Emmett's POV

"Don't touch me,” Sam said in a deep voice that didn’t even sound like his but that's not what stopped me dead in my tracks. No, it was his eyes when he looked at me. He was so angry and hurt, which I understood, but when he looked up at me his eyes turned black right before my own eyes. The golden-orange ring that outlined his pupil was thicker than the one I saw last night but it confirmed that I really did see that last night. “I hate all of you!" Sam yelled at me and it hurt everywhere in me to hear those words. The powerful force that hit me just after that was like nothing else. I never saw it coming. It wasn't human.

He threw me, an alpha, across the whole room as I landed on Brian, who also fell back from the force and crashed into the TV. We were all frozen, I could feel pain in my chest from it. The power behind it nearly crushed my rib cage and I couldn't move for a moment. If I wasn't an alpha I would have been dead for sure. Brian had been knocked out cold.

"Are you okay? It's so dark. I'm scared for Sam. What happened?" Viv asked, shaking as she checked Brian to make sure he was okay.

"He- ahh, he overheard me yelling at Luke," I said, slowly getting up with her help as the pain started to lessen with my fast healing. "Let's go. We have to stop him. The hunters are still looking for him, I'm sure of it." 

I quickly linked with the guards downstairs and told them to stop Sam before he left. I opened the door as Viv and I ran out after Sam to see him avoid the guards and started running faster than ever before down the other stairs.

I started down as fast as I could in a hurry but I was too late. He was already heading for the elevators. I yelled for him to stop, I yelled for them to stop him but the doors opened at the perfect time, like fate.

"No! Stop him!" I commanded them all in my alpha voice as he jumped inside. The look of hatred and anger in his black eyes was looking right into mine, cutting me deeper than any knife could. "Sam please don't go!" But it was too late, the doors closed.

"Fuck!" I yelled and punched the wall, cracking the stone. I tried to link with everyone to order them to go catch him as soon as the doors opened but Viv cut off my link.

"I think we should let him go. I'm sorry. I know he means everything to you Emmett but if you push him even more right now, he will only hurt himself or someone else without meaning to." Viv said behind me. "You don't want him to feel that guilt Emmett please listen to me."

I turned to her in anger. "Shut up Viv! Do you really think leaving him out there is a safe fucking thing to do right now? Are you stupid?"

She stepped back from me as I yelled at her without meaning to. "I don't know how but I could see Sam's color yesterday and that wasn't the color I saw. That was something dark and I fear something really bad will happen if you keep pulling him. He's unstable and whatever that was in him is angry and dark and it scares me, Emmett."

Everyone around the grant hall looked at me waiting for my command. But I didn't know what to do. As soon as those doors opened upstairs, Sam was going to run as fast and as far as he possibly could. It was all my fault. I was just so angry at Luke, I didn't even smell or hear Sam down there until he walked in the room, until it was too late.

I sat down on the stairs, feeling rejected, and that hurt more than any wound I've gotten before. I felt so heavy like this huge weight just dropped on my shoulder as I buried my face in my hands. My wolf is silent, he was whining for Sam before, feeling his pain this whole time but as soon as those doors closed, it seemed like he closed the door on me too. I felt so sick.

"What is the meaning of this?" I heard a loud booming voice behind me as I sat there. "What is going on here?"

I slowly stood up again. "Please everyone, carry on with your work," I told them not even caring to hide the shame and upset in my voice before turning around to face none other than my father.

He was the alpha of the pack before me. It was just his luck that his own son took the spot after him, making him think he could still run this pack and make decisions on his own.

Alphas were born all over a pack but only the strongest alpha can take control of the whole pack and I just so happened to be the strongest, a gift given by Fenrir, the wolf god strong enough to kill Odin himself. The next alpha could be anyone in the next generation of alphas as long as they won the Alpha Trials. It rarely ran in a single bloodline anymore.

"What happened? You're making a huge scene out here. Maybe you should go back upstairs and deal with your problems without disturbing the whole pack. Acting like a damn pup down here."

"This is all your fault," I said low through my teeth. Wanting to take my anger and pain out on him.

He looked at me confused. "My fault? And what did I do this time, pup?" He asked annoyed and loudly so everyone could hear him.

That only angered me more as he disgraced me in front of them like that.

I didn't look much like my father unless in wolf form. I got my black wolf from him but his wolf was a solid black as mine was black with a light tan undercoat. But in human form, we were almost the opposite. Besides our black hair, he was big and muscular, as where I was lean and muscular. His eyes were the normal alpha red as mine was ice blue like my mothers were, rare to see in any alpha. He was mean and ruthless as I always thought of others which is why he had no problem using Sam as bait and why I didn't want him to know Sam was my mate yet.

I got everything from my mother in looks, and that made him hate me even more growing up because I killed her while she was giving birth to me. My body shifted into wolf form too early and ripped her insides apart, making her bleed out before she could heal. When a female was in labor the ability to heal would stop so they wouldn't heal in the middle of it and kill their pups. It was their biggest weakness.

We never got along even after I became alpha and the leader of the pack. He always found a way to be disappointed in me.

"You... you talked me into letting him go. You said he would be fine and that it was for the safety of this pack but he almost died because I listened to you. He just left because of what you told me to do," I yelled at him and growled as I showed him my teeth.

He started laughing in a roar. "Last I checked you were the alpha of this pack and made the final decisions around here. Maybe you should stop blaming me for your own fuck ups for once. Why does the human even matter so much to you anyways? He's just a worthless thief."

"He's my mate! There! Now everyone knows the truth," I yelled in a fit of rage throwing my arms up like a crazy person.

"He's your what? And you put him in that kind of danger? What the hell is wrong with you?" My father questioned me as I was starting to see red.

"Get upstairs now. Everyone is watching," Viv said and tried to push me to the stairs.

I didn't listen and grabbed my father almost knocking her over. "Because you told me too! Because you said it was the best of the pack! And because you said he would be fine! That's why I did it and yet your men failed the simplest of jobs. I trusted the training you gave those men to find the truth and to keep eyes on him at all times. I didn't tell anyone he was my mate because I didn't want to scare him off. After all, he didn't even know about our kind yet and it would have been confusing and freaked him out if I just called him my mate and jumped all over him."

"You never put your mate in danger like that, you fool. How could anyone trust you as a leader if you could so easily be convinced into putting their next luna in harm's way?" He yelled and I stepped down a little and looked down the stairs to see a few of them look at each other in question and mumbling. "And I think you scared him off all by yourself. None of this is my fault. Grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your own actions like a true leader should and stop acting like a pup." He pushed me away as everyone watched.

Viv jumped in the middle. "Stop. Upstairs now!" She yelled pointing at the stairs.

"No! I have to go find him before the hunters do." I turned around and started down the stairs trying to think of who I needed to help me track him down. He already had too far of a head start.

I'm so sorry Sam. Please, forgive me but I will find you and bring you back home. I'll make this right and give you all the love you deserve and we will figure out the rest later.