Chapter Nine

Klaus PoV

My father used to say that fear makes people do crazy things. I didn't really understand what he meant until I saw Axel's reaction to Maximo's threat. Axel began to get irrational and paranoid. He insisted on being called the Alpha and often held meetings with the entire pack in the town square, and all he did was threaten them. Just like he was doing now.

"And if any of you think you could betray me and walk free, then you don't know who I am," Axel continued his speech, which was just a remake of the speech he gave the previous week, and the week before that. "I am the Alpha of the pack, and no one would threaten my position. It's been three weeks since one of you helped Lisa escape, and I'm yet to find this traitor."

The pack listened in silence, their faces filled with varying expressions of fear and confusion. This was the part where Axel would gaze into everyone's eyes as if he could see the truth lurking right beneath their eyeballs.

"I promise you all," he continued,