Dahlia’s POVI didn’t snap out of the shock until a car beeped at me.“Get in!” Aiden waves at me from the shotgun.I glare at the driver’s familiar face, and Finn lowers his eyes. I don’t want to get in, but I have to get to Tom as fast as I can.“So you are the ONLY one knowing about my plan, huh?!” I sneer at Aiden when I slam shut the back door of the car. I knew I shouldn’t have believed him! His Luna my ass! They are just a bunch of horrible cats playing me in their palms!“I can explain about Finn later,” Rarely, Aiden doesn’t joke with me or look guilty, but all serious as if in face of danger, “What happened to the kid? Is he alright?”“He is not alright! Your damn Alpha appeared and scared the poor little boy half to death!” I roll my eyes at Aiden, “Is that why you dared to let me go?! Because you told him about my escaping plan and you knew he was waiting for me at the station?!”“Damon?” Aiden frowns, “It can’t be him. Is that what the boy told you?”“It can, and it is!”
Dahlia’s POV“You can explain...?” I mumble, feeling like my soul lifting from my body and watching over myself from the air.How could he explain when the whole world doesn’t make any sense to me?“I don’t know what happened to Tom, but I WILL find it out,” Damon walks up, and Aiden lets go of my arm gently before stepping aside.“Like how you found out about what happened to Ava? Remind me, what happened to her murderer?” I didn't mean to use a sour tone, but it came out stinging. My voice is so calm that I scare myself. I don’t even want to cry. I’m too shocked to feel anything.I must have lost my soul somewhere.Damon looks sad. But I couldn’t care less.“I’m sorry that I let this happen--”“LET this?” My voice came out shouting. I didn’t know I wanted to shout. “Are you seriously trying to get yourself out of this?!”“You are right,” Damon raises both his hands, his tone careful, “This happened in my territory, and I’m definitely responsible, but I didn’t hurt him, Dahlia, you h
Dahlia’s POVSilence fills the lobby after my outburst. I storm at the door, not care to find out how mad Damon is.I was wrong.I thought I wanted a rejection from him. I thought I didn’t care about the title, and I thought I was okay with him hiding his dirty little secret from me. But I wasn’t okay. Not okay. I want my mate, just like any girl. I want the perfect, unconditioned love, the love blessed by the moon goddess.I guess I was secretly hoping that he would come around one day and claim me. He would tell me that he doesn’t care about my flaws and he values me when no other does.What a ridiculous illusion. And for this stupid dream, I cost two innocent to die for me.“You can’t go,”Damon’s low, cold voice broke the silence when I barely made it to the door.I don’t stop and I don’t look back. I no longer want him. But Aiden moves at Damon’s words and blocks my way. I stop with a smirk: “So much for my command over Damon’s, huh? How hypocritical, both of you!”Aiden looks at
Dahlia’s POVI must be something of a kind in our history, to be an Alpha with no wolf, and one Beta.Damon often says that his power comes from his people, and I always took that as some hypocritical, political slogan, one to earn the loyalty of his people.I was wrong.Turns out one doesn’t need to have a fortune or a pack to be an Alpha. So long as you take the pledge from another, even just one, you can be an Alpha. Only, with tiny power.Damon kept his promise and let me go, and I remained in shock even after we had driven for a whole day.Right there in the shabby, cold, old, and empty train station, Damon asked Aiden to renounce his loyalty and pledge to me. Aiden obeyed tamely. The moment I took Aiden’s pledge and promise to be his Alpha, a tiny but bright power rose inside me. It was invisible, and I looked the same after, but I just know.Something changed inside me, forever.I’m still as weak physically as before, I tried. But I feel a faint shred of power in my chest, one
Dahlia’s POVI thought it would be weird to not have Damon in my life, but I haven’t even got time to feel that, even if I would.Time flies here in the headquarters of the League.I never knew it would be such a hideous job to be an Alpha, with the mountain-like heavy paperwork pouring down. If it wasn’t for Aiden I would be totally lost.A week after I arrived, I hadn’t even gotten around to meeting my dad. He is here to register his new title as well, meaning he would be buried under a heavy workload like me. Guess he wouldn’t have any more time than me to spare.But the truth is, he feels a little estranged from me all of a sudden. I think it’s because of his new title.Dad was a mild person, in my memory. He always had a smile on, for anyone and anything. He doesn’t talk much nor do much even though he was a Beta of my mother. Most of the time he just stands behind my mom like a standing board, supporting my mom with no objection, ever.He wasn’t the strong type, not an Alpha. Ev
Dahlia’s POVDad doesn’t look happy, seemingly having a heated quarrel with Justin. Justin has a weary smile. He is polite, as always, but I can tell that he is in a bad mood, too.I sit there and watch the two men, not wanting to make myself noticed.It feels weird.I have imagined seeing Dad again so many times, but none of them was like now, when I feel like I’m looking at a total stranger.He is in a fancy suits. Unlike the ones mom used to pick for him, they are cold and tight, giving off a sharp aura. I forgot, he is an Alpha now. He is no longer the friendly Beta who plays nice with everyone. His eyes are cold and his jaw cleanly shaved, his shoes shining and his chest help up high.It’s definitely my dad, but I feel like I don’t know him anymore. I want to go dive into his arms and cry about what happened like his little princess, but I seem to have forgotten how.And then they see me.Justin’s face instantly lights up. He strides to me before he stops abruptly and turns aroun
Dahlia's POVIt's stupid to blame Dad just because he wouldn’t take my leftover, but I do.Not because of the meal, because he talks about Mom with no love, and because he has dropped all our father-daughter habits so soon. He still calls me princess, but I feel a shade of coldness in his eyes, one that I have never seen before. I can’t help feeling like the past few months put a lifetime’s distance between us, like I no longer know him anymore.I didn’t get another chance with Dad after that dinner. But Justin stayed around and helped me get used to all the Alpha stuff. Though I have got Aiden, it was nice to have friend reminding me and going to the Alpha meetings with me. He would introduce me to all the Alpha coming and going to the headquarters, and it helped a lot with him by my side when most of them made it clear with their attitude that--An Alpha with only one member in her pack is not one they need to care about.But even with familiar faces like Justin’s, life here soon tu
Dahlia’s POV“How dare you!” Lola growls at me, baring her teeth, “Who do you think you are, interrupting the meeting?! Notice that you are not on the table, but only sitting on the learning seats, low life!”The learning seats are a row of less than ten chairs by the wall, for Alphas of small packs that occasionally come to the headquarters for all sorts of reasons.The League promises that all the important decisions that are going out from the headquarters are decided by EVERY Alpha, no matter the size of their packs. Democracy. But the thing is, it’s hard to gather all a hundred and something of Alphas in the headquarters all the time for these meetings, so for practical reasons, the meetings can only expect the three Supreme Alphas to be there all the time when the rest Alphas can choose to come or not.But Lola makes it sound like the rest of us don’t have that right.I don’t know if I should make a scene here because I know how unwise it is to go against a Supreme Alpha directl