” LB came and gently wrapped her in a hug as sobs wracked her. Braxton tried to be gentle with her as she was still in quite a bit of pain, but the pain in her heart was like nothing she had never even known. The loss of her sister, her father, it all compared in comparison to replaceing out she was going to be a mother only to lose that within the same breath.

Seth pov

Seth was nervous as he followed Brad, Dustin, and two other elite warriors into the woods at a fast clip. He had never done anything like this before, but he had taken to dealing with explosives. While the other warriors in the pack were too afraid of C4 Seth knew it was a stable agent. Killian needed some one to step up after the attack that almost cost him his son years ago and so Seth did. Killian wasn’t just his alpha, he was his best friend. The two of them learned all of this together along with their fathers and Leo. It was a new world and Killian was right when Killian said they had to adapt and here he was about to blow up the werewolf council.

He followed behind Brad and stayed tight in their formation. Seth was dressed similar to the other men to blend in as a new elite guard. He simply hoped that no one would question why Seth smelled different than everyone else.

The group made good time and soon they approached the surveillance headquarters, which is where all the guards went to receive their assignments before their shift. Brad checked the time before walking entering.

“Okay men, we got ten minutes,” Brad stated before opening the door. The place was a madhouse. There were men everywhere and they were all sitting, standing all over the tiny room; laughing, pushing each other, just shooting the s**t. Brad tried to make their way through the small tech room when a shout stopped the group.

“Hey Brad where the hell have you been?” Brad responded with a smile and approached the man who talked to him. Seth took the time to really look around the room other than just the men. He looked and saw nothing but monitors in the room. Seth tried to discreetly look at them to see if he could see any of their men who were getting into their positions.

“This is John, we just got back from a mission from Elder Brooks. Hell they didn’t even get to see their rooms in this place before she had them shipped off.” Brad stated referring to him and Seth just nodded while looking at the man in front of him.

“f*****g b***h,” he muttered. “I can’t stand that one, she’s so pompous always going on about the poor omega wolf’s and we were meant to protect them,” the wolf said and the men listening in laughed. Brad joined in and he got the hint to laugh as well. If he had felt bad before about knowing he was going to kill possible innocent men before this that just went away. Brad was right, they weren’t innocent.

“Right, we’ll we have to get going.” Brad said and started moving.

“See you for dinner tonight.” Brad just waved and he followed Brad. The group finally managed to get out of the suffocating room into a small antechamber.

“Five minutes,” Brad stated and the men started to break off into different direction. Brad’s was in the locker rooms while Seth’s was behind servers and monitors.

Seth quickly checked for some unused lockers and quickly set the C-4 up as quick and undetected as possible. He had three minutes before men started pouring in to get changed before patrol. He also had to keep his heart rate down to stay undetected. He quickly turned on the device so it would detonate and moved to plant the last explosive. He was done, now all he had to do was leave without getting caught.

Seth left the area trying to be inconspicuous as possible, but he smelled different and some one must of noticed, that or his heart rate was too high.

“Hey! Who are you?” Seth heard and he ran. He probably should have stayed to talk his way out of it, but his fight or flight instincts kicked in and he chose flight.

“Hey! We got an intruder!” Seth ran down the hall and a group of guards came out of nowhere. Seth quickly switched directions and hauled a*s the other way. He made a couple of turns before he was cornered by a group of at least twenty guards with their guns drawn. Seth had his hands raised in the air.

“Got you now!” One smirked at him. Dread filled him and he was afraid the plan was over before it had even began. That’s why he ran in the first place.

Then when all hope was lost he heard it. The most enchanting song.

“Sail to me, sail to me

Let me enfold you

Here I am

Let me hold you.”

Seth watched amazed as every wolf who were seconds away from shooting him dead suddenly stopped, dropped their guns and followed the voice like zombies. Seth had the same inclination, but only because he knew it was his mate. What does this mean? I’m not compelled like the rest of them.

“She’s our mate, you fool!” His wolf told him. Seth weaved his way through the men, he could see their eyes were glazed over as if in an mind link. Seth finally found his beautiful mate who continued to sing and looked uncomfortable at what was occurring.

“Mate,” his wolf called out purring at the bewitching sight she made. She saw him and then started to gesture around wildly with her arms at the men who were there. He finally got the idea.

“You may want to close your eyes.” Seth walked closer to her so she wouldn’t get hurt, pulled out his g*n and started shooting. As the men were standing still Seth aimed for the head as to not waste ammo. He quickly went through his first clip and put in a second. Then a third. When all of the guards were dead his mate finally stopped her siren song and looked at him.

“Okay we better get going, there are more coming,” his mate said when the last one surrounding them was gone. That’s when he felt it, the explosives detonating. Seth grabbed his mate and hit the ground using his body as a shield.

Killian pov

The explosion went off and the first five minutes after was pure chaos. The men came pouring out and the men sniped them off according to plan. Killian watched as the council’s army were being dropped on the ground the second they got in plain sight. Killian felt guilt before he remembered the children and woman who were being trafficked and experimented on that were currently sitting in his packhouse.

Then the elite warriors training finally kicked in and they started to regroup. They started to get smart and figure out where his warriors were. That’s when Killian revealed his position and opened fire on the men targeting the men in the trees. His shooting caused the other men on the ground to open fire at will as well. Alpha Kane was on his left with his beta and Alpha Tom was on his right. The shootout didn’t last long, then it happened.

“Breech!!” Wyatt yelled from above. Thats when Killian heard them, his wolf was pacing in his mind wanting to be let out and in the the action.

“You will soon enough, this is a marathon, not a sprint,” Killian told Kai and then he saw them, armored trucks came roaring up on the scene. They quickly moved to protect the councils men and the bullets were simply bouncing off the truck.

“See, you are being let out already,” Killian stated and he could feel Kai smile as Killian went to a nearby rock he slipped his g*n, ammo, and took off his clothes. Then he quickly shifted into his alpha wolf Kai.

Kai was beyond ready to join in on the fight and let out his full aura and a mighty howl that could be heard for miles around.