The Big Sky Alpha novel Chapter 149

149. Rogues at the wall

FREYA POV

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Weeks went by with almost a sort of bliss feeling. It was as close to peace as I imagine could be these days. There’s been little activity on our wall, Colt and the guys have figured out everything they need for the emergency shelter.

Levi actually had this brilliant idea to use the trees to get air into the shelters. They’ve been burrowing in the trees that are above the shelter creating holes that go up into the trees. They did it on one and tested the idea to see how it would work with regard to the sounds of the people that would be in there.

Thankfully, the wood muffles the sound enough that you can’t hear anything. Digging these holes in the trees has been a bit of a challenge though. It’s taken them quite some time to get half the trees ready. Getting the last half of the trees ready is all they have left to do, and that shelter is good and ready.

My hope is that we don’t end up needing to use it. I am glad that the idea came up though. I feel better that there’s an escape place if the worst were to happen. The idea of the worst happening though, well that’s kept me up most nights lately.

Nightmares riddle my sleep, most nights I just lie awake overthinking everything just so that I don’t

fall asleep and have another nightmare.

I’ve left our room a few times in the night and walked around. I’ve found my dad and brother out a

few times. I’ve tried to talk to my brother, but he’s so messed up from watching what they did to

his wife and children that he won’t. I’m not at all sure if he is even hearing the things that I’m saying

to him, or even if he recognizes that I am his sister imagine he does; he seems to understand and

recognize my father. He obeys his commands, father said he’s still fully battle ready, but that’s all

these days.

Thinking of the horror that he must have witnessed to put him in this state brings fear to me.

There’s been a bit of activity surrounding us with the rogues. Colt seems to think that the vamps. will be coming around here soon. He thinks the rogues are being pushed up here by the vamps.

He’s been saying that for a while though, he’s been saying that since before my father arrived.

As I walk around tonight, doing my best to not sleep, I’ve found myself looking up to the stars. I’ve been trying to call to the goddess lately. I don’t know where she is, or what happened to her, I have no idea if she’s okay, or if she’s just completely abandoned us. I need to feel her presence though and I haven’t felt her in so long that it really does get to me. As a wolf with the abilities that I have, when I am out in the star and moonlight, and I can’t feel the power of them, it tells me that something is terribly wrong.

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I feel like there’s a hole inside of me. I can still do my abilities. None of that has been impacted, somehow. Don’t get me wrong, I am very happy that I can still use those abilities. I just wish I could feel my connection to the world like I used to before all of this happened.

A loud noise brought me out of my spaced–out thoughts. Once I came back to reality it became apparent to me that there was an attack on the wall. I ran towards it, expecting the absolute worst.

When I got there I found Ash and ran to him, “What’s going on?” I yelled as I climbed up to where he was, so he could look over the wall.

He shrugged his shoulders and answered so nonchalantly, “Just rogues.”

I sighed, relief washed over me quickly.

Colt came up behind us, I hadn’t even noticed him at all.

“Couldn’t sleep, huh?” He said, startling me.

I gasped and shook my head at myself chuckling that I was clearly that much on edge.

“No. Then I heard the noise of the attack.” I answered.

“You can go back to bed Alpha and Luna. It’s just a few rogues. Nothing to be concerned with.” Ash said looking over at us like he was surprised we were even concerning ourselves with this at all.

“How often does this happen?” I asked.

“Almost nightly. Like I said, nothing to be concerned with we have it under control.’ He answered

1. me.

That took me by surprise. However, when I looked over at Colt it didn’t seem as though this news phased him. He must know that this is a regular occurrence. I mean, I knew that the rogues were making more appearances around us, but I was not aware that they were attacking our walls so

regularly.

This was unsettling. Not only is the fact that it’s happening unsettling, but also that I had no idea

how frequent of an occurrence this has been.

Colt took my hand to lead me away, “He’s right, they have this under control. It’s only a few rogues.”

Hesitantly, I went with him.

After a minute or so, when we were a bit away from the wall disturbance, I stopped walking and turned to him, “Is there a reason you’ve not been telling me about the rogue attacks?” I asked possibly a bit more accusing than I meant.

He looked at me with confusion, “Freya I have been telling you. Maybe not every single night that it happened, but I’ve made sure to tell you most times that there’s been an issue. Some nights it’s really small, like one or two of them. Some nights it’s more along the lines of eight to ten. Anything

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more than two of them I’ve told you.”

The audacity. Lying right to my face. He could tell that I was irritated.

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“Freya, I just told you this morning at breakfast that there were a few rogues at the gates last night.

You just nodded your head and kept eating.”

Domina Sacarius

Hey my beautiful readers!! I am so sorry for the lack of updates, it was not intentional I promise! I found out I am pregnant at the end of November and ever since have been in and out of the hospital for complications, out of all my kids this one is the hardest… I appreciate you all and as I am home recovering the next couple of days I am hoping I will be doing a chapter dump but I ask you to bare with me. Life is throwing me some crazy curve balls but I haven’t forgotten bout you!! #vote #