Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 196

The boyfriend from before chuckled again. "So what, kid? You're gonna take over the world?"

"... Of course not. That's crazy." Kaiden said, but in the same moment he balled his outstretched hand into a fist as though he had grasped something no one could ever take away from him. "No..." He said. "So much could go wrong. But could you imagine if it went right, Krys?"

I didn't want to. I shook my head and held him tighter. "Can we go to sleep now?"

His face fell, mind coming back to reality. "Of course." He pulled me closer and made sure Mr. Huggles was comfortably at my side. Then he watched over me as I fell asleep.

The next day would be the last time I'd see him. I would cross a border checkpoint where a girl in blonde pigtails would make eye contact with me, rush up to me, and never let me go.

I would feel compelled to follow her as she dragged me back towards her pack, the same one responsible for holding my people hostage. I would be incapable of letting go of her hand, but also unwilling to let go of my brother's. I would pull away from her, holding onto him to the point where she would ask her pack members if he could come too.

A tall man with amber eyes would shake his head and say, "Only the imprint."

I wouldn't care. I would not let go of my brother. Kaiden would be forced to rip my arms away and tell me to go. "They'll have water for you," he would bribe me with.

I wouldn't let go, bursting into tears.

"You won't have to walk anymore, you crybaby." He would, fake a smile for me.

I still wouldn't let go.

The tall man with amber eyes, the one I would later find out to be the alpha, would tell my pigtailed girl to walk back to the gates.

"No," she'd say firmly. "I can't leave her."

"Trust me," he'd say. "She'll follow."

And sure enough, despite everything that would tell me to hold onto my brother for dear life, my body would let him go. I would watch his figure turn into just a silhouette in the distance, cast against the burning sun, before the guards told him to keep walking.

But that night on the dirt floor beside him-with the snores of the teenage girl, her boyfriend's irritated grumbles, and the guards looming over us-I peacefully slept in my brother's arms hoping the next day of walking would never come.

Brittany's POV - Childhood

"And then he called me stupid," Asher screams, pulling at his mother's skirt.

"Aiden," she gasps, even though she doesn't sound at all surprised. "Did you use the s-word against your brother?"

"Yes he did," Asher says before Aiden gets the chance to, not that the colder brother would deny it.