The Lycan King novel Chapter 33

Nikolai

We had continuously been trying to contact Mikhail and Natalia but their mind-links were completely cut off, their phones unavailable. Something was wrong and I was going crazy because one mistake will cost them their lives.

I had send my best tracker and my best warrior to investigate and we were waiting for them to contact us. I would have liked to go myself but it wasn't safe if they were being held hostage, I would walk right in their trap. Sending more people would raise suspicions so I sent the team I had the most trust on.

It was four in the morning when the warrior, Denis mind-linked me.?"I found Natalia, Alpha. There are no visible wounds on her body body but she isn't walking up."

"Denis found Natalia. No wounds but she isn't waking up." I told my men. We had stayed together in the conference room for the night.

"Check her pulse."?I told him.

"Maybe she was drugged." Vladimir replied. I nodded, that was the best guess.

"The pulse is very low but she is breathing."?He replied.

"Thats good. Make a cut in her palm and smell if she was injected with any drug."?I told him.

"Wolfsbane."?Came his solemn reply. Fuck! I wanted to pull my hair our right now!

"Make sure she keeps breathing, I'll contact you in sometime."?I informed him and cut off the mind-link.

"She has wolfsbane in her system." I said and got up, pacing around the room. I had to do something, fast. There was no pack in the area that would help. It would take him more than six hours to bring her here, time that we didn't have.

She can't die!?Dammit!?Also, there was no news of Mikhail.

"Fuck." Dimitri grumbled.

"Maximilian." I said. He was the only one who would be able to help.

"He is dangerous." Vladimir said. True, but no one knew the extent of connection we had, it ran deeper than anything else.?

"He had a soft spot for Natalie ever since we found her." Andrei said. Now that I think of it, it was true.

"He will do it." I said. I took out my phone and called Maximilian, not caring it was not the most appropriate time.

"Hello." I heard a disgruntled voice.

"I need you to do something." I told him seriously.

"Try calling me tomorrow, I may be in the mood to help you then." Came his response.

"It's Natalia." I snapped.

Taking his silence as a response, I continued. "I had sent her on a secret mission and there seems to have been a problem. She is found in a different location than where she was supposed to be and she is unconscious. She has wolfsbane in her system, the extent of damage is unknown." I told him.

After a minute of silence, came his reply, "where is she?"

I gave him the co-ordinates of the place. "Mikhail is missing, find him too." I added.

"On it." He grunted and cut the call.

"Well that went well." Dimitri said.

"A man named Maximilian will come there to take Natalia. Go with him. Stay there till Natalia is in proper shape and bring her back safely."?I mind-liked Denis.

"Yes, Alpha."?He replied.

I mind-linked the tracker, Remi after that.?"Any sign of Mikhail?"

"Light traces. They are a couple days of old."?He replied.

"Go to Denis. He will introduce you to Maximilian, help him in searching Mikhail and do as he says, he will guide you."?I told him.

"Yes Alpha."?He replied.

"I talked to Denis and Remi. Hopefully they find Mikhail fast." I muttered.

I can't lose my brother.

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It was evening time and we were out on the pack ground, training. I made it a point of training with the entire pack every once a while to see their progress. So all of us were out here, training with the pack. I had made an announcement of the upcoming war among the warriors so they started preparing for it.

Ava was fighting with Sofiya and while she had improved drastically, Ava was taking it easy on her because she was pregnant.

"That's it. Come here, Ava." I told her. She stopped her little fight with Sofiya and came to me.

I led her to a circle and turned towards her. "Let's put your skills to test. Impress me, Love." I told her and took a few steps back.

She nodded at me looking determined and took a few steps back too. A crowd was gathering around us, wanting to see the fight of their Alpha and Luna.

We circled each other before she pounced on me. I jumped too and met her in the air, using my strength and body weight to tackles her down. She fell on her back and I fell above her. She winced but gritted her teeth and put her arms around my neck and buckled her hips to roll me off her and then backed up to create distance between us.

I backed off and removed my t-shirt so I was only in my shorts. I needed to move freely. I motioned her to come at me and and she did. I made a move to punch her jaw which she ducked and she tried to give an uppercut. I caught her fist in my hand and held on tight. I twisted her around and held both of her arms behind her back tightly. She wiggled but couldn't shake me.

"Jump and do a front flip and use the moment to throw me off you." I said against her ear.

She crouched a but before jumped in the air and did a flip just as I told her and threw me off. I was ready for it so I landed on my feet. I smirked at her. She let out a low growl before she charged towards me again and I side stepped her and used her momentum against her and threw her over my shoulder. My wolf came forward and let out a growl, loving the show of dominance over our female.

She placed her hands on my waist and did a black flip, effectively freeing herself. She then got me in a choke hold from behind. I flipped her in front of me and threw her on the ground in front of me, gripping her neck.

"Mikhail is kidnapped." Max mind-linked me.

Ava tried to punch me but I released her neck and held both her hands tightly in mine.

"What? How do you know?"?I asked him, anger filling in me.

"Natalia gained consciousness for a few minutes where she mumbled about kicking asses of the kidnappers. My best guess is they kidnapped them separately and Natalia managed to escape."?He replied. Nat had always been crafty.

Ava had stopped fighting and was looking at me with curious eyes, knowing something is up.

"Thank you, as soon as Natalia is in good shape, Denis will bring her back. I'll look into the kidnapping matter."?I said and walked towards where Dimitri and Vladimir were sparing. The crowd parted for me, making a clear way.

"No need for that, I'm keeping her."?He said.?"She's my mate."

"Take care of her."?I told him. I had already guessed it.

"Of course, brother." Came his reply before he cut off the mind-link.

Vladimir and Dimitri stopped sparing when they saw me come. They walked towards me and Andrei joined is too.

"Mikhail is kidnapped."?My entire being shook with anger as I mind-linked them. We cannot afford for everyone to known this. The information is too vulnerable.

All of their bodies tensed and Vladimir's eyes turned red in rage. "Control yourselves. Nobody can know this. Especially not Ava or Sofiya."?I gritted.?I wanted to smash something, preferably?someone.