The Moon Goddess' Chosen

252 Chapter Two Hundred Fifty Two

The trio made their way to the hotel exit, making sure to stay as quiet as they could. The closer they got to the hotel exit, the more she felt something wrong was about to happen. As they neared the gates, Caden and Jason joined them as though they’d known where they were going. The two males did not ask questions. Katie sighed when she saw Lina and Crysta joining them as well. It was almost as though everyone knew where they were going and that there was nothing that could talk her out of it.

Just then, a thought crossed her mind that made her feel more like a fool than she would have liked. Her adoptive mother stood at the gates with her arms crossed across her chest, ‘Of course, she could sense it the moment I decided to go after Kyle.’

“I didn’t think you had a rebellious side to you, Katie. But then again, there is a first time for everything,” the woman said to her, stopping the group in their tracks.

“There is nothing rebellious about it. I just have to get the boy out of there...” Katie paused. Not everyone around knew the reason why she needed to get Kyle away from the rogues.

“Oh, and why is the boy’s survival so important to you? And before we go any further, you are talking about Kyle, right?” the woman asked.

“WHAT?” Caden was the first to react to this question. Katie rubbed her temples at the man’s reaction. She’d known it wouldn’t be easy for them to accept Kyle to be the person she was trying to save, but in Caden’s case, she was sure this was a much bigger problem.

“In any case, your uncle went in that direction. I’m guessing he already has him now and bringing him now. That is... if he hasn’t killed him already,” Katie’s adoptive mother spoke up.

“Wait, you sent Uncle Tom after him on his own,” Katie asked.

“He’s far more capable of handling himself than you are in this state,” the woman argued, “Speaking of which, I watched your entire fight with that beta alpha. I was impressed. When did you get faster?”

.....

“Huh... Oh, I’ve been training with Mr Silver. I had to get more agile if I didn’t want to meet one of his arrows,” the girl laughed nervously.

“Katie, if I heard correctly, Mr Tom is going to come back here any second with Kyle or news of Kyle’s death?” Sandra asked.

“So that traitor is the reason we’d come to help you after all?” Caden asked in a more composed tone this time.

“Kyle is not dead yet. So I’m guessing he will be here. If at all they are coming alr...” she was stopped in her tracks when the sound of footsteps reached her ears. In the silence, there was only one thing that assaulted her senses more than the distinct sound of footsteps coming from the outside of the hotel... and it was the rapidly increasing heart rate and murderous intent coming from the beta alpha behind her.

Reaching into her Agility gift as fast as she could, the girl rushed in front of the dashing beta alpha and tripped him before securing his hand behind his back in a restricting lock that had him go still, “Get off me, Katie.”

“Caden, do not forget who you’re speaking to,” Cole intervened. The beta alpha gasped in fear at his alpha’s words.

“I’m sorry, Alpha Cole,” he apologized, “But you know what he did. Why aren’t you as angry as I am right now?”

“Well, if that’s what you think about the boy, then why don’t you ask yourself what we think about him in the first place?” Cole asked him calmly. The footsteps were getting closer... The tension got higher in the air as the new arrivals got closer. Katie released Caden when she noticed he wasn’t seething any longer.

“Is that a welcoming committee I see?” Uncle Tom’s voice cut through the silence.

“Mr Thomas, I don’t think there would be a welcoming committee for a criminal such as me. It might look like one, but it’s only the committee that will see to my execution in the next few seconds,” another voice came and rang through the air. The whole world seemed to go silent when the two of them appeared on the other side of the gates walking side by side as though they were friends.

Katie noticed Kyle wasn’t as thin as he used to be. His yellow eyes were the wrong colour and she was repulsed upon seeing them. Angry growls filled the air all aimed at the same person. Kyle jerked backwards in fear as he only realized just how many wolves had been present at the gate. “Long time no see, Kyle,” Katie spoke up.

The boy scanned through the crowd for the voice and came face to face with the blue-eyed girl that had only greeted him a moment ago. She was, even more, intimidating in person. The bright blue eyes only screamed danger more than she’d been before with dark blue eyes, “I wouldn’t say a long time exactly, but... It’s good to see you’re fine.”

