The Not So Sad Rejection

Chapter Twenty Two

Names in a Book

Dammit, dammit, dammit! Grant thought to himself as he raced after the Fire Light Alpha. Why couldn't his father just... He let out a small growl.

Once again the former Silver Moon Alpha has chased off his mate. But that look in Katrina's eyes... Grant had never seen it before. It was more than anger, more than rage, it was the look of someone who'd witnessed something terrible. It was dark and cold. He shook his head. That's not his Katrina. She's not cold. He'd watched how she interacted with her pack, her family and friends, she was warm and caring and well... she was intelligent.

He'd thought her nerdy when they were kids, attractive but nerdy. She was constantly studying, constantly had her nose in a book or a pile of work. Now he'd gained enough intelligence of his own to admire it, to admire her. He wish he had the same compassion and undying loyalty that his Katrina possessed.

He was so lost in his own thoughts he didn't notice when the visiting Alpha had stopped running and nearly ran into him. The Alpha had practically frozen in place. When Grant had finally stopped and turned to see why he felt ice crawl through his veins as well. It was Katrina...

She'd crossed the path of some rather unfortunate rogues. Unfortunate because the she-wolf had literally torn them apart. Grant had arrived just in time to watch his mate use her teeth to tear out the tore of a wolf. He felt sick to his stomach at the sight.

When the last one was dead Katrina seemed to notice their presence. "Kate," Alpha Greyson said. "Stand down." His voice rang with authority and Katrina seemed to stiffen as some unseen force pressed down on her. If he weren't so shocked by the sight before him Grant would've growled at the man for thinking to use an Alpha command on his mate. "I said stand down," Jason ordered again with Katrina resisted the first.

Grant lunged forward when Katrina's legs gave out. He pulled her into his arms whispering her name as he did so. Then he looked around again. "They're dead," he whispered in newfound horror of the massacre. "They're all dead."

"Give her to me," the Fire Light Alpha said trying to take Katrina from him. He resisted half-mindedly.

Then Katrina started whispering something in a rough voice. He didn't quite catch it the first time then she repeated herself. "Their names..." She looked at her brother with what Grant could only describe as desperation.

"I know," Jason replied clearly understanding what Grant did not. He pulled again this time taking his sister and Beta with him. "Trina will see what she can do."

Jason left with Katrina but Grant felt as if he'd been wielded in place. "She killed them all," he whispered to himself. It was then that he realized what Katrina, no Kate had been telling him all along. She was not the girl he knew. The Katrina he knew could never doing something like this. These wolves were killed by a monster. Katrina and Kate are two different people.

It felt like hours before Grant could move again and when he could he ran from the bodies and ordered to have them burned as soon as possible. He wanted to burn his memory along with them but some things could not be done, some damage could not be healed.

"Alpha Adams?" Luna Greyson called knocking on his office door.

Grant looked up at the small Latino woman. "Yes?"

"I've come to discussed with you the burning of the Rogue bodies," she said entering his office.

"It is tradition to burn the bodies of Rogues," Grant said preparing himself to argue this point.

"Yes, I'm aware," she said surprising him.

"Then why are you here?"

She met his eyes. "I want you to hold off burning them."