The Wannabe Warrior
Chapter 93

Zane POV

We had just put the last of the dead on the fire, when I got a mind-link from my lovely mate, and I felt a warmth run through me, just from hearing her voice.

‘Zane, are you busy?’ she cooed softly in my mind.

‘Just a little, I can talk briefly and then give me half an hour and we can have a longer talk.’ I replied, sad I could not just drop what I was doing and talk. I longed to hear her voice.

‘What are you doing?’ she asked tiredly.

‘Burning the dead.’ I almost growled back; I hate this part.

‘We have to do that tomorrow too. It is too late at night to be out doing that now.’I replied casually.

‘What, oh, you had some warriors near you too? We had one of the barracks shut down completely, all of the Alpha Fredericks team and Alpha Samuels that were in there. You must have the last few then. It is a relief. I was worried that they would harm you before we could replace them.’ sounding like he was glad not to head out again tonight.

‘We have not found Alpha Samuel or his beta. Stay safe my love.’ And she blocks me out so I can finish here, without her emotions in my head, ‘I want my mate,’ cried my wolf, and I agreed with him.

‘Dad?’ I call

‘Son?’ dad answered with concern in his voice.

‘Madison said they had sick warriors up there too, but no sign of Alpha Samuel or the beta, they are going to burn the bodies tomorrow. It’s getting too late at night to be out in the forest. Who knows what Samuel has planned, if he is not sick yet?’

‘He will be around somewhere, and if these guys have got sick, I believe Alpha Frederick and Alpha Samuel and beta Higgin would not be far behind them, and the delay might be because they are high born, but they cannot escape it, sooner or later that sickness will catch up with them, if they have been in touch of the water, with all his men down, I would assume they too bathed in it.’ Dad was not worried about the missing men; he believe with all his being that they would fall sick soon.

‘I am tired, going to head to the showers and bed.’ I saw dad nod his head as he watched the warriors finish the task at hand.

After my shower, I climbed into bed and mind-linked Madison.

‘Sweetheart, are you still awake?’ I asked hopefully.

‘Yeah.’ She says so quietly, I almost missed it.

‘How are you? I feel like we hardly get to be together. I am not sure what was worse, before we were mated and I worried if young men were sniffing around you, or now, with me feeling your emotions and not being able to hold you and tell you all will be well.’ I said, stifling a yawn.

‘I understand what you mean, but this has to be close to being over. I need to get back, have to start hacking their computers and see that no one else is involved in this. Though the bulk of their strength is gone, it would be nice to make sure no one else is out there trying to keep us from being together.’ Madison g*****d.

‘At least, the worst will be over by the time we have the ball at least, all the bodies will be gone and we can get a good clean up done in the barracks to accommodate those coming. Have you had a head count yet?

‘Yes, we have a lot coming. I did not realise how much work was involved in doing all of this. Addison has been great, getting most of the work done. She has been working with the others, the decorations will start going up tomorrow, and the food will arrive, so Mary can start getting a lot of prep work done in advance. She is going to make a great beta wife. I will miss her when she leaves. I was worried she was too timid, but she has come shining through now. She has been given a job to do and a little direction.’

‘You are going to miss your twin, he is going to be in a rough place for a little while fixing the mess that is there and we have to replace two more Alpha and beta teams, to replace Frederick and Samuel.’

‘Maybe at the ball, we will replace some potential leaders?’ Madison suggested.

‘Thank sounds promising, we can talk to a few that are like the second son of an Alpha, they may have the makings for a good Alpha. Can you grab the list when you come home and we go over the list, see who is coming and we can ask dad how he feels about them. He would know how the fathers have been as an Alpha, hopefully taught they son’s good habits.’

‘Yeah, but no guarantee that the son will keep those good habits, but I am looking forward to tomorrow now. I have to spend some time with my mate.’ I can feel Madison yawning through the bond.

‘Night night, sweetheart, catch you tomorrow, get some rest.’ I whispered softly in my head as Madison slowly left the mind-link and I could feel she was on her way to getting asleep.