Reborn As Cursed Alpha's Mate
Chapter 137: Horrors Left Behind

Chapter 137: Horrors Left Behind

The proximity to his mate mended the broken wolf bond and Siroos’s wolf began to slowly heal. She stayed with him for three days, day and night.

Taking care of him, keeping his scales and body cleaned, covering him at night, sleeping safely, tugging away in his arms. His subconscious could feel all of her care, healing his broken heart and his wounded spirit animals, especially his wolf.

Her frantic cry was what finally stirred him awake. His name he heard being called in a horrified voice. His dragon opened his eyes when the mate bond painfully squirmed inside his chest, revealing that she needed him.

The dragon awakened and raised its head abruptly. There was this strange feeling surrounding him, like an unknown fear trying to creep up on him but he was surrounded by this violet halo which kept it away from him.

Spreading its wings, the dragon let out a maddening roar and the tent around him fell over. His frantic eyes took in the sight, which momentarily stopped his heart.

Cassandra was disappearing in what seemed like a portal, her mouth and body bound in thick white-silverish threads with a bright fire burning inside them.

Her desperate eyes found him and the portal closed before he could get to her. Siroos let out a desperate wounded howl and flew towards the spot where he had seen his mate disappearing, but there was nothing now.

Only the silence of the night and the chirping of the few crickets. There was a strange mist which was rapidly disappearing.

His roar and Ara’s mind link before her heart was pulled had alerted the warriors. They gathered around the place as Siroos shifted into his human self. Frenziedly he shouted at his warriors. His mind was numb and he thought he was hallucinating.

"Where were all of you? We have an intruder. Tighten the patrols, look for any enemy that might linger," Siroos raged at them like a madman. They scurried away, some shifting mid-air, running and taking flight.

Deep down he knew the taker seemed to be a very powerful mage, and using a portal meant he was taking her far away. She was no longer on his land; he couldn’t feel her anywhere near. She was gone.

"Alpha!"

One or two had lingered, throwing worried glances at the ground where the lifeless body of Ara lay.

Siroos mind-linked his brother and Beta. Faris’s mind-link was turned off. He finally focused his eyes downwards to find the horror on the ground.

She lay there with her eyes popped out and mouth open in an agonising scream which had long died. Her chest was all bloodied and her heart lay at some distance.

The rage that consumed Siroos in that instant made flames dance in his gold eyes, melting them and swirling them in an unexplainable frenzy.

Who dared invade his lands and kill an innocent woman while stealing his mate.

He took a step forward and stepped on something; dropping his gaze, he found it to be the pendant Lotus had given Cassandra.

He remembered when he had woken up, there was a halo around him; it meant Cassandra had left it with him. Picking it up, he wrapped it around his arm and shook his head.

Moving ahead, he dropped to his knees near Ara and picked her up in his strong arms. His thoughts went to Faris, knowing he would be devastated seeing her like that.

"Get me a sheet," Siroos’s voice rumbled out. One of the warriors rushed to the fallen tent and brought one of the sheets Cassandra had been using to cover him.

Sirros’s palm gently passed over Ara’s eyes, closing them.

"Rest, Ara. Your journey here is done," he tried to keep his voice steady but his heart bled.

Taking the sheet from the warrior he gently wrapped it around Ara. Carrying her towards their dwelling. Another warrior picked up her heart in another sheet, enclosing it inside it.

Siroos was working with numbed emotions, he needed to stay in control, or he would break again, and this was not the time to break.

He had to be there for his brother now as he had been for him and then he had to get his mate back from whatever corner of the world she had been taken to. He would ensure that the abductor would feel a thousand times the pain he was experiencing.

Ranon came rushing towards him, getting the message through the mind link. His heart dropped in his stomach, seeing Siroos carrying a body wrapped in a white sheet. There wasn’t even a moment to rejoice in his awakening from his unconscious state.

"Take her inside and find Faris. Your Luna has been taken, I need to take a perimeter check. Another attack can happen as we are vulnerable right now. Guard women and kids."

Siroos gently handed over Ara’s body to Ranon, he had to ensure his pack wouldn’t be attacked.

"Alpha!" Ranon acknowledged and took Ara’s body from him. Siroos shifted into his owl form and took flight. He wished to remain discreet and be able to see clearly in the night.

He mind-linked all of his warriors and instructed them to remain vigilant but not panic. That’s what the enemy wanted, to take away their Luna, kill some pack members and create chaos.

No one else had been attacked or injured, no one had even seen anyone.

Some were right outside the Saffron fields, but they saw no one enter; they only heard Cassandra’s shouts.

Siroos tried to mind link Faris again, and this time, he succeeded; last time, he had been unable to reach him, which worried him.

’Where are you?’ Siroos asked him while scanning the lands through his sharp owl eyes.

’Brother!!! You are awake? You won’t believe what happened, I am headed your way.’ Faris’s stressed voice came through the link.

’Go to the dwelling, I will join you there,’ Siroos said, trying not to let his agony affect the connection between him and his brother.

This was going to be a disaster. Siroos took a complete sweep of his lands, keeping his emotions and feelings completely shackled. He wasn’t even trying to think about his mate or he would completely break.