Chapter # 2

After the violent caprice, inducing encounter with her mate, Lucille went to Jared, Alpha of the Demise pack. 

Throughout the lands of Tainted Graves, The Blood Moon pack was feared the most as they are considered as bloodthirsty monsters and their Alpha is Leonel. 

Then comes the Crescent Heart pack and their Alpha is Alvin, then comes the Demise pack. 

Her pack comes in at number five but they are known as foreigners. Today she’ll show him what a foreigner can do. 

They both smiled at each other as he shook hands with her,

“Nice to meet you, Alpha Jared. I am Alpha Lucille.” He gawked at her for a second. Her heart skipped a beat when she thought if her mate saw him gawking at her like that, as much of a madman he is, he’ll destroy them. Once again, shrugging this thought off she formed a smile,

“You should be famous for your looks not for your mind.” He complimented her.

“People are notorious for what they are good at.” she replied.

“That’s right.”

“It’s nice to be invited to such a lavish party.” She said sweetly.

“Oh no. Pleasure’s all mine. I just wish to meet you in person. You are well known, Death Strategist.” He smirked, calling her by the nickname people gave her. She smirked back and replied,

“People call me by that name. I never called myself as ridiculous as this.” He let out a dark chuckle and spoke up again,

“Your strategies are always a success as you have also escaped death countless times.” 

“That’s flattering. But, I am truly weak in terms of power”

“I know, so I thought I should give it a try as well, to test whether what I heard is a lie or not.” She raised an eyebrow at him as his smirk grew sinister.

“If you walked out from here alive. You’ll win but if we throw you in the dungeon, you’ll become our strategist.” Little do Alpha Jared knows her smirk is more sinister than his as her lips curved upward wickedly she turned saying,

“It’s amusing. But change it little. If I walked out of the door of your mansion before your destruction, I’ll win.” She turned and walked away, disappearing thin into the air.

Do it. She ordered Wendy to sneak out of the party and now is outside the mansion. She walked and saw Leonel leaning on the wall with a smirk,

“You spread the rumor that Jared is planning a sneak attack, don’t you?” He asked. She put her hand slightly in the air and replied,

“Who knows?” He felt so proud to have a mate like her. She is just driving him crazy just by this superiority and mind of hers.

He grabbed her wrist and pinned her to the wall, “Quite clever, I must say.” He spoke in a deep seductive tone.

“Not concerning you.” She retorted, pushing him back and leaving cursing him in her mind oblivious to how she was driving him insane.  

A howl was heard as it caused a commotion inside the mansion.

“It was true!”

“That Bastard! He tricked us!”

“How dare he!” 

The sound of snarls filled the hall pleased Lucille. During the chaos, she was about to walk out but turned and looked at her mate,

“Now it just leaves you.” She growled at him, earning a dark smile from him. “We’ll see who bends it’s knees first, love.” He winked. “I will fucking kill you.” She hissed. “You already did.” He flirted and Lucille was infuriated at his words.

She also walked out as she saw wolves surrounding the mansion and in the corner stood Nancy, Henna and Wendy.

These wolves are Lucille’s victims. She took them from their wars and later used them as decoys, baits, etc. Now they are here to join the fight and kill every person in sight. 

Of course, they are weak but this has caused a riot as everyone thinks that they are Jared’s and he is planning to kill them but they weren’t as they won’t tell her name after the endless torture session and holds death in their fate becasue of the misunderstanding created by Lucille.

It was all Lucille’s plan to weaken his pack. She’ll go to the party with Wendy and later she’ll sneak out of the party and will stand in between the mansion and Nancy to call them when Lucille signals her. 

 Now, this place will be turned into a bloodbath in a few moments.

“Advance!” She shouted as her toys went inside. She took off her expensive elegant clothes and gave it to Henna and shifted to her wolf form and left back to her home hearing curses from Jared for ruining him like this.

