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
Bernardo “That was easier than I predicted.” I let out on the drive back to the palace after spending hours giving out orders and making a list of intruders in my kingdom that I hadn’t been aware of. Funny how they all gave in without a fight. I expected them to fight back or try to escape but it went the opposite way which was okay by me. I might have the strength but that doesn’t mean I want to fight all the time. They were all leaving my kingdom tonight. Not one of them will be left. I already warned them that if they ever tried to come back, it would be death on arrival. A total of one hundred and thirty intruders. Seventy of them were bears and the others were made up of different breeds. I don’t know how Sean was able to gather that much and hide them away in the pack without being noticed. Who was I fooling? I knew how. I just hated how much freedom he had to do those things and get away with them for years. “It looked easy to you because you didn’t have to beat those
Harlyn“Don’t even bring that up, I don’t want to hear it. It won’t work!” She warned me. I sighed. Both my clients don’t want to know each other. Such a loss.“Fine, I won’t bring it up. You both are not fun. I just don’t want Octavia to get him.” Helaine stared at me in confusion. “Octavia, the witch. It’s clear that she likes him and wants him. He told me that she kind of became a friend and he only sees her as a friend but I don’t think that will last. They are bound to get together at some point.” I lamented.“So?” “So? Is that all you have to say? The man might be your mate. Don’t you care that there’s a witch out there, out to get him?” Helaine shook her head, eyeing me as if I was crazy.“Do you really want me to be worried about that? I don’t know this man and you seem to be forgetting the keyword in your sentence. ‘might’ I can assure you that he isn’t my mate. He can get on with whoever he wants.” Helaine said firmly, leaving no room for argument.“Just give up.” M
Harlyn“Helaine!” I yelled and ran into her arms. Crazy girl. She scared me. I pulled her into the room with me. I hugged her again. “Laine! You scared me!” I scolded her and pulled out of the hug to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. She was really here. I didn’t expect her to be back already. She didn’t even say anything when we spoke on the phone.“Baby girl. Surprise.” She cheered. “Surprise? You didn’t even tell me that you were coming! I thought it was another fucker trying to trick me.” I let out and hugged her again. “Sorry, sis. I didn’t think of that. I just wanted to surprise you. I didn’t mean to scare you.” She apologized. I didn’t mind anymore. She was here. She was really back to the Crimson Moon. I eased out of our hug again and looked her over. She dyed her hair black and now, we looked so alike that it would be hard to tell us apart.“You dyed your hair.” I pointed out. she nodded and smiled.“I wanted us to look exactly the same. Do you like it?” Do I like
Harlyn“There’s no one here.” I whispered to myself, looking around again. I must have hallucinated the movement. Maybe I was seeing things that weren't there because I was worrying so much. I can’t even talk myself out of worrying because there was literally a war going on in my kingdom right now and it could get worse.I really don’t want it to get worse. I don’t want the pack members or others in the kingdom to be affected by what’s going on. So far, no one in the kingdom except the people involved knew what was going on. I wish we would resolve it without it escalating to the point that everyone else would be affected.“Please,” I whispered to myself as I turned and made my way back to the room. I could only wish and pray for safety now. There was nothing else I could do. If only I could fight. Maybe I should learn how to fight too. “That’s not what a Luna does!” “Bernardo.” My heart sang when I heard his voice in my head. I thought of using our mind link but I didn’t want to
Theo “Shit!” I cursed when I heard her walking towards me. Yes, I came for her but I didn’t want her to see me yet. Not yet. I don’t want anyone to know that I was already in the Crimson Moon. It took everything to escape that witch. She had been on my tail every day and made it hard for me to leave. I caught her off-guard and left when she least expected it. If my hunch was right, she already called that bastard and told him that I left. Fuck her for choosing to be on his side when I found her first and even gave her my mark. When I am done here, I will surely go back and make sure to pay her back. Even when she had been helping me, I planned on disposing of her when I no longer needed her but now, she made it so much easier to do away with her. I hid behind a pillar and held my breath as Harlyn's footsteps grew closer. I didn’t want her to see me until I was sure I could get her out of the palace without anyone finding out. It didn’t take long for me to find out that my stup
Harlyn“What happened again?” I asked him as soon as he dropped the call. He looked at me worriedly. Well, it was definitely bad.“He found it.” I stared at him in confusion.“He found another den of bears.” Of all the things I expected him to say, bears weren't one of them. Bears? For the Crimson Moon, bears were as unwanted as vampires and witches. They were the worst because of the history the Crimson Moon has with them. “What? In this pack?” I questioned even though I already knew the answer to that.“Yes, I found a map that day at the underground hideout of Sean and I gave it to him. That’s what he and Damien went to check out and I have to leave right now.” He explained and started walking away. “Are you going back to the Orange Moon?” I asked him. He turned around and shook his head.“No, I will call my pack to let them know just in case Theo shows up there and I will call my parents too. I am needed more here.” He told me and started walking away again. “Let me come
Harlyn “Why did she call you this time? Does she have new information?” I asked him. He nodded. “Okay, is it bad? Do you not want me to ask?” It was clear by his body language that he didn’t want me to know but I wanted to know. It was important that I know as I am the Luna and Queen of the Crimson Moon. If it concerns my kingdom, then it concerns me. Unless, maybe it’s not about my kingdom. Either way, I still wanted to know. “I would much rather speak to the king.” I resisted the urge to curse at him. Really? It wasn’t the first time he said something like that to me but for the first time, I felt offended. What did he see me as? Did he think I couldn’t handle whatever news it was? “You will tell me because it involves my kingdom and my people. I am Luna and I deserve to know. You have no choice!” I told him firmly. I could tell by his reaction that he didn’t expect me to react the way I did. “Lyn I sh---“ “No! Tell me. It’s a command!” I let out. I didn’t mean
Harlyn “There’s a handbook. I asked her and she told me she has a lot written down in all the years that she has known about her powers. She is willing to give all that she wrote down to you. She also wants to meet you but I told her that you can’t see her now. Hopefully, soon.” Hillan explained. I wanted to jump on him. I wanted to hug and kiss his cheeks. It was the best news ever. I really wanted something as some form of guide because right now, it feels like I am using my powers without knowing the depth of it. “I would love to meet her too and yes, I really need the handbook.” I told him enthusiastically. “I will have it sent down to the Crimson Moon by tomorrow.” “Wow, so soon?” I let out. He smiled and nodded. “Yes, I told you. I already asked her before. I was going to get it down here anyway. I just have to make a call and someone will send it over. It should arrive in two to three days.” I really wanted to hug him but I didn’t. Instead, I reached and touch
Harlyn I woke up the next morning alone. I was used to waking up alone now so I didn’t think much of it, I just went about my morning routine before breakfast. After the events of the past two days, I actually hoped that today would just be a normal day for me. I really didn’t want to deal with any negativity. I knew I was reaching out because as long as Theo and everyone associated with him and his father are still out there, there will definitely be negative things happening. I just hope it doesn’t affect those I care about and all the good people of the Crimson Moon. Even though I knew the chance of it being a peaceful day was low, I still made a mental note to make the most of today. I didn’t even notice Bernardo had left a note for me until I finished getting ready. I only saw the note because I went to pick up my phone from the bedside. I smiled when I saw the note. “I didn’t want to wake you because you were sleeping so peacefully. Out for my daily kingly duties and w