The Alpha's Fated Outcast: Rise Of The Moonsinger. - Chapter 239

Chapter 239: Who truly is the Dark one?
Ramsey

I followed the lead of one of the nurses to the hospital’s director. When we got there, I knocked twice before throwing open the door, only to find a pot-bellied man behind the mahogany desk, with his legs propped up, snoring loudly.

I crossed the room in two strides and yanked the man up by the collar, lifting him off the ground easily.

The director gasped, his eyes widening in terror from suddenly having his nap time cut to seeing me there without prior notice.

“A-Alpha Ramsey!” he stuttered.

“Cassl, every damn doctor in this building and this hospital. Right now!” I growled. “I want all the wards opened and every patient outside this hospital treated within the hour. If I see one more person bleeding on the floor while a ‘VIP’ bed remains empty, I’ll personally have you thrown out of this pack!”

“B-But Alpha, the protocols…”

I didn’t let him finish before dropping him unceremoniously and announcing. “You’re fired.”

I turned and stride the small, startled group of doctors that had gathered at the door when the drama started. “Who here knows this hospital inside and out? Who has management experience and has stayed the longest? Someone who knows all the doctors, at least.”

There was silence for a few minutes until a middle-aged man with streaks of grey in his hair came forward. “I do, Alpha. My name is…”

“You’ll tell me your name later,” I interrupted. “You’re the new director. I want every wounded person inside this hospital within the hour. Use every resource and every staff member. No more tier system. Lives are lives. If I come back and see you’re dragging your feet, I’ll close down the hospital and let the pack healers take over. Is that clear?”

The man nodded grimly before turning to the rest of the staff to back out orders. I was already out of the room when I heard him telling them that they could not afford to lose anyone today.

Within minutes, the entire hospital was in motion. The VIP wards were opened, doctors rushed around, and the wounded were finally being brought in. Satisfied, I went back outside, where Lenny and the Gam, mas including Training H,eads were already waiting.

Their faces were grim, and their bodies tense with anticipation. Nathan seemed to be in the middle of sevmind-linkslinks at the same time. When he was done, I turned my attention to him.

“More explosions?”

He nodded. “This time, coming from around the areas where the Harvest Moon Festival was done. There are no casualties yet, just buildings being razed down.”

I chuckled and turned to them. “I want to hear your thoughts on what to do next. Nathan Tanner has openly declared war against the White Mountain Region and on our pack. Now, tell me who we make him regret that decision.”

There was silence for a while before Nathan cleared his throat. “First, we have to figure out how the explosives came into White Moon without anyone’s knowledge. I mean, it’s impossible. I had ruled out the Harvest Moon festival because, after the festival, we double-checked and triple-checked that nothing foreign was left in the pack…”

“We cannot be too sure about that, Lenny,” Gamma Caius sighed. “We might have missed some things, better still, what I might have been looking for may not be what Nathan had planted. I’ve made sure that the security team triple-checks whatever comes into White Moon, including food supplies. I’m pretty sure the set-up for the explosion didn’t happen today. They were all too spontaneous.”

“Then how about the explosion that happened in the meeting hall? How is that even possible?”

“You said you visited Alpha Tanner recently? I’ve been doing a lot of research,h and there are ways to sneak in explosive devices without carrying an entire set of them. Some are as little as tiny magnets, and all you need to do is to attach them to the clothes or devices…”

“Are you saying that might have been the case?” I asked, my mind already running in circles.

“Ye,s and also, whatever you might have brought in alleged, ly though may have activated the other explosives. I’m willing to bet that’s the case,” Gamma Caius said.

“So, how do we know this?”

“He requested that a sample of your clothes be sent to the lab, they’re working on it right now to see if what he said was exactly what happened,” Lenny supplied. “But I want us to thread with caution, Alpha… Nathan is too smart to activate random explosions. He’s trying to get a reaction from us.”

My gaze darkened. “That’s what he wants us to think. The more excuses we make for him, the more he does what he really wants to. We strike h, ard, and we strike fast. We show Nathan that there are consequences for betrayal. First, we secure our borders. No one in, no one out. Second, we prepare our warriors – we will march on Blue Ridge. But…” I paused. “We do not touch the innocent. The women, the children, the elderly – anyone uninvolved stays safe. This is between Nathan and us.”

“Does Nathan know the fight is between you and him?” Lenny fired. “You heard his demands, he wants Lyla…”

“Do you think if I let Lyla go, she would ever come back to me? She’s my mate, Lenny and my Luna-to-be. We can’t simply…”

“We could save lives and resources trying to use her as a mediator. Nathan is one of the many battles we will fight. We’re low on a lot of things; we cannot risk starting a war. If we go ahead and fight Nathan, we will lose out. Because then we would need to use all the available resources for the warriors and the war.”

“I will not send Lyla back to her ex. She is my priority,” I said firmly.

“You don’t understand me, Ramsey,” Lenny sighed, running a hand through his hair. “To fight Nathan is to match him back-to-back. Are we sure he would stop the war if Lyla goes over to him? Of course, No! But what is the aim? We want all the resources that were withheld by him to be sent to us. We want our trade routes to be opened long enough to find other solutions, so when he comes out of that oblivion, we’re already ten steps ahead.”

“And you need Lyla to be the scapegoat?”

“Nathan will not hurt her!” Lenny sighed. “He loves her…”

“Lenny!” I growled a warning. “That’s disrespectful.”

“I’m only saying the truth, Alpha Ramsey. Suppose it offends your sensibility, then fine. Look around you. Do you have any idea how much manpower we’ve lost today? How has everything been so sudden? And there’s one person who can put a temporary stop to everything and allow us to regroup?”

“Well, should I send a bedridden, Lyla? Someone who hasn’t gained consciousness yet?” I bristled, already angry at Lenny’s cold words. “Lyla has been through so much…”

“Please spare me, Alpha!” Lenny snickered. He calls me Alpha whenever he’s angry at me about something. “You know the right thing to do. Now is not the time to play favouritism. Perhaps if you hadn’t…”

“Not a word from you, Lenny!” I thundered. I knew exactly what he wanted to say. “I’ve heard enough from you today. You will not appear before me until…”

“You cannot ask me not to appear before you. I am your Beta, and I must always be by your side. Perhaps, when you’re calm, you’ll realize that I was giving you good advice.”

Without waiting for my response, he turned and walked away, leaving me with the Gammas and the Training Heads. There was a moment of awkward silence, and I knew it was partly from how Lenny’s fights used to be. We always fought as though we were twins or lovers married for years.

“The rest of you can go. I need an hourly report on security checks, okay?” I finally broke the silence.

Gamma Caius cleared his throat and came closer. “Alpha, I know I may have mentioned this to you before, but I think it’s worthy to be mentioned now.”

“Okay!” I nodded and turned to him. “I’m all ears.”

He turned to the training Heads and nodded. The three of them bowed before walking away. As soon as we were alone, Gamma Caius came close. He pulled out his phone and played a video.

The video was filmed during the Harvest Moon Festival. It was the time the ritual was starting, and everyone had their heads bowed. Everyone was bowing except Nathan. His eyes were glowing, and there was this aura emanating from him. Though I wasn’t there with him, I could feel it in the video and worst of all, he was staring at Lyla.

His eyes were gleaming with malicious intent as if there was more.

Whoever captured the video did a good job of capturing Nathan’s emotions and everything. It was clear that whoever was standing that night wasn’t just Nathan.

“I believe, Nathan…” Gamma Caius paused “Actually, it’s two options. It’s either he has a direct affiliation with the dark one, or he is the dark one himself. But my bet is on the second option.”