Chapter 103Alpha Kai's POV“I want every little detail about him. Leave no stone unturned,” I said to him.“Yes Alpha,” he replies.I suddenly stopped walking. I backtrack.“Is something wrong?” the chief asks.“It's Alexa,” I reply excitedly. She has been avoiding me, and now I finally catch a glimpse of her. It's making me feel so rhapsodic.“Where?” he asks, peering toward where I'm currently looking at.“Can't you see her? She brightens up the whole place,” I said to him.“Really?” he inquires curiously. I still when notice some maids stealing glances at us. I clear my throat, quickly recollecting myself.“You must have really sharp eyes,” he said with an amused smile. I ignore him.“You may leave now. I will walk on my own,” I said in a serious tone. “Absolutely. I will get to what you ordered right away,” he replies.“Good luck to your friend,” he pats me on the back and leaves with a shake of his head. I stared at his retreating for a while before looking towards Alexa, who w
Chapter 104Alpha Kai's POV“What is it?” I ask curiously as Alexa gently removes her hand from mine. He looks and sounds quite serious.“The Alpha of the Greenland pack is here with some of his people. They want to negotiate,” he replies.“Negotiate?” I ask with a scowl. He hums.The audacity to come here for negotiation after he sent his people to ambush me.“Let's go,” I said, moving towards him. I halt when I see Alexa following me. I turned around to look at her.“Where are you going?” I asked her.“Where you are going,” she replies curtly.“No, you can't come,” I said firmly.“And why not?” she retorts with a frown.“It's dangerous. We are meeting with an enemy. You might get hurt,” I explain for her own safety. I would not want her to get caught in the crossfire.“I can take care of myself just fine,” she mutters, trying to walk past Ace. He grabs her hand.“Chaos might break out, and it will get bloody,” he warns. She turns her head towards him.“I've seen my own fair share of
Chapter 105Alpha Kai's POVIf I was coming along with Ace, I would never have bothered with the guards, but Alexa came along with us. I trust in her abilities completely, but I just can't take that risk of endangering her and end up regretting it.His face fell, but he quickly masks it with a cold smile. “You are starting to get pathetic. We are only negotiating, and you brought all your guards. Have you lost your bravery? Are you starting to get scared?” he taunts.Before I could speak, Alexa spoke up.“And you are so pathetic and cowardly enough to send your guards to attack from behind without coming yourself. You are so pathetic that you want a pack that, in your own words is being run by 'little boys'. You are so pathetic that you want a pack that has already flourished. Why not just build up your own pack and stop this unnecessary noise,” I watch as Morey's face turns gradually darker. “So don't you talk about being pathetic, else I will be forced to reveal the fact that your t
Chapter 106Alexa's POVI sigh, hurriedly walking towards my chambers. Finally able to get the Alpha off my back. He has been pestering and teasing me after the Alpha of the Greenland pack and his minions left.I catch sight of someone pacing around the front of my chambers. I walk towards the person in slow, careful strides.“Ace?” I called out in surprise. He turns towards me.“What a nice surprise,” I mutter. He had been ignoring me for a while. Suddenly seeing him in front of my chambers is indeed surprising.“Can we talk?” he asks calmly.“Of course. Do come in,” I reply, opening the doors. He steps in and I follow right behind him. I sit awkwardly on my bed, wondering what it is he wants to talk about. This is a little uncomfortable. I've never had to hold myself back when speaking to him, but now it feels like I'm walking on eggshells around him, so I don't end up saying the wrong thing. I watch him in silence for a while.“I…,” we both started at the same time.“You can go fir
Chapter 107Alexa's POV“Luna, you have to eat something. You haven't eaten anything since this morning,” Kira said worriedly.I lay on my bed, panting slightly.“I can't keep anything down, Kira,” I mutter weakly. Whenever I eat, I feel a metallic taste devour my taste buds and my hunger dies down. The constant need to urinate had me consuming less liquid.“You have to try. Here, eat this,” she replies, holding out a plate to me. Immediately I caught a whiff of the scent, I ran into the bathroom and emptied the entire content of my stomach. My stomach clenches painfully. I sit on the floor, panting heavily. Kira rushes in and helps me up as we walk back to the room.This has been going on since the previous evening. “Did you eat anything that could have caused your sickness?” she asks nervously, looking confused.“I don't know,” I croak, my throat feeling dry and sore. I grab my head which is throbbing painfully in my hands. I can't seem to remember anything I ate that could have ca
Chapter 108Alpha Kai's POVI'm so happy that I'm barely controlling myself so that I would not end up scaring Alexa. I'm going to be a father. But Alexa does not look quite happy.“What's wrong?” I ask nervously.“I just was not expecting this,” she replies.“We both were not expecting this. But I'm glad this happened. Aren't you?” I ask incredulously.“How can I be? Have you seen us? We don't have any love or trust between us. My life is messed up. I still have a lot of things I have to do. How are we going to raise a child like this?” she asks, looking stressed and frustrated.I understand how she feels. I was also not expecting a child so soon. I had wanted to win over her love and trust, then, after the war, help her retake what was taken away from her before thinking of starting up a family. But I just could not help myself, and I had sex with her without precaution.I take hold of her hands again.“I know I've treated you terribly in the past and there's nothing I can do or say
