Share

Chapter Forty-Nine: True Love

Author: Beth Venning
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-25 14:44:27

Alban sat in silence for a moment after I had explained the lost memory I had recalled, he may not have shown what was going around his mind facially, but it was in his eyes I saw the differing emotions flash as though I was watching some kind of movie. They would go to such deep and intense anger for a moment before they seemed to flash with gratitude.

“Please say something before we both remain in this freezing bathtub and eventually, catch hypothermia.” I said with a chuckle after a long moment of silence, but my comment does seem to snap Alban out of himself as he looks right in my eyes.

“I believe I understand why you desire to keep former Alpha Bennett from the punishment his vile son will receive.” He began to say in a deep voice seeming to have compiled his thoughts a little, which I saw as a positive thing.

“And you can see now why blaming Bennett at all would be an injustice, you heard how as soon as he realised what Max was doing, he put a stop to it and forced him ne
Continue to read this book for free
Scan code to download App
Locked Chapter

Related chapters

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Fifty: Move In

    Once our little extra activity was finished, both Alban and I left the bathroom and began to get ready, a devilish smirk sat on his lips as he looked at me pleased, it’s clear my actions had been very satisfactory for him. I was more than shocked that I had done such a thing, it’s true what people say, you do get caught up in the moment! Putting that thought to the back of my mind, I focus on getting ready, I wanted to see Lincoln so bad and make sure he was okay, but I had to check on the hounds. They hadn’t seen me since yesterday morning and I worried if I didn’t show my face, what happened back at The Full Moon Pack would only occur again. I was waiting on the reports from Bennett with the findings of that attack, due to the hounds now being in my possession, the report had to be submitted to me so I would know how to adequately deal with them. I hoped whatever it said on the report, didn’t point towards them doing such a thing because I left. After I was changed and ready, I

    Last Updated : 2025-03-25
  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Fifty-One: Plotting Her Death

    The temperatures that morning dropped to way below freezing, deadly frozen puddles of ice littered the floor below me where with the added bonus of the thickest fog I believe I had ever seen in my life, I was forced to navigate my way through the woods and hoped I would be able to locate the hounds. Thankfully with my training, I was able to map out my surroundings and move with caution closer to where I believed the hounds were. It was truly as though someone had painted the entire area a thick white colour, it was hard for me to see even an inch away from my face. Many times, I did ask myself if turning back would be in my better interests, but knowing I had to feed the hounds and I was already halfway through, I trekked on. After what seemed to be hours, I arrived at the hound's pen to see them outside waiting for me, such a look of relief sat on my face once I saw them again. I knew Alban had said he sent someone to feed them but unless I can see it, I always worry. Each smelt

    Last Updated : 2025-03-25
  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Fifty-Two: Unannounced Visitor

    I didn’t dare utter a word as we followed Albans parents towards the hospital, the same bright halls I was forced to hide from the day I was released from the hospital clicked under Albans mothers' steps, as always, she was the loudest person around. Before I would have never taken notice of her mannerisms or the way in which the people around her acted, but now because of the little conversation I had heard an old friend have, it’s as though it’s all I could watch as we carried on. She walked in a very dominating manner; it was as though she was either waiting for someone around her to slip up so she could scold or attack them, or she wanted everyone to see she held such greater power than them or her mate did. Each person she’d approached, they’d take a few steps back and seemed to avoid eye contact with them as though she was going to rip their heads off if they did so. The longer we carried on down that corridor and the more people we would pass, the more I began to stare at

    Last Updated : 2025-03-26
  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Fifty-Three: My Luna

    Upon hearing the news that this unknown visitor wanted to see me, Alban became even more possessive than usual and demanded that we leave now to determine who was waiting for me. I did assume it would only be he and I that left but what seems to be a running theme here, everybody but my mother and brother left to see with us. On a regular occasion this would piss me off, this person claimed they wanted to talk to me about something rather important, I believed there would be a level of privacy. But with what I remembered surrounding Max and this person also claiming to be from his pack, it felt nice to feel as though I had so much backup if something was to go wrong, even though I knew Alban would be able to kick their asses in a second. Walking through the rather busy pack house due to the time of day it was, everyone seemed to look over and all move to the side to allow us to have a little walkway through, the intense questioning looks which poked holes in me would have caused m

    Last Updated : 2025-03-27
  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Fifty-Four: Evidence

    Opening up the file and beginning to take a read at what the investigators found, my mind slipped away from the world around me and what conversations everyone was having. The report began to list the events that day and when in which they happened, according to the document the first sighting of the hounds running through the woods was seen around the time I would normally feed them, some pack members going on a morning walk spotted the danger and soon jumped high in the trees to prevent the attack, but were sure to mind-link everyone else warning them. Not even a moment later, all four hounds burst into the centre of the pack and began to attack any person they saw, ripping them apart or biting them and running to get another person. As I wasn’t there until the end of the attack, I couldn’t see what they were attempting to explain but from the sounds of it, the hounds weren’t attacking to eat but as though they were in some kind of battle and needed to handle the threat swiftl

