The Alpha's Curse The Enemy Within

Killian's point of view

"What?!"

I heard a series of gasps behind me from Gwen and the warriors. Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.

"Sheila has been abducted," I repeated slowly, my large hand covering the small arrow that was in my palm, almost crushing it.

I felt its sharp pain against my palm, but the pain I felt deep in my chest was far worse. It ruptured through my chest and left my heart in ruins.

My knees crashed against the earth and blood spilled on them as a new wave of fear filled the hole in my chest.

I groaned, just the thought of Sheila's blood being mixed up with one of these terrified me, and it made me lose control. I fought hard not to. The crescent moon was less than three hours away, and I couldn't lose control, otherwise, both my pack and my mate won't make it through the night. But the pain I felt wasn't easy to push away, I wanted to release it. To find the bloody swine that had my mate.

My claws were out as I fought the rage and pain that wanted to consume me, I dug my claws into the earth and released it all in a loud shattering growling that reflected everything I felt at the moment. My pain, my rage, and my desperation to find my mate.

The earth beneath me shook vehemently until my growls were over. What I felt now in my chest was something different. Something deadly. Something dangerous that I didn't mind ripping every fucking

person to shreds just to find my Sheila.

I turned to Gwen. "We have less than three hours to find my mate, and break the curse," I handed her the arrow that had a small drop of Sheila's blood. "Can you locate her with this?"

She nodded, "Yes, this will work, Alpha," she took it from me, hurrying back to the witches' quarters. I made a connection to every member and warrior of the pack, informing them of what had happened. The Pack's army began to gear up, waiting for Sheila's location from Gwen.

I had sent a message to Morgan and Lorenzo through the witches at the quarters, and also to Valerie and the witches who weren't in the pack, informing them of Sheila's abduction.

"What are the results? Do you know where she is?" I asked Gwen as she stepped out from the witch's spell room.

She shook her head and my heart shattered the more. "We couldn't locate her through the spells."

"What?"

"I did the location spell using her blood over and over again but the results are the same, we can't find her, whoever has her, has cloaked her. Unfortunately, we can't find her using magic," Gwen explained.

I grabbed a handful of my hair roughly, this can't be happening. This can't possibly be happening. Where are you, Sheila?

I began to rack through my thoughts, thinking of who could have gotten into my pack with the help of

witches and taken Sheila. I couldn't think of anyone who could go to the extreme, involving witches to abduct my mate, and at the same time, I could think of so many people who would do anything just so to harm me by harming my mate.

"Killian," I pulled from my thoughts, hearing Mason's voice. I turned to him. "What if it was those imbeciles that took her again?"

Mason didn't mention names but I knew exactly who he was talking about. Those bloody Blacks. I had thought about them as well. They were the first to graze my mind. But what I saw yesterday between Kaiser and Sheila, lessened my suspicion of them. The look in the idiot's eyes somehow made me believe he wouldn't hurt Sheila.

Even if they were to take Sheila, they wouldn't involve fucking witches and made use of an arrow.

I shook my head, I was about to counter his words but Mason spoke again in a hurry.

"Think about it, they had kidnapped her once. What would stop them from doing it again?" He added, but I was still not buying that. Someone else had kidnapped Sheila. From the looks of things, Sheila had gone to the mountains alone. Had she known those witches were going to be there? Did she get some kind of message? If so why didn't she tell anyone about it? Or—

Mason interrupted my train of thought with his words that made me stop. “Killian, those assholes could be hurting the Luna right now, what if she resisted and didn't want to go with them, and so they brought the witches to take her by force or to kill her?"

My eyes met that of Mason's as he kept insisting the Black Blood Pack could be responsible for this. But his words could be true, what if Sheila didn't want to see Kaiser anymore and that scoundrel got

enraged and took her away with force? The Black Blood Pack did have witches at their disposal. Hell, their mother and sister were witches as well. That could have been possible.

I mind-linked the warriors, we were raiding the Black Blood Pack again. I couldn't dismiss the smallest possibility that she could be there. Deep down I hoped she was there. Because if she isn't, I didn't know what I'd do. I was already going insane, and the Pack's life was on the line.