Chapter 109Ace's POVI stare at Kai's shocked expression nonchalantly. He asked the question so he should be expecting an answer.“So you love her?” he mutters, gazing at me intently. My eyes meet his gaze without looking away.“I never said anything like that. I was just asking you a question,” I reply. “Speak clearly. Don't play games with me, did something happen that I don't know of?” he asks. I sigh.“We have a war coming up. You should concentrate on that,” I mutter, turning my back and walking away. There's no need to say it in words. He must have already figured out what I meant.I walk to my office dejectedly. It's been a while since I told Alexa that we should stay away from each other, and we haven't seen each since then. We agreed to remain friends, but who am I jesting, I can't remain just friends with her. I've fallen for her too deeply to do that.If only Kai didn't fall for her too, we wouldn't be here right now. I get to my office door. I push it open and step insid
Chapter 110Ace's POV“You had better be saying the truth. If you are lying, so you can get to me, you will not live to see the sunset,” I threaten, staring darkly at her. Deep down, I was really hoping that all that she just said was nothing but a lie.She crosses her arms in front of her with a sigh.“Why would I lie? What can I possibly gain from that? I heard the doctor telling them about the news this morning. It's a fact, and you threatening me won't change anything,” she replies with a smirk.Alexa is with a child? Kai's child? How can that happen? My heart starts palpitating as my hands tremble. “What are you going to do now? Wait until the child is born, so he can call you Uncle Ace as you watch Alexa and Kai living happily with many more children. Are you going to continue being the second option? Second in command to your brother and now second to Alexa? Are you going to be able to live with yourself knowing you never fought for the woman you love and that you've lost her?
EpilogueOnce there was a prosperous and flourishing pack led by two brothers. Brothers were so powerful that they were feared and envied by many. Envy, jealousy, and betrayal got in between these two brothers that they both died, leaving this once thriving and envied pack in nothing but utter darkness.Alexa watches with cold and determined eyes as Ace's blood slowly drains out of his body and he breathed his last. She falls on the bed, mentally exhausted as she stares at her bloody and trembling hands. She takes a look at his limp and unmoving body. The amount of damage he had done to her and the sins he had committed against her in the name of love was just too much. She felt like a shackled slave whenever she was with him. His love was obsessive and toxic, Draining her of every ounce of strength she once had. She had no peace of mind, whenever she slept, she would keep getting haunted by the faces of everyone he had killed because of her.She fought as best as she could to get a
Chapter 126Ace's POVAlexa's painful screams echoed across the corridor. I paced around, running my hands through my hair out of frustration. Alexa has been in labor for the past one hour. I had brought the best midwives from different packs hoping that would help her deliver faster and easier, but her cries and screams told me otherwise.A midwife runs out of the room with her hands covered in blood. I started to panic out of fear.“Alpha, we need more hot water and towels,” she said hurriedly. I quickly turn around to the maids behind me.“You heard what she said, get it right away!” I bark at them and they scurry away. The midwife tries to go back in, but I step in front of her.“What is going on? Is she okay?” I asked worriedly.“We can't say for now Alpha, the matter is complicated, but we will try our best to make sure the mother and child are okay,” she said.“Ahhhhhhhh!” Alexa screams out in pain again. “Let me in. I want to see her,” I said to her. She shakes her head.“I'm
Chapter 125Alexa's POVEight months laterI sit close to the window, staring into space as I gently rub my now obvious baby bump. My life passed by like a blur, so much time has passed, yet I feel like I'm still stuck in the same place. This is my life now, a life full of misery and pain.I wipe the tears that are falling down my cheeks with my hands as I sniffle. I can't remember the last time I smiled or laughed. To me, laughing is a luxury I just can't afford anymore. And it's not just me, everyone in the pack house moves around like living corpses. The pack house is now nothing but a shadow of its former self. We are all just pushing and fighting our way forward. There's something missing- a huge gap in everyone's heart that I'm not sure can be filled any longer. His name is still on the lips of everyone, but nobody dared to say it out loud for fear of what might happen to them.When I walk in the corridor, nobody dared to look at me or talk to me anymore for fear of incurring Ac
