Mated to A Rival Alpha-Chapter 310: The Scraps of Hope? [2]

[OBREN]

The evening had been one they hadn’t anticipated, much less one they could have counted on to get them to the Obren borders. And yet they were certain that they would never be able to forget no matter what happened along the way.

They had worked so hard to make their home a good place and as the brothers rode their horses into the sunset that was Obren, they could only wish that things would be alright.

The magic wall that separated Obren and Drarun wasn’t that hard to cross for the vampires, given that all that was needed was a lost heartbeat to get through.

King Nathaniel thought back to the times when all he could do was just sit and rule the people of Drarun; now the one thing that mattered to him was his anger and vengeance.

Maybe that made him a terrible King, but then he had never claimed to be the bastion of temperance; this wasn’t what he had worked so hard for anyway.

He would find a way and he would hopefully put an end to Rania and if he had to go and beg before Kaisei Chihiro set the damn right he would do that. Through the magic boundary, the brothers stayed silent, even as they finally made it to the borders of Obren.

There was no security at the borders, the first sign that there was something very very wrong with the Kingdom. On a regular day, there would be reinforcements and no one could be let in unless the King agreed to it, but today was different.

"This place smells like death," Bai Ting said and his brother couldn’t help but agree.

There was a type of silence here, the kind that didn’t preach good news. It was the silence that was so tense and one that made them question whether there was a sign of life in Obren.

The seventeen packs that always guarded the borders were nowhere to be seen and it was scary how a Kingdom so powerful as Obren could be reduced to this was beyond what any of them could have figured out, but then this was what their current reality was.

"Be on alert. We need to ditch the horses. Besides, who knows what is waiting for us the deeper we get into Obren anyway?

"Let’s tie them up near a tree and hope to the goddess that they will be safer even if we don’t make it back," King Nathaniel said and his brother looked at him like he was being a mood dampener.

They didn’t know what they were getting into and if the silence in the Kingdom was anything to go by, not to mention the darkness that had crept in faster than any other day, then it was pretty obvious there was something they needed to be careful of.

"Should we set up a camp for the night?" Bai Ting asked and his brother shook his head.

They had limited time within these borders before anyone ever knew who they were and alerted the others. Then again the first person who was to be alerted would definitely be an alpha; there was no telling whether Kim Rania would be the first to hear the news.

From what Nathaniel had learned about Kim Rania, the woman never went after anyone blindly.

She was a strategic woman, one who did anything and everything she wanted, with the full knowledge of the consequences. So she wasn’t the kind of woman to be scared of anything.

"We need to go to Calindra first. It is the only way to confirm if the letter we got from Luna Park was real or a forgery to lure us onto this side of the realm. That is the first assurance we need otherwise we might as well find ourselves in the Obren palatial dungeons.

"King Seojoon is easily the best strategist I have ever met and he may have staged this to get us to come here. We can’t relax especially after we had his son in our custody for sixteen years," King Nathaniel said and Bai Ting couldn’t help but agree with his brother.

It was impossible not to, especially with what was going on with them at the moment.

"The letters were too real. It’s impossible that Luna Park did that, besides, the last time we hired rogues to help get justice for Yanna.

"The Luna knows of our agreement with Calindra, so this wouldn’t be it," Bai Tig said as he tried to remind his brother that they had been with Jihoon on the same page just eight months ago, and none of them had done anything that could jeopardize the other.

They had no reason to distrust each other. And that made the vampire King wonder what he was getting into here.

"I was thinking the same, but Obren is known to have people of many skills. And the King could have gotten the best forgers in the business to make that. Anyway, let us go and see for ourselves," Nathaniel said to his brother who just nodded.

They were on a mission that had long been planned for, but maybe their determination to get to the bottom of everything would probably make up for the fact that so much was at stake right?

"A part of me kept hoping that the letters were not real, and that there was no way my little girl would have died again in the hands of the same woman.

"I get that fate is a cruel bitch, but what could be my child’s crime for her to end up like that?" the King asked and Bai Ting just smiled sadly at his brother. It was not going to be easy for any of them to get through this and that much they already knew.

Perhaps they would get better answers once they made it to Calindra.

After all, that was the only way for them to be sure whether there was a truth to what had happened or if it was all bullshit. If Calindra had truly burned, if Calindra had no one living there then it was safe to say that the Calindra Luna hadn’t lied about anything.

"I know. You keep looking around hoping to see little wolves wandering a little too far from home, but everything is too silent brother, the night is too quiet, and not even the birds seem happy in Obren.

"It’s like everything came to a standstill and that doesn’t sound good on any level, brother," Bai Ting said earnestly.

He couldn’t lie to his brother no matter how desperate they both were. Maybe they would find a way to get to Rania, a way to pay back Rania for all the pain, but until then, Calindra it was.

King Nathaniel just nodded at his brother defeated, the reality of everything slowly dawning on them as they tried to think of possible scenarios. Then again there wasn’t anything to think about.

"Holy shit," Bai Ting said as he looked at the emptiness they were met with. It may have been a dark night and with the moon shining selectively, but goddamn, it was the one thing that made them see what had remained of Calindra, the once-powerful pack.

It was not even a shell of what it once was anymore. This was something else. Calindra looked like a version of hell that no one had been to for years; it looked like a blank space, one that many wouldn’t want to be in.