COLTON FINDS REECE

COLTON'S POV

"We should have found them by now." I say to Ryder as stop to rest somewhere in the woods.

"Be realistic Colton. We left the castle this morning. They know we're looking for them so I'm sure they've hidden well. It won't be easy finding them." Ryder says as he sits on a trunk of wood.

He opens his bottle of water and takes huge gulps.

"I still can't believe Damon refused to come with us." I state with a frown. Damon should be here with us. He is our brother and the Alpha. If anyone should be leading this search, it should be him.

Instead, he chose to abandon his responsibilities for a human. A filthy human slave. It doesn't make any sense to me. 

"He has his reasons." Ryder states nonchalantly.

"He stayed back to be a nanny to an injured pet. I'm sorry but I am finding it very difficult to consider that a reason." I state.

"So he cares about the girl. So what Colton?" Ryder questions looking bored which is only making me more annoyed. He is always siding with our brother, making me look like I'm crazy.

"So you're telling me you don't see a problem with his behavior?" I ask Ryder.

"No Colton. I don't. You know how I feel about the humans. I have never been okay with keeping them as slaves. You and Damon have been more than cruel to them for years. Ever since this girl came along, things have been way better for the humans and it makes me extremely happy. Damon has learnt how to show mercy. If this girl can teach him how to use his heart then it's more than fine by me." Ryder says to me boldly.

I can't believe the rubbish that just came out of his mouth. I think my blood stopped circulating for a second after hearing him talk. Unlike him, I don't like how drastically things have changed since that Morgana girl got here.

The humans are being taken care of more properly now. They don't get whipped anymore. They are happy. And I don't care if this makes me seem like a bad person but that is not how things are supposed to be. We are the leaders and the humans are our slaves. Slavs should be treated like slaves.

This Morgana girl is taking my brother away from me. Making him weak. Turning him away from his responsibilities. I have to do something about her. I should have killed her that day. He would have been angry but I would have gotten rid of her and gotten my brother back.

So the next time I have the chance to be alone with her, I will finish her off once and for all. I smirk mischievously as I think about my plan to get rid of her.

"Colton." Ryder calls out my name. He stands up and walks towards me with a serious expression on his face.

"If anything happens to her, you won't have only Damon to deal with. Leave the girl alone." Ryder says to me looking me deep in the eyes with a challenging stare. But I don't care.

I stare right back at him to let him know I'm not afraid of hm. Ryder is an incredible warrior and anyone would be crazy to pick a fight with him, but I am still stronger and I am not scared of him.

They will both come back to their senses when I get rid of this girl but for now, our focus is the vampires.

"Let's keep looking." I say simply to him and start moving forward.

As we keep searching, we reach an abandoned cave. A cave that reeks of vampire, human and a faint scent of werewolf blood. My eyes shoot open and Ryder and I speed into the cave impatiently. W search the cave but it looks empty, abandoned. Whoever was here might have taken off already.

Ryder and I follow the smell of the werewolf blood and come face to face with Reece's unresponsive body lying limp on the ground.

"Oh my god." Ryder exclaims as he dashes towards Reece's unconscious body. He examines him carefully trying to see if he's still alive. Personally, I don't give two shits whether or not he dies. I just hope he didn't reveal our secret before passing on to the next world. But if they killed him, there is a high possibility that they got what they wanted from him already.

There is a high possibility that the vampires know our secret. If that's the case, then we need to kill them once and for all.

"Is he dead?" I ask Ryder impatiently.

"He's still breathing. But he has lost a lot of blood. They probably left him here thinking he was dead." Ryder explains.

"We have to go back." Ryder says as he tried to lift Reece's body from the ground. "We need to get Reece to the castle for treatment or he'll die."

"We can't go back. We're close to finding them. Going back will only slow us down." I state definitively. We can't go back to the castle now. This place still has the smell of vampire blood. If we leave now, we'll lose the scent and it'll be even more difficult finding them.

"Are you crazy? Didn't you hear what I just said? Reece is barely breathing. He might die if we leave him here." Ryder objects.

"You know what finding him here means right? The vampires left him here because they got what they wanted from him. They know our secret which means Reece is a traitor. He should be left here to die." I state in anger.

"Reece would never betray Damon." Ryder says.

"Then how do you explain us finding him here. If they still needed him, they would have ran with him. He betrayed us. If you want, I'll finish him off here and now. He deserves to die anyways."

As I walk towards Reece, Ryder speeds towards me and stops me in my track challenging me. My brothers really have a habit of starting fights with me.

"What do you think you're doing Ryder? Are you going to be like Damon and punch me too?" I ask Colton raising my brows.

Ryder and I both took the serum when we left the castle. We're both running on a hundred percent energy right now and we are both equally strong. Fighting with him will be a waste of time.

"Don't you dare touch him." Ryder warns me, his nose flaring as anger emanates off him.

"It's the reasonable thing to do. Let's finish him off and be on our way. We have wasted enough time already. He is the reason Damon stopped his search and came back to the castle. He has been a nuisance to our mission. I won't let him slow us down anymore." I say to Ryder trying to knock some sense into his brain.

"What if it was me or Damon who needed help? Would you let us die because you had a mission to complete?" Ryder asks. I can't believe he thinks so lowly of me.

"That is different and you know it." I say to him.

"If you want to keep looking then go ahead. But I am taking Reece back to the castle. Did you ever stop to think that he might have some information on the vampires? Maybe he heard something while he was held captive." Ryder explains.

"What information could he have other than the one we know already. The vampires want revenge. That's all and they need to be stopped. Every moment we waste gives the vampire lord time to get stronger." I say raising my voice.

"Colton. I am not going to argue with you. If you want to keep searching, then be my guest. But it is out of the question that I lave him here. You have the serum in your system so you're strong enough to fight the vampires if they come at you." Ryder says as he lifts Reece's body and dashes out of the cave with him not leaving me time to object.

I don't think I can put into words how angry I am right now. My two brothers have completely lost all sense of reason and I am the only one left thinking straight.

Damon is being controlled by his pet and Ryder cares too much. Both of them will be our downfall. It's a good thing they have me. I will find where the vampires are hiding and kill them all.

I will bring my brothers the vampire lord's head.