Welcome Home Mate
Chapter 54

LEX

Alpha Dean and I walk toward Keith and the others. My father was talking to him, and Keith's eyes landed on me as we approached.

"What the hell is all this about?" he asks with anger riddling in his voice. "Why the hell would someone be after your two Luna's?"

I stared at him. I wanted to remind him who he was speaking to, but this was about Roxie being taken, and we needed to know what was happening.

"I don't know," I said. "We got all the pack members searching the grounds for her. Tim told us that Naomi took her, but someone else was involved."

Keith stared at me, but a low growl slipped out. "That b*h should have been banished after all the stuff she pulled, but thinking with your d!ck, you kept her..." he started to say, but I had enough of being blamed for all this. "THAT'S ENOUGH," I shouted.

I closed my eyes to calm down, but between Blaze's anger and my own, I found it hard to control both of us simultaneously. I took a few deep breaths, opened my eyes, and stared back at Keith. "I never meant for any of this," I said. "If I had known what Naomi was doing to her, I would not have just banished her; I would have killed her. I only kept her around as I noticed she was acting strangely and wanted to replace out what she was doing."

I stopped talking and looked between the two and my father. "I want that b***h killed and my mate back," I said. I looked at my father. "Where is Jason?" I asked. "Did he put Amber in the cell?"

My father nodded. "He has," he said. "She was very talkative. I think we should all go to the office. Jason will be there shortly."

I nodded.

"How is Tim?" asked Keith.

My father looked at him and sighed. "It seems they injected him with wolfsbane," he said. "He was knocked out before; that's why he can't heal the wound. His wolf is knocked out, and we don't know when he will return." I frowned. "Why the hell is this happening?" I asked.

All three looked at me, but my father spoke again. "I have a funny feeling about what this is all about," he said. "It's not pretty, but I think it might explain everything you two have been going through with Alpha Trevor."

I looked at him, confused. What the hell did he...as if the penny dropped, my anger flared up more. "He's behind this," I said through clenched teeth.

My father looked at me and nodded. "I think he is," he said. "The thing is, all this happened once before, and it involved his father."

I stared at him, but before I could say anything. "I think we should take this conversation somewhere else," said Alpha Dean, who was pissed. "There are too many ears around, and if the stories I have heard about his father are to be true, then we are in serious trouble."

I stared at him.

His face went blank as if he was mind-linking someone, but after a short time, he came back and stared at me. "I have my Luna close by," he said. "I didn't want her out of my sight."

I nodded. "Bring her here," I said. "We can keep her safe."

Alpha Dean nodded and looked toward Keith. "Before we go in," he asked. "What about Alpha Gareth? Where is he?" "Alpha Gareth will be on his way," Keith said. "He is bringing Nathan along with him as Nathan and Roxie are friends." I nodded.

"Let's move into the office," said my father, walking toward the pack house.

We all followed right behind him.

Once we were inside, we all took seats. "Should we wait for Roxie's family?" asked Alpha Dean. Keith looked at him and shook his head. "Tim has to stay in the hospital, but I can catch him up, and Sofia will be staying with him to make sure no one else harms him." Keith looked at me. "I want to ensure my brother is safe," he said.

I nodded.

After a few moments, Jason walked in, looking slightly annoyed. He walked in, and after he closed the door behind him, he stared at me. "You need to talk to Amber," he said, "she told me to tell you that you should go to see her; she has the information you need." Jason sat down next to me. "She told me that it's not for Beta's ears," he said through clenched teeth. His anger affected Blaze, but I placed my hand on his arm. "We will get them all."

Jason looked at me but didn't say anything. He leaned forward and took a phone out of his pocket, and it wasn't his. "Amber's phone," he muttered as he placed it on the table in front of us.

I stared at it. There might be information on it, I thought.

I was about to lean forward, but my father cleared his throat. "Well, I guess I had best tell you what I know about Alpha Trevor's father," he said, making me look up at him. His eyes stayed on me. "I know Alpha Dean, and you were friends with Alpha Trevor when you were younger, but did he ever mention anything about what his father was like?"

I stared at him, racking my brain. Alpha Trevor would sometimes be at the alpha meetings when our fathers took us, but it was only once or maybe twice. He was a loner but always around his father's side. He had a few carers, but he never spoke to us. I never classed him as a friend; he was always secretive about things and never opened up to me about anything.

