The Alpha's Curse The Enemy Within

Killian's point of view

"What nonsense are you saying, Valerie?" Those were the first words that managed to fill the air after

odd and incredibly long seconds of silence.

"It's not nonsense, Killian, it's the truth. Sheila, your mate and the gifted one is Leonardo and Kaiser's

sister," Valerie again voiced.

"What the heck are you doing, Valerie?" Kaiser gaited forward in rage.

"Shut it," I growled, silencing everyone, my deep, and now darkened eyes moved from Valerie to

Leonardo who hasn't muttered a fucking word, or moved an inch.

His cautious blue eyes were on me, regarding me like a damned hawk. This couldn't be. I released a

small, dry chuckle that lasted for only a second. "This- This is a joke," I shook my head, taking several

steps backward.

I turned to Morgan and for the first time, he was completely frozen in his spot. He was speechless and

confused. I don't think he realized this was just a lie. A brazen and unrealistic lie. Sheila couldn't be

their sister, she couldn't be a fucking Black.

Fuck. As the words sounded in my mind, I realized how terrible it was. All of a sudden, I couldn't

breathe, I didn't know how to, or rather still, I didn't want to. Valerie's words were outrageous. Sheila

shouldn't be that child, she just can't be that child.

"What bloody games are you playing, Valerie? Did they put you up to this?" I growled at her, and in a

flash, I was in front of her, wrapping my claws around her neck. Lorenzo moved to rip me off her but

she pulled a hand in the air, forbidding anyone from interrupting us.

"No one put me up to anything, understand, Killian and accept the truth, Sheila is that child your father

destroyed her entire family and forcibly took away. After many years, we just found her—"

"Enough!" I stopped her from saying any further, jerking my hands from her body as my body began to

vibrate from the darkest kind of rage, unable to believe what these assholes called the truth. "There's a

mistake somewhere. Sheila's family were all dead, she told me herself," I recalled her words, over and

over again.

"Gracious hell! What do you think of my brother and I, Killian, that we have spare time on our hands to

come up with ridiculous nonsense, just so to sabotage your already fucked up life?" Kaiser yelled

furiously from afar. It was more like a comment to himself, but everyone could hear it. I could feel the

air prickled with tension, and a murderous rage bouncing off from everyone.

"And that was a lie. What did you expect her to tell you? Think about it, Killian, didn't she tell you there

was something she wanted to let you know after the curse was broken? Well, this is it."

I froze, still trying to refute it all. This couldn't be what Sheila had to tell me. Then a thought jumped in.

"Sheila wasn't a witch, she didn't smell like one."

"Who do you think caused the blood moon that night? Who do you think is responsible for saving Ria,

Allen, and the warriors?" Valerie threw the questions at me.

"I knew it," I heard Morgan mumble to himself as he paced around in circles.

I couldn't believe that Sheila did all of this. "Still, this doesn't make sense, if Sheila, my mate, was the

one that was taken by my father, how on earth did she end up with Lucius?"

"We do not know that, Killian," Valerie muttered. "Killian, believe me, this is the truth and deep down,

you know it."

I pulled my eyes away from Valerie's purple stones, sauntering to the woods where I crashed against a

tree. I just had to think clearly. I didn't want to believe any of this, but I couldn't deny the fact that some

of it were true. Sheila had something to tell me. Was this it?

Oh, goddess! I buried my face in my palm. Was this why she always defended those bastards?

More than ever, I wished I could hear Ryker, he was much more capable of making sense of all of this.

I just couldn't deal with this now. I wouldn't believe any of this until she says it to my face. I had to find

Sheila.

"Listen, I wish we had all the time for this, but we don't. Sheila has been taken," Valerie said, turning in

my direction.

"Brother, I told you, our sister wasn't safe there," Kaiser began as I pulled myself off the tree.

"How did that happen?" Leonardo spoke, anger chewing off his words.

"We don't know, but the place she was taken from was a bloody mess before we got there, and it

seems whoever came for her were witches," Gwen said, standing behind Valerie. I can't believe

everyone knew who Sheila was and I didn't. She didn't trust me enough to tell me.

I couldn't deny it, it hurt me. But now wasn't the time to think about it. I had to find whoever dared to

take her away from my territory.

"Bloody fuck, could they have found out who she was?" Leonardo said, holding Valerie's stare. I didn't

need to ask who ‘they’ meant. If Sheila was truly who 'they' claimed she was, then 'they' could only

mean the Dark Circle.

"They? By ‘they’, who do you mean?" Morgan asked.

