Can you kill the Alpha.

"Can you help me kill the Alpha?"

Since joining the Silver Moon pack as a child, Kai had never heard words as shocking as the ones he had just heard.

He stood there, hands in his pockets, staring at his Luna as though she was stupid.

Kai shook his head. Did she really say what she just said now?

Here his Luna was, asking him to kill his Alpha, one of the highest sins a werewolf could ever commit.

What scared him was the fact that she was making this request with a straight face.

Rose was the Luna of the Silver Moon pack, and was mated to Alpha Ross.

Rose was beautiful and was every bit an exemplary Luna. But right now, he just couldn't understand why she was asking him to do such a thing.

Killing the Alpha wasn't something any Luna thought of doing, so what had suddenly gotten into her.

"What did you say?" He asked again, in disbelief, his eyes searching hers for some  form of an explanation. His brain still having a hard time wrapping itself around her request 

Rose looked at him like he was foolish.

"I need your help in killing the Alpha.  " I know you're one of his closest betas and with you on our side, it’ll be quick and clean as though nothing had even happened. 

Our

That word confirmed she was working with someone. He wasn't sure if this plot to commit treasonous murder was her own doing or  the master plan of whoever was helping her. Regardless, he needed to talk her out of this idea.

"Do you know what you are asking of me?  Do you realize how dangerous this is and what could happen to me…happen to us if we get caught?" Kai asked incredulously.

"Yes, I am well aware of the risks and that is why I came to you for help."

Her response came in that calm matter-of-fact tone. Reeling from confusion, Kai shook his head.

Was she crazy?

"I don't think you understand what you are asking me to do, because if you did, then you wouldn't have asked me to do this in the first place.

Rose glared in anger, but the expression left her face quickly and she smiled at him.

"Have you ever fallen in love Kai?"

No, he hadn't, and he had no intention of discussing his love life with his Luna. He wasn't even supposed to be near  her. If Alpha Ross found out, there would be hell to pay.

The Alpha's jealousy knew no bounds.

"How does that have anything to do with this. You're asking me to commit treason!!."

"If you have ever fallen in love before, Kai, you will realise that it's a beautiful feeling and you are going to do anything and everything it takes to protect that feeling."

Kai kept quiet. What was Rose talking about?

The answer to his question was in his head, but he wanted to dismiss that thought.

He wanted to dismiss the thought entirely.

“Right now, all I'm asking is your help in protecting the feeling that I have.”

"I'm not quite understanding where you are going with this," Kai said.

The voice in his head kept on screaming that he knew what  Rose was talking about, but he wanted to disbelieve it.

He wanted her to say it by herself.

"I…im in love with someone else…a pack Beta," Rose finally said, her hazel eyes boring deep into Kai’s.

Kai blinked back the stupid look on his face.

He always thought an Alpha and a Luna were supposed to be mates forever. Their union was blessed by the Moon Goddess.

Never would he have imagined a Luna would fall in love with someone else other than the Alpha.

"You’re kidding, right?" Kai asked, shocked.

Apparently, that was the wrong reaction to Rose's confession, for she suddenly had a deep frown on her face.

"That's why I asked you if you have ever fallen in love before, because if you have, you would understand where I'm coming from."

“I'm sorry Rose, but I can't help you do this. I can't help you kill the Alpha. It's high treason. If I'm caught… I-I'll be killed on the spot. "

Kai turned to go, and Rose grabbed his arm with a vice-like grip.

"Help me Kai, or you'll regret it."

When he looked into her eyes, there was only hate staring back, and he felt a shiver run through him.

Kai shrugged Rose's hand off and stepped back. He wasn't afraid of her; he knew her before she had become a Luna yet now standing there with her eyes staring daggers at him he wasn't sure anymore.

“I'm a beta of this pack and one of Alpha Ross's loyal betas, and I cannot do what you ask, even though you are my Luna.

When Rose opened her mouth to speak, Kai felt anger course through him. A slow dull throb was starting to form somehere behind his temples.

"Don't you ever ever come to me again asking for such a request or I'll be forced to forget we were once friends.

As soon as he had said that, Rose's expression suddenly went slack  and she stepped away from him.

"I see…that's alright. I won't come asking for something like this anymore it was stupid of me. I'll go now.

With that, Rose walked away from him, heading back to the settlements. He stood there for a few seconds, watching her walk away.

The movement of her buttocks in her simple gown.

Kai looked away from her. He once had a crush on Rose back when they were little. She had changed so much and he'd let go of the past.

After she was mated to Alpha Ross, he came to terms with the fact that he would never have her as his mate.

Who the hell was telling Rose that it was okay to kill the Alpha, her very own mate?

As Kai stood there watching Rose as she returned back to the settlement, his mind was in a great deal of turmoil.

He should inform Ross about what Rose had just told him, but on the other hand, he still had feelings for her even though she wasn't his and he was afraid what the outcome would be for her.

