Mated To My Best Friend's Lycan Alpha Brothers novel Chapter 355

Chapter 355: What Actually Happened Beneath The Water

(Author’s POV)

*Half an Hour Ago*

"Here~ .... This is where I last felt Jacob’s scent," Alaric guided them to the place. The siblings sniffed the surrounding air to track the Vampire King, but there wasn’t any lingering hint of spicy myrrh or wine, Jacob’s Larson’s usual smell. That, for everyone, was concerning, gravely concerning.

"Al, you stay here with them. I will enter the waters and take a look," Brave murmured. He glanced at Nora, gave her a nod which she reciprocated and dived into the sea.

Nora started on her task, the fine jewelled pendulum illuminating gloriously. With her eyes shut and her hair waving in the air, resembling the flowing water, in that moment, she seemed like the spitting image of the very moon goddess.

Even Fabian couldn’t take his eyes off of her. She looked so divine and pure, with no malice whatsoever. Who could not be mesmerized by such etherealness?

The waves that were crashing onto their boat, stabilized, as they waited for Brave to come out.

As soon as Brave plunged inside, he felt the icy, penetrating cold water on his skin, like an impactful slap on his face, making his usually heated body jolt in shock. The initial sensation made him gasp involuntarily, but his wolf, Raw, quickly took over him, allowing him to breathe easily.

Beneath the surface, it wasn’t just dark but Vantablack. The visibility, due to the gloomy weather conditions and nighttime, had worsened quite a bit, and it was nearly impossible to see anything. But thanks to Nora’s elemental magic and Brave’s wolf senses, he was managing somehow in there.

He glided like a fish to search the area. From a distance, he could see that the seafloor was carpeted with rough, spiky, small and big rocks. The biggest one was comparable to a giant boulder. It was a difficult area to look for Jacob, and because of the limited power usage, it was getting even harder. Nevertheless, he went deep down to look some more.

Kelps, tangled like a spider web, were spread all across the seabed, with numerous green and red algae sitting gracefully between them.

At the boat, the tension was palpable. Alaric and Fabian mirrored the same tight and uneasy expression, their eyes transfixed on the navy surface.

Nora was fully immersed, her lips parting and closing as she chanted repeatedly. Her body had started to feel strained and fatigued, but she held herself together. Aura, her wolf, was doing her part to keep her nerves calm and at ease.

Brave emerged to the surface. Everyone, including Nora, glanced at him with expectant eyes, waiting for his words, but he just shook his head dejectedly and told them, his voice held a tremor, maybe due to the coldness of the water, or was it the disappointment he was feeling for not being able to find Jacob, nobody other than he knew. He said, "I have looked around, but there seemed to be nothing."

Fabian’s eyes reddened listening to him, "Did you even search properly?" The diminishing chance of saving his grandfather was making his mind spiral. He was on the verge of falling apart.

"I can’t trust you. I will have to look for him myself," he was ready to jump in, but Alaric held him, his hand gripping his shoulder like an iron clad, "Fabian Stephens, are you so eager to die? Stay right here."

"Release me, now," Fabian uttered, his voice grim and menacing.

"No~ .... You are my responsibility. If you so wish die, do it on the land. Do it when we are not around. Got it," Alaric roared, his voice matching Fabian’s grimness. He then shifted his attention back to his twin and said, "You come out, I will inspect this time."

On his words, Brave and Alaric exchanged places as the latter plunged into the freezing water, submerging in it and then completely disappearing. As he had already done this earlier, he seemed more accustomed to the water temperature. He was agile and quick as he swam around.

After inspecting for a while, things seemed to be dreary and hopeless, with no sign of Jacob whatsoever. The time of fate was slipping away, like the sand through an hourglass, and Alaric was about to go back, but all of a sudden, he noticed something shining that felt out of the ordinary to him. It was near the kelp vines. He wasted no time and streamlined towards the place.

And surely enough, it was a bracelet made up of bloodstone. Alaric immediately recalled he had seen one just like that on Jacob’s wrist. A glimmer of hope surged through him as he rattled through the twisted and entwined kelp vines.

Its blade like leaves were cutting through his exposed hands and face, but he didn’t stop and was uprooting them, tearing them out of the way.

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