The Pack's army and I left the pack and headed for the Black Blood Pack. The sun up in the sky had begun to glow less, and dusk was slowly making its arrival known. We were in a fucking race against time.

***

We reached the Black Blood Pack, fighting off the warriors at the borders as we forced our way into the territory, scattering around the pack in search of my mate. Every one of the warriors had a whiff of Sheila's divine scent, it would make the search easier.

Before we even reached the castle, Leonardo had already been informed of our intrusion as warriors from his pack attacked mine on sight.

But I escaped from the fight, racing towards the castle, I wanted to see the faces of those bastards when I ask them about Sheila's whereabouts. I was racing, not in my wolf form, but in my human form, making the most use of my wolf's abilities. Almost all of my warriors were in their human forms. Because of the crescent moon's arrival that was almost upon us, our wolves were experiencing the effect of the curse, and we couldn't shift into our forms.

I was racing past the woods, Leonardo's castle was already coming into view when I felt a familiar

presence behind me, moving insanely, trying to catch up with me.

I snapped my head in its direction, and my dark eyes collided with a pair of blackened emerald green. Morgan. I didn't think they would make it back this soon.

But there was no time to spare to chat, Sheila's life was in danger, and so were ours. In shorts, none of us were in our fucking minds.

We burst out of the woods, and the castle was a near distance away but from nowhere a sharp breeze tickled around me and I saw a speeding blur of Kaiser's figure rush to me, but Morgan crashed against him and they began to fight.

I mind-linked Morgan, "We need to find out where Sheila is from that asshole, he's our best shot, try not to murder him, and—" I didn't see that blow that was already sent my way, making me lose balance.

Another one was sent my way but instead, I lunged at my attacker, Leonardo and we began fighting as well. I could hear the loud growls of some of my warriors, fighting against Leonardo's army when all of a sudden, everyone was ripped off away from each other by a magical force.

I was panting hard, rage rushing within me as I battled for control.

"Seriously?!" I heard Valerie's sharp voice, sounding angry and at the same time fearful. Next to her was Lorenzo, and behind was Gwen.

It was nice to have her back, but this wasn't the time to play the peacemaker. Sheila's life was on the

line.

"It's about time you showed up, Val, what the fuck is going on?" Leonardo growled, I could see his eyes briefly scanning around the witches and my warriors. Who the hell is he searching for?

"Don't play dumb, where is she?" I growled, charging forward at him.

Leonardo stared blankly at me, his spotless blue eyes shifted from me to Valerie, and then returned to me. "What the fuck are you saying?" He sounded, his voice holding no emotion but his eyes couldn't mask the fear that pushed forward.

Kaiser was next to Leonardo, immediately. "What are you saying?" He repeated Leonardo's words, showing the same fear.

"We know you have her, don't make this more complicated, it won't end well for any of us, just return her to us!" Morgan was growling, and the confused looks of both Leonardo and Kaiser told me they had no idea of what we were saying.

"They don't have her," Valerie muttered from where she was, and I couldn't even fight her words. They were the obvious truth.

"Her?" Kaiser turned to Valerie, his loud beating heart almost deafening every one of us. "Who's her? Who the fuck is missing, Valerie?" His hazel gaze never moved from Valerie, and she didn't pull away.

"I am sorry," she said quietly.

"Fuck. Fuck," Leonardo took several steps back, grabbing his hair as if suddenly understanding what

was going on. "Where is Sheila?" He asked so calmly but one could feel the fear, the pain, the rage, and everything in between radiating off him.

I couldn't utter a word; their sudden reaction was confusing me. I understand that Kaiser might have something with Sheila, but what the fuck was Leonardo's deal. Why did he care so much? Too much.

"She's missing," Valerie sounded.

"No. She was abducted," I rephrased, watching both Leonardo's and Kaiser's instant reaction. I could swear they were a second away from losing it.

"You promised she would be safe. Where the fuck were you when she was abducted?" He charged toward Valerie but I blocked him from reaching her.

"You don't have any fucking right to ask any questions," I was sick of the way they were acting like they had some kind of right on my mate. It was infuriating.

"They do, Killian," Valerie voiced behind me, and her words forced my gaze on her. "Because they are her brothers."