Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (ebook offline txt) 📗

out of the front door of the packhouse, I became completely shocked after seeing the only thing before my eyes, for which I was afraid all this while.

Yes, he was there standing alone in the front yard of our pack, like some enraged mountainous beast, together with his sharp and pointed swords in both of his hands. His eyes were as dark as pitch black and were waiting for someone specific to burn the person down into ashes with his fuming blaze like intense and vicious gaze.

He was no other than Kazan.

And we all were very aware of his ability to do someone justice in his own way. It did not take much time for me to realize, for whom he came to our pack early in the morning with this kind of hatred.

It was Markus for whom he came to seek justice and I did not have to guess at all that he was waiting for none but Summer.

Exactly what I was afraid of.

Adrian, that brute, must have manipulated the truth with all lies for his own sake.

What else could I have expected from someone like him?

No, no, I did not have any time to waste thinking about all those things which I already knew, not at least when the one and only Kazan was already standing at our pack to make someone innocent pay the price for other's sin.

I must look for Adrian, only to beat him up to make him blurt out the truth in front of everyone before its too late. And for that, I need to know where the hell he was hiding like some coward.

Without wasting another second to know what was going to happen next at our pack, I ran to get my bike and pulled it out of the parking with some tremendous speed to hunt down the real culprit.

****End of flashback****

Time kept running out of my hand but I could not see a glimpse of that coward yet.

I went to each and every place to talk to each and every person to know the whereabouts of that prick, Adrian. But it seemed as if he just vanished into the thin air without leaving any trace of him behind.

At last, seeing no other option left there for me anymore, I went straight to the pack hospital, hoping that Markus might have already woken up by the time. And if so, I could persuade him to say exactly what happened last night. I wondered if he would even agree to do so...to save Summer from such accusations.

But most importantly, he must be conscious to clarify the truth in time.

Anyway,

Hoping for the best to happen, I reached the pack hospital in no time and parked my bike outside in a hurry, only to rush inside to see if Markus was awake or not.

But, as if my hopes were meant to be disappointed...as if I was meant to return empty-handed. Cause when I went inside the cabin where Markus was staying in the finest care of the pack doctors, I saw him lying on the bed in the exact same way just as I had left him last night.

Yes, he was still unconscious, though his wounds seemed better than before. I meant way better, like it was almost healed. But then again, why was he not waking up any sooner? He was needed the most right now. If not me, Summer needed him ever so desperately and no one but only he could save her from such blame and humiliation of being called as the traitor.

Wake up. Please.

I begged, but it seemed for nothing. Even when I waited for quite some time only to witness Markus's one and single movement, nothing changed. He was still lying unconscious.

There was no more reason to stay here at the pack hospital anymore. Instead, I should be attending somewhere else and I needed to fight together with my best friend, Summer, to help her get justice. No, I did not have any proof, neither did I find any witness, still I felt as if I must stay by her side.

And with that thought, I opened the door of the cabin as I was about to go out. But,

But, little did I know that the luck was still in my favour.

Why?

Well,

Just when I opened the door of the cabin where Markus was lying unconscious, the one whom I was trying to hunt down ever so desperately for quite a while now, came to stand just in front of me, but of course accidentally, as he was attempting to come inside, maybe to check on Markus.

Yes, Adrian.

I saw Adrian standing before my eyes and was completely dumbfounded.

But even before he could realise and run to save himself, I strangled him by his neck so that he could not even dare to escape.

“At last. Fate did compel you to come to me strangely. Isn't it?

As if the entire universe wants to make you pay for what sin you had done. And I will make sure that you pay no less than you have caused.” I spat in utter rage and ultimate disgust for him because I had never seen such a boneless fellow as the beta. He was indeed the insult of our prestigious status.

“Let me go. I did not do anything.” Adrian kept struggling to breathe while he did not think twice to lie once again, as if he was quite used to manipulate any kind of truth with no effort at all.

Seeing such audacity, my grip on his neck tightened even more without much of my consciousness.

“How did you not do anything while you are the only one who had caused such chaos today?

You are the one who stabbed Markus, no matter if it was intentional or not, but you just can not deny