Kai had gone back on having feelings a long time ago after Rose had rejected him for Ross years ago.

He'd trained himself not to let the things women did get under his skin.

Yet whenever he looked at Rose, he wanted her badly, even after the rejection.

The truth was that he couldn't have her, even if he wanted to; she belonged to an Alpha now.

Regardless, he decided he would let Alpha Ross know what Rose had just asked of him. Whoever was setting Rose up for such an idea needed to be found.

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Running as a wolf was one of the best things that Kai enjoyed doing.

It calmed his head just being in the first run, the air on his fur, his legs moving across the forest ground faster than any human eyes could follow.

His eyes were ten times better than a human and ten times better than those of any animal in the woods.

Kai, at that moment, was an apex predator. He was an unstoppable creature of the night.

Moving fluidly across the ground, he felt his wolf get stronger.

It had been exactly a week ago since his Luna had asked for his help to murder his Alpha.

Against his own better judgment, he hadn't told Ross what Rose had asked of him, because in the end, he couldn't put Rose in danger.

Nothing had happened since then, and Kai had reason to believe that Rose had thrown the thought away from her head.

He could see the OA settlement now and in the distance, his wolf eyes could pick up little pinpricks of orange dots which were scattered across the settlement.

Campfires.

As soon as Kai reached the outskirts of the settlement, he shifted to his human form easily.

The full moon was out, and he would not experience pain as he transitioned either to his wolf or human self. The moon numbed it.

But something was wrong. He couldn't tell what it was, but he knew that something was terribly wrong.

Suddenly, someone latched onto his shoulder and before he could react, he felt a kick to his legs.

Kai's two legs were swept under his feet as he lost contact with the ground, his back hitting the leaves strewn ground of the forest painfully, the breath knocked out of him.

He looked around him to see three of his pack Betas surrounding him.

“Lift  him up."

The voice was familiar, and when he turned to look in the direction of the voice, he saw Adam, one of the pack's best fighters and a close Beta to Ross just like him.

Before Kai could react, a heavy metallic object was placed over his neck.

Kai felt himself instantly get weak in the knees. Standing up was with great difficulty.

He could barely even move. He realized what they had placed around his neck was silver.

A werewolf's greatest weakness and nightmare.

Kai was roughly dragged to his feet, and they began dragging him out of the outskirts of the woods, deeper into the settlement.

"What's going on? Where are you people taking me to?" he asked with great difficulty.

None of them answered. Everyone just continued on as if no one had spoken.

Kai was getting weaker and weaker with each step they took. If the silver was still in contact with his body in a few minutes, he was going to go into cardiac arrest.

Not him, but his wolf, and if his wolf died, he died too.

"What's going on?" he asked again weakly, and yet again no one answered him.

When Kai looked ahead, he saw the location of where he was being dragged, and slowly he began to understand what was going on, even with his brain muddled by the silver on his body.

After Adam and the other Betas had reached the cottage. In the cottage of Alpha Ross and Rose, it started to dawn on him what was going on.

He could see Rose framed on the ground sobbing quietly through the open door.

Kai felt something hitch in his throat, and his body suddenly felt like it had been dipped in cold water.

The betas dropped him onto the ground, and he just lay there weak, unable to move or say anything.

From where he lay, he watched as Adam squatted to his height, his face inches above his.

“You've been accused of killing the Alpha. Is this true? "

Kai knew it was coming even before Adam said it, yet it still felt like something had been ripped away from his body, something vital.

Kai would have defended himself, but the silver wasn't allowing him to speak. He was so weak that the mere act of rolling his eyes was met with great pain.

"You're not going to talk, Kai?" Adam spat.

How could he talk when he had the silver around his neck and when he was so weak that it felt like he was going to pass into everlasting sleep at any second?

By now, other pack members had started coming out of their settlements, and the Alphas' house was quickly turning into a center of attraction.

"Cover the door, they shouldn't see his body," he heard Adam whisper to someone harshly.

So the Alpha was truly dead and now he was being framed for the murder and he couldn't even talk to defend himself.

Rose stepped out of the cottage, and now she was standing over him, staring at him like he was some kind of vermin, her eyes teary and her face stained with tears.

A face that told him, I warned you, but you just wouldn't listen

Again, Kai opened his mouth to speak, and he felt a sharp pain behind his eyes. Colors swam there for a few seconds before they disappeared.

Rose bent low to his ears and whispered, "I warned you, and now you will die for your stupidity."

Kai felt something break inside his heart. They had betrayed him, his pack had betrayed him, and his childhood friend Rose had set him up for murder.

Her betrayal hurt the most.

Rose moved away from him and rose back to her full height, flashing him a small smirk that only he could see.

"Take him to the pit. He'll be executed tomorrow.’

That was the last thing he heard before he vanished into unconsciousness.