Damon's POVMy phone has been ringing the moment I stepped out of the ballroom. I guess I did give them a piece of huge news, except it’s not about my Luna as the world expected, but that I assaulted a Supreme Alpha. Lucius’s call was among them. I deliberately avoided his.Since I have chosen the hardest road, I have a lot of arrangements to adjust, especially those that Lola used to be in charge of. And a lecture from Lucius is not my priority.When Barke came to my office, I was on my last phone call of the night.“Yes, go ahead, I’m listening,” I raise a finger to stop Barke from speaking as I say to the phone, “I don’t care what excuses you have, get your ass back here!”Barke looks hurt when I cover my phone with a hand and move closer to the window. I have to. This is not a phone call he can listen to.“Alpha, you are the one who transferred me out. I thought you wanted me to be an Alpha with this arrangement but...” Aiden’s lazy voice crawls through the mic, smirking, “Sounds
Damon’s POVThe League called me for an emergency meeting. Apparently Kayle the baby went crying to Mama.I refused to go. I have to see Dahlia tonight. She is feeling low, I can feel it. The headquarters is too far. It’s in the capital. Hours of flight is the last thing I need right now. I have a leaking ship to fix.I can’t leave Dahlia here.So here I am, in a luxury rooftop restaurant in my city in the middle of the night, waiting for the valued guests to arrive in their helicopters because airborne is the only safe way they deem to go in and out of my pack right now.A bunch of cowards.“Alpha Damon, are you not listening?! Do you not realize that you just committed a horrible crime?!”Supreme Alpha Killian grunts at me.He is old. Seventy-four, I think? Seriously, we need to give young powers a cha
Damon's POV“You betrayed me,”I nod at Lola, “You have been punishing Omegas behind my back, with deaths even, haven’t you?”I'll be a laughingstock to have my Beta doing so much damage behind my back, but I have to know now. Lola got out with help, and I know I won’t be able to get her tonight. Even just to despise me, Kayle would protect her.What I want to know is what “hell hole”Dahlia was talking about.I have never locked Dahlia up before. And all the time Dahlia has spent in the mansion can be counted for, I can guarantee that. The only lapse is the three days I spent in the hospital.If anyone can hurt Dahlia in this time, it’s Lola.Barke and Ava were supposed to keep her safe. But I can’t trust Barke right now. If Dahlia was locked up during this time, then it would explain why
Dahlia’s POVI sneaked out a broken piece of glass after that three days in the cellar.I never want to experience that kind of tormenting desperation ever again. With no food, no water, no sound...and the most horrifying -- no hope.Like now.I didn’t know I cared about Damon that much. He should be my enemy. He is. He is the living stain of me being a slave. And on top of all. He is a jerk!But I guess I do care. Otherwise, why would it feel so horrible to watch him leave in disappointment? Lola was right about one thing. I ruined everything I could for him. I hurt him in an unforgivable way, and I just ruined the most important thing that could ever happen to him.I don’t want to live to find out what horrible a fate he is giving me now.But if I’m being honest, it’s knowing that he would never forgive me making me desperate.“Alpha!” Barke suddenly yells and I jerk back. I want to cut the glass into my wrist, but my eyes dart to the hallway against my command. Is he there?The hal
Dahlia's POV Blood is not spouting out like I expected. I look down at my wrist in confusion, and Damon lets out a light laugh, only to tighten his look back into a poker face under the death stare I shoot over. The glass is not cutting through my wrist. “You know you are a werewolf...right? I mean, it’s another story if this is diamond but--” Damon asks before he purses his lips again, tilting his head as he observes my embarrassment. “I’m not experienced in suicide, okay?!” I push him on his chest and he pulls me into his arms instead. “Come home with me, okay?” Damon lures. It’s cheating when he demands with his rough bass. I had a good time with him before Jared appeared. But since then so much has happened and I don’t want to go back to it. I don’t want to be the pet that has no say in my life anymore. “Everyone knows that you are my little pet now...” Damon lets out a resigned laugh, stroking my hair gently with his huge palm, “You cost me my title and you ruined my party.
Dahlia's POVThe jerk leaves right after he dropped the bomb on my head!“What did you--!” I don’t have time to snap out of it before lets go of the door frame and leaves. Clean and swift.!“Did you seriously just--?!” I chase after him to the door, and his tall figure half hidden by the shadow, “You jerk! Tell me everything!”He is walking away without even a pause.“You--Damon Hayes! This is not funny! You come back and you tell me everything!” I burst out cursing him and he starts walking again. I so want to charge up but I can’t hurt him. I dash back to pick up the piece of glass -- the only thing in the little dark room Ethan took me to -- and charge back before I throw it at his head.It hit him right in the back of his head.With a click of his tongue, he stops. But he doesn’t turn around.“Tell me!” I demand at him, panting with my whole body shaking.“Move back to the mansion and I’ll tell you,” He says. His tone leisure, and his back straight and stretched.The stone-hearte
Damon’s POV The only two people that can piss me off in one room is too much for me. Lupus knew Aiden cared about Barke and wanted no one else as his mate, yet it still burns to see Dahlia being so friendly to him with her watery deer eyes pasted on Aiden. I can’t quite pin down whether it’s pure jealousy, or the fact that Lupus knew Dahlia would not look at us in this way. She wouldn’t be here if we didn’t lure her with her father as bait. I shouldn’t have done it, but I didn’t know what else to do. The grey desperation in her sorrowful eyes scared me. As an Alpha, I rarely feel powerless at anything, but it’s a normality facing Dahlia. I can’t bear to see her giving up on her life, and I took the poison when I knew it might be a mistake if it turns out to be false hope. I just didn’t know it was such a deadly one until it was too late. “So,” Dahlis sits across the table, her back straight and her hands on the table like a proper businesswoman ready to negotiate, “what’s your co
Dahlia’s POVI have missed Damon when he has been a strange, cold-looked Alpha that doesn’t see me for two weeks. But now I remember what a jerk he was before that!Standing by his door, I seriously weigh between storming out and begging him for the drops of information on my lost family. But there is little to weigh. I have no resources, no ability, not even a wolf. There is no way I can rescue my father on my own. I try to believe that he is not in the destruction of my pack, but he just keeps on giving me reason to believe otherwise. Like Jered, like how he keeps important information like my father from me.I feel guilty stabbing him, but it’s extremely hard to believe that he is on my side when his actions match exactly like some Alpha who wants my family gone so he can keep me imprisoned.I doubt if he would tell me anything about my father if I didn’t tell him I didn’t want to live.But still, that changes everything.To even think about the possibility that my father might sti