Vantablack
Chapter 3- Ben

The weeks pass as the trees lose their leaves and the ground soon hides under the snow.

I help my little nuggets into their coats and said nodded good night to Ms. Baker. Once we are near pack territory we wait for the change of patrols.

After five minutes I see the guards laugh and drag unconscious female rouge to the house. I watch with a grim face until the female wakes up suddenly and start screaming.

I cover the kids' ears and wait for the guards to drag the woman into the house. Once they do I quickly open the window and grabbed Sophia as I let the boys climb on my back then I swiftly run to the back door and into the kitchen. Another pain slave with brown eyes sees me, puts his finger to his lips and walks to the fridge and gets four plates stacked on each other and gives them to the other kitchen slave that has blonde hair that just walked in the room. She takes them as He comes and takes Timmy off my back before grabbing Tommy as well.

Grateful I nod at him and he returns it before looking into the hallway and waving us ahead of him. I followed him and watched as the girl silently open a door before quickly closing it. She shakes her head, causing the both of us to nod and find another room for the kids tonight.

We finally found a room on the second floor and quickly locked ourselves in with the key beside the door. I set Sophia on the bed and help the pain slave put the boys on the bed while the girl gave the kids a plate of food each.

She gave me the last plate and was about to leave but I gentle grabbed her arm. She flinched but turned to me anyway. I divided my plate into thirds and pointed to her share before giving her back the plate.

The blonde smiled sadly and took her time to eat the food. I made sure the guy is still in the room before I help my kids take off their coats and clean up the mess they made. After a few minutes Blondie taps my shoulder and gives me a small smile and the plate before she sneaks out the room and goes to the attic.

Once she leaves I give the plate to the guy and wait for him to actually eat the food. Once he puts the first forkful in his mouth, I turn and get my nuggets ready for bed.

I take their back packs and grab their PJ's out of them as they took their clothes off and handed them to me. Once they had on their PJ's, I tucked them in and watched as they fell to sleep almost instantly.

The guy walks over to me and gives me the rest of the food along with a note before he looks out the door and heads to the basement.

Opening the note, I read the slightly sloppy handwriting: You are a good man to take care of three kids that aren't your own at a young age. But the boys have 7 years before the alpha will train them himself; the girl has plenty of time before the alpha marries her off. You need to make a decision, Demon, if you stay in this pack then you will have to distance yourself from the kids when they are closer to age and let what happens to them happen...but if you leave then you can be with the kids longer and they will be happier. If you want to leave you have to leave the day winter solstice begins and when the eclipse comes, that's your chance to leave but only then. All of the alphas are coming here for a meeting that night, make the right choice Demon.

I fold the note back up and stick in my pocket before kissing my nuggets heads. Picking up the plates, I peek out the hallway then stepped out and locked the door, making sure the key is in my pocket.

Walking to the kitchen, my mind goes to the female rouge and I soon hear her screams.

I try to get the woman's scream and face out my head but it doesn't work.

I know what they are doing to her, it's the same thing they do to every other rouge female and what they will continue to do.

They'll rape her and probably beat her if she doesn't give in and if that happens then they will keep her and make sure to break her before they killed her.

Unless she's someone mate but no one in this pack has found their mate in the past 50 years.

My thoughts go to my sweet Sophia and I feel a squeeze to my heart, when she turns sixteen her father plans to have her married off either to the Night Pack's future alpha, the Blood Pack's Alpha, or he will try to get her married off to the Prince.

I don't want that to happen, I want her to be happy and find her mate but I also want her to be thousands of miles away from this damn pack.

I also don't want us to run away only for her to turn out to be like that woman, deflowered, beaten, and dead.

Yet if I don't then when the boys will be forced to train and kill at the age twelve and if they find their mates they will be forced to reject them and mate with some power hungry bitch.

If I pick for us to run then we'll all be in danger and Sophia will be a target for any sick man out in the world and if we come anywhere near this back by accident then she will be hunted down and be just like that rouge. The boys will most likely have targets on their backs for 'abandoning' their pack and their future duties.

But if I stay then Sophia will be forced to marry and would only have to deal with the sickos in the pack, while the boys will be forced to kill an innocent and soon become like Alek before he found his mate or if Alpha Chris has his way they will end up just like him.

I sigh and wash the dishes quietly before looking up at the moon through the window.

I have three weeks to make up my mind before the opportunity closes.

Three weeks to get things ready if I do plan to leave.

...Three weeks...isn't a lot of time at all.

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