BernardoAt first, I thought of going over to the mini recorder and yanking it off but I thought against it. If I moved it, he would know I found out about his deceit. I should have known. Harlyn told me times without numbers. Even Damien tried to tell me but I told him off and he never spoke about it again. I inspected the bug to make sure I wasn’t making it up and sure enough it was there. Blinking a faint blue light. They already turned it on. The light was so faint that if I didn’t focus on it, I would never have noticed in this huge office.“Fuck!” I growled in a low voice. I felt betrayed because I really trusted my uncle. I believed his every word and almost fought with my Luna because of him. Meanwhile, she had been right about him plotting against me. Why else would he place a recorder in my office?The only reason I even knew was because I noticed his eyes going over there more times than I could count in the space of ten minutes. He had been nervous. Why did he choose to
Bernardo “Sean came to my office earlier. I asked our Luna to come say hi, but she flamed up when she got to my office and wasn’t comfortable around him. She clearly saw and felt something that I didn’t. She stormed out of the office. I followed behind her and tried to make her apologize to Sean.” I hate that part now, I should never have asked her to apologize to him. I should have listened to her from the beginning. “Okay? What happened after that?” “We argued. Don’t worry, we already made up.” I added when I saw his worried expression. “I came back from my office and met Sean walking out of the secret room in my office.” His eyes widened. “I haven’t gone in there to check if everything was okay because I saw something else in the office after he left.” Damien’s eyes were burning with curiosity. “He taped my office.” I revealed. “What?” Damien yelled out. It was still shocking to me that the man I spent years trusting and defending even from my grandmother turned out to
TheoDays after leaving the Crimson Moon, nothing was working over there. Edna couldn’t do a simple job. Hearing of her passing made me so mad. I should have been the one to kill her with my hands. I spared her for that job but she still managed to fail. Good thing she thought of killing herself before I got to her because it wouldn't have been an easy death if I had laid my hands on her again.Over here, I seemed to have hit the jackpot. The first person I met as soon as my plane landed in the city was a witch. Not just a regular witch but one with decades of spell-casting powers. We hit off immediately and I have been living with her for the past couple of days. I was slowly letting her in on my plans and so far, she was on board with it.If everything goes as planned with her, I will return to the Crimson Moon sooner than planned. Not just that, all the people that I have spoken to so far have all given positive responses. Of course, nothing was free. I promised them a huge rew
Theo “Bernardo doesn’t suspect a thing but I don’t know for how long I can keep pretending.” “You have been pretending for years. Don’t act like you didn’t try to kill him multiple times and failed. Don’t act like I put you up to the pretending shit. Just own your failure and watch me succeed where you failed.” He failed so many times and gave up. If he didn’t give up, I wouldn't have to fight that bastard for the throne. All I would have done was take my father out of the way and become the alpha king. But the fucker failed miserably. He sat there and watched the queen mother and the elders crown a freaking child as king.“Watch what you say to me, Theo. I am still your father and you haven’t particularly succeeded in any of your plans either. In fact, I have had more success than you. I was able to take out the former king and the zeta. What have you done other than make a mess and run away? You keep boosting but haven’t achieved anything. All your allies are now scared and might
Harlyn“So, you want me to apologize to your uncle?” I asked, and he nodded. He just explained the most shocking details to me and I was so tempted to remind him that I warned him but I saw how sad the betrayal made him look. He was trying to hide it but I could see that he genuinely felt betrayed by his uncle who he trusted so much.Hearing that I was right all along didn’t give me the thrill that I thought it would. Not with how it made Bernardo feel. “Yes, please.” “What if he doesn’t buy it? What if he suspects up?” I asked, I mean, a while ago, I practically challenged him and now, he wanted me to act like I was sorry. “He won’t suspect a thing. He will just see it as I was able to talk you into apologizing.” Bernardo answered. I nodded in agreement. At least, now he won't tell me off anymore concerning his uncle. Funny how the man came to the palace just to prove me right. I won’t be surprised if he has a hand in the death of the king and by extension my father. I hoped th
