The Silent Alpha

***Zane*** 

"Awar killed my son," Sebastian replies, a numbness in his voice as if he had recited these words until they became his truth.

"A war started by the man you now align yourself with."

"Y-you lied...Y-you lied all these y-years!" I say, shaking my head in disbelief.

"Y-you said i-it was Ravenstone!"

Around me, the wolves on either side stare at the old Alpha in shock, unable to comprehend how he could ever harm his own child.

"You will never understand this,"

Sebastian snarls.

"You’ve been kept away from all the war, all the blood, all the death your entire life.You will never understand the sacrifices an Alpha has to make for their pack but I do!"

"H-he was innocent!"

I cry, unable to believe his justification.

"There are no innocents in war!"

Sebastian growls.

"Only blood, be it the blood of your enemies or the blood of your family.War does not know right from wrong, it only knows strength and being strong enough to do what needs to be done and take what is yours!"

"Yy-you’re a monster," I whisper.

"lam not the only monster here,"

Sebastian sneers, his eyes narrowing to slits as he glares at Toran.

"This war began because a mate bond was not honored between my brother and his wife.That man," he snarls, pointing at Toran.

"That man destroyed my family but it was not enough to take my brother," he laughs cruelly.

"No, he went and had my wife killed...He made me feel her death.I felt the pain shattering through me, burning my lungs, my flesh, my soul! I felt her slip away until all that was left was this cold, emptiness.I felt everything that night, but it was not enough for him.No, he then took her from me.He took her and kept her hidden from me all these years, mocking me...He bought her love, no doubt...tricked her into thinking he actually cared for her...But Ravenstones...they are incapable of love."

Beside me, Tylen looks like he might tear Sebastian to shreds but Toran has a satisfied grin on his lips.

"My, my.How little you know, Seba,"

Toran sighs, shifting into his human form.

"But no matter, you will eat your words soon enough,"

Toran teases.

"I love my wife.I have for the past 20 years and despite knowing that it was I who hurt her, Elenore loves me too, freely and willingly.We are not fated, but every day she wakes up, she chooses me, over and over again.She has raised my son and my pack alongside me like a true Luna, and she has never once lived in fear that I may hurt her like you did.In all our years of marriage, the only time I have ever touched her, was because she begged me to.Not once have I ever forced myself upon her, because unlike you, I actually cherish my wife.After what we just witnessed, can you say the same? Did you ever truly love that woman or were you just satisfying your wolf?"

He snarls.

"Elenore was the only good in my life!"

Sebastian snaps.

"And yet, you destroyed her,"

Toran growls.

"But by the grace of my Goddess, she does not know who you are or what you did to her.Moon Goddess gave her a clean slate to start over with and I thank her every day for that because she will never remember that it was you who took her pup, that it was you who broke her son, and that it was you who shattered her heart every day with your cruelty."

"Do not act so righteous, Toran! There is blood on your hands as there is blood on mine!"

Sebastian bellows, trembling with rage.

"We are no different!"

"You are wrong, my dear Seba," Toran replies.

"There is no innocent blood on my hands.I did not kill those children at the daycare.I did not kill my own son for the benefit of war.I did not hurt my own family.AND I DID NOT KILL BRE!"

"LIAR!"

Sebastian screams and I realize he has been fighting this war based on lies and deceit.

"Y-ou don’t know abou-about Bre," I murmur softly, Sebastian’s face hardening.

"Of course I know about Bre.That bastard killed her when he found out she was mated to my brother," Sebastian scoffs.

"And then he killed my brother."

Acruel smile lingers on Toran’s face and with one look, he asks me to show Sebastian the truth of that day.I look around at the Scarlett wolves, their faith in their Alpha already faltering.

Do not pity them, Grayson snaps.

They deserve to know the truth behind the war they have been fighting for almost 30 years.

Closing my eyes and putting down my walls, I let Toran’s memories flood my head, sifting through them until I find the memory of that fateful day.

I open my eyes again, a beam of light flows through my irises,

"Toran! Toran!"

mindlink, Toran running faster until he reaches

"I’m coming!"

the front door and racing inside.His breath hitches when upon entering the cottage, he sees Cyrus towering over Breanna laying on the couch, a bloody dagger

wheezes softly as Cyrus turns to

to

Cyrus chuckles to himself.

spell

to escape by sonic scream, leaving Toran

her, cradling her head and smoothing

on her stomach, a river of

widen in shock and Breanna smiles up at him as a

she coughs out, wiping the blood on

"We're mates."

"Don’t speak,"

in her arms,

the hospital.They'll fix you there, come

"N-No," Breanna protests.

me.Just hold my hand," she says through

"Please.”

they can fix

shaking her head

please let

"I love you, Toran,"

whispers, coughing up

"P-please be strong...without me..."

"Bre-"

his head, Breanna’s eyes slowly

got you," he murmurs, lifting her up so he can sit down and cradle

Bre.It’s going to be okay," he adds, rocking back and forth long

to sleep and in

what seems to be an eternity, holding his mate

streak his cheeks but there is anger in his

Anger and hatred.

"No,"

head in disbelief, disrupting

cannot be! Toran

took

killed, not my envy.He tricked you, he tricked you all into believing Breanna was his mate but it was just a

to

"No, no.He’s lying!"

around at his wolves who stare at their

"My-My father said-"

that man after

you’ve been afraid your son would tarnish your

what was

Sebastian snarls back.

you

Toran snaps.

help you.Face it, White, the only one responsible for your crimes here is you and you will pay dearly for them all!"

of death! I stare at the Scarlett Alpha, the world he created with terror and cruelty crumbling around him.He looks so pathetic as he kneels before the one person he was always

snickers, a challenge in

an Alpha.An Alpha would have killed me without

of my childhood, one by one, showing

mirror in my room, practicing my words to make them perfect, my fingers trembling with every flip of the page of my book.I show him all the times

fingers curl as he feels the sting of the whips and belts on my back from every beating I got for the mistakes I made

to the heir he chose, how Caine pissed himself in fear before he shot himself in the head for hurting my mate.I show him the aftermath as Talia was wheeled into a hospital room and force him to feel the anguish I felt as they fought to bring her back.I show him the fear in Dakota’s eyes as he screamed for his mommy, and

deserve

head as if to remove them from his mind, but I hold him hostage, wanting him to see for

stammers, his eyes flickering as memories flood his every

"Oh Gods!"

, towering over the coward I once feared as he

Ramos and the f-father of our son, Da-Dakota Ramos.I-I am an Alpha with a st-stutter and the b-boy y-you were so ashamed to call a s-son.Y-your blood runs through m-my veins....But I will n-never be like y-you...because I-I am stronger than y-you will

on the floor as I

"S-shut up!"

temples bulging and his face flushing

vivid detail, the memory of him telling my mother that her beloved pup was now dead, never to grow up to be

"M-make it stop!"

his fingers clawing at his own eyes, his nails tearing

way to the surface, and through gritted teeth, snarls at the deplorable Alpha, "Be

Alpha begs, screaming in agony on the

"Did I stutter?"

me back control

not hold back, Grayson

Because he never did.

memories to show Sebastian how much life improved for my mother without him

from her coma and slowly fall in love with

unable to stop the memories of her saying ‘I do’ to another man and

slams his head against the concrete of the dock in hopes of ending his misery, but the memories keep flooding Sebastian’s brain

his forehead, blood spilling from the wound and trickling down his nose and temples but it does not stop him from hitting himself

leading a happy life without Sebastian torment him, revealing to him how truly insignificant his presence was in her