Chapter 127
[ALPHA DOMINIC’s Point of View]
My head felt like it was splitting in half.
Every time I closed my eyes, I could see my mother’s smiling face. And then the surroundings suddenly got dark. Shadows around her gathered and grabbed her violently, dragging her underneath the ground as she screamed in terror.
She was screaming for help. She was screaming my name.
I felt like dying. Dying from the inside and the outside. My wife prepared breakfast for me this morning and I felt awful that I couldn’t even touch it, let alone swallow it down my throat. My stomach had been feeling sick and I didn’t know if I could still recover from it. The nightmares, the guilt, the screams in my head—I was trying my best not to break in front of everyone. Especially not in front of Samantha. She was already devastated after she found out what happened to Mom and her, seeing me in agony would only make her feel more miserable than she already was.
While sitting on my swivel chair and staring at the huge window, I couldn’t help but clench my jaw in both rage and pain. I had to be strong. I had to know who did that horrifying thing to my mother and make them pay! I had to focus and make sure I didn’t miss even a small detail of the investigation. I had to know who did this or, goddess forbid, I would wreak havoc on anyone who had any connection to what really happened.
A few light knocks on the door distracted me from my thoughts, and I felt my Beta’s presence on the other side; perturbation filled his head, and I wondered what it was again. Liam had become a little restless since he delivered the terrifying news, and since then, I have hated that everyone couldn’t even look me in the eyes. I resented their perception of me as a wounded creature, unable to rationally process the disturbing things happening in Silver Crescent.
Everyone was questioning my capacity to rule at this level. They think after my failure to handle the Black Claws and losing ten elite Gamma soldiers in the forest, I wasn’t the Alpha they believed could protect them from those criminals.
The worst part was that they blamed my wife for everything. Olivia succeeded in convincing the council and the people that Samantha was responsible for bringing those bastards to destroy the pack. I should have banished her and Richard Bennett from the pack the day they stopped me from taking back Samantha in Silver Crescent. And now it was too late to rectify the situation.
But my eyes were open now to who truly cared for the pack and who didn’t.