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~Faye

I'm not sure what to say to Kael, but he seems finished with the conversation.

I let him walk away, as I notice Alden walk closer. Clearly, he's been listening to our conversation, which doesn't surprise me at all. He's attentive like that, always seeming like he understands what is going on at all times. His expression is solemn as he comes to stand in front of me. I'm assuming I look the exact same as he does, because at least that is how I feel.

"Everything okay with Kael?" he asks, glancing back to where the Alpha of Discipline walks away. "I apologise if this is intrusive, but I've seemed to notice that you two don't have the best relationship."

I sigh deeply, wishing I could clear my head for a moment to make sense of everything. "Just a misunderstanding. I just need time to think about some things."

"I did come over because I wanted to speak to you about your boyfriend," Alden says. I pale as my mind flutters to Cal. Alden knows a lot, but how could he possibly know about the kiss Cal and I shared last night? "Or rather, I thought that I could possibly talk to you about your date to the ball."

Oh. T.

"Right, T," I say carefully, raising my eyebrow at him curiously. "Why's that?"

"I would like to speak to him about something regarding his past, if he wouldn't mind," Alden says, giving none of his intentions away. I freeze under his gaze, realising that the moment Alden see's T again, it may be revealed that I'm keeping him as my prisoner. At this point, the Alpha of Wisdom might already know that.

I try act as indifferent as possible, while appearing mildly curious.

"You know him? I've only known T for a brief time, so I'm sure you must know more about him. If you're willing to come to my Pack, I'm sure T would be happy to speak to you," I say warmly, deflecting the idea of taking T away from my property.

Alden nods, satisfied. "Absolutely. I'll come back with you on Thursday, when the meetings are over."

I smile despite myself. It's inconvenient, but I can't imagine a time any better than now. Soon, I'll have no reason left to keep T at my estate against his will, so if I can find any information out from Alden, then it is an added bonus.

If anyone knows something about me, it's the Alpha of Wisdom.

***

I've never slept walked in my life. Nor have a I slept walked and been completely aware of what I'm doing.

No sound rouses me from slumber that night, just my own thoughts. My eyes flutter open, my mind taking a few moments to realise I'm not in my own room, but here, where the Alpha meetings take place. I could easily have closed my eyes to not be concerned with waking, however, every muscle of my body seems foreign, as I sit up, somehow against my will.

My feet slide out of the bed, and as I stand, reaching for a jacket draped across my dresser, my heart rate steps up. No matter how hard I beg my limbs to be in my control, they refuse, taking sure steps out the door as my jacket comes over my shoulder.

I attempt to open my mouth to scream for the Alphas slumbering around me, but there's nothing. No sound comes from my mouth, no matter how hard I will it do.

My only choice is to allow my body to take me where it plans to.

I stride straight out the main doors of the estate without a hesitation in my step. I'm not sure where my body plans to go, or who is behind this, but as I walk confidently toward a car, fear completely consumes me. I don't even have the ability to control my gaze.
I'm not sure whose car it is, but they left the keys in it. Too convenient to be happenstance. Whoever is controlling my body manipulated this to happen to.

Whoever is behind this gives nothing away. I look for cues in my own movement, but nothing. I turn the car on, put it into gear and drive off down the road. The opposite way to where I came from in my Pack...

I plead in my mind for whoever is behind this to let up. Nothing.

Eventually I pull to the side of an unfamiliar road, before stepping out, leaving the car running. Around me is straight desert, that drops off at the edge of a cliff. My heart almost completely stops right there, as I realise the possible intention of the person controlling me.

No. No, no.

One foot after the other, I stride until I reach the end of the cliff, before I stop, my toes almost teetering over the edge. It's the strangest feeling having all this fear building up inside me, but not being able to physically express it in any way.

I can't see the bottom of the ravine, considering the darkness around me. All I can see is what the moon allows me to with its light scattered all around.

"Faye, it's okay," someone says from behind me. It's Ren, the Alpha of Loyalty. I know that soft, soothing voice anywhere.

I can't move anywhere. I can't even answer him.

"This isn't the answer to how you're feeling," he says gently. I hear him take a step closer. "If you just step away from there, we can talk this through, I promise. I'm here for you Faye...Just please, step back."

I want to cringe. He thinks I'm wanting to kill myself. All of a sudden, my throat seems to warm with my own self-control, and I'm able to talk again.

"I can't, I'm not in control right now," I breathe, unable to take my eyes off of the darkness I'm seconds away from falling straight into. Ren is far back, it seems, not wanting to get to close in case I might fling myself off the cliff as if I'm not in a reasonable mindset right now. In actuality, whoever is behind this odd sense of mind control could make me take a single step, and I would be gone.

"You are, you just have to trust me with this, and take a step back," he says slowly, tentatively. "This isn't the answer to your problems-"

"Ren!" I snap.

If I could roll my eyes right now, I would.

"I'm not going to jump off this cliff because I want to, but because there is some magical force controlling my entire body," I say, my ability to look where I please also coming back to me. I close my eyes to avoid seeing what is below. "I would appreciate it if you could come and help me."

Almost instantly I feel warm hands on my arms, pulling me back from the cliff. At the feeling of Ren's touch, all the feeling of control seeps into my limbs, and I collapse onto the ground.

He's saying something but I can hardly hear him. Instead, I concentrate on him picking me up, cradling me gently as he walks me back to the car.

"God Faye, you're freezing," he murmurs.

I hadn't even noticed how cold it gets here at night until now. My skin erupts into slight shivers, until we reach the car, and Ren places me into the passenger seat. His car is parked on the other side of the road, headlights beaming into the one I had stolen. Even though I have control back of my limbs, I still can't move them, feeling completely drained and weak.

"Who is behind this?" Ren asks, crouching down beside the car seat, duel eyes sweeping over me, looking for any physical damage.

"I'm not sure," I breathe, watching him as searches for something in the car. "If I knew, I would be finding my way to them to kill them."

Ren shakes his head at me, grabbing a water bottle from the cup holder. He cracks it open and helps me drink from it. It feels good, as I never realised how I thirsty I was until he places the rim against my lips. I thank him, but he shrugs him off. Always befriend someone from the Loyalty Pack. Perhaps no one else would have killed.

"You're not going after anyone in this state," he says gently, screwing the lid back on. "I promise we will find who did it. And, we are going to hurt them, bad. Right now, I'm going drive you back home."

I nod slightly. I want to be home, and away from a cliff that whoever had a handle over my mind could have had me step over. My mind feels completely violated.

Ren does drive me home.

I fall asleep at some point, and when I next wake up, I'm in my bed, and it's the morning.
When I rush downstairs, Ren is nowhere to be seen, and Cal assures me he took me here, and once I was cared for, he left again. I make a mental note to call him later and thank him profusely.

First, I'm going to see T. I need to make sure he doesn't know anything about my mind, and who may have been behind it.

I unlock his door, after knocking a few times, to no answer. As I open the door, my eyes instantly finding the bed, I nearly throw up at the sight of the place.

Blood. Everywhere. And in the middle of the bed, is T. Not looking alive at all.

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