Overconfident

"Do you want to leave?" Luigi asked after several minutes of me crying. He is still holding the masquerade that he was wearing earlier, he used it to cover my tears flowing out of my eyes.

I nodded, starting to sob because of crying. Other wolves noticed us, too. Or probably, they did notice the Beta because of his exposed face. I could sense the tons of attention drifted towards us, which made me uncomfortable. The tears rolling out of my eyes only worsen the attention drifted towards us. Gladly, the masquerade that Luigi is holding in front of my face somehow made it not so obvious.

We walked away from the crowd with him still holding the masquerade and guiding me with his hand enveloping on my shoulder. I wasn't sure where we are heading because of my blurry vision from the tears flowing out of my eyes. I am not also familiar with the place, I only followed him and trusted him for that matter. All I could think is to get away from this event and from the crowd.

He stopped when we have set the distanced away from the crowd. He removed the covering of the masquerade in my face. I looked at him, trying to smile despite of the countless tears dripping in my both eyes. He just stared at me with tenderness and care, he is trying to figure out why am I crying...and I bet that he probably arrived at some conclusion based on the happenings earlier.

I looked around as I tried to wipe the tears, hoping that it would somehow slow down for a bit. We are probably at the back of their castle as I could still see their castle and can still hear some faint sound of music playing in front of their territory. The place where we stayed for a while as it looks like some garden with various planted flowers and some sculptured statue. We sat at one of the elegant bench in this place as I tried to stop my tears from flowing.

He sat quietly and waited for me to calm down.

"I'm sorry..." I said when I was finally able to stop the tears dripping.

He looked at me with some sort of gentleness, he tried to smile and asked, "do you like my brother?"

He does not sound curious or gathering information, he sounds like he was a bit hurt or I don't know. I wasn't sure why would he feel that, probably hurt for the fact that I am so pathetic for liking someone who is already bound to marry my own sister. I can only guess, but I could really say that he is pitying me for seeing vulnerable like this.

He wiped the remaining tears from my cheeks with his fingers.

"I am pitiful, aren't I?" I smiled bitterly while looking around.

I saw in my peripheral vision that he shook his head, "we all crave for something we couldn't have..." He sentimentally said. I am amazed with this side of him, the serious one. I thought that he could only be that man who is always smile and threw some jokes. I guess, we all have sides that were never seen by others.

I chuckled and patted his back, trying to lift up the mood between us. The last thing that I want is to be sentimental in front of him. The fact that I only knew him for a few days made me embarrassed for the fact that he saw me getting so emotional about some absurd thing.

"Invaders..." He immediately stood up and looked in front of their castle where the crowd is spending the rest of the night.

I gasped out of shock. Luigi looked very serious, as if he is trying to sense the presence of other wolves. I can only look at him, I cannot sense something like invaders. I can only heard the music coming from the event, I cannot hear other than that.

I jumped out of nervousness when I finally heard some growl and scream. Luigi extended his arm, like he's protecting me from something.

"Stay here..."He said before leaving and heading towards the front of the castle.

Darren's POV

"Enemies are heading towards the castle..." My brother whispered when he found me out of the crowd. He looked alarmed which made me worry for the other wolves.

I immediately ran with my brother towards the gate that is separating the castle from the rest of the land.

"How many?" I asked my brother as we ran towards our position.

"Probably, twenty or more men, divided into three groups..." I nodded an immediately shifted into my wolf form.

When we arrived at the towering gate that protects the entire castle of the family of leaders, my brother and I decided to separate in different directions. Some of the guards of the leaders are already positioned in different places all around the castle, they are already on their guards and in a high alert, waiting for the enemies to arrive.

At my position, four wolves are headed with bare hands. They have no weapons in their sleeves. I can smell that they are from the pack of wolves found in the west, probably they did anticipate for this event before attacking our pack.

One of them immediately run towards me with an incredible speed, he was able to land a hit in my arm that I used to dodge his attack when it is about to hit my face. I quickly went for a hook in an opening in his offense, but he was able to dodge it easily. Two of the others also decided to attack me simultaneously.

"What do you want?" I said as I landed a hit in one of them attacking in my left side.

"Your Alpha's dead body..." The one standing at the back said. He is carelessly standing there and letting the others to take care of me.

Being overconfident, that would be his weakness. This night is going to be long…