Mated To My Best Friend's Lycan Alpha Brothers-Chapter 126: Shut Up, You Rat

(Author’s POV)

Deep into the night, when the sky had turned completely dark, a sudden knock disrupted Lucius’s precious sleep. Feeling agitated, he grumbled in his sleep, "Who is it? Its better be important or you are a dead wolf tonight."

Hanson entered his room, his face etched with sheer panic and horror. With a terrified voice, he conveyed, "Alpha Lucius, we have got a big problem."

Lucius waited for him to speak, his mood had already soured. Hanson continued, "The prisoner, Alpha Keith’s son, he~, he~ has~"

"He~ what Gilbert? Stop fucking stammering or I will finish you right now," Lucius was pissed at his fumbling.

"Alpha Keith’s son has escaped, Alpha Lucius." Hanson’s voice was shivering as he lowered his head in shame.

Lucius, who was acting lazy until now, frowned and got up at once, "He escaped? How? And, what are you doing here? Playing chess? Don’t waste time and go catch him this instant."

"Delta Hayden is on the move. He is tracking him down already," Hanson replied with a slight tremble.

After much thinking, Lucius asked, "Is Keith Snow still waiting for me? Or is he gone? Has this news reached him yet?"

"He has not left the pack house. I have not let this news leak." Hanson told him.

"Stop him from leaving the pack house. Tell him, I will meet him right now." Lucius ordered and Hanson complied with his words, "On it."

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Lucius went to the throne room where Keith, Hanson and Owen were already waiting for him. As he entered the room, his Beta and Gamma were bowing their heads to him. Keith remained seated arrogantly. He took his throne which was placed in the middle of the room and Keith spoke, "Alpha Lucius, I want to meet my son right now." His voice was filled with exhaustion.

Lucius tried to observe him for a few seconds before replying leisurely, "There are no family visitations for criminals, Alpha Keith. Being an Alpha, you should know that better."

"Lucius Everests, tell me what you want in exchange. I will give you anything." Keith was desperate. "Caiten is my son; I will punish him with my pack rules."

Owen mind linked Lucius in the middle of the conversation, "Alpha, we have tracked down Caiten Snow’s location. He was seen going inside the abandoned forest near the pack hospital."

"Ohhh~, okay. I will grant your wish, but~ you will have to come with me first, Alpha Keith," after listening to Owen words, Lucius offered

Keith asked with suspicion, "Where do you want to take me?" His eyes narrowed.

"Somewhere fun. Don’t worry, I won’t do anything to you. After all, you are a respected Alpha. I can’t bear that risk. Come." Lucius didn’t bother explaining and he, Keith and Hanson drove off to the pack hospital. Owen remained behind for any emergency.

Sara was sitting beside Bella and talking to her. Her face was a bit pale because she was exhausted from all that lack of sleep. Noah didn’t leave her side the whole day, while Nathan has returned to Blue Mountain pack for some business. He was on his way back to the Moon Shine Pack.

As they were talking, Noah sensed an oddly scent, the scent of blood. As it was a hospital, sensing bloody scent was a common occurrence but this scent was familiar and unique, it belonged to Caiten Snow. He sniffed the air once more to confirm whether it was an illusion or real.

Sara looked at him and asked, "What happened, Noah? Is something up?"

"Nothing much. I will just be back in a minute." He excused himself. He didn’t want to stress Sara anymore. She was already dealing with a lot.

Noah was able to smell Caiten’s scent although Caiten wasn’t anywhere near them. This was one of his Lycan ability and that’s why Sara couldn’t smell anything weird despite being of Alpha blood herself.

He got out of the building and saw a lot of pack warriors stationed outside the hospital. He followed the scent and when he reached the entrance of the abandoned forest Arth warned him, "This surely is Caiten Snow’s blood odor. Wasn’t he locked up on Alpha’s orders? What is he even doing here?"

