The Wannabe Warrior
Chapter 95

Zane POV

I had been antsy all morning and had no idea why. I put it down to missing my mate and could not wait for her to return, plus we had issues with some of the warriors who had not infected, that belonged to the Dark River pack. They wanted to return home and dad wanted them to wait.

They were not happy about that, but we did not trust them, even after taking the potion and being questioned, and until we heard back from the Dark River pack Alpha, no one would go anywhere..

As I went to sit down in the meeting room, I got a sudden pain in my chest, and became unsteady, then I fell forward onto the table, hitting the right side of my chest hard. I sat back on the chair hard, rubbing my chest, wondering what the hell happened, then the pain got a lot worse and I sucked in a breath. But suddenly the pain just disappeared. I rubbed where it had hurt a little longer, wondering what the hell just happened, and then shrugged, putting down the pain now gone due to my wolf healing, and thought nothing more about it.

Sitting with my dad. He was in his chair at the head of the table. With Jonathon and Daniel and a couple of other powerful Alpha’s that have not left us yet, and a few other people that came to help us with the rogues, and decided to hang around and help with our new problems. We discussed the Alpha issue we are now facing, with Alpha Frederick and Alpha Samuel both going to need replacing. We decided to send Peter and Graham to Alpha Frederick’s pack as they are based nearer to our pack. We now need to cover Alpha Samuel and replace a good strong Alpha to take over the Dark River Pack. We need to remove that Alpha as he is a traitor, so removing him is going to be a little trickier; we have some strong warriors. One in particular is a son of an Alpha. The son is in our pack and we also have our uncle’s son’s that we can consider.

Jonathon had suggested some other sons and, same as Daniel, we seemed to have a good selection of strong alpha potential men to choose from.

Dad suddenly stopped talking in mid-sentence, his face turned pale and he looked over at me and then over at Jonathon, and I instantly knew he was mind-linking Graham or Alpha Alex and I was not going to like what I was about to hear.

Jonathon sat up in his chair, and looked over at me, with a frown on his face. He, too, noticed that whoever was talking to Alpha, was not giving out good news.

Jonathon sat up in his chair, and looked over at me, with a frown on his face. He, too, noticed that whoever was talking to Alpha, was not giving out good news.

Alpha took a deep breath and gave a withering sigh.

‘There is no easy way to say this, so I will just say it. Alpha Samuel and beta Higgin attacked Madison.’

I roared loudly and Jonathon stood and put a hand on my shoulder, keeping me seated.

‘Settle down, son, she is not dead. If she was, we both would have felt it. Now take a deep breath and let Ezekiel finish what he is trying to tell us.’ Jonathon, always the calm and patient one, spoke with warmth and hope.

I nod at Jonathon, and he pulls his chair closer to me and places his hand back on my shoulder, holding me in place.

‘Madison is in the Deep Earth pack hospital; she did manage to disable Alpha Samuel and beta Higgin.’ Dad said with sad pride.

‘Tell me dad, how bad?’ I whimpered lowly.

‘One of her broken ribs punctured her lung when they went to pick her up to take her to hospital, she is in surgery now.’ Dad said, looking at me with sympathy.

‘Can I go to the hospital and sit with her?’ I begged, eager to see for myself how my mate was.

‘Of course, son, some of the Blue River pack warriors are bringing Samuel and Higgin back here, though it sounds like Higgin has succumbed to the sickness and Samuel would be close to it too. We may just have to kill them both when they get here, but it was not Alpha Alex’s call to do that, so they are on the way. They should be here in about half an hour. They have them both on the cart and have the horses running as fast as they believe is safe.’

‘I would like to be part of removing the two of them, if you don’t mind Ezekiel,’ Daniel asked.

‘Of Course.’ Dad agrees. I doubt he would say no to anyone wanting to be part of removing this evil and giving them some kind of closure.

Before we could discuss any further, dad yelled out in pain, grabbing his stomach. I frowned and raced over to dad.

He was sweating and crying out in pain.

‘Dad, speak to me.’ I begged, concerned about my father.

‘It is not my pain son, it is your mother, she must have the sickness, Daniel. Can you go to the dungeon and check on her? If she has the sickness, you know what to do.’ Dad ordered through gritted teeth.

Alpha Daniel gets up and leaves the room, Jonathon comes over to the desk and together we take dad to the large sofa and lay him down. I was worried, if mum had the sickness, there was a good chance dad would die from the loss of his mate.

Jonathon sat on the sofa and put dad’s head on his lap, stroking his head and talking softly to him.

‘Ezekiel, put her pain out of your mind, block her out completely, remove her bond from you, you must reject her now. Say the words out loud.’ He begged.

Dad nodded and said the rejection words out loud before falling unconscious.

‘Zane, go to Madison and bring her back here. I will do what I can for your father, and so will Daniel, when he has done what needs to be done.’

‘Jonathon, how could mum have the sickness? The only way would have been to bathe in the water. Could she have gone there, when we thought she was out shopping with the girls?’ I was confused and did not like where this was headed.

‘I am not sure when, but you know as well as I, the only way for her to have the sickness, is to have been in the mine, which confirms her guilt as a traitor. No go, and leave your dad to us, please.’ Jonathon urged, and I thought maybe he wanted me with my mate, for healing purposes. Being with my mate would speed up her healing.

I nodded, and as much as I wanted to be there with my dad, the need to be with Madison was stronger, and I walked out the door and shifted, running as fast as I could, heading towards my mate.