Chapter 44

Jacob Blackwood looked for his son everywhere. After he heard what happened in the pack meeting with Alpha Dante, he knew he had to find him and talk some sense into him before he spoilt everything for them. He has always known his son to have anger issues and with the bubbling hate he had for Dante, he knew he was bound to explode someday like an active volcano, which was why Charles was doing everything in his power to stop it.

He got to his son's chambers even though he knew he had very little chance of meeting him there since he wasn't the type to come home to his mate after a bad day. When he got to his house, he left his car which was imported from the human world for the royal family only. There were other means of transportation amongst the wolves but there was none that matched the luxury cars Alpha Dante brought in for them.

He headed to the door and knocked on it until Cassandra, his son's mate opened up the door. She was clad in a matching lacy thong and garters that made a lump form in Charles's throat. He knew the young girl was out of his league because she was his son's soon-to-be wife but what he also knew was that if she spent a night with him, she would leave her mate for him without a second thought.

"Good day father," She greeted with her head cast low in respect. She put a hand across her chest to hide away what he had already seen.

"Good day Cassandra, how are you?" He asked as he made his way into the house, without her inviting him to get in.

Cassandra frowned at his intrusion, then she picked up her cloak that was laying on the dining table chair and wore it over her underwear.

"I am good. Louis isn't here, he hasn't come home since he went out earlier in the morning."

Charles raised an eyebrow like he wasn't expecting the information. He knew his son wasn't at home but he needed to get a clue of where he was before he headed down to where his instincts were telling him his son was, the brothel that had just recently been reopened as per his instructions.

“Really?” He raised a brow. “Then I guess he’s still at a meeting.” He tried to get any information out of her.

“His meetings were supposed to end an hour ago.”

Charles frowned at her statement. He was in the brothel.

“Thank you, Cassandra.” He said before rushing out of the house, leaving his son’s mate in utter confusion.

He got into his car and sped down to the brothel where he knew every single corner and slut. Since his wife died, he only found solace there. It was the only place that calmed him down and gave him the inner peace he craved. When he got there, he looked around for his car but didn’t find it.

Charles sighed before he got out of the car and headed towards the house, which looked like a rather normal one from the outside but was a goddamn devil’s kingdom on the inside. He knocked for a bit before someone finally answered him.

She looked quite shocked to see him there because it’s been a long time since he came around, but she still ushered him in.

“Our old guest turned into a stranger, why haven’t we been seeing you around Charles? Found a mate?” She asked as she ran her hands into her long thick red hair.

He tried his best to not break as he focused on her face, his pants suddenly getting too uncomfortable. He had gone too long without coming here, since Alpha Dante pronounced his son as his Beta. He wanted to keep his record stark clean, even though he knew he had more sins than the devil himself.

“No. Personal reasons.” He answered her. He could barely remember her name, but he sure as hell could remember what her pussy feels like.

“You are here to take your little devil’s spawn?” She asked as she started to walk deeper into the house.

“Where the fuck is he?”

“He’s in there having a little dick massage and getting drunk off pussies, over there.” She pointed over at a door that was at the far end of the corridor.

Charles nodded before he went down the corridor, and stopped when he got to the door. Prepared for the worst, he let out a shaky breath before he pushed the door open. He sighed in relief when he didn’t find his son boning. Instead, he was sitting down against a bed obviously drunk to a stupor.

“You stupid boy,” Charles yelled as he collected the bottle of booze away from Louis. “How many times will I tell you to stop this fucking attitude?”

“What do you mean?” Louis slurred as he leaned his head back on the bed.

“What does it say about you being the Beta of our pack? For God’s sake, grow up.”

Louis scoffed as he squeezed the ball he was holding in his hands to avoid breaking the furniture of the brothel because of the anger in him. He wanted to beat something or someone up, preferably Alpha Dante but he knew that wasn’t possible. The situation will only land him into more trouble or get him killed.

“He disgraced me in front of the entire senior pack committee. I’m never going to forgive him.” He spat out with venom in his tone. His forehead had started to bulge with his wolf veins and his eyes turned a sinister shade of red. His hands were also changing, then his fingers started to turn into wolf-shaped claws.

“What the hell?” Charles frowned. “You are not going to do anything impulsive Louis. It could cost you your life or your position in this pack. Do you want to go back from being part of the royal family to a striving Omega?”

Louis shook his head.

“Then I have a plan. We are going to assassinate him so we can take what is rightfully ours.” He blurted out what had been in his mind for so long.

Charles hated Dante’s father, and also passed down that hate to Dante himself after he was crowned as the Alpha of the pack. He was supposed to have the throne, but then their father passed it off to his junior brother who was just a minor at that time, but incredibly smart and strong.

He had hated his junior brother right from that time and now that his son has taken the throne and Louis didn’t, he felt even more jealous and determined to make the throne theirs. Dante was no match to his father, so taking him down will be very easy especially now that he had Louis as his Beta.

“What did you just say father?” Louis looked at him like he had lost his mind. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing, and he had thought it was the booze that was playing tricks on his brain.

“I said we will kill the son of a bitch. We wouldn’t have to worry about him doing anything again to infuriate you again.” Charles smirked as he sat down on the cold floor too.

“I’m not sure, father. He’s still my cousin.” Louis stammered as the thought of having Alpha Dante’s blood on his hands made him retch.

“You coward,” Charles snarly angrily. “You are nothing like me. If you continue with his attitude, you’re going nowhere in life.”

“Come on father. I don’t want to kill my cousin, I can’t.”

Charles glared at him disappointedly before he sighed and put on a calm face to explain things to him without scaring him even further because he knew when his son was drunk, he behaved like an utter fool.

“Do you want to be Alpha, Louis?”

“Yes of course. More than anything in this goddamn world.” He shook his head vigorously.

“Then you will have to do as I say because the only way to have that dream of yours come true is by sending the man that took them away in the first place to heaven.” He told him as he placed both of his hands on his son’s shoulders.

“Okay.” He said, with a hint of uncertainty still in his tone.

“Do you understand me Louis?” Charles asked, this time more stern in his tone than the one he used on him earlier.

“Yes father.”

“Good, now let’s get you the fuck out of here. If I see you in this brothel again or any other brothel, I swear I’ll have to cut your own goddamn balls by myself.” Charles threatened before he got his son up and supported him with a hand.

He tried to get past the women in the house without making much noise, and he successfully did. He placed him in the back seat of his car because Louis could barely sit straight by himself before he drove off to his chambers to keep him there for the night because he knew he would risk getting exposed if he took him to his own chambers where his mate, Cassandra was.