I looked toward Alpha Dean, who was supporting a frown. "He never spoke to us that once we were all at that meeting," he said, glancing toward me. "Alpha Dean is right," I said. "We say we are friends with him, but when he moved closer, we thought he wanted to be. We just assumed he was a friend."

My father nodded. "Well, there might be a reason for that," he said. He looked at all of us before, and he continued. "In the alpha meetings, we always argued about who was better and who had more land, mainly it was Alpha Mac, Alpha Trevor's father. He would always brag about it all, or he would make snide comments about things. Alpha Trevor was always near him and would always agree with his father."

I watched my father has continued. "Alpha Mac had a Luna, and she was his everything. But it all changed one night when she found out after having Alpha Trevor that she couldn't bare any more children, which never went well over Alpha Mac," he said. "I never knew his Luna, but she was a human who never turned into one of us. She never wanted that, so being human, your body can only carry one child."

"Why would she never turn into a werewolf?" asked Jason.

"I only met her three times, so I don't know why we weren't that close. I met her once at her Luna ceremony, and the others were after she gave birth to Alpha Trevor," he said, sadness sweeping in. "I didn't understand what was happening to her, but stories were floating around that Alpha Mac had a few mistresses, and he was making his Luna sick by being with them. The two times I saw her, she was unwell. She looked fragile and was on the verge of collapsing. When we mentioned that she needed to rest, Alpha Mac would laugh and tell us she was fine and deserved what was happening to her. After the last time, we saw her; I heard that she passed away, but no one mentioned how she died."

My father closed his eyes but opened them as tears brimmed. "I would have done something, but as alphas, we couldn't stick our noses into another alpha's personal business, especially if it was regarding their mates," he said, but stopped. He shook his head. "Alpha Mac was known to be a ruthless alpha; the stories that came from that pack were hard to hear," he said. He looked at me. "Members would leave and try to replace refuge in other packs."

My father stared at me and sighed. "Naomi's mum was one of them," he said. "She came here after Alpha Mac attacked her. She found out she was pregnant afterward."

I stared at him.

"What the hell?" I clenched my teeth. "So her mum was a member of Alpha Mac's. How could you trust her?"

"I didn't," he said.

I looked at him, confused. "You didn't trust her," I asked.

My father nodded and sighed. "I took her in at the start," he said. "But rumors were going around the pack about her. She tried it on with pack members- sleeping with ones close to me. She would be asking questions regarding the pack."

A low growl grumbled from my c.hest, "So what happened?" I asked him. "I mean, what did you do if she was trying to get information? I mean, Naomi is still here."

"I know," he said and sighed. "The guard that was killed, he was the one she slept with. He came to me after a week, telling me she couldn't be trusted. So, we devised a plan and sent her some false information to see who she was working for, even though I had an idea who it was. After two weeks, we held an alpha meeting, and Alpha Mac was too happy to indulge what he found out and spoke to everyone about it."

"I caught him with the lie," he said and stared at me. "I didn't say anything to him in front of the others and asked if I could speak to them without him there, which all members were happy too as they never liked him. I told them about the plan I had devised, and they were shocked. I asked the other alphas if they had other members from his pack come to them. Out of seven, four did, including me."

My father looked at me and then at the others. "They were all women," he said. "I never went with Naomi's mother as I was true to my mate, and neither did the others, so they would try to get to the closer ones."

"My father was your beta. Did she try it on with him?" asked Jason.

That was a good question.

I glanced toward my father, and his face said it all. "She tried, but like me, he was true to your mum," he said. "He told me what happened, and we arranged for a guard we knew closely and was single to help us out."

"Tim never once went near her," he said as his eyes went to Jason. But something was written all over his face. "I have to tell you though, the attack on your mum was not an accident." Jason growled. "What?" he yelled.

My father kept calm. "Your father told me what happened, but Naomi's mum never gave up pursuing him. She was the one who sent the rogues into the pack grounds to attack her." "What happened to Naomi's mum?" asked Alpha Dean.

I could feel the tension in the air. Keith and Jason were ready to kill someone, and so was I.

"When the attack happened," he said. "Tim told me he couldn't leave Roxie as she was there at the time. We knew who was involved, so I told the guard to take her to the cells. We tortured her and told her we knew that she was Alpha Mac's mistress." "Why didn't you do it sooner?" I asked. "You knew who she was and what she was doing."

