Chapter 74

Elliot’s POV

“Alpha, how could this happen?” One of the nurses sobbed. “They were fine one minute and now they won’t wake up!”

I had peeked into a couple of the rooms. When I got here, as stated, most of the injured were screaming in pain. Then, it all just stopped. They passed out. Their skin was badly burned as if they were lit on fire and their heartbeats were weak. The doctors were in the process of checking them over and seeing who could be saved.

“Was it poison?” Luca asked as he examined one of the victims.

“They are running tests as we speak so hopefully, we will find out soon enough,” Leo stated, shaking his head. He was pale and it was clear that he was stressing out about this just as we all were. None of us liked to see our packmates suffering in such a way and not being able to do anything about it.

My main focus though was on Silver and the fact that her scent was lingering, but it was growing distant, which meant she hadn’t been here in a while. My stomach was knotted at the thought of anything happening to the woman I had fallen in love with.

Emma was crying in the hospital room when I entered but she straightened when she saw me standing in front of her.

“Alpha…” she sniffled, wiping her eyes with the back of her hand. “Did you find Silver?”

“Not yet, but I’m going to,” I assured her firmly. “Are you sure you didn’t see anything more? You have no idea where they could have taken her?”

She shook her head as more tears filled her eyes.

“I just remember one of them saying not to hurt her because their boss would want her untouched,” she whimpered.

That was weird. Why would they take her and not want to hurt her? Why would they take her at all? My only thought was they were taking her to get to me.

Then, another memory surfaced in my mind.

“You said they gave you a pill and Silver stopped you from taking it?”

She glanced at the nightstand and that’s when I saw a small dixie cup. I approached it cautiously as if it were some kind of bomb that might go off at any moment. Inside the dixie cup were too small blue pills. I narrowed my eyes at it as I lifted the cup off the table and closer into view.

I sniffed it, but it didn’t smell unusual.

Without another word I left the room only to find Leo and Luca standing in the hallway, waiting.

“Get this tested,” I said, handing the dixie cup to Leo.

Leo looked into the cup and narrowed his eyes. He nodded and left without another word.

“Do you think whatever was in that cup is the reason for all of this?” Luca asked, waving his hands around at all the rooms that were being cleared out by doctors and nurses. They were moving patients into a different part of the hospital while they figured out what the hell happened to them.

I nodded.

“Yeah, I do. Silver somehow knew that the pills weren’t good and stopped Emma from taking them,” I told him.

Luca nodded thoughtfully.

“Smart woman,” he murmured.

My chest filled with pride, but I was too worried about her to show it on my face.

“Yes, she is,” I said. “I need to find her, Luca. If anything happens to her…”

“We will find her,” Luca said, putting a hand on my shoulder. “I have all the gammas out there searching the perimeter as we speak. They couldn’t have gotten that far.”

I nodded, but I had a nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach.

“Elliot?” I heard my name being called at the end of the hallway.

I turned and I was shocked to see Charlotte, my sister, walking towards me. She looked pale and her blonde hair was pulled out of her face, showing the worry clear in her eyes. She wore a shawl around her shoulders with the hood on her head, almost like she was worried she might be recognized.

“What are you doing here, Char?” I asked, sounding more aggravated than I meant. I run my fingers through my hair. “It’s not really a good time.”

I didn’t even know she was in town, let alone my pack.

She swallowed.

“I had a prophecy and I needed to come and see you,” she told me, lowering her gaze as tears filled her eyes. Charlotte wasn’t one to show weakness, so I knew whatever she saw was really bad.

I took hold of her hand and pulled her over to the chairs on the far side of the hall, sitting her down.

“I’ll go check on my gammas and see their progress,” Luca said, pointing behind him. I nodded my thanks, and he took off without another word. I turned back to my sister who looked on the verge of tears.

“Charlotte, what’s going on? What happened?”