"Why the fuck is he still here?" Kaiser bellowed.

"Utter one damned word again, and I swear I would fucking kill you," Morgan retorted.

"That's enough!" Leonardo yelled, silencing them both. "Tell us, is the Dark Circle behind this?"

"This isn't the Dark Circle style, believe me, if they had known who Sheila was, they wouldn't send

incompetent witches to take Sheila silently, without causing a ruckus at my pack," I said.

"Great. Says the son of the bastard that once took her away," Kai said. His words caused Morgan to

hiss angrily, and he charged at Kaiser. Before things got worse than they did, Lorenzo and I pulled

them apart.

Valerie sighed, before continuing. "Killian is right. This isn't the Dark Circle’s doing, but I'm afraid it's

equally worse," came Valerie's words.

"Tell us, who has her?" Morgan was next to me as our eyes leveled on Valerie.

"It's Alpha Lucius," Valerie said. "I was told by Ria that Sheila received a letter and a box from Alpha

Lucius, right before she went to the mountains. We couldn't find the box and the letter, and we can't

track her using any spell. I believe they had her cloaked."

"Oh goddess, he must have found out she regained her memories," Leonardo spoke in a low tone, as

pain tore through his blue eyes which for the first time I realized looked like Sheila's. To be frank, they

both shared certain similarities and it spiked my anger.

"Are we sure it's Lucius, it could be that fucking witch who wants Sheila dead just so to get to that

bastard," Kai pointed out, confusing me? What witch?

"What do you mean by that?" Morgan spoke quickly, but Kaiser only rolled his eyes.

"The witch sent a message to them. She has no idea of the relationship between them. She thought

they had kidnapped her on the night of the blood moon, and wanted some sort of alliance," Valerie

said, "I tried sending a message back to her, but she never replied."

"This isn't the time to cast blames. Sheila is in danger and the crescent moon is less than an hour

away, we need to plan carefully and find Sheila before Lucius does something to her," Valerie said,

"There's nothing to plan, that fucking bastard is going to regret taking her," I hit out in rage, walking

away from them.

Leonardo blocked me, grabbing my arm. His eyes flashed blue fire. "There's no way in hell, will I allow

you to endanger my sister's life. Lucius isn't as stupid as you think. He had Sheila all these years,

knowing who she was. He would be expecting us, and we must play smarter," he said, and I hated his

damn tone.

I pushed away his hand from me. "Firstly, you don't grab me, and secondly, there's no fucking 'we'."

He shut his eyes as if trying to fight his anger. "I swear, what in the devil's sick name was the goddess

thinking of giving my sister someone like you? You clearly don't deserve her."

I clenched my jaw, sharpening my claws and diving them into Leonardo's heart. And with great

pleasure I pulled out the tiny organ keeping his life together, tossing it on the rugged earth.

Believe me, I wanted that so badly but something told me that was a bad idea and Sheila would kill me

for that.

"Leonardo is right, we still have no idea why or how Lucius ended up with Sheila. He is dangerous and

knew what he was doing when he bound Sheila's powers and locked her memories."

My eyes were closed as I listened to Valerie's words. It hurt me to the bones, knowing all those

nightmares of hers were about Nell. I remember her telling me about them, and her life back at Lucius

Pack. I couldn't make Nell pay for what he had done to her, but I would ensure Lucius did. I had begun

to think of many ways of ending him.

I mind-linked the pack's army, ordering them to stand back and Leonardo called off his men as well.

I can't believe we were going to work together. If the goddess had told me this day would come, I would

have clawed out her words. And I wanted to, but right now, Sheila's life was more important than my

rage and hate.

All four of us, including Valerie, Lorenzo, and Gwen began to plan our raid in Lucius' pack. And after

many disagreements, we decided to lead our armies separately, from the north and south borders of

the silver mist pack.

I informed my warriors of the new plan and we went back to my territory to gather more warriors

Valerie, Lorenzo and Gwen had to inform the witches of the new plan.

The crescent moon rising was less than thirty minutes away, and there was no fucking way we could

save my mate, fight against Lucius' army and get back to the pack in time to break the curse.

I sighed, going over the plan with Morgan. I didn't inform the rest of my army about Sheila's supposed

identity, not even Allen and Mason.

My eyes fell into Morgan's green crystals. He had a lot to say. We both did. But none of us were saying

anything, at least not until we saved Sheila and broke this curse. Everyone's life was on the line.

Oh, goddess. I hope everything goes as planned tonight. I just hope.