Kane's POV
I'd been keeping my distance from my brothers, making myself busy with pack duties.
Today I'd had been in the training field, monitoring the progress of our new recruits.
"They're promising young warriors" Samuel, our head warrior said.
I grunted in agreement, my mind elsewhere.
I had been spiralling, my wolf had demanded I stay clear of Knox, choosing Callie, Jax and Alfie.
He wanted our mate. It was understandable, an Alpha wolf needs their mate. And me? Goddess I wanted Callie. I really did… but I also loved Knox and I knew how conflicted his was about the whole thing.
I wanted to support him while he figured out what I already knew.
As for Jax and Alfie, they'd always been a team. Like Knox and I, they were always together, always had the same goals and wanted the same things.
Only now I didn't agree with Knox and the other were angry at me for not stopping him hurting Callie.
Then there was the vision.
It replays in my mind every night. Terror grips me, my blood turns cold at the thought of Knox and Callie dead.
"I'll leave you to finish up, I have business back at the pack house to attend to." I said to Samuel with a swift nod.
As I walked back home I tried mind linking my brothers.
They'd all shut me out.
I ran my hands through my hair, frustrated at the state of our relationship.
We were brothers, born the same day. We shared everything growing up and now we had Callie to share also.
But we weren't sharing. I'd not seen her since she'd been in hospital, Knox hadn't seen her since the day she arrive at the club and we discovered her to be our mate. As for Jax and Alfie… I don't think they've left her side since meeting her.
Hurt shot through my chest at the thought.
Did Callie already love them? Did she want to get to know me, love me too? Was she going to reject me for not stopping Knox.
These thoughts consumed me, before I knew it I was back at the pack house.
Somthing in me told me I needed to speak to Jax.
He was the eldest. The definition of a big brother, despite being only minutes older.
He'd always cared for and looked after us, taught us new things. He'd helped me learn fighting techniques when we trained together as pups. Jax was understanding, patient and willing to offer guidance.
When I got to the floor Jax's room was situated I felt a surge of power rush through me, forcing me to bow my head. I tried fighting it but the power was too strong.
Pushing forward I could see a golden light bursting through Jax's doorway.
"Enough!" Callie's voice shouted.
Putting all my strength behind me I rushed into his room.
My brothers heads were also bowed. Knox unconscious on the floor, his face bloodied and bruised.
And there, sat on Jax's bed, was Callie.
Her eyes shone golden, light illuminated her milky skin.
Then everything stopped.
"What the fuck was that?" My voice breaking the now silent room.
"She's the Alpha Luna" Alfie muttered in shock.
A few seconds of silence hammered in the room.
"I need to go.." Alfie, mind obviously somewhere else said as he left the room.
I looked to jax, hoping to get some answers. He was staring at Callie with pride.
Jealously ripped through me. I felt a pang in my chest.
"What's an Alpha Luna?" Callie finally spoke, clearly puzzled.
I looked back at Jax, hoping he'd have the answers before looking to Knox suddenly realising he was hurt.
His face covered on his own blood, some of the bruising had already begun healing. Thanks to our alpha powers, we generally healed pretty quickly.
"Shit, I need to take him to the healer" I mumbled before lifting Knox and half dragging him out of the room, once in the corridor I beckoned a few warriors to help move him to his his own room. They all rushed towards us, lifting Knox and obediently saying "yes alpha."
I followed them as they carried Knox. Mindlinking the healer to meet me in his room.
As the warriors laid Knox on his bed, the healer appeared, setting her bags down on the floor.
She waved her hands over Knox's body chanting somthing under her breath.
Once she finished, the healer turned to me slowly.
"Your brothers begun healing himself. But the process has been slowed. He and his wolf are not one, their souls not at peace with one another." The healer spoke.
"What do we do?" I asked, my panic rising.
"We wait." She said confidently.
"Wait?"
"He is healing, but the process is slower than usual. If Knox and his wolf can reconcile, it'll be faster.. so we wait. It's down to them now." The healer responded as she gathered her bags and exiting the room.
Great. Knox was stubborn. But Havoc his wolf, was something entirely different.
As I sat beside Knox's bed I tried mindlinking Alfie and Jax. They were still ignoring me.
This shit was getting so old. Irritation gnawed at me.
"Knox?! Kane?!" My mothers voiced called,
I could hear the panic in her voice as she rushed into the room.
She paused, eyes scanning us both.
"What happened?" She asked worriedly, sitting the other side of Knox, gently stroking the side of his face with her hand.
I sighed. Not responding.
"The warriors said he was taken from Jax's room in this state. What is going on Kane? Why would Jax do this?" She continued.
I stood-"This was Alfie" I spoke before walking out the room, I heard her mutter his name in disbelief, questions forming, but I'd left the room before she'd have the chance to ask them.
Truthfully I was shocked Alfie had lost it like that. He'd always been the sensible one, a golden boy. Brains over brawn.
To see the damage he'd cause Knox was a stark reminder of his raw strength and power that usually hid behind his unrelenting auror of calm.
I'd only ever know Alfie to loose control like that on one other occasion in our whole lives.
My mind flashed back to that day.
We were at school, 15 years old or there about. Alfie had seen one of the older boys slap his little sister in the corridor by the lockers. Alfie lost it. He dragged the boy away from her and began pummelling his fists into his face. He ignored her cries and our pleas to leave him alone. As though he couldn't hear us through his rage.
It took all three of us to pull Alfie off this boy.
The girl was crying for her brother, the look in her eyes as she glared at Alfie still haunts him to this day.
What had happened for him to loose it with Knox that same way, our own brother?
This couldn't just be about Callie…surely.