My father signed. "We would have," he said. "But we thought we could use her to our advantage."

I growled, but my father glared at me. "I know we did wrong," he snarled. "I live with that every day. I never thought she would try something like that. She was sleeping with the guard, but we also discovered that she was sleeping with someone else later. We captured the two of them, but when the guy discovered what was happening, he killed her."

My head was hurting too much.

"What about Naomi?" asked Jason. "Why did you let her stay in the pack? I mean, her mother was a traitor."

My father sighed. "We didn't know much about Naomi," he said. "She never acted out, and we couldn't throw a child out because of her mother's doings."

I growled.

"So, all this tells us that Alpha Mac used his women to sneak into the pack," I said. "What does this have to do with Alpha Trevor?"

My father looked at me. "I think it might be happening again," he said. "I mean, Naomi acting the way she has about Roxie, but the way she is with you and everything, it all instigates what we went through before."

I stared at him. "You think Naomi is one of Alpha Trevor's mistresses," I asked. I was trying to wrap my head around all this.

My father nodded.

"I think if we talked to Amber," my father said. "We might replace out more."

"You think she is another one," Alpha Dean asked.

My father shrugged. "I think so," he said. "Alpha Trevor is doing what his dad did all those years ago. He never had a tidy upbringing, he had to watch his father with all those women, but we don't know who or what happened." I stayed quiet.

Blaze, who had been quiet throughout this whole meeting, growled. "We need to kill them," he said.

I couldn't agree more.

I looked toward my father, but something caught my eye-the phone on the table, Amber's phone.

I leaned toward it and swiped it.

It didn't have a lock on, and it was one of those old mobile phones that didn't have a passcode.

I looked through it, but I went straight to her contacts. I knew everyone in the room was looking at me, but I didn't care. I wanted to know who she was talking with; we needed proof that this was all Alpha Trevor and Naomi. I went to her contacts, and there were only five contacts.

I growled as I noticed two numbers that I recognized.

"f**k," I snarled and shot out of the chair I was sitting on and headed toward the door.

I didn't say anything to the others, but I knew they were following me. I could hear my name being called, but I ignored them.

I headed toward the cells and barged through the door, scaring one of the guards.

"Amber," I snarled, demanding where she was being kept.

The petrified guard pointed toward a cell, and I walked over to it.

I looked in, and Amber was sitting on the bench and turned to look at me. She smiled and stood up, she took a step toward me, but I let out a roar, which made her stop. Her face changed slightly, looking more scared. "Lex..." she said. I stared at her with anger filling my veins. Blaze was ready to tear her apart with what we found on her phone, which was still in my hand.

"Alpha to you," I said through clenched teeth. "Who is Alpha Trevor to you?"

Amber looked taken aback by the question, but her eyes went to her phone. "You went through..." she muttered but glared at me. "That's mine. You had no right."

I growled, which made her fall back on her a*s. "Tell me NOW," I snarled. "Who is he to you?"

Amber looked up from the floor, terrified. "I can't," she whimpers. "He will kill me."

I growled loudly.

I could sense people behind me, and I knew who it was.

"ANSWER MY QUESTION," I snarled. "IT WON'T BE HIM WHO WILL KILL YOU."

Amber kept her mouth shut.

"WHO IS HE TO YOU?" I shouted.

I could see someone out of the corner of my eye. "You had better answer your alpha," said Alpha Dean.

Amber looked between us, but her eyes landed on Alpha Dean.

Her lips curled up in the corners as a slow smile slid across her face.

"Oh, Alpha Dean, how is your Luna doing?" she asked.

Alpha Dean growled.

Amber stared at him, she didn't flinch, but her eyes moved toward me.

"You want to know who I am to him," she said, c*g her head to the side.

I wasn't prepared for what came out of her mouth next. "I'm his mate," she said. "Now, how's Roxie doing since she's been home?"

I couldn't control it anymore; my anger filled every ounce of my body, and Blaze came up with me.

"YOU'RE A DEAD WOLF," we yelled as he stood up front with me.

Amber's smile moved from her face and was replaced with fear again as we opened the gate to get inside.

"EXPLAIN WHERE MATE IS," we yelled, moving closer to her.