Chapter 37: Chapter 37

Alexander

The beeping sound of machines filled my ears as I woke up to see myself in a medical room with drips and machines fixed all over me.

How did I  get here? what happened? Where am I?  Where are all my warriors?

I pondered as A billion and one question flooded through my mind the last thing that flashed through my mind was seeing dynamite being thrown toward us.

It was so unexpected my first instinct was how to get Jessica to safety because I knew it would be impossible for the both of us to get away that fast.

So I pushed her out of danger before the dynamite detonated. It was so sudden and took us off-guard.

I quickly checked my body for injuries, but I looked completely normal without a scratch. Other than having a very troubling headache, I was feeling very fine.

Almost too fine to make me want to think that what happened was just a dream.

Now that was odd unless, of course, someone would tell me that I didn't see the dynamite explode right in front of me.

I am still surprised to be alive when I should be dead.

Or maybe I am dead, I just don't know it yet, so I gave myself a pitch and since I felt the pain, it confirmed that I was indeed alive.

This only means that whoever brought me here saved my life and perhaps my warriors too.

I subconsciously touched every part of my body again to ascertain that there were no injuries, but I still couldn't find any.

My mind went to Ashley, the mere thought of her softens my heart as I remember her beautiful face on the morning I left.

I don't know why but I miss her so long like I have not seen her for ages. I can't wait to behold her beautiful eyes once more and hear her call me, my Alexandra.

Hope I have not been out for long because Ashley would so worried, my pack members would be worried and the wives of the warriors that left with me would be worried sick.

I quickly stood up and made to take off the injections, to go check on my warriors, and Jessica my good friend.

I was done taking off the last drip syringe when a doctor and another person I assume to be a rogue leader walked in.

“It's good to see that you are awake,” the doctor said with a smile walking over to where I was standing.

“Thank you so much,” I said looking at the doctor and wondering what the hell he was jotting on his book.

“Do you remember your name?" the doctor asked not taking his eyes off the notepad he was holding.

I pondered on the question for some seconds wondering why he will ask me if I knew my name. If not that the man was an elderly man and looked somewhat experienced in his area of expertise, I would have questioned his reasoning capacity.

I mean how can he ask me if I remember my name, do I look like a child to him.

“Please tell me your name,” the doctor said gently and somehow I felt this question was better than the first one.

Already it's almost odd though that he would even ask because if they don't know me, why would they help me. But since they have been nothing but nice to me, by saving my life, I should be grateful.

“My name is Alexander Xavier,” I said, shifting my gaze to the rogue who have been standing and staring at us the whole time.

“Welcome back Alexander,” the rogue said in a casual tone as soon as our eyes met.

I look at him to know if I had seen his face before or if I knew him from somewhere, but his face was very unfamiliar.

There was something about the way he spoke, he had such a dominant aura around him that would make the weak-hearted cower before him.

Not me though

“Who are you?” I asked as I looked at the rogue who from one glance, I could tell was an alpha wolf.

“My name is Alpha Kai, and you are in my pack. we found you barely holding on to life after you and your men were attacked on your way to a peaceful restoration in one of the packs under you. We decided to bring you to our pack to save your life since you were the only survivor we could find” he said, matching my gaze with his.

The words 'only survivor' rang like a rusted bell in my ears.

“What do you mean by I am the only one that survived, what about the rest of my men? What about Jessica,” I asked in terror as thoughts of what could have happened to them all hit me hard.

“I'm sorry alpha, we couldn't save any of your men, they were all dead when we got there,”

His words felt like thunderbolts on me as if I had been struck on the spot. My mouth was left hanging and my heart bled like an ocean flowing through the Nile.

Like a flash, the faces of my men appeared before my eyes, how the jovial ones would make us laugh, and how bravely we had fought side by for years.

I didn't know when I felt a warm liquid drawing its line across my cheek. I subconsciously reached to touch it and found that it was my tears.

“I'm sorry, alpha,” Kai said in a sober tone.

“Take me there please I need to see them, I need to arrange for their bodies to be sent back to my pack for proper burial, they died in active service, and their body deserves to be treated as a hero,” I said as tried to cover the amount of hurt I was going through.

How would I go back to the pack to tell them that I was the only one that survived an attack that killed all my men? What do I tell their wives? What do I have to tell their children, born and unborn?

Would it be wrong if I wished that I was dead too?

While lost in my subconscious thought, I noticed that the two men were whispering within themselves.

“What is the problem?” I demanded as I stare from one man to another?

“Their bodies had been burnt by the time my men returned to the site,  he said sadly.

If their death wrecked my heart, the news of their bodies being burnt made my heart stop for a few seconds, I didn't know I was almost falling when I felt Kai and the doctor's hands supporting me. After which I was directed to seat back on my chair.

Their bodies were burnt? Who would dare commit such a gruesome act, now of course I know that this was no accident?

This was a well-planned attack and the person seem to know every detail of our movement on that day.

But what could have prompted such gruesomeness? And who is the coward who would carry out such an act?

Yes, coward, only a coward would plan such an attack.

But I swear I will rest until the last one of them that did is six feet below the ground.

“I still want to go there and pay my last respect to them, gather up their ashes, and send them home,” I said to Kai.

“That's not possible alpha Alex,” the rogue said, from his expression I could tell there was more bad news from him.

“It's been over a year since that incident happened and there is nothing for you to see there other than trees and grasses”

“What do you mean it's been over a year, you mean to tell me I have been unconscious all this while?” I asked

I asked in horror as the implication of what he had just said hit me. I have been away from my pack for a whole year, what are the chances of me meeting my home the way I left it.

What are the chances of meeting my ashley the way I left her? Would she still be waiting for me?

“Yes Alex, except that you have not been sleeping the entire time, you had a memory loss, of which we did our very best to help you recover,”

“And no one came to look for me?” I asked as the tiniest bit of me hoped that my uncle would send men to search for me even when I already knew the answer to the question.

“I'm afraid nobody has come yet, and honestly, I would say it's for the best,” Kai said.

“What do you mean?” I questioned keeping steady eye contact with him.

“You have been gone long Alex and many things have changed over the last year, and they are mostly not for good. The life and pack you once knew are no more,” he explained.

From his voice, I could tell that there were many more woes to come for which I am not sure I am prepared.