I didn’t know. I didn’t remember.
Why didn’t I remember?
How could I have forgotten?
The Alpha of Air is arrogant and barely looks me in the eye. He’s too busy looking around the room with those cornflower blue eyes of his.
“I wanted to be the High Alpha.” He says it with a curiously detached and amused voice. “Some things are just not meant to be.”
“Are you all right, Alpha?” I ask acidly.
“I just came to see it, just once.”
I sit up. It’s been a year since the last one disappeared.
“Where are you going?”
“It’s all right; we’ll see you there. You’re coming, too.”
“Coming where? How? When?” I circle the desk, trying to keep up with him as he paces away from me, using his gift to move him faster across the distance.
“We all have to do our part. It’s part of the journey; it's part of the sacrifice. Everyone has a part to play.”
“What is your part?”
“I have many roles to play, but they are all equally important. All of us are.”
“Are what?” I ask in frustration.
“Goodbye, Alpha Winter. When we meet again, we won’t know each other, but know that I go doing my best. It is my honor and privilege to serve. And perhaps this is better than being High Alpha, after all.”
“You stupid bastard!”I shout in my mind as I roar into the Ravage Wolf’s face and throw him away. Theo is the Alpha of Air, and he did that…he died like that for this. Because of this.
We all have a part to play?
The Ravage Wolf twists away and then surges back towards me. I knock him back. He hits the ground and springs up, charging me.
I hate him. I hate what they’ve all done.
The Alpha is sitting cross-legged on my desk, his eyes closed. He’s got flowers and vines woven through his hair. I glower at him as I get close.
Spring and Winter seldom get along.
“Why are you on my desk and not on one of the chairs?”
“Why sit on a chair? What’s the point?”
“The point is that you keep your filthy ass off the place where I eat my food,” I say acidly and lean against my desk so I can look down on him.
He opens his eyes and laughs. “Still just as grumpy as ever.”
“You sit there and answer prayers all day every day and tell me you don’t get bored.”
“Aww, poor winter baby.”
“I’m going to lock you in a block of ice.”
He flutters his lashes and then gets all serious.