“You probably didn’t know this because you were young…” she whispered. “But a long time ago, I had a prophecy about a child being born on the full moon at midnight. This child was supposed to hold terrifying powers and cause world destruction. I saw everyone turning on one another because this child did something to them to make them all enemies. It was awful…”

I had a vague memory about hearing of this and when my father was alive, he mentioned that the problem had been dealt with. I was young at the time, so I never bothered to ask further questions, but no one had spoken about this prophecy since.

“The Alphas searched for this child at every hospital, and it turned out to be the Beta of the Stormwind pack’s daughter,” she continued. “But by the time they found the Beta and his family, it was too late. They were dead. The Beta, his wife, Camilla, and their newborn daughter, the one in my prophecy, jumped off a cliff.”

I shook my head, confused by this story.

“Why are you telling me this, Charlotte? What does this have to do with anything?” I asked her.

She took a deep breath.

“We thought the problem was solved and that my vision would no longer come true,” she said, tears escaping her eyes soaking over her cheeks. “But there was an oversight.”

“What kind of oversight?”

“The baby that was found with the Beta and his wife was not the child in my vision. They took another baby, and it was never realized,” she said, sniffling. “I think they might have taken a different baby and placed their baby, the one in my vision, with a different family. The child in my vision is still alive.”

“And you know this because you saw another vision?”

She bit her lower lip and stared down at her hands, unwilling to answer my question. I grew aggravated and asked her again with more force in my voice.

“You had another vision about this child?”

She nodded but then she looked even more uncertain.

“That’s not why I know this though. I know this because when you brought Silver to see me and I looked into her past, I saw the truth. The entire truth: I saw everything Silver wouldn’t remember or even know about.”

“What?” I gasped; my eyes large with each word she spoke. “Are you telling me that Silver is this child?”

She nodded.

“But there was something I didn’t see in my older vision,” she said, lifting her gaze to meet mine. “It wasn’t just one child… it was two. Twins. Silver has a twin brother who is also still out there.”

“A twin brother?” I asked.

“A rogue,” she answered, wrapping her arms around her body. “That’s the new vision that I saw, Elliot. Her brother, this rogue, is after you. He blames our family for his mishaps, and I saw him destroying the Crown Pack and taking over.”

I let out the breath I didn’t know I was holding.

“There’s more,” she said softly. “This vision was different because I spoke with the Moon Goddess. She rarely comes to see me in my visions, but she felt she needed to give a personal warning. He’s after you and he’s trying to convince Silver to join him.”

“I don’t get it; why is he after me personally? I did nothing wrong. I was only a boy when you had this vision… I didn’t kill his family.”

“He will be after this pack until it burns to the ground because our father put a hit on rogues years ago and killed his mother,” Charlotte explained, shaking her head with dismay written all over her face.

“And he wants Silver to join him?”

She nodded.

“The two of them are incredibly powerful, even if Silver doesn’t know it yet. They could cause serious destruction. He already has… he’s the reason Dad died, Elliot. He changed his scent and made him smell like a rogue. Beta Edward thought father was an imposter because of his scent and killed him…”

I heard about this. Beta Edward was my father’s best friend and after he killed him and found out that it really was the Alpha, he killed himself out of guilt. It left this pack vulnerable without an Alpha and Beta. Leo and I had to step up as soon as we turned 18. We were the youngest Alpha and Beta in the world.

My stomach tightened.

“He can change scents…” I said, lost in thought. It made sense seeming those in Shirely’s pack smelled like rogues. They wanted us to think they were rogues. Same with the rogues who were pretending to be doctors; the ones who took Silver and poisoned the patients.

It made me wonder what kind of powers Silver truly had and if she knew about them. Was she aware of how powerful she was and kept it from me? There’s no way she couldn’t have known.

I shook the thought out of my mind and looked at Charlotte.

“The rogues have Silver,” I told her. “I need to find her.”

“Correction,” Charolette said standing up. “Her brother has her and we are going to find her. If we don’t, the world is in danger.”