The Wannabe Warrior
Chapter 98

Zane POV

The relief I felt when Madison awoke was immense. I hope I never have to worry like this again over my mate, though knowing Madison, this won’t be the last time I will be sitting in a hospital chair, waiting for her to wake up.

She is a stubborn woman.

The three of us leave the hospital, and the Deep Earth pack, with a few warm hugs and well wishes and promises of catching up again soon, and some of the others will see us at the up-and-coming ball.

Alpha Alex was keen to start a closer relationship with us, but many in his clan were still wary of the new changes, after centuries of hiding.

We headed out the tunnels and disappeared into the forest.

I waited for Madison to shift and see for myself she was fine, before I shifted and the three of us headed back to the packhouse at a leisurely pace. I did not know how well Madison would be and we had no rush to get back to the packhouse. I felt she needed to enjoy the run in wolf form, after she had been at death’s door, just a few hours ago, the way she had bounced back. I think it even surprised the doctor.

When I said we were on our way home, Jonathon could not wait for us to return to see his daughter.

Jonathon raced out the packhouse door and met us in the forest in wolf form, and we were met with lots of yips and whining and body rubs. Madison accepted all of her father’s attention, understanding he had been out of his mind with worry and only when he saw her again would he relax. He gave Graham some nudging and wolf love, before happily jogging back to the packhouse with us.

Once we reached the packhouse, I walked Madison up to our room and asked her to shower and rest.

Before coming down for some food, I walked her to the bathroom door, and she turned to me, gave me a warm hug and a sweet gentle k**s, before asking me to leave so she could sleep a for a little bit, and food could wait.

Instead of having a shower, Madison stripped and climbed into bed.

I was more than happy to leave her, tucked up in bed, gave her a k**s on the cheek and left the room.

I headed to dad’s office to see if I could replace anyone with information on how dad was doing and if mum was now gone.

Before I made it to his office, Alpha Daniel met up with me and walked me to dad’s office and shut the door.

‘Son, your dad is still alive, but is suffering at the moment, he is in his room, getting some much-needed sleep, your mother was put out of her misery and her body put in the furnace like the rest of the vermin. We have also removed Karen and she was put in the furnace too. We have worked with your father, and did the only thing we thought would help him and that was to help us. We took him to the dungeon and he assisted me in tormenting the Dark River member that killed my mate. That seemed to have been the turning point for your father. He was not coping with your mother’s betrayal. However, having someone to take out his anger on, has helped not only him, but me too, and I have at last resolved my need for vengeance. We have reached a turning point in both our lives and now we wait and pray the goddess will help your dad through this. So far, he is alive and that is better than some Alpha’s can manage. Losing your mate, can, as you know, kill you. We are hoping that what we have done together, will give him the strength to get through this. Though he had not had a good relationship with his mate for a few years now, he still loved her as she was, as he believed, his fated mate, but he now felt, for her to betray him, maybe he had got it all wrong and some other influence had made him believe she was his mate.’

‘You mean that maybe he was drugged like mother wanted to do to me? That she caused this, could she and the advisor have planned this way back then? Is it possible?’ I asked incredulously.

‘We don’t know, son, it could be, but also someone else maybe behind all of this to bring down the royal family and put someone else on the throne. We are hoping when Madison is well enough, that she can start hacking into all those computers; Alpha Frederick, Alpha Samuel, Higgin and the Dark River pack. There are a lot of computers to go through. We want her to have another look at the advisor’s computer again. Maybe we missed something the first time. We need to dig deeper into this. For now, we need to keep as much of what has happened quiet, and hope when we have the ball, we are prepared for anything unexpected. We have put the warriors we trust on high alert and be prepared for a battle. They might have lost the rogues and a few other warriors, but as we still don’t know how far this goes, we have to be careful.’ Alpha Daniel was right, every time we thought we had the answers, a new traitor showed up and changed our direction, and looking at all the computers again was a good place to start.

I thought it was over and we were just mopping up the last few issues, but maybe we have only just scrapped the surface on the issue. This has been building for years, far longer than any of us really knows. I say, still getting my head around all of this.