“Explain all this,” Caden ordered Katie. This was the second time the man was being assertive and for some unknown reason, Katie felt like putting him in his place. She’d never had much trouble with someone below her talking to her that way, but now that Caden was doing it, she didn’t like the effect.

“Watch your tone, Caden,” Cole intervened once more, sensing his mate’s battling emotions. Through the mind link, ‘Are you trying to get on her bad side? You know how the werewolf community works and Katie is only new to it?’

‘I’m sorry, Alpha Cole. But look at that thing there... How can we let Ashley’s murderer just walk in here as if he never did anything wrong in the first place? You know what it is to lose a member of your pack... No, you know what it feels like when a member of your pack is murdered. You felt that pain on that day as much as I did... We both found her body mutilated that day. How can you be so calm after all that?’ the man argued with him, turning to her alpha in the process of arguing.

‘And I asked that you be patient before making decisions you’d regret. Who do you think was betrayed the most that night? Katie had lived with this boy for much longer than any of us. She trusted him with everything and yet she isn’t the one overreacting at the moment,’ Cole replied.

“Hey, Kyle, you do know how angry you made people here before you decided to leave us, don’t you?” Katie’s voice interrupted him.

“Yes, I do... I was asking Mr Thomas to kill me while we were still at the base. That would make this all...”

“Don’t make jokes like that, Kyle,” Katie’s voice cut him off dangerously.

“Understood, Alpha Katie,” the boy responded immediately, bowing slightly in submission.

“Huh,” went Tom, “And here I thought you were exaggerating. So it is true then, isn’t it Katie? He told me what happened. That’s the only reason I didn’t kill him.”

Katie sighed at the question, “Fix your eyes already, Kyle,” the girl said to him.

“Huh, how’s that supposed to work? It was you that turned them the colour that they are now. How am I supposed to...” the boy stopped when everyone’s expression turned from angry to shock within seconds, “What... Is there something behind me?”

“Katie, why are his eyes red?” Jason was the first to find his voice.

“Surprise... I would have wanted to kill Kyle as well, but something happened during the battle in Brigadia. When I was trying to keep Kyle from the rogues, he was about to fall off my back. The boy was unconscious at the time. To keep him from falling into their clutches, I caught him... with my teeth,” the girl confessed.

“And from that moment, he was cursed to serve you,” Lina concluded. The girl fearlessly walked forward till she was right in front of him, “He’s been bulking up as well. How did you do the thing with his eyes?”

“I’ve been using him as a spy within the rogues. I ordered him to have his eyes change back to yellow. At the moment, I didn’t know it was a possibility, but my wolf surely seemed to know more about this than I did,” Katie shrugged.

“Amazing...” Lina replied, before letting her shoulders droop, “Although, how are we going to make him pay for his crimes when he’s tied to you?”

“I don’t mind what you do with him. As long as he stays alive anyway, there is nothing that happens to me. To be honest, I would have liked to punish him as well, but there is no hatred in my heart left. I only see someone who will do anything for me. I can’t do anything against him and the same goes for him,” Katie sadly declared, turning around, “Caden, you’re in charge of whatever happens to him.”

“Umm, Katie...”

“You’re ordered to stay alive, Kyle. Is that understood?” to Kyle, she said in a harsh tone.

“Yes, Alpha Katie. U-understood,” he responded with all his confidence drained from him. Sandra could only snicker at the outcome of this meeting.

‘I hadn’t expected an outcome as interesting as this one. Kyle gets to be tortured by everyone that holds a grudge against him with only one condition. The boy is to stay alive by all means. There is nothing off the table as long as it won’t kill him. No doubt the order for him to stay alive is what will let him fight back when something that could kill him is involved... I wonder what I will do. Considering Katie lost all her anger towards him... Perhaps, I should embody her anger for the both of us...’

‘Sandra, honey... Your thoughts are scary sometimes...’ Jason’s voice interfered with her scheming.

‘I didn’t tell you to take a look,’ she chuckled.