The Female Alpha You Can't Tame

Chapter 140: Chapter 140 A hard fight

"Whatever you are thinking of please do know I am against it." Elriam is quick to dive in with her truth for she knows me very well. She knows what is to be my next move.

"I waited, Elriam. I waited for a month." I reason with her.

"And perhaps you can wait for more. It is not safe, Alpha." She says pushing the fresh cup of tea closer to me.

"If you think this tea is going to make me calm down and halt my decisions, you are so very wrong." I mutter beneath my breath my accusing eyes meet her cunning eyes.

"Please it is not a good idea to put yourself in harm’s way and what about the little one?" She implores me her eyes begging me not to do what it is I am thinking.

We stare at each other for a while a small wordless battle between us. "Call Cronus." I briskly break the silence only for her to shut her eyes in defeat.

"Alpha!" She calls out to me her voice raising not in a commanding way but in pleading.

"Perhaps I am putting a lot at risk but I must bring my male’s father back safe and sound. It is my duty, Elriam." I say.

"Will you be doing this merely out of duty? Are you doing this as a Luna of this pack or a mate?" Her questions catch me off guard whilst my eyes widen. Digging my nails into the material of my shirt I keep my eyes away from her searching ones.

"Must I answer that?" I ask my voice softening almost questioning. Questioning that surges within myself.

I am met by her silence. I know she wishes nothing but happiness for me and I know her question was not for the future of this pack but mine. "I shall call Alpha Cronus." She says not wanting to indulge further knowing I do not wish for it.

She is quick to call him fetching her phone from her jeans pocket. I wonder if Cronus knows about this war that was quick to come to our pack. She hands me the phone that I take swiftly holding it over my right ear.

"Elriam." Cronus’s deep voice strikes through after a few rings.

"Cronus." I greet him.

"Lumina!" He calls my name with a chuckle the seriousness in his voice quickly dying replaced with an energetic friendliness.

"I need your help." I am quick with my words, heading straight to the point. I am not shy or uncomfortable with him. He is my family.

"What happened?" His voice turns low and hollow the sound of the chair screeching against the floor tells me he has risen from his seat to hear me.

"Deimos has not returned for a month. I am dwelling in fear, I do not know what to do." I whisper unknowingly bringing the phone closer to my lips.

"The war, yes? Deimos informed me before he left."

"I am afraid, Cronus. I cannot bear another repeat of what happened in the past. I asked him who would protect him. He said himself! What if he is in a position where he cannot do so? What if he is in a position where he is calling out to me but I cannot hear him?" I struggle to breathe just from the thoughts of it.

"I understand, Luna. I thought he had returned already but I had an inkling this was bound to happen. That pack does not come under his rule, they will not bend to his authority. His pheromones would not affect them for they are similar to rogues. I knew it shall be a hard fight for him." Cronus’s words add to my anxiety and I am quick to stand up as well leaving my position of comfort.

"I wish to go there. I wish to help him." I say. Elriam shakes her head non stop in disapproval her eyes pleading with me again. My safety is all that matters to her, she trusts in Deimos’s strength.

"Lumina, it is not a regular pack. Your pack possesses the best warriors of all, they would have been able to handle it."

"Then why is he not here! It has been a month, I am not delaying this any longer. Please Cronus, help me." My hands tremble as I dig my nails into the flesh of my palms. The more he speaks of this pack the more the need to go fires up. I was unaware of this, my mind has been elsewhere. If I were a regular Luna I would stay put as I was told to but that is not who I am.

Silence consumes us and I know he is debating. He is on a rope with two ends, he needs to make a choice. Each choice has its own risk. Either I shall be harmed or Deimos is or shall be harmed.

"I shall send my warriors to help him but I need something in return." Cronus utters. He was making a deal. This was not the kind of help I was looking for I wanted him to come with me, yet it possessed the capability to work.

"What do you need?" I ask.

"For you to stay back home." He declares. He is sly with his words and his ways but I take heed to it for I need his warriors’ strength. If it were Deimos he would not make such a deal with me for he would know I would not follow through. The thought brings a quick smile to my face.

"Thank you." I whisper. He is sending his warriors to death and he is doing it merely because I asked him. He is a good male, a good brother to Deimos and a good friend to me.

"Your answer, Lumina."

"I shall. I shall stay back." A whispered lie I tell him. Perhaps he can forgive me later on. He would understand me when he finds his mate. The bond that shall bound him and leave him breathless. The bond that shall tie him to his female where he would take each and every risk to protect her. He will understand.