Chapter 124Two years later,Ace's POVTerror, dread, and fearThat is all I could see in the faces and actions of the pack members I met on the corridor. They all bow their heads, shivering from fright, as I walk down the corridor. The sound of my heels clicking on the floor as I walk is the only sound that can be heard. My expression is cold, hard, and stoic as I walk. They didn't dare raise their faces to meet mine.It's been two years since I helped Alexa take back her pack from her uncle, yet she hasn't spoken much to me since then. I thought that would make her happy and clear up all these misunderstandings between us, but it turned out to be the exact opposite.She's now a shadow of her former self. She doesn't speak or eat much anymore. She just stays in our chambers and cries all day. I tried everything to make her happy. I bought her a gift, and I took her out. I did everything, but she still does not look happy.But it's fine. As long as she's with me, we will be fine togeth
Chapter 123Alexa's POVStaring back at the house that has given me so many memories. I don't know what to feel or how to react. Memories edged deep within me that I will never be able to forget. Greywood pack house. The place where I was born and raised. A place filled with love, laughter, pain, misery and the worst of all- betrayal. "Shall we?" Ace asks trying to take my hand. I grab my dress instead and walk away from him towards the house. He follows behind me with his guards. We all walk in and waited in the living room. My hands gently touch the sofa and the walls. I hardly recognize this place, it looks totally different from how it used to be. Uncle Gaius had totally changed the whole place."Alpha Ace," I hear the voice of the man that his betrayal is deeply rooted within me. The start of my miseries and misfortunes."And who might this young lady be?" he asks. My back is turned towards him so he could not see my face."Nice renovation uncle," I said turning towards him. His
Chapter 122Ace's POVIt is dark in my office, and that is what I want—darkness. I revel in it. I find it soothing. It held nothing, just silence and the occasional swirling of my glass. Closing my eyes, I lean back into my chair with a sigh.Immediately, the face of my love flashes before my eyes, and a smile tugs at my lips."Alexa, my sweet Lexa," I mumble, feeling so happy. I won, and she is officially mine now in every sense. Her body, her soul, and her heart Everything belongs to me now.I never thought I could love someone to this extent and get married someday. I always thought I would live my life with one purpose: pleasure. But then Alexa came along and turned my world and everything I believed in upside down. I feel complete whenever I'm around her.I don't feel remorse, guilt, or empathy for any reason. I don't regret any single thing I've done or how I did it to get where I am today. I and Alexa are going to live together forever as a family, and anyone who tries to get i
Chapter 121Alexa's POV“I will never be your Luna, no matter what you do to me. I am a free person and I have the right to make my own decisions. I will never accept this!” I shriek expecting him to yell or scream at me but to my horror, he bursts into a fit of laughter. I gazed at him skeptically, wondering if he didn't hear me very well.“My sweet sweet Lexa,” he smiles, cupping my chin. “You became mine, the second I laid my eyes on you. You don't know how elated I felt when I saw you for the first time standing in the garden as the wind whipped your hair around. My fingers twitched to run my hands through your hair,” he asserts, touching my hair. I swat his hand away.“Do not touch me or else…,” I threaten, my eyes blazing with fury.“I fucking love the fire burning like embers in your hazel eyes right now,” he smirks, coming within close proximity to me. Before I could move, he pulls me closer to him and whispers in my ear, “I can't wait for every part of you to become mine comp
Chapter 120Alexa's POV“You know me very well, Ace, and I will never side with you,” the Chief replies angrily.Ace lets out a bone-chilling, creepy laugh. “I knew you would say that, and you are far too useful to end up dead. I won't kill you, but by the time I'm done with you, you will pray for death instead,” he threatens.“What is that supposed to mean?” the Chief asks incredulously.“Carol and Leon. Maybe I should go play with them a bit. What do you think?” he asks, tilting his head thoughtfully. The Chief's face fell.“You are going to use my family as leverage just to make sure I agree to your demands?” he mutters in disbelief.“You left me no other choice. Either you accept to continue being the Chief and your family lives, or you reject, your family dies, and you will continue being Chief,” he shrugs nonchalantly.“You are a psychopath!” he utters with disdain.“I hear that often. So, what is it going to be? Answer me quickly. I don't have all day,” he said impatiently. I
Chapter 119Alexa's POV“A…alpha who?” I stutter nervously.“Alpha Ace,” she repeats.“How? Since when?” I croak out, confused. The last time I remembered, I was on the battlefield. How did I get here and when did Ace become the new Alpha?She stares at my confused state, pitifully.“He was crowned a week ago, while you were unconscious,” she said.I gulped and forced myself to ask the question I'd been dreading the answer to since I woke up. “W…hat about Alpha Kai?” I ask, holding my breath in anticipation. Please tell me that he is alive, and I was just having a bad dream.She sighs. “Alpha Kai died on the battlefield. He has been buried,” she replies. I grip my dress tightly, letting out a shaky breath that I've been holding. My throat clogs and throbs painfully as reality dawns on me. My eyes brim with tears. “He's dead. He's really gone forever,” I mumble as I burst into tears. I can literally see my life crashing before me like a pack of cards. I placed my head on my thighs and