Harlyn“I am sorry for how I acted yesterday, I was in heat, he was taking so long with his meeting and when he did come, he asked me to go say hi even though he knew I would be rude.” I lied through my teeth. Wearing my fakest remorseful look. We were currently in the old man’s home office or study; whichever it was. He looked from me to Bernardo and back to me. I didn’t flinch or look away. “What the fuck, Lyn?” Bernardo whispered in my head. He asked me to apologize but never told me how to apologize so I gave a reason that anyone could easily understand. A wolf in heat usually acts out especially when they have a mate and their needs are not fulfilled.“Let me cook.” I thought and ignored him to focus on my target. My lies seemed to get the desired result because the older man smiled. I still couldn’t stand him and still felt uncomfortable in his presence but I promised Bernardo that I would help and that’s what I was currently doing.“You didn’t have to bring her all the way
Harlyn“Aren’t you going to wait around and find out who he’s meeting with?” I asked Bernardo as our car zoomed away. I honestly thought we were going to drive away from his house and then wait around to find out who would come to see him. Bernardo turned to me and shook his head. “Why not? This is the easy way to find out.” I let out. He was throwing a good opportunity away.“Damien got it covered. We will find out who came to visit him. The bugs you planted are video records. All angles you place them will give us a view of each person that goes into that place. We don’t have to wait in his house.” He explained. I nodded in understanding and stayed quiet as he called Damien and told him we had done as he asked. When his call was done, he turned to me and smiled.“You did well there. You left no doubts in his mind.” He complimented.“How did you know he would go with you to the restroom and why did he do it anyway?” I asked the question that has been bugging me.“I know his hab
Harlyn “Bernardo.” I called out inside my head, hoping that he would connect with me but all I could feel was rage. He was running.“I am going to kill him. I am going to kill them all.” That was all he said. “Come on, Bernardo. Get back here. Don’t do what you are thinking right now.” I tried but my head went silent. He cut the connection off and he was about to make a mistake. I had to do something, try to stop him but I couldn’t run to him because I couldn’t shift yet.“Are you a shifter?” I asked the driver who looked just as shocked as I was. He shook his head. I let out a sigh and got back into the car. I grabbed his phone that he left and called Damien as he was my only option. I tried to calm down as it won’t do me any good to panic right now. Maybe I should have waited until we were at the palace before I showed him. I should have waited. It would have been easier to hold him back.“Alpha.”Damien called out when he took the call. “No, this is Harlyn.” I corrected him
Harlyn “Sure, I will do that once I arrive. I can’t believe your mate’s family members are the ones against him. Don’t they know the importance of family? I can’t imagine our aunts and uncles hurting each other. Our family have lived together for decades and still care about each other.” “Maybe because there’s no throne to fight for.” I said even though I knew that wasn’t a good excuse.“We have treasures, fortunes that go way back to centuries ago. We have generational wealth too yet no one is fighting.” “Tell me about our family's generational wealth.” I said with interest and Helaine laughed before diving into a story that got us talking for hours on the phone. I didn’t even realize how much time had passed until Bernardo walked back into our room looking worn out and ready to crash for the night.“Laine, I have to go. His majesty is back.” I told Laine who made a face that made me smile.“Are you picking your mate over me right now? I am your sister. Your blood. We met in th
Harlyn“It doesn’t matter.” I told Laine.“I know. It doesn’t. You will be just as gorgeous. Wait, even more gorgeous. Once the pregnancy glow hits you, you will be more breathtaking. I should watch out for my brother-in-law.” I laughed at her words and she laughed too. We both went silent and just stared wordlessly at each other for a minute before she spoke again.“I went to see our relatives and we talked about you. They are all so eager to meet you.” Same. I want to meet them too. All of them. I wanted them to hug me and welcome me into the family.“Me too.” I told her.“I found out something from our aunt and would like to try it out once I arrive back at the kingdom.” Helaine told me.“What?” “Triplet power. Apparently, the birthmarks that we carry aren't just there for fancy. Something is supposed to happen when we join hands in the right order.” I stared at her with interest.“In order?” She nodded.“Yes, in the order that we came out of mom’s womb. Harry, me and you.
