SORA

I want to run, I want to run with Kane. I feel it in my body that's what we need to do, my wolf's muscles feel like my own and I feel... powerful. My instinct as a wolf is kicking in and I stare at Kane for any sign that he feels the same.

"Come, little mate, try and catch me." He says as I see his wolf smirk.

Kane bolts into the forest as my wolf as I get excited from the sudden playfulness of our mate.

"We catch mate and show him how fast and strong mate is!" Kaya says and I laugh.

I feel my paws as I begin to run off into a sprint, following Kane's scent through the trees. His scent is so powerful to me now, strong and heavenly, I could sniff him out anywhere in the world and it would lead me right back to him.

Right back to our mate.

I finally sniff him out after following his scent and it's the lake he led me to, the first week I arrived here. His scent is here but I don't see him.

"Mate is close.." Kaya whispers and we both get giddy.

Quietly prowling around the trees and keeping my ears and eyes on alert for any sound, I glance around from tree to tree until...

I see him.

He isn't in wolf form and he is staring down at something. Getting closer to him as by now he knows I am here from my smell and from the sound of my paws crunching on leaves.

"Kane?" I say through mind-link.

He turns and I see the look in his face, anguish... pain.. loss... pain and incredibly deadly.

"Sora..." he says my name but all I feel is his sadness.

"Kaya help me shift back." I quickly yell out.

Something isn't right.

I feel my body begin to shift and bend as I feel a shockwave of pain through my body, it lasted a painful full second then it was gone. I could feel the cold, I could clench my hand and wiggle my toes.

I'm also naked.

I get up to go near Kane but his red eyes pierce through me when he turns to look at me.

"I'm so sorry, I... I'm so sorry baby, shit I didn't want you to see this." Kane mumbles to himself as I make it to him.

And that's when I see it.

A dead body.

It's Lex.

Lex's dead body lay pale in a sea of his blood and a chunk of his neck is missing. A wolf had done this.

Someone had murdered my friend, someone I looked at like a big brother and now he is gone.

I don't realize I'm crying until I feel Kane's touch, hugging and whispering everything will be alright.

"How... how... I... I don't understand how.."

Kane hugs me tightly as he strokes my hair as kisses my forehead. "How? HOW?" I shove Kane off me as I glare at him.

He looks at me with sad red eyes and exhales. "Someone must've snuck in, lured him here during his shift then.. killed him." He goes to touch me but I move towards Lex.

I can't believe this is happening, I saw him the other day, we spoke.. we laughed, I was going to ask him to be the godfather of my child.

Oh God Lex, who did this to you?

I kneel in front of him and I touch his hand. He's so cold, someone had killed him and left him here in his own blood.

Why?

"Baby please, you need to step away from the body-"

I snap. "It's Lex! He's not a body or a thing, he was like family to me!" I yell out as tears spill from my eyes.

Kane stands behind me and puts his large hand on my shoulder. "I will find out who did this." He promises me.

I swallow hard. I feel a burning rage, urging me to say what I'm thinking, scream it to Kane, 'I want to be the one to kill them." I want to make them pay for what they did.

I hear noise in the distance and see a pack of wolves, from our pack, approach us. Kane wraps one of his large plaid shirts around my body as I wipe my eyes the best I could.

"Kane." Lucas says softly as he transforms from his wolf. "We got some... evidence Lex was communicating with the enemy." He says as he glances at me with guilt than at Kane.

"What?" I say frustrated. "Lucas that's impossible, he wouldn't do that!" I say as I glare at him.

I turn to Kane. "Did you do this?" I whisper, afraid to lose control any further.

He looks horrified at me. "Of course fucking not, I've been with you all day." He points out and I feel guilty for even assuming.

"Sora, I know he was a friend, but even the closest ones are dangerous." Lucas says and I nod, emotionless.

I look towards Lex as I feel a heavy tug in my chest. "We need to m-move him and bury him." I say, not recognizing my own voice anymore.

Kane and Lucas look at each other and I can tell they are mind linking, debating whether or not they should.

"If you won't I will do it myself!" I say as I begin to stand up.

Kane sighs heavily. "Sora."

"I will bury him." Lucas says as he nods to the other pack warriors behind him. "He died protecting our queen, he deserves a burial."

I look at Lucas confused. "What do you mean he died for me?"

Kane rubs his forehead and Lucas looks conflicted whether to speak or not.

"He was ordered to kill you, failed to do so and it resulted in this." Kane says angrily. "There's proof he hidden under his floorboards in his home, battle plans, your movements, everything Sora!" He snarls, his eyes blazing.

"I don't give a fuck if he grew a heart at the end, I would have ripped it out if I ever fucking knew he put you in danger, he wanted to hurt you and our unborn Sora! And you want to bury him!" He roars out as he frustratingly punches a large tree, causing the tree to shake and snap in two.

"He will be buried but you are not to be present, that's a fucking order dammit." He says in his Alpha tone.

I stand frozen, my mouth open in shock as I stare at him.

He can't be serious.

"If you love me Kane, I'd shut the hell up." I finally snap at him frustrated and he stands frozen as Lucas looks at us uncomfortably.

"If you don't want to be here then leave! I'm burying my friend Kane, try and stop me and it will be the last thing you do!" I say as I growl showing my canines angrily at him.

I walk away from him as Lucas follows awkwardly behind me.

I don't see Kane's face but I know he looked hurt when I snapped at him. Following Lucas to grab some shovels to dig a grave with him and the others who came with Lucas.

I don't see Kane but I feel him behind me as we begin to dig, I have a shirt and shorts on, as one of the pack members came with a bag of clothes.

Kane must've called for them.

I can't believe I snapped at him. My wolf kaya pines for him and howls for his touch, especially when we are feeling so emotionally torn right now.

I didn't care if Lex did work with Orion, I'm sure he had his reasons to survive to work with them, what is important is that he never wanted to hurt me, I know that to be true, he didn't deserve, not like this.

Kane finds me weak for having empathy for people, all he sees is the bad in people.. for so long he has thought like this, his reaction did not surprise me, he has fought me on every disagreement.

As I and the pack begin to shape the hole I feel Kane beside me as he digs with a shovel next to me. I stare at him confused as he focuses on shoveling the mud from the ground like a professional digger. His shirt is off and his muscles are glistening under the sun.

"Thank you." I whisper out gently to him, he nods but doesn't look at me as I grip my shovel and begin to dig along with everyone else in silence. The sound of clinking shovels hitting the hard ground is the only sound heard around me.

This has to end, I know we all thought it as we dug a grave for a fallen friend, a pack member, someone we laughed and joked with. This was had to end, in fear more lives will end up just like Lex's, doing what he must to survive even if it resulted in his death.

One thing was imminent to us.

Braum and Orion had to face what they had done, Lex is just one of many who have died this month, millions upon millions.

And for what? A title? Bullshit.

Every single one of them must be punished.

They all must pay for what they have done.

I will make sure of it.