Chapter 7 The Beta's Best Friend

-Mekra-

Iron was telling me about his best friend that he wanted me to meet.

"She smells like one, even she smells like you. That's why I wanna introduce her to you. So, you can help me determine what she is." he finally told his true intention.

"So, you don't know either? You have no idea what she is, haven't you?" now I mocked him.

"No, uh hu uh hu," Iron mimicked someone cried.

"Ok then. Bring me to her, o mighty beta. "I falsely pretended I had a heavier voice.

"Doesn't suit you, Mek. Doesn't suit you." Now he flattened his face just like his iron fist.

I laughed. Then I didn't because he said,

"Later, when she got back from her dad's funeral." Iron looked sad.

"What? Why didn't you tell me? We could attend the funeral. Show her some sympathy. Poor girl" I felt pity.

"One thing I know for sure, Adrienne isn't an ordinary poor girl. She's more than that. You'll know it when you meet her." Iron looked irritated like he overly protected her. Adrienne. I'd have to find out if they had some kind of history together. In the meantime, I'd have to keep Iron busy. He looked like he felt Adrienne's sadness.

"Care to run?" I asked him if he wanted to take a run under the moon on the nearest beach.

"Sure. That'll do. You're a great friend and a great alpha, Nasriantra." Iron looked relieved, put his glasses in a box and packed them on the corner of my balcony, and shifted with fists that could be hard as iron to crush any enemies nearby.

I shifted while he moved aside, he knew that I needed space to start my run because I had a bigger body than he had.

Then I led the way. From the sides, sometimes the tops of the skyscrapers, we howled, jumped, and kept on running to the nearest beach, Les Blues. The moon looked so closely when I ran faster and faster, while I daydreamed what Adrienne would look like.

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In an old city called Imperial Colony...

The cold breeze of the wind, brushed her neck-length silky silver hair. Stood there Adrienne Crane, the only daughter of Keanu Crane at his secrecy and private funeral. Adrienne lied the red rose on her father's almost finished tombstone, his favorite color, bright red on the faded cracked black tombstone. She arrived late because she had to fly all the way to the Imperial Colony, from the Main Land.

Imperial Colony was an old city with classic ambience. A city in which the most elegant music and art civilization thrived. Compared to fast pace and modern Main Land, the Imperial Colony was the kind of city where you could stop for a while and enjoyed your life. Taking the sip of a cup of milk tea while staring at people walking by on a terrace of a small café would be the kind of life that you could have in the Imperial Colony.

Amidst the slow and relaxing pace offered by this city, there built the long line of hotel chains passed down from one generation to the next generation of Empath families empire. The empire belonged to Adrienne's family. And as her father had passed away, then it was her turn to rule the business empire.

Managing one of her father's hotel chains in Main Land, was never one of Adrienne's passions. Left alone now she needed to master the whole hotel chains as a replacement for her father's permanent absence.

She was merely an Empath who enjoyed her time alone or be with her students to explore the knowledge while taking the design major in the plainest campus in the Main Land. Plain it was as it also had the best knowledge in the all-know library. Thus, Adrienne's father asked her to enroll in that plain campus. Sooner or later, Adrienne had finally known that she had to be in the next line whenever her father stepped down or as now, he passed away.

Her father's mystery of death was still unknown that he took a taxi in the middle of the night to go back to the office in such a hurry, and never showed up in the office. The next morning, his body was found shattered in the park. There were some signs of an animal or a mythical creature, if they, who couldn't speak would like to refer to the other side of the night, with four strong legs like the legs of a horse.

The police still investigated the kind of creature or animal that attacked Adrienne's father. And they kept on reporting to Adrienne right away. She knew that her Empath instinct would come in handy, thus she asked the police to let her know each time there was a clue hanging to be solved.

While she was standing there in front of her father's gloomy colors tombstone, she reminisced how her father could be so understanding despite the fact that her father was also famous for being an alpha psychopath.

People just couldn't understand the work of an Empath. A strong and true Empath like Keanu Crane, would always put the lives of many above the lives of the minority. He cut the unnecessary parts, even if it meant to cut some ineffective families from his hotel chains. He knew it very well that there would be more highly capable workers came along as the company would thrive freely to help even bigger number of people.

Empaths worked almost like a fortune teller, though they actually didn't predict the future. Since they didn't have feelings and emotion, they actually absorbed others' feeling. Especially those who urgently in need of being understood. Understanding others for Empath meant also to know what would happen and what would people do in the future. It was just a simple math tattooed in their minds each time they came across with the people who were in need to be helped.

The patterns of one's brain to think and to act would be easily known and automatically memorized by the Empaths after they calmed and put the person in need of help, in a peaceful state. It was almost like a drug that a strong Empath could do to others. A drug in a good way. The one thing that brought all the goodness to the world, was the ability of a strong true Empath.

While Adrienne...

-to be continued-