The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

Read The Silent Alpha by Stephanie Light Chapter 80 – ***Zane***

“Awar killed my son,” Sebastian replies, a numbness in his voice as if he had recited these words until they became his truth. “A war started by the man you now align yourself with.” “Y-you lied…Y-you lied all these y-years!” I say, shaking my head in disbelief. “Y-you said i-it was Ravenstone!” Around me, the wolves on either side stare at the old Alpha in shock, unable to comprehend how he could ever harm his own child.

“You will never understand this,” Enter title… Sebastian snarls. “You’ve been kept away from all the war, all the blood, all the death your entire life.Y ou will never understand the sacrifices an Alpha has to make for their pack but I do!” “H-he was innocent!” I cry, unable to believe his justification.

“There are no innocents in war!” Sebastian growls. “Only blood, be it the blood of your enemies or the blood of your family.

War does not know right from wrong, it only knows strength and being strong enough to do what needs to be done and take what is yours!” “Yy-you’re a monster,” I whisper. “lam not the only monster here,” Sebastian sneers, his eyes narrowing to slits as he glares at Toran.

“This war began because a mate bond was not honored between my brother and his wife. That man,” he snarls, pointing at Toran.

“That man destroyed my family but it was not enough to take my brother,” he laughs cruelly. “No, he went and had my wife killed…

He made me feel her death. I felt the pain shattering through me, burning my lungs, my flesh, my soul! I felt her slip away until all that was left was this cold, emptiness.I felt everything that night, but it was not enough for him.

No, he then took her from me. He took her and kept her hidden from me all these years, mocking me…

He bought her love, no doubt…tricked her into thinking he actually cared for her…But Ravenstones…they are incapable of love.”

Beside me, Tylen looks like he might tear Sebastian to shreds but Toran has a satisfied grin on his lips. “My, my.

How little you know, Seba,” Toran sighs, shifting into his human form. “But no matter, you will eat your words soon enough,” Toran teases. “I love my wife.

I have for the past 20 years and despite knowing that it was I who hurt her, Elenore loves me too, freely and willingly.

We are not fated, but every day she wakes up, she chooses me, over and over again.

She has raised my son and my pack alongside me like a true Luna, and she has never once lived in fear that I may hurt her like you did.

In all our years of marriage, the only time I have ever touched her, was because she begged me to.

Not once have I ever forced myself upon her, because unlike you, I actually cherish my wife.

After what we just witnessed, can you say the same?

Did you ever truly love that woman or were you just satisfying your wolf?” He snarls.

“Elenore was the only good in my life!” Sebastian snaps.

“And yet, you destroyed her,” Toran growls.

“But by the grace of my Goddess, she does not know who you are or what you did to her.

Moon Goddess gave her a clean slate to start over with and I thank her every day for that because she will never remember that it was you who took her pup, that it was you who broke her son, and that it was you who shattered her heart every day with your cruelty.”

“Do not act so righteous, Toran!

There is blood on your hands as there is blood on mine!” Sebastian bellows, trembling with rage.

“We are no different!” “You are wrong, my dear Seba,” Toran replies.

“There is no innocent blood on my hands.

I did not kill those children at the daycare.

I did not kill my own son for the benefit of war.

I did not hurt my own family.

AND I DID NOT KILL BRE!” “LIAR!” Sebastian screams and I realize he has been fighting this war based on lies and deceit.

“Y-ou don’t know abou-about Bre,” I murmur softly, Sebastian’s face hardening.

“Of course I know about Bre.

That bastard killed her when he found out she was mated to my brother,” Sebastian scoffs.

“And then he killed my brother.” Acruel smile lingers on Toran’s face and with one look, he asks me to show Sebastian the truth of that day.

I look around at the Scarlett wolves, their faith in their Alpha already faltering.

Do not pity them, Grayson snaps.

They deserve to know the truth behind the war they have been fighting for almost 30 years.

Closing my eyes and putting down my walls, I let Toran’s memories flood my head, sifting through them until I find the memory of that fateful day.

When I open my eyes again, a beam of light flows through my irises, projecting the memory for all to see.

“Toran! Toran !” Breanna screams through mindlink, Toran running faster until he reaches a small cottage in the forest.

“I’m coming!” Toran shouts back, knocking down the front door and racing inside.

His breath hitches when upon entering the cottage, he sees Cyrus towering over Breanna laying on the couch, a bloody dagger in his hand.

Breanna wheezes softly as Cyrus turns to face his best friend.

“We were supposed to be the Fated Pair,” Cyrus chuckles to himself.

off-” He manages to escape by sonic

her head and

on her stomach, a river

suddenly widen in shock and Breanna smiles up at him as a

she coughs out, wiping

to lift her in her arms,

to get

fix you there, come on.” “N-No,” Breanna

here with

hold my hand,” she says through a

“But they can fix you,” Toran pleads,

them fix you-” “I love you, Toran,” Breanna whispers,

“P-please be strong…

“Bre-” Toran shakes his

up so he can sit down and cradle

“It’s okay, Bre.

rocking back and forth long after she goes still

“We’re okay, baby.

going to

You’re just tired.

sleep and in the morning, it’ll all

He sits on that couch for what seems to be

his cheeks but there is anger in

Anger and hatred.

Sebastian shakes his head in disbelief,

“No, it cannot be!

Toran killed Breanna.

brother took

brother’s own greed that got him

tricked you, he tricked you all into believing Breanna was his

spell to make her believe she was his mate

a lie.” Sebastian shakes his head,

“No, no.

lying!” Sebastian cries, looking around at his wolves who

believe

” Toran scoffs.

a

reputation, when the only one hurting

what you were told without question,”

lost pup looking

it matters, you’re

is dead andAlexander can’t help

is you and you will pay dearly for them all!” kill him,

all the pain he’s caused, he deserves

at the Scarlett Alpha, the world he created with terror and

before the one person he was always too ashamed to claim as his

weak, boy,” Sebastian snickers, a challenge in

still can’t

would have killed

And yet you won’t.

stand there like an idiot-” He suddenly sits up as I fill his mind with memories of my childhood, one by one, showing him the

room, practicing my words to make them perfect, my fingers trembling

mother to teach me a lesson, how she

on my back from every beating I got for the mistakes I made while completing my work and daily

him how my silence was mocked daily, and how I learned to survive without ever uttering

until ribbons of flesh hung from my back and how I took it all

feel the pain of his rejections and the humiliation of losing my pack to a boy

how Caine pissed himself in fear before he shot himself in the

Talia was wheeled into a hospital room and force him

as he screamed for his mommy, and the agony in my heart as I waited for news on

all the torment of my life before Talia and Kota made it fade

not deserve

them from his mind, but I hold him hostage, wanting him to see for himself everything

he stammers, his eyes flickering as

whisper , towering over the coward I once feared as he

A-Agnes Thorne and the son

Ta-Talia Ramos and the f-father

a st-stutter and the b-boy y-you were so ashamed

blood runs through m-my

will n-never be

am stronger than y-you will ever be!” He holds his head in his hands, curling up on the floor

on his temples bulging

I force him to watch Jonathan’s murder over and over again, making him relive with vivid detail, the memory of him telling my mother that her beloved pup was now dead, never

at his own eyes,

teeth, snarls at the deplorable Alpha, “Be aman, Sebastian and face what you did!” “P-please!” the Alpha begs,

I stutter?” Grayson sneers, giving me back control to

hold back,

Because he never did.

and Toran, selecting memories to show Sebastian how much life improved for my mother