Fated: The Alpha Chapter 211: Do not fail me this time

Chapter 211: Do not fail me this time

Viola didn’t register most of what he said after the words our jet. Wasn’t it his jet? Since when had it become ours?

"Wouldn’t driving through in a car draw attention anyway? I won’t be held responsible for anything that happens to the Alpha who should be sitting in his pack right now." Viola grumbled, acutely aware of how dangerous Nightshade was, and more than anything uncomfortable with the knowledge that the Alpha was making this journey on her account.

The last thing she wanted was to be the reason he got hurt or something terrible happened to him because he had left his pack to follow her on a journey she had planned without him.

Sebastian chuckled softly. "I am not asking you to take responsibility for anything because nothing is going to happen. My scent and aura are masked. No one will know it is the Alpha and his wife inside this car."

When he said that, Viola belatedly realized his aura was nowhere in the air around her. The suffocating atmosphere that always accompanied him wasn’t there either, that particular feeling that made being around him feel like standing in the middle of winter with no coat and no shelter. He had masked it completely.

Every supreme Alpha carried a different kind of aura. There were Alphas with heat auras and Alphas with cold ones, and Sebastian’s was obviously cold, cold as deep frost, the kind that made people instinctively shiver.

Being prone to the cold herself, she always felt it settle into her bones around him. But now that she paid attention she realized the temperature inside the car was perfectly normal, just ordinary morning air, and she felt herself relax by a small but noticeable degree. No one would sense the supreme Alpha sitting behind the wheel of this car. They would simply drive through unnoticed.

After a moment of silence, Viola turned to look at her husband where he sat fastening his seatbelt.

"Won’t you ask me what I am going to Nightshade for?" She asked, a small frown of confusion crossing her face. He hadn’t asked her once, not when she called him the night before and not now.

"Does it matter? Whatever you are going there for must be important enough to make you plan this journey. I trust you wouldn’t make a trip this long for nothing."

Viola didn’t say anything to that and turned her head away to look out the window as he pulled the car out and they drove out of the High Tower grounds, turning sharply into the street where the sun was just beginning to rise in the sky, painting the edges of the clouds in pale gold. Viola drew in a long slow breath of the cool morning air.

He would find out why she was going there when they arrived. Viola thought, hoping with everything in her that she wouldn’t lose herself to him before the journey was over. And also hoping that her sister was well and safe.

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As their car drove off into the distance, at the highest floor of the High Tower someone stood watching them with keen and sharp eyes, tracking the car until it disappeared around the far bend that led to the main streets. His fingers tightened slowly into fists at his sides, but on his face sat a small smirk.

"This is the perfect opportunity we have been waiting for." He remarked quietly, speaking into a pod attached to his ear, his silver hair catching the morning breeze that ruffled the strands across his forehead and cheek.

"He is leaving the pack. Carry on with the plan exactly as I ordered. Make sure you do not touch the girl. I have given my word on that. You have the weapons I sent. Do not fail me this time."

"Yes, Supreme Alpha!" Answered the person on the phone.

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Viola and Sebastian barely shared more than one or two words as the car drove away from the big city of Silver and into the more forested side lanes, where the long tarred road stretched on ahead of them with tall trees lining both sides.

Sebastian was moving at a speed that made the wind rush in through the window she had rolled down on her side, and she leaned into it, letting the scenery pull her attention away from him and from the awkward silence sitting between them in the car.

The sun was high in the sky now and its rays spilled over the long roadside trees, occasionally falling across their car and warming her face where she had it turned toward the window.

She closed her eyes and breathed in the soothing late summer air, purely natural and clean out here, nothing like the city air of Silver Pack.

Sebastian discreetly watched his wife from the corner of his eye and bit back a smile as he heard her let out a soft sigh every time the sunlight fell across her face.

She was sitting half turned away from him with her arm bent against the window ledge and her chin resting on it, her ponytail thick and full behind her head, the morning light catching the dark strands of her hair.

He was well aware she was trying to ignore his presence by refusing to talk to him, and because he genuinely enjoyed the sight of her enjoying the countryside around her, he didn’t disrupt the silence by forcing her into conversation that would ruin the peaceful silence.

He had stayed away from her for days in an effort to silence the rumors of her being his mate, and he had been more than miserable during every single one of those days.

Now he wanted nothing more than to take this time with her and simply enjoy it, to let his mind rest for once. No pack matters pressing down on him, no rumors to manage, and no deliberate distance to maintain between them.

Matt would handle everything in his absence. Furthermore, many of the packs had begun to adapt to civilization and no longer made unexpected attacks on Silver the way they had when he first rose to the Alpha seat. So his absence wouldn’t be noticed.

Sebastian let his eyes follow the same path Viola was looking along as the car moved, and he noticed she was watching the birds lifting from the trees and breaking into the open sky above them, a small and unguarded smile sitting on her face as she tracked them.

"Isn’t it lovely out here?" He remarked conversationally, and she glanced away from the sky and nodded her head.

"It is lovely..." She whispered quietly and went back to looking out the scenery.

After some moment.

"Are you hungry?" He asked, looking at her half turned back.

Viola began to shake her head when her stomach let out a loud and very decisive growl that was heard clearly over the muted sounds of the moving car.

Her cheeks heated up immediately in embarrassment and she wished she could detach her stomach from her body entirely for the way it consistently gave away every lie she tried to tell about not being hungry when she was in fact absolutely starving.

She hadn’t had breakfast and it was approaching lunch now, and this journey was going to be long enough that she might as well waste away before they got there. She had hoped to eat breakfast with Nick at his favorite restaurant the way they had originally planned.

She heard Sebastian chuckle softly beside her and turned to find him biting the inside of his lower lip in quiet amusement as he glanced over at her.

"Your stomach says otherwise, darling. Let’s stop and grab something to eat. I am hungry too." He admitted, turning the car off the main road and into a small town sitting between Silver Pack territory and a neighboring pack, where a small pack community was forming but hadn’t yet grown very far beyond its beginnings.