The Legacy of the Alpha King: Hiding his Secret Twins
Chapter 172 by Ebony Woods

Goddess, it was actually quite big. Quite prominent when you look upon it from a distance.

“I wanted to talk to you about what happened in the cave.” I keep my face forward, giving Nate a chance to gather his thoughts, to think upon his answers.

I just hoped he wouldn’t disappoint me.

“Evelyn….”

“Let me talk and then I’ll listen. But I need you to keep what I say hidden from Reuben…just for now. Just until I can do some more research. Can you do that for me?” I finally look at him, wanting to see his eyes as he makes that promise to me.

I wasn’t his alpha technically but what Reuben and I had created was so much more than two mates together. We had brought two packs, two alliances together. And although we manage them separately, we act in the good faith that we would have each other’s back if the time called.

“Yes Evelyn, I can promise you that.”

“Odin died in that cave, he died…I saw his life leave his body…his own eyes going out as if as simple as distinguishing a candle’s flame.

He’s kept it blocked up since, a part of our mate bond that he won’t let me access. It’s small…but I can feel the barrier. Like a corner I can’t quite get into.

Whether he knows it or not, whether his wolf is doing it…but it’s there. When Odin died, I felt it. I felt something enter Reuben…like an Alpha’s command, from when the father passes it over to the new alpha…but Reuben had already had that. Odin had already passed everything on to Reuben.

Everything that was within his power to do so.” I move slightly, my back wanting to be straightened from my current seating position.

“So my question to you, is what happened in those caves. Why didn’t you burn his body? And why did you block the cave?”

“Noah’s been talking?” He sighs, in a slightly annoyed manner.

“My beta battled with the decision to betray you, but you know deep down he made the right choice in telling his alpha. Especially when it affects my husband and potentially our children. You can’t be angry at Noah for following his duty.”

“I’m not angry at him, I just didn’t want to worry you with this…”

“With what Nate? Because the Red Stone warriors had been stealing drugs from my hospital…they had been having panic attacks. Why didn’t that reach Reuben’s ears…why didn’t you report it?”

“I swore the men to secrecy. That if asked, the body had burned as planned.” He closes his eyes and lifts his head up to the morning sun.

“Is the body still in there?”

“No…I mean yes, but not as you left it. In truth I don’t know where it is.”

He wasn’t helping himself, he was being cryptic and I was trying to be as patient as I can.

“We entered the cave, the light of the moon disappearing more with every step we took.”

“Yes…”

“I used the torch on my phone and found drawings….”

“Yes…cave drawings…I saw those as well. We both did.”

“There were shadows. Shadows on the walls…shadows that we’re moving, that weren’t ours. We were frozen, all of us which is how I know for certain it wasn’t us.

The men did manage to draw their swords but for what? Attack shadows? The shadows moved like spectres as they grabbed the body and started to pull him backwards and down into the cave. Until I couldn’t see him anymore.”

Nate was one of the bravest men I knew, but this memory seems to be causing his breathing to quicken, his heartbeat rocketing.

“We left the cave, desperate to get out of there. My own body projecting me out of there as fast as it could. I don’t know what they were but they weren’t from this world.”

“You think some kind of portal? How would that be possible?”

“I don’t know, how is any of this possible? Werewolves…humans that shift into wolves. All I know is what I saw. And judging by the men’s reactions…they saw it all just the same.”

Would some kind of portal be possible? I don’t know…it was very eerie in those caves and I understand what Nate means about needing to be out of there. As if it went against your own centre of gravity to be in there.

“What did you block it up with?”

“Bricks and cement…why?” His face whips to mine, his dread at my impending admission already sending horror to course through his veins. “Because I need to get into that cave.”