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.

manages to escape by sonic scream, leaving Toran to face his dying wife

cradling her head and

her stomach, a river of blood pouring

in shock and Breanna smiles up at him as a little blood trickles from her nose, reaching a hand to caress his

coughs out, wiping

to lift her

get you to

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

here with

my hand,” she

fix you,” Toran pleads,

“I love you, Toran,” Breanna whispers, coughing up more

“P-please be strong…

Toran shakes his head, Breanna’s eyes slowly fading

her up so he can sit down and cradle her in his

“It’s okay, Bre.

okay,” he adds, rocking back and forth long after she goes

“We’re okay, baby.

going to

You’re just tired.

and in the morning, it’ll all be

He sits on that couch for what seems to be an eternity, holding his mate and brushing her

but there is anger in

Anger and hatred.

shakes his head in disbelief, disrupting the

“No, it cannot be!

Toran killed Breanna.

Toran-” “Your brother took my

own greed that got

you, he tricked you all into believing Breanna was his mate but it was just

to make her believe she was his

people, all in the name of a lie.” Sebastian shakes his head, unwilling to

“No, no.

looking around at his

“You still believe that

” Toran scoffs.

a

your son would tarnish your reputation, when the only one hurting your pack is you!” “I did what was necessary,”

what you were told without question,”

lost pup looking

it matters, you’re

is dead andAlexander can’t

is you

he’s caused, he deserves

world he created with

person he was always too ashamed to

snickers, a

still can’t face

would have killed

And yet you won’t.

sits up as I fill his mind with memories of my childhood, one by one, showing him

times I stood before that mirror in my room, practicing my words to make them perfect, my fingers trembling with every flip of the page of my

me a lesson, how she cried and begged him for

belts on my back from every beating I

my silence was mocked daily, and how

the day Caine whipped me until ribbons of flesh hung from my back

make him feel the pain of his rejections and the humiliation of losing my pack to a boy now buried six feet

pissed himself in fear before he shot himself in the

and force him to feel the anguish I felt as they fought to bring her

mommy, and the agony in my heart

Sebastian all the torment of my life before Talia and Kota made it fade away, but I do not share their

deserve to see

remove them from his mind, but I hold him

stammers, his eyes flickering as memories

“I-I know who I-l am,” I whisper , towering over the coward I once feared as he

the son of A-Agnes Thorne and the

and the f-father

and the

blood runs through m-my

will n-never be like

head in his hands, curling up on the

the veins on his

I force him to watch Jonathan’s murder over and over again, making him relive with vivid detail, the memory of him

cries, his fingers clawing at his own eyes, his nails tearing through his

Alpha, “Be aman, Sebastian and face what you did!” “P-please!” the Alpha

giving me back control

not hold back,

Because he never did.

connections with Tylen and Toran, selecting memories to show Sebastian how much life improved for my mother without him in