    Last Updated : 2025-03-28
  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Fifty-Five: Offer Assistance

    Once I nodded my head allowing Bennett to see that his assumption was correct, he began to angrily pace the area as the thoughts of his son intentionally, opening the pen so the hounds would attack people swung around his mind. I understood his anger and felt such intense anger myself, not only due to Max knowing what was going to happen and put the hounds in a position where they could have been killed but for what he did to his pack members. When he took his role as Alpha, he stood before all his people and the officials and swore to always put the safety of his pack members before anything. He swore that if it came to it, he would stand in the way and die for his people. But now to see that he bypassed all of that and was the sole reason that so many people were either killed or savagely wounded, it went against everything he should stand for and truly shows how little he cares about his people but adores the power. “I cannot understand why Maxwell would do such a thing, this

    Last Updated : 2025-03-29
  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Fifty-Six: Take You Away

    The area remained in that stunned silence after Bennett spoke, none of us knowing if he meant what he was saying or that he even knew what Alban was planning on doing to Max if he had the chance. “What do you mean?” I asked breaking the silence a little looking over at Bennett, yes I wanted Max to pay and having the help from Bennett who was on the inside would be beneficial, but this was his son after all, the only one to carry on his bloodline, killing him would be such an impactful and damaging thing for him to do. “I will help you any way that I can to ensure Maxwell is adequately dealt with for all that he has not only forced you to endure but each member of that pack who was brutally killed for Maxwell’s own selfish agenda.” He growled only further validating what he said before, this leaving me even more shocked than before. “I will assume you have not filed a report to the W.M.O regarding the rapes?” Bennett asked seeming to snap out of anger filled rage and back to the

    Last Updated : 2025-03-30
  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Fifty-Seven: Riveting

    Once I had a moment to compose myself with Alban, we headed back to the pack house so he could continue with any pack work he had scheduled for the day. Due to the wolfsbane still technically, in my system and with the latest information we learnt about Max, Alban straight up refused to allow me to go off on my own which meant I was sat in his office while he worked away. Knowing I would be twiddling my thumbs waiting for him, he said as I was still his personal assistant, I was to look through all of the paperwork he was signing and ensure he ticked all the right boxes before putting it into a file so it could be sent off to the relevant officials and the documents required to be sent off to the W.M.O each month so they can keep up with the regular affairs. “Is that why Lincoln and I left to surfy the pack borders yesterday and map it all out, as in this document the W.M.O are requesting the documents?” I asked after reading through one of the documents Alban had to sign, where h

    Last Updated : 2025-03-31

Latest chapter

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Eighty-Seven: Luna Power

    The screams and cries only continue as more blades are pelted our way, but now with the sudden realisation at who the intended target was, Alban, who hadn’t released my hand, slides me across the floor until I landed under him, his body shielding mine from any attacks. Watching as many of our fighters attempted to defend our pack but were soon hit with those awful blades, each fell to the floor in heaps of blood, those blades are no joke. The longer I watched the more I realised, I have the specialist knowledge and training to deal with these blades and any person using them against us but I’m allowing my mate to cuddle me as though I’m some scared child, I need to fight this. “I am not allowing you out into the open, I do not care if you may have the training, now you are home with me, it’s my job to protect you. I will have our men continue forward, they are outnumbered by us, they’ll grow tired.” Alban informs me with a dead look after hearing my thoughts, but I shake my head r

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Eighty-Six: Under Attack

    After slipping into my second dress for the night, I allow Alban to lead me back out of the pack house and towards where the party was still raging and since we left, it had gotten a lot more chaotic. The sky transformed into a mixture of orange and red as the sun slowly began to set, many of the pack children sending me waves as they were led away by nannies for bed to allow their parents a break to party. This meant the drinks began to flow even faster with each person around seeming to dip deeper into an intoxicated daze, its clear this party was heading in to lasting all night. With a smile, Alban leads me down the steps and towards the dance floor, most people breaking it down a little or couples seeming to sway back and forth enjoying the moment. “Is it a bad time to tell you I can’t dance?” I asked with a little chuckle as I’m led right into the middle of the dance floor, many pack members moving to the side to allow Alban and I some room. “Just lean into me and follow my

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Eighty-Five: The Best Team

    Once I was safely in Alban’s office with the blinds drawn, I allow the worried thoughts that been swirling around my brain to fully showcase on my face and mannerisms as I paced up and down, the dress seeing this as the perfect time to drop to the floor. Due to how large Alban was, his jacket had managed to cover my most sensitive parts as my dress lay on the floor at my feet. Alban who hadn’t noticed as he was covering the blinds soon turns and spots me standing only in his jacket, where he took a deep breath in biting his fists a little. “You better begin to talk baby, or you’ll be over that desk in a matter of seconds.” He growled out seeming to be fighting with his emotions whilst I stepped out of my ruined dress that lay on the floor, which sucked as I really liked that dress. “I appreciate that you thought on your feet to get us out of eyeshot but did you seriously, have to rip the dress, I liked it?!” I asked looking down at the once beautiful gown that lay in a heap on t

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Eighty-Four: Protect My Family

