Kane Shadowfang

Kane

That son of a bitch guard is a dead shifter. I make a vow to myself to rip his throat out slowly when I leave this cell. The only reason I haven't found a way to get this shock collar off yet is because I am waiting for Alpha Landon's arrival to this pack tomorrow. It is nearly impossible to catch him out of his pack borders, and I needed to end him without crossing into his borders. I am trying to avoid a war, but I want him dead. He is responsible for the senseless killing of five of our young alpha pups. They were fresh to the border patrol at the age of 16, training for their future and got turned around and found themselves across pack borders and right into Landon Ironclaw's border patrol. Instead of being reasonable, sensible, taking into consideration that the boys were new, young, and no threat, he decided to order their execution citing boundary rights and perceived threats. All bullshit. He has always been a problem. Our families and pack wars and disagreements that go on and off, go back centuries. He should know better than anyone what happens when you hurt one of my own. One of my pack. He knows how violent and cruel my family can get to protect what is ours. Well, could get. My parents have passed now. Our fathers were ruthless fighting against each other, before working together, taking over other packs. They used to function as allies. As a team. But Landon's fathers' betrayal stung too deep.

Alpha Mathew, Landon's father was an ally with my father. I was a young boy when the alliance started, but I remember him as cold, cruel and unloving. He often put his hands on his Luna and children. He was calloused and more of a dictator than a father. At least mine was loving. The villain in many pack stories but loving to my mother and I and he would do anything for his pack. Unlike Alpha Mathew. He treated his people as servants rather than family members. I heard too many stories of public executions of pack members for trivial things. He ruled with an iron fist. You didn't want to be one of his enemies. You didn't want to be one of my father's enemies either, which is why they formed an alliance. More of a truce between them for some time. Until Alpha Mathew ruined it. Destroyed it.

Alpha Mathew became infatuated with my mother. Apparently beating his Luna became old news and he wanted a new one. He stated they were having an affair, and she threatened to tell my father if he didn't get rid of his Luna. His fated mate. The thought of ending our fated mate can send our wolves in a rage. We have an instinct to protect, not to harm. He is claiming that his wolf went feral and murdered my mother. I think she rejected him, and he went into a rage to keep her quiet. I won't ever know the truth because my mother can't tell me, and I can't go into the Noble Claw Pack and start rummaging around for evidence. So, I did the only thing an alpha in mourning would do. I got my revenge; my only guilt is not saving her for my father. A mate for a mate. A luna for luna. A mother for a mother. I don't regret it. Well, I don't allow myself to. Any time a inkling of a feeling starts to rear its ugly head, I hammer it down, refusing to confront it.

Sometimes at night when I am dreaming, I can see her frightened face. Hear her screams and begs for mercy. I know deep down she had no idea what Mathew was doing. I know that she was an innocent victim, but I had to avenge my mother. I had to hurt him how he hurt me except, mine hurts worse. I love my mother. I cared for her more than anything in the world, and he took her from me. I saw nothing but rage. I felt nothing but red-hot anger and pain as I clawed her throat out. Sometimes I can feel her blood hitting me in my dream and it feels like it hit me in real life, when I bolt awake and can feel her blood on my skin. It burns like acid. I couldn't look at Landon after that. The relationship between us completely gone. I killed his mother. There was no coming back from that. His father killed my mother. There was no coming back from that. Our life turned into one giant cluster fuck, our fathers declaring war on each other in one night. Just one night and everyone's lives changed forever.

I bide my time sitting in the shadows of this cell. I allowed myself to be taken for this purpose. I keep my aura subdued and played off like I was a new border patrol trainee that just got himself lost. Of course, they declared I was a spy, which is what I wanted and brought me down to Randall's piss hole dungeon. At least now I know it exist and where it is. He has no idea who I am, but I know who he is. He is the one responsible for the abuse that little she wolf is going through, and I won't let that go.

I hate knowing that little she wolf is suffering in this pack. I can sense a stronger aura from her. Something she hasn't tapped into. She could be fates gifted, like myself and my father before me, and his before him. I am oddly proud that she is a fighter, given her situation. She is strong and doesn't know it. She needs to get out of here before her spirit is broken or worse, her wolf disconnects from her. The girl is beautiful. Her chocolate brown hair is a mess from lack of care and that asshole guard I will kill pulling on it. Her lips were pink and pouty with the smallest, upturned nose. Her olive toned skin, dirty from all the dirt and grime on her. Her eyes are beautiful a combination of deep blue and green flecks, holding all sorts of mystery. Maybe I can get her out, but then what do I do with her? Just throw her in my pack as a member. We have a reputation of being fierce, heartless. The stories of our gifting are written about in the ancient text. Stories are usually one sided though. Nobody but our pack knows how we truly function. We aren't heartless or cruel. Not unless we need to be. Most shifters avoid us. Are terrified of us. I don't expect her to be any different, but she wasn't afraid of me.

One more night in this piss ridden shit hole and then I can get this damned collar off and shift. I will do what it takes to rip these silver claws out of my neck. They have no idea the monster they have lurking in their dungeon. I will stop at nothing to get end Landon, and they don't realize who I am. Because I am Kane Shadowfang and I am the shadow gifted.