Chapter 71
Noah’s POV:
The chair I sat on gave a rickety sound as I couldn’t help but fidget around a little bit. My hands were sweaty, clasped together, I was deep in thought.
My mind raced as I peered into the air, staring into absolute blankness. I had a lot running through my mind. Sweat dripped down my forehead. My legs tapped quietly on the floor, giving a flaky sound.
“What would it be?” I whispered in hushed tones to myself. There was no way in hell those idiots must not have shown the letter to their father. They were after all just spoiled rotten brats who who wouldn’t last a day in the life of a rogue.
I bit my lips, carving it into a smile in the process. Today I was going to end it all. I felt a mix of both anxiousness and excitement.
I released my hands from the clasped position it was in, brought out a phone from my pocket, and dialed a number. It didn’t go through as the screen gave the notification that the person I was calling was unable to be reached.
My heart thumped up a bit. This wasn’t part of the plan. This wasn’t supposed to happen. The smile I had carved on my face melted into nothing soon enough.
“Chase! Why the f**k is this not going through?” I growled for a while but got less tensed a bit after, saying to myself: “All I have to do is wait. The triplets must have already made a plan to sneak up on me. But none of them knows about Chase. All I really can do is wait. Those triplets are smart, but not smart enough for me.”
He had to be busy, I thought. Chase was never the type to ditch a partner. Not at all he was. We had planned this together. Coming over here should have been his top priority. We were partners in this. It wasn’t making a glimmer of sense anymore.
I stared at the clock. It seemed to me to be taking hours for a hand of it to move. I knew that was impossible but still, it felt that way. I also knew that the clock wasn’t at all faulty in any way. I even stood up for some time and walked around, staring at the door, waiting by all means for Chase to come in or ring up my phone.NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.
I called him again and it didn’t go through. I dropped once again another voicemail, apart from the numerous ones I had been sending.
“Where are you, I have completed the first mission and you went ghost on me,” I said to the phone. “We need to get on track with this s**t. The pack is coming, and without you and your men, I am pretty much a goner. Hit me up when you can, Chase…” I said before the line went static.
I nearly slammed the phone on the floor. But I caught my hand from doing so.
I felt myself getting more worried. I was looking more frantically at the wall clock this time. I soon got tired of the anxiousness and decided to drink some more water.
I was having a mental debate in my head about his loyalty. Was there any reason to start doubting him and questioning his loyalty? I probed myself. Chase had saved my life, if he had wanted to harm me, he could have done so while I was unconscious.
Maybe I was just bothering myself a little bit too much. Maybe he was on his way to the Silvermoon Pack with his men to tear it down. Maybe he just trusts me to deal with business here, while he works out the rest of the plan, I thought to myself as I sat back and chugged the glass of water down my throat.
It didn’t take long before I heard the sound of footsteps approaching the room.
I got myself ready in case it wasn’t Chase but one of the triplets, or their dads.
Someone did come in, but it wasn’t Chase, nor was it any of the Triplets.
It was Gabriel. And he looked quite anxious. He was supposed to come with Chase, the plan was to lure the fathers out into our territory and kill them by blowing them up.
“What are you doing?” I said finally. “And where the hell is Chase?”
His eyes showed one of worry as breathed heavily.
“I just got talking with Chase. He wants to talk to you. He’s outside with everything ready. You’re the only one he’s waiting for” he said to me.
Although I was relieved, I still couldn’t help but notice that there was something odd about the way he spoke. His eyes shifted every time I tried to maintain eye contact with him, it seemed like something was going on. Something he couldn’t tell me.
“Are you scared, man ?” I asked.
“Of course not,” I’m just anxious about it, we’re going to be going toe to toe with and powerful pack How else do you expect me to act?”
I decided to take his word for it and nodded my head In response.
“Come on, Gabe, we have already come too far,” I started. “We can’t start being scared now. We can’t let these bastards live. We need to rid ourselves of any shroud of doubt. You should understand this far way better than anyone.”
He nodded, acknowledging my words. Or so I thought.
I prepared myself. I took with me the phone as I made my way outside. “now, where is he?” I ask him
I began heading for the door.
I got outside and again, there was no sign of Chase, none of his men. What I saw was a different sight. My suspicions were right about Gabriel. I nearly turned back at him, but I figured out that would have been unnecessary.
I was taken aback for a while as it was not what I was expecting to see. My heart thumped in fear, and then, in a little while, bravery.
Littering in my sight were the triplet’s fathers. They stood before me with a smile plastered on each of their faces. It was nauseating. I felt betrayed.
“Looks like we beat you at your own game,” Gabriel said behind me.
It would seem he was right. But I was never the one to give up without a fight. And I wasn’t about to start that now.
“Give us the antidote and we leave and spare you or you rather we take it by force,” Denver warned, growling in a very threatening manner.
“It’s funny that the three of you are here,” I started. ” I have been looking forward to this day since I was a child.”
“—Oh shut it, you hood rat,” Derrick interrupted. “Come off it. Just because you come from the dumpster doesn’t mean you are in any way stronger than us, you piece of s**t,” he started.
My hatred for them grew so much, that I wished I could take them all out by myself in one fell swoop.
Oh how much I wanted to stick my claws into their sides and drag them up to their hearts and rip them out.
Or sink my teeth in their necks and slowly rip their heads off. How much I wanted to see all of them bleed right now.
I wondered what had happened to Chase. Were they able to decipher our plans? How? And then I realized that Gabriel’s hands for sure would have something to do with it.
“Where is Chase? What have you done with him? I asked. I got no replies as more questions kept flashing in my mind.
I grew an intense rage for Gabriel. He was with them. He betrayed me. He betrayed Chase. He betrayed the whole Blackwood Pack, betrayed his home.
“Gabriel,” I yelled, I wanted to rip him to shreds for his betrayal. But before I could move, I felt a sharp blade tear through my skin.
I turned around as my world turned a blurry grey color. I saw that it was Gabriel. He had sedated me, I couldn’t see clearly as my body hit the floor and everything real and physical began fading out slowly, including all four of them surrounding me before my eyes eventually closed,