HarlynI don’t know how long I slept after Bernardo left me in our room but when I woke up, it was lunch time so I had lunch alone in our room and then went right back to bed. I felt exhausted and knew it was a result of the strength I used to heal that bastard.I fell asleep again only after a few minutes on the bed and woke up to my phone ringing loudly. I reached for it and picked it up without looking. I placed my phone on my ear and almost lost the ability to hear when Helaine shouted out my name.“It's a video call. Move your phone away from your ear, your majesty.” I sat up immediately and rubbed my eyes to clear the sleep off.“Hi, Laine.” “Hi sleepy.” She greeted me back. She was wearing a lab coat which took off immediately. She looked so much like me that for a moment, I thought I was staring at myself. Even her smile. “That’s us!” My wolf chirped in. glad, I wasn’t the only one who thought so. It must be the sleep getting into my head. Laine went off the screen and t
Bernardo “I can’t imagine my father’s brother or his children fighting me for my position as alpha either.” Hillan added.“I can. My father’s brother almost killed my parents. If not for our Luna, he would have succeeded.” Damien chirped in, reminding me of the good deed Harlyn had done for his family. I smiled proudly.“That’s fucking sad,” Harry said and both Damien and I nodded in agreement. It was sad because families are supposed to have each other’s back. I wanted so much for my family to be that way. That's why I did my best to keep a close relationship with Sean and his family but that turned out to be my biggest mistake.“Guys! I think we should take a break. You guys go to your mates and have a good time and we will come back tomorrow, refreshed and ready to hatch out a plan to end things fast and clean so that we can go back to our normal life.” Hillan suggested. It was a nice idea so I nodded in agreement and then felt bad when I remembered that he didn’t have a mate
Bernardo“Bastard,” He was truly a bastard in many ways. How could he be so ruthless? My grandmother took care of him after his own mom passed away. My father became alpha king because he was more deserving. It was a unanimous decision and not because they stole anything from him.I still couldn’t bring myself to accept that that bastard killed my grandmother after everything she did for him. Lyn told me how disrespectful he had been towards her from the beginning.“Hey yo! King!” Hillan’s voice brought me out of my thoughts. I gazed at him in confusion wondering what he told me. He snapped his finger in my face as if to wake me up.“What?” “Where are you? Why are you glaring at the screen? We can go check it out if you want.” Hillan suggested. I shook my head. We have been through enough today already. No need to rush into some hideout without plans.“Is Theo still coming over?” I asked, remembering that the witch had said earlier that Theo was heading back to the Crimson Moon.
Bernardo“What do you mean why? You are the king of the Crimson Moon and you got shit to do.”“Yeah? But I am your mate and I got shit to do here.”I said pointing from myself to her.“Whatever you want to do with me can wait. The kingdom needs its king during the day. I will take the nights for now.”Wow, I couldn’t believe her.“What if I don’t want to leave you? After what happened, I don’t feel okay leaving you on your own.”She sneered at me.“I am not a baby and what happened before won’t happen again. You have a lot on your plate. The sooner you are done; the sooner we can spend more time together without you worrying. I am doing this for myself. Small sacrifice for the bigger enjoyment. I love you.”She added the last part and I couldn’t argue.“You are literally driving me away and doing it lovingly that I can’t even say no.”“You are right. Now go be king. I love you.”She brought my face close to hers and kissed me. I let her kiss me for a while before I took over and kisse
Bernardo“Bern,”Harlyn whispered my name. I looked at her, my only reason for still being sane after everything that I had just heard from her. If she wasn’t with me. If not for her presence. If I had been hearing the things I heard from her from someone else, I would have lost my sanity.Heck, I wouldn’t have even believed those words if they came from someone else. The fact that he was so fucking close to me. We ate together, we did things together for years and all those times, he was plotting to take over.No, even before I was born, he was already plotting. From the moment he found out he wasn’t going to be the next alpha king after my grandfather, he started plotting. His plans worked. At least halfway. He took out my father and many other pack members just to get what he wanted.If Harlyn hadn’t come into my life. If I had let her go and stubbornly not tried to look for her, I would probably have died, and not just me. Every member of my family would have faced the same fate.
HarlynDenial.That was the emotion he settled for. He didn’t want to believe it and I really wanted to tell him that I was mistaken but I wasn’t. Sean said it himself and I saw the flashes of his plans too and how he went about it.“I am sorry, Bern.”I told him when I saw how the news affected him. He shook his head and held my hand again.“It’s not your fault. It's just that, I never thought he would go that far. Grandma didn’t like him. I was the one who went out of my way to get them to meet. I should have listened to her. She raised him. She knew him and yet I didn’t listen and because of me, he got close to her. Close enough to do something to her.”He lamented bitterly. I hugged him, wanting to give him all my strength and take away his pain.“It’s not your fault.”I tried to console him but he wasn’t having it.“You know damn well that it was.”“No, it wasn’t. I am sure he would have found another way. He had his eyes set on her and everyone in the royal family who wasn’t on
Harlyn I woke in a bed. I jerked up in fear. Two strong arms wrapped around me, holding me in place and I almost screamed out in fear until I heard Bernardo's voice.“Lyn, hey. It’s me, don’t be scared.”He told me and I breathed out in relief as the event that happened a while ago came rushing back to me. I fell asleep inside the helicopter and must have missed our landing. He must have carried me back to our bedroom.I didn’t get any sleep last night after what those bastards had knocked me out with fazed off. I leaned into Bernardo, feeling relieved that I was no longer in that place. His warm arms wrapped around me reassuringly. I felt safe in his arms and closed my eyes again letting the familiar feel of him envelop and surrender me.“Bern.”I whispered his name after a while. I have so much to tell him about the things I found out from Sean but I don’t even know where to start from. Where would I start listing the things that evil losers did? There was so much that he should be