"He must have escaped, that’s why there are all these guards stationed here. They must be searching for him," saying this he went inside the forest, but with caution.

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Caiten was hiding somewhere inside the forest wearing a warrior’s uniform, which he has snatched while having a confrontation with a warrior. Hanson told him to escape when the guards were changing shifts. He even provided a small pin, so that Caiten could unlock himself from the silver made shackles.

Although, he had escaped with Hanson’s help, his condition was not quite good. Although, He wasn’t bleeding like before and most of his injuries were almost healed, the wounds caused by silver chains were pestering him. It was burning his skin. But what hurt him more were not these wounds but the humiliation he suffered and how Sara treated him like scumbag. He was livid beyond measures and wanted nothing but revenge on Noah.

Hanson has told him how he could get out of the Moon Shine’s territory. The plan was that Hanson and Keith will keep Lucius busy and engaged so that, he could not get tracked down easily and can escape through the forest where Half Shade Lunar’s Beta was waiting for him.

But when Hanson left him, in his mind he had already decided to finish what he had started. He was thirsty for Noah’s blood. He was lurking around the hospital for a chance and luckily, Noah had just fallen straight into his hands.

Noah went deep inside the forest with the help of his wolf, Arth. The scent of Caiten’s blood was all over the place, like someone has intentionally spread and rubbed that smell. At one point, Arth couldn’t quite pinpoint the exact way to go. The scent was too strong and overwhelming.

He stopped midway and observed his surroundings. The sky was dark and he could hardly see anything inside the forest because of the lack of light source. It was a new moon night.

Soon, he heard the sound of fallen leaves getting crushed as someone was approaching him. The overpowering fragrance of blood hit Noah’s nostrils and he instantly knew who the person was.

"Trying to be brave, ahh? Is that the reason she chose you over me? But you are just plain dumb, aren’t you?" Caiten’s groaning voice erupted behind Noah.

He turned around and squinted his eyes to see Caiten, his face was colorless. "What are you trying to do, Caiten Snow? You know, you have messed this up on your own. "

"SHUT UP, YOU RAT. You have ruined everything. The years of hard work I have put to earn Sara’s trust and friendship, our bond, you fucking ruined everything, you filthy weakling. Tonight, you will be a dead person." Caiten was enraged.

"I am no weakling, you are. And let me tell you something straight, if you were trying to escape, you should have just done that and not linger around here. Now you have no chance to be free again and Sara will hate you even more." Noah was provoking him.

"I SAID SHUT UP, you rotten asshole," Caiten ran towards Noah, with a metal rod which he was hiding behind his back.

Noah dodged him and Caiten stumbled but somehow maintained his balance. "Don’t try to humiliate yourself even more, Caiten. You should receive your punishment quietly and call it quits."

Caiten wasn’t in the right state of mind. He was bloodthirsty and wanted nothing but to kill Noah tonight. He lunged at him and launched a punch but Noah caught his hand. "You are the one who asked for it."

Noah threw him as Caiten’s back hit the ground. He groaned loudly in pain as his wounds opened again. But he somehow got up and mumbled, "You dare to hit me, you weak ass wolf less shit." He tried to strike Noah again but the latter was fast and agile, not giving him any chance.

They were busy fighting like that for quite a while. Caiten was striking and Noah was mostly dodging and only hitting him when necessary. By now, Caiten was getting exhausted and he was about to pass out.

That’s when a manly and familiar voice reached both of them, "What are you doing here?"

They both turned their heads to the side and looked at the daunting figure of Nathan. He had just arrived at the hospital when he sensed a faint scent of blood. He could tell it was Caiten, so he trailed the odor.

When he reached and saw Noah fighting a bloodied figure of Caiten, he was stunned. His eyes narrowed immediately.

Seeing Noah getting distracted, Caiten pounced at him and smacked him with the rod on his head. Nathan roared, "NOAH~ Careful."

To Be Continued . . . . . . .