“My, my, how skilled. Desperate to surpass us, aren’t we?” And in this, Alpha Leonel was watching her from afar with faze. He was feeling blessed to have a mate like her. Having her subjugate him will give him pleasure even more than killing. It was something he strived for. His mate. He’ll love to play a game with her. 

“You will come to my pack as my Luna and I’ll mark you in front of everyone. You’ll glisten with sweat under me, begging me to continue and I’ll indulge each and every moment of it. I will ensure you do, Dear.” With hysteria flickering in his eyes, these thoughts filled his mind as a deep husky laughter escaped from his lips…

My mate. Mine. My Redemption.

They all went home but Alpha Lucille left something behind, her heart- even though she doesn’t want that but she couldn’t help it too; the effect of attraction was irresistible for them. “Dammit.”

After running away from the dread of her life for almost a decade, she came to face it... again. 

Two howls, it indicates that it’s something urgent. Lucille shifted back and went to her room and took a cold shower to eradicate the feeling of his touch that is still chilling her bones, the gratification she was trying to defy.

 After calming down she wore her usual black shirt and trousers and went to the main hall only to see her pack intrigued by the sudden call.

Remaining stoic, she sat on the sofa and said monotonously,

“I have two news.” 

“One, The plan was a success and now the Demise pack is our enemy. They are not weak enough for not being able to handle a revolt like this. They can easily prevail, but for now, they are weak and the moment they’ll gain their posture again, their first prey will be us and we have to end them before they annihilate us.” They all nodded understandingly.

“It could mean a war is coming.”

“Hmm… You can say so.” Lucille shrugged.

“Then we should attack them before they attack us.” Her Beta; Stacy suggested.

“We can’t… for now.” Her words hide the feeling of fear residing in her heart. 

“Why?”

“Because another affliction is chasing us and we are vulnerable unless we deal with it.” She heaved, pinching the bridge of her nose.

“What is it?” Stella asked. 

Lucille is not afraid of the Demise Pack rather… her mate who’d break every measure to claim her.

“Second,…” She trailed off. Taking a deep breath, she opened her mouth but didn’t say anything, increasing the concern of her pack to see her like this. 

“Is everything alright, Alpha?” 

Lucille shook her head in distress and after mustering some courage she announced hurriedly,

“I have found my mate.” taking a pause, “Again.”

It took some seconds for the pack to register what she was saying but when they did, they began to cheer, elated for their Alpha to find her mate finally after all these years of loneliness but she was anything but jovial about it.

“STOP IT!” Her shout echoed through the hallways shutting them up. They don’t understand why she is not happy. When life is giving her a second chance, then why isn't she accepting it?

“Why are you not happy?” The little pup Wendy dared to ask and, being close to her, Alpha immediately cooled down and looked at her big round blue eyes. A sigh escaped her lips as she began to explain her,

“Look, if it was someone weaker than me, I can make him the member of our pack but he is also an Alpha like me and he’ll eventually force me to leave the pack and join his pack as his luna and at some point, I have to do it. It’s something I don’t want. In the worst case scenario, he will take us all under his care; we reached this point on our own, we can’t live on somebody's mercy.” She explained as the little girl made an ‘o’ face in understanding.  

“Do any of you even think of herself worthy as an Alpha?” She asked in frustration. Drowned in stress, Lucille couldn’t make her words. Her words made them feel bad, she seemed weak, which she is not. But the consternation surely took its toll on her. 

“No one but you can look for us. You are the one that made us who we are today. We will never leave you.” Stacy said earnestly to which every one agreed. She looked at them with wide eyes for a second and then smiled at them, 

“You are unbelievable… I have put your life in danger countless times.” Lucille shook her head.

“But that’s increased your worth more because we survived.” Stella grinned, making her chuckle.  

“So.. you’re gonna reject him?” Asked Nancy; her messenger timidly. 

“I don’t know.. he is not Ravel.” Lucille shrugged her shoulders.

“Then who is he?”

With a shaky breath, she replied, “Alpha Leonel.”