    After the formal side of the ceremony had concluded, the party to celebrate my Lunaship began. The atmosphere was high and cheerful, each person sat with huge smiles on their faces and the most exotic drinks were served, some of the most delicious but also posh looking food handed out on gold plates and music blaring. Most of my time was spent speaking with so many pack members who offered me their congratulations but also expressed how excited they were for me to become Luna. Whilst the pack children ran over with beautiful cards they had made, going into this I thought I’d be riddled with anxiety due to who was watching but the longer the party continued, the more I forgot all about it. “I can’t believe you’re the Luna, a few years ago, mostly at those parties, I wouldn’t have expected you to be the Luna.” One of my old friends Harry laughs with an odd drink in his hands, whilst I just had to laugh recalling some of the memories of that time, most due to the amount of alcohol I

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Eighty-Three: My Luna

    I was soon following Polly out of the bedroom and towards the grand staircase of Alban’s house, my dress getting held up a little as I walked down the steps. My mother and Lincoln stood at the bottom where she began to take many photos of him in his very smart suit, before all eyes turn to me walking down the steps where I’m met with the biggest of smiles. “You look beautiful Iris, when did my little sister grow up?” He asked leaving my mother and holding his hand out to help me down the final few steps, where I just had to smile shrugging my shoulders. “Honestly, I have no idea either, I remember us walking down the steps when I’d rope you and Alban into playing dress up with me and I somehow managed to persuade you to wear a dress.” I laughed recalling the times I’d make them have a tea party with me, even though they claimed they hated it, I know they loved eating all the treats our mother made for us. “Luckily mum was never around with a camera to capture those moments, I se

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Eighty-Two: Last Day

    The way Polly held my eye contact answered all the many uncertainties surrounding the story I was told by Samual, I suppose I still had some doubts surrounding the facts, but with the look that sat on Polly’s face, it was as though she had seen a ghost. If I indeed knew all about the affair, her plotting to kill her own son and him escaping before she could do such a thing, it meant the entire pack was one step closer to finding out the truth. I had two options, tell her I knew everything, all the lies she had made everyone believe. But the only issue, it would be much harder for me to not tell her how it was I knew, I couldn’t openly tell her the son she wanted us all to believe was dead was sat in a cabin a few miles from here plotting her death! That would not only freak her out but she’d definitely, not act her normal self, I mean anyone in that position wouldn’t! Or my second option, play dumb and see if she’ll slip up and give me even more information by accident. “I know… w

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Eighty-One: Wasn’t Meant To Be

    Most of the time I like to have the chance to slowly wake up from my sleep, allow my mind time to get with the world a little bit before I’m forced into whatever the day entails. But today, the sounds of the curtains getting ripped open snap me from my dreamland stance, with all that happened yesterday with Samual, I was more on edge where my eyes snapped open in case of danger. But instead of finding Samual and his men, I found Polly and my mother wheeling things into the bedroom causing us much more destruction I believe Samual would. Alban groaning in annoyance whilst placing the pillow over his face told me he also wasn’t in the mood to deal with these women at this hour. “Alright up! We have so much we need to get done and do not have time for either of you to lay in bed!” Polly’s loud and obnoxious voice called throughout the bedroom, my ears ringing slightly as they were also not expecting to be bothered this early in the morning. “But the ceremony doesn’t start until 11:

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Eighty: Awful Distraction

    “They’re going to try and kill Polly tomorrow?” Lincoln asked in a state of shock and worry, whilst I shook my head going to stand up straight, but I’m soon pulled right back so my head lay on Alban’s chest, I believe he needed me close so my scent would help calm him, or that destroyed cabin would soon see its last day with this angry Alpha’s rampage. “No, they were planning on killing her tomorrow, but I managed to persuade Samual to postpone it, I said the day should be about Alban and I and not Polly. He agreed but was sure to warn me of what the repercussions would be if I told Alban or anyone else.” I explained my eyes still going to the window as though Samual could see through the blinds and thick curtains around the windows. “He threatened you?” Alban growled taking that from my comment snapping me from my trance at the window, it was as though I knew someone was there. “He didn’t threaten me but was sure to remind me that he had eyes everywhere, all those men will be p

  • Mated To My Brother’s Best Friend…The Alpha   Chapter Seventy-Nine: Same Light

    Once that terrifying sentence left my lips, I saw Alban freeze in place as though he was attempting to make what I said seem real. My body still shock as all that I remembered us talking about was fresh in my mind, but for Alban, he only growled lowly. “Are you certain that is who you were speaking with, could this have been some rouge claiming to be my brother?” He asked after a moment of silence, his eyes glazed over with anger the more he thought about it all. “It was him Alban, he knew things that only Samual would know. I knew you’d want conformation so when I left, I went in for a hug, smell my coat.” I sighed now disclosing my reasoning for that odd hug, where Alban wasted no time walking forward taking the biggest smell of my coat, the scent of his suspected dead brother lingering on me. “That bastard.” He growled out in a rage but quickly, unzips the coat and pulls it from my body throwing to the side, I don’t think he appreciated me smelling like another man especially

Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status