Chapter 3: Alpha Gabriel

 Year 2003

Alpha Gabriel's POV

The broad daylight seeps through the thick and heavy curtains that was hanged on my office.

It has been thrice already when I've seen the night turned into day. You can clearly see the prominent  dark circles decorating under my eyes. 

I gently massaged my temples when I started to feel a dull headache forming.

I have been up for three days doing something else, anything at all to keep my mind occupied and sleep is the least of my priorities.

Locking myself in the office has been my total solitude. Everything inside the house reminded me of her and I don't have the heart to throw those things away. It has been three years since she ran away and I haven't heard anything from her since then. 

I will never give up. I know that my mate is still out there, The thread of our mate bond is still intact and I know that she's alive. 

I keep on hoping that one day she will return and when that day will come she will realize that my feelings haven't changed. It will remain as if she never left at all.

So she'll feel and know that she is and will forever be my one and only. Erica needs her mother and our Pack needs their Luna.

I'm the Alpha of the Blood Stone Pack consisting of more than 1500 pack members and throughout the next couple of years I'm pretty sure that we will grow on numbers.

With that many members. The pack needs to be physically safe and financially stable. In order for it to be possible we need to run and invest into multiple businesses and companies to provide works for pack members and to obtain that financial stability that we really need.

Multiple businesses and companies comes with tons of paperworks.

Burying myself in pack paperworks and reports has been a great coping mechanism to lessen the pain that I've experienced  years ago. These paperworks will help me to keep my mind off from remembering my bitter sweet moment with my mate. 

I'm still hurting and hoping at the same time. 

They say that time heals, but how can you heal something that's already gone. My heart already disappeared the moment she uttered those words and yet they are still beating for her. 

That day was supposed to be a great day for us, because we were blessed by the goddesses. We received our first pup. A healthy baby girl.

Everything was so great. I thought that nothing could ruin that day.

But goddess! I was so wrong. That day, I've experienced the most immense pain that anyone could ever experienced.

I woke up that night because of the persistent cries of our newborn, I thought my mate went to the nursery room to check up on our little bundle of joy but as moments passed by, the cries of Erica started to get louder and that's when I realized that something is wrong. 

I climbed down the bed and reached the nursery room in a flash. I saw our daughter flailing her arms around and crying nonstop, I immediately craddled her in my arms and she snuggled on the crook of my arms. 

Her cries not reduced into whimpers.

I almost turned the whole house inside out, freaking out when I wasn't able to find my mate. I tried to connect to her through our link but my connection was repelled, she must have had her mental walls up. 

That night, my heart was crushed. Even if it has been years now when that happened. The memory is still fresh in my mind. 

I was asking myself on what went wrong, Did I do something that had made my mate upset with me or something? Or anything at all?

But I found none.

I've hired many private investigators but every reports would lead to a dead end. I've paid the best of the best, I've seeked their help in finding her but everyone gave up on searching for her. They all told me the same thing over and over again.

I am sick and tired of getting no positive results at all. 

I even tried visiting other packs hoping that she is seeking for shelter or anything at all. But everytime I would always come back empty handed. 

I don't want to ever wish what happened to me to ever happen to anyone else even to my enemies. It feels like im being torn from the inside.

It was the day that my world crumbled down, my soul was rip in half and my heart feels like it was getting stabbed multiple times.

It was like I went to hell and back over and over again.

I shook my head to try and clear all those thoughts. I need to focus on the task at hand.

Neatly stacking the batch of papers that I've signed. I proceed to read the other set of papers on my table. 

I was in the middle of signing an investment contract when someone tried to tune into my mind. I already told them to stop bothering me.

I put my mental block higher and thicker, successfully blocking the annoying tap.

It hasn't been a minute when I raised the block when someone rudely barged into the office and successfully knocking down the door from its hinges, because of the sheer force.

I was about to growl at him for showing disrespect but when I felt his  sense of urgency I figured that the news must have been very important for him to barge in unannounced.

"What is it Delta Chris?"

He bowed his head, afraid to meet my blazing ones.

"The Epsilons discovered trails of Rogues leading towards the city."

That made me snap! How dare they leave their filthy trails on my land!

"Call Zeta Tom, Theta Andrew and gather 10 Etas. Tell them that we need to stop the Rogues from entering the city. There are lots of humans there."

With that I sprung to my feet and dashed through the woods and shifted into my wolf.

Now in all fours I linked my Beta.

'Michael need you ASAP. Meet me at the city.'

'I'm already at the city Alpha, with the little Luna.'

'What?! What are you doing there?!' My anger intensified at what I heard. I could feel my paws dig into the dirt a lot harsher.

'The little Luna wanted some ice cream. My mate and I decided to take her here. I was trying to mind link you Alpha but your walls are up.'

Ice cream?! At 7 am?

'Just keep her safe. A group of Rogues are heading there.' was the last thing that I said - more like order before cutting off the link.