Chapter 155: Deal or No Deal

(Xander POV)

“They ARE dead, you f&&king idiot,” Daphne said from behind me, in a taunting voice. “Now can we get on with the rest of this conversation, please? The werewolf council will be here soon and I need time to get ready.”

The harshness of Daphne’s words began to re-play in my head almost on a loop. After a few rounds, they successfully and finally cleared the denial and fog in my brain.

My parents were dead.

Dead.

My parents —the male and female werewolves who had given me life, who had raised me, and who had loved me— were dead.

They were dead, and they were not coming back.

Leo Bloodstone had been f&&king right. Ellis had set me up. He had earned my trust and gotten me to instill him as beta of my pack. He then sent me on a suicide mission to Bloodstone Pack, fully expecting Leo to kill me, and while I was gone, he had killed my parents so that he could take over Blue Ridge as alpha.

Mother f&&ker.

“If you are done sulking, could you please return to earth so that we c