My hands were shaking as I held the torn pictures when I heard the door unlock. My heart almost flew out of my chest and I moved as fast as I could to stand. Thinking of the worst-case scenario, I braced myself but then I perceived my mate’s scent and my shoulders relaxed. With the tension leaving my body, I felt like I could faint from the relief.“What’s the matter?” Valens was alarmed when he walked into the room to see me. I hadn’t known I was crying until he pulled out a handkerchief to wipe my face. “How did this happen?” He asked when he saw the ripped picture in my hands.“I don’t know,” I choked out. “Someone - there’s been a break-in and – and –“ I choked on my sob and buried my face in his chest.My heart was racing and my mouth tasted like ashes. Who would do this and why? It was a threat but why would anyone target my pups? Redville didn’t want me but I had never even done anything to them so why? Why this? Why would someone do this?It was just days ago I was having a ni
I woke up the next morning with a weird feeling. It felt like I’d forgotten something important, like a life-changing dream, but no matter how much I wracked my brain, I couldn’t remember a single dream I’d had the previous night so I chalked it off as one of those Déjà vu moments.My schedule for the day was packed and upon getting to my office, I met Daniel. He was the same glaring teen as usual. As much as Daniel hated me, he never shirked his duties. His family had been in charge of the pack during Valens’ absence so he had a lot of information on the workings of the pack, even more than Dahlia who’d been here for five years now.“Good morning to you too,” I said when he refused to utter a word as I entered the office. Even then, he refused to take the initiative to greet me. He kept his lips tightly sealed and handed me a stack of paper.It was a questionnaire he’d gotten the pack members to fill out about the state of the pack house. We’d made an online questionnaire but only a
*VALENS*There was a knock on my door and Lucian came in.“What are you doing here?” I’d taken on some of his work to make sure he spent more time guarding my mate. Although I’d assigned her warriors, none of them were as competent as Lucian or even as trustworthy.“I got some disturbing news just now,” he said. “It seems like Blood Moon is preparing for war.”“War?” I found myself sneering at the mention of Blood Moon. “They are gearing up for war with whom?” I asked and my Beta gave me a pointed look. “I see.” I laughed out loud.What the hell was Blood Moon and how did they think they could come at me? That bastard must still think my pups were his. Just thinking about him thinking of my mate made me want to bash his head in. Who the fuck was he to think he could have ever planted his seed in my woman? He was nothing but an impotent prick with sky-high delusion.“There’s a report of him meeting Alphas who you’ve fallen out with. In the past week, he has met about five of them so I’
*JACKSON*I’d become a stranger in my life. Things were happening but I could not keep track of any of them. Out of nowhere, Alphas started to present deals to me but not ones that helped my pack. They were all talking about bringing down the Cursed Alpha. I remembered the cryptic message I got days ago and it made me shudder. I’d thought it was a text from Chantelle but with the way things were going, I realised Chantelle had nothing to do with this.“As I’ve said, I can provide you with a hundred skilled warrior wolves. I won’t rest until I see that bastard buried six feet under and since his curse is broken, it should be easy.”I was nodding along to what he was saying but I couldn’t even remember his name. All that he’d said was that he’d help me since he’d heard I was going after the Cursed Alpha but I didn’t know how he got this information. I could only assume the person who sent me that cryptic message was working behind the scenes.Although grateful for them, I was still scep
*VALENS*I’d never met an opponent I could not take down. Some of them took more time than others but what mattered was that ultimately, I always won. There was a reason I was called a conqueror. Yet, for the first time, I met a man who was always one step ahead of me. It made me want to hit something, snap a neck. It was like an annoyingly incessant itch, no matter how much I itched, it never went away. I never thought that opponent would be someone as spineless as Jackson.This bastard once told me he’d not let me go for hurting the whore he called his mate and I’d laughed in his face because I’d evaluated him and he’d been nothing more than the many Alphas that thought they could scare me with empty words. He was not worth his salt and could not, on any given day, face off against me. Yet he was doing just that.I could not shake off the feeling that something was wrong but I could not determine what. It would be easy to say there was someone around me who was leaking my plans to h
I was going through an appeal from pack members to increase the budget for the kitchen when my phone rang. I picked it up with glee, not even bothering to check who was calling because I needed an excuse to escape the tedious work.“Hello?” I said into the phone.“You sound tired,” came a familiar voice. My eyes lit up and I could not stop myself from exclaiming.“Dami!” Even my wolf was excited to hear her voice. “How have you been?” As I asked that question, I felt a bit of guilt because I’d let myself get carried away to the point I forgot to even contact her.“Oh, I’m alright,” she responded with a laugh. She sounded a lot happier than the last time we spoke. “How have you been?” She asked.“I’m alright! How are things going for you? With the moving and all.” I brought the conversation back to her.In all honesty, nothing was going on with me except for the fact that it felt like Valens was hiding something, something that made him incredibly pissed. Every time I asked if somethin
I was taking a break from work by scrolling through an online baby store when someone knocked on my door.“Who is it?” I asked, adding a cute set of baby sock-shoes to my cart.“It’s Lucian. May I come in?” It was rare for the Beta to visit me like this so I asked him to come in with a curious frown on my face. “Good afternoon, Luna,” he said, his expression as blank as usual.“Yeah, good afternoon,” I said as I locked my phone and sat upright. “Is there a problem?”“No,” he responded but after a bit, he spoke again. “Yes. Well, it depends on how you look at it.” Another pause during which he drew a deep breath and then released it. “What am I saying? It’s a problem.” He shook his head with a stiff posture. His beefy muscles were corded and he looked like he was on the verge of an explosion.“Have a seat first.” I offered him a seat, partly due to the tension I read on him and the fact that he was fucking huge and towering over me in an enclosed space.Lucian was supposed to be my Bet
It was chaos after that. Chaos and pandemonium and everything in between.The first thing I did when I got out of my office was to go find my mate and tell him everything Lucian had confessed. His expression, much like mine when I first heard from Lucian, transformed from surprise to anger in the blink of an eye.“That stupid bitch.” I caught him by the hand when he almost stormed out. I’d felt a sharp pain at the side of my rib so I held his hand and doubled over as I gasped for breath.“What – where does it hurt?” Valens doubled back, his anger morphing to concern in the blink of an eye.“It’s - it’s okay. Just a normal random pain.” I didn’t mention it hurt as much as getting stabbed. “I asked Lucian to put her in the dungeons.”“You trust him to not give her a heads up to run?” He asked.It was not an irrational concern and I was ashamed to say I’d never thought of that. Despite it all, I continued to see Lucian as Valens’ Beta. He was loyal to Valens and although he tried to pro