Bab 200: Chapter 191: Father, please kill me
Ivor Cairin.
As Isaiah looked out the window from his office, memories of the past rushed towards his mind, flooding his senses as tears slid down his cheek.
The day when he watched as his son's heart was cruelly ripped off him and was crushed, was still fresh in his mind. It was as if it had been yesterday when that wretched day had happened.
What the other packmates don't know, Isaiah actually had another secret deep inside him. One secret where he did not even tell his son's mate. It was that something that he had felt was a lesson to him. A lesson learnt for leaving his pack, for being selfish that day.
Although it was said that his son had died due to his heart being crushed, it wasn't so, truthfully. Back then, when the rest of the Cairin pack wanted to bury his son, he was the last one to leave. He had told his son's mate to go home first because he did not want her to be more heartbroken.
That day, he was alone at the pack graveyard, with his son inside the coffin, deep in the ground. The coffin was still laid open as Isaiah wanted to have the last talk with his son. He sat on the ground, next to the pit where the coffin laid.
While he was talking with tears streaming down his cheeks, he was shocked when he saw his son's quivering hand. At first, he had thought he was seeing things. But just as he looked closer, his dead son suddenly opened his eyes.
Isaiah was so shocked, he fell back on his bottom, his eyes widened, looking at his supposed-to-be-dead son.
However, as he looked closely at his son, he noticed that Ivor was alive… yet not alive.
He looked the same as he did when he was killed, still in his human form. Yet, his eyes… tells a different story. It looked wild and hazy. As if there was no sign of humanity inside his eyes. As Isaiah studied his son closely, horror gripped his heart and thoughts…
Ivor had become a rogue.
Before Isaiah could say or do anything, Ivor had jumped out of the coffin and ran off.
Worried that Ivor might do harm to some innocent people, Isaiah quickly cleaned the area, left the coffin empty but buried and chased after his son.
His son was known for his speed in the pack, so it was no wonder that Isaiah wasn't able to catch him.
After that day, Isaiah had spent more than two weeks outside the pack. Ezekiel, his son's beta back then and Grace, his son's mate and Makena's mother, were worried about him when Isaiah hadn't returned back home. They did not know about Ivor's sudden awakening and thought that Isaiah had left the pack because he wanted to grieve.
Outside the pack, Isaiah had roamed all over, trying to look for his son.
When he first heard news of a shifter's bite occurring in one of the nearby towns, dread overcame him. He knew where the shifter's bite came from and it was definitely not a coincidence that a shifter's bite was found, just when Ivor became a rogue and escaped.
However, when he arrived at the town, it was too late. Ivor had already escaped. And for those who had been inflicted with the shifter's bite, Isaiah could only advise them to seek help from his pack. But he could not be able to help all because he did not want to waste time, looking for the victims and concentrating more on finding Ivor before he inflicted more harm.
Back then, he did not realize that one of the victims that Isaiah failed to help was Amber's mother.
Few days before he returned back to Cairin Oaks, he had found his son in the woods, a few hundred miles away. He was sitting on top of a large rock, looking down at his hands, which was bloodied.
Isaiah slowly approached him with caution. Afraid that he might run away.
When he was a few metres away, Ivor suddenly looked up and saw him.
Isaiah quickly was about to run towards him when Ivor softly said with a confused tone in his voice, "Father? What are you doing here?" he then looked down at his hands and said, "What have I done?"
"Ivor?" Isaiah said softly.
"Father… My mind… feels heavy… I don't remember anything," Ivor said slowly. Then he suddenly choked on his tears. "But scenes have been playing on my mind. Like… biting people, killing people… innocent people… Was that me? Or was it someone else?"
He raised his tear-streaked face. "Father… Have I… Am I…" he said, grief could be heard in his tone.
Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly grabbed his head and screamed. Spittle started to leak out of his mouth, making Ivor look crazy and insane. His eyes widened as it turned hazy, as if he had become blind.
He then stood up straight and turned around to face his father, who looked dismayed and shocked.
"Father, please kill me," was his last sad words before he ran towards his father. Any sign of mercy and humanity gone from his eyes. All that was left was a rogue who only has thoughts of killing in his mind.
Sounds of trees crashing against one another, cracks of the ground with dust flying all over the place could be heard as the once father and son fought until the end.
Hours later, a lone man could be seen and heard sobbing in the forest, crying his heart out. In his arms was his son, lying down with his eyes closed, not breathing.
Isaiah finally found out the reason why his son was still alive. Apparently, the wretched man did not fully kill his son. He purposely crushed Ivor's heart and had slipped in some drug that changed his son to a rogue.
After he was done grieving, Isaiah stood up and began to bury his son. Exactly next to the large rock where Ivor last sat before he fully lost to his werewolf counterpart.
Once Ivor has been buried, Isaiah placed a couple of rocks on top of the burial to mark his grave. He then sat down next to the grave, silent as memories of his son flooded his mind.
Hours later, he finally stood up. He planned to return back to the Oaks. He did not plan to tell his son's mate about him turning to rogue. He doesn't want her to get hurt anymore since she has suffered from the loss of their daughter as well.
Unbeknownst to Isaiah, it seems that he had forgotten about a mate instinct. Back then, Grace knew that there was something weird about her mate's death. And coincidentally, the exact moment when Isaiah finally killed Ivor, Grace had fainted out of pain.
After she had woke up, tears suddenly slid down her cheeks. It was then she too knew that her mate was finally dead.
When Isaiah eventually returned to the Oaks, Grace had kept quiet. But seeing the sadness in her father-in-law's face, she knew that he knew. But the two kept quiet, not telling each other. Both grieving alone.
Present time.
Isaiah took a deep breath as he turned away from the window. He walked out of his office and began to give out orders to the pack doctors for the preparation of shifter's bite.
This was the least he could do, asking for forgiveness on his son's behalf.
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