Younger self

Chapter Four

Darius’s P.O.V

After Eight Years

Exchanging pleasantries with the other Alphas, a bright smile formed on my face as Alpha Damian complimented me. “Very soon, your daughter Amelia will become the top gymnast in the country. Not only is she smart for her age but she is so talented”

A smile that depicted my pride crossed my face and I clinked glasses with him. “She takes after me and that is why she is so smart. I was really proud when she came home with a gold medal. She is just seven, yet she makes me so proud”

Amelia, my beloved daughter. She was the evidence of the love that I shared with my mate, Susan.

Amelia was the child that I had always wanted— Smart, competent, and talented.

Alpha Liam, the Alpha of the Blood Moon pack snapped me out of my reverie as he fixed his gaze on me. “The auction would be starting in the next twenty minutes. I hope that you are prepared, Alpha Darius”

Forcing out a smile, I moved closer to him, placing a hand on his shoulder while staring deep into his eyes. “I don’t need to be prepared. What is mine would surely be mine”

The mischievous grin on his face died, replaced by a frown.

He could act sullen for all I cared, that was his problem.

Being the one of the youngest Alpha to be a billionaire brought the world to my feet and almost all the Alphas from the other packs looked up to me except for Liam who saw me as his competition.

I had everything I wanted!

The wealth, the perfect family, the respect, the fame, and power so why would I give a damn about Liam?

Walking past him, I was about to move to the main hall where the auction was going to take place when my Beta, Ezra, who was also my personal assistant rushed towards me.

The urgency was laced in his voice as he stood next to me. “Alpha Darius, there is a huge problem”

My brows creased with confusion, trying to wrap my head around what he meant.

“Problem? How?”

Ezra handed the tab over to me and on scrolling through the screen, my eyes almost bulged out of its socket.

Muttering through gritted teeth, I shot him a glare. “How is this in the public? How the heck does the public have an idea about what is going on in the pack house”

He shook his head. “I have no idea. I feel like someone ratted out on us”

My fingers clenched and staring at Susan from afar as she conversed with other people, anger coursed through me.

Different blogs and tabloids published articles concerning Susan’s maltreatment towards the Omegas who worked in the pack house, and to support their claim, they even attached it with a video.

This was the total height of it all!

Susan was bent on ruining the perfect image of me that was being displayed to the public. The first time, it was news about her maltreating the employees, the second time it was about her causing a scene at a mall and now this!

I was so tired of paying blogs to delete the articles. I was done with compensating the victims so many times.

This was just the height of it!

Handing the phone back to Ezra, I said to him. “Make sure that the articles are deleted! There would be a press release after the auction plus we need to find whoever took that video”

“Yes, Alpha Darius”

With every step that I took towards Susan, my blood boiled like a raging inferno. As I got to where she was, the frown on my face was quickly masked by a smile, and I whisked her away from there, dragging her towards the balcony.

Glancing at her while fixing her a stern gaze, I almost snarled at her before I toned down my voice. “Why in the world do you have to be this wicked? Do you have an idea about what your actions can cost me? You fucking slapped a maid so bad that she almost went blind and it is all over the internet!”

Instead of a flicker of remorse in her eyes, all I saw was rage as her hands flew over her mouth. “Did she do that? She ratted out on her master….. I am so going to kill her” She attempted to walk past me but I gripped her by the arm, almost yelling at her.

“Do you even have a sense of reasoning? You would stay calm and do nothing till the auction is over! By getting that land, my riches would multiply and if you mess that up for me, I am not going to spare you, Susan!”

Susan huffed, storming away as she flicked her brown hair to the back.

I scoffed, almost throwing my hands in the air. I was so fed up with her.

However as I was about to leave the balcony, I paused in my tracks when I saw someone’s legs sticking out of the partially opened door.

Someone had been eavesdropping?

As anger flared within me, I commanded. “Come out right now before I take action against you!”

In that fleeting moment, a blonde-haired boy emerged hesitantly, then followed by another boy and another.

My lips parted and I exclaimed. “Triplets!”

The blonde-haired boy locked eyes with me and in that fleeting moment, my heart skipped a bit. Staring at the triplets, my wolf purred and there was just this connection that I couldn’t decipher. It was like a magnetic pull that drew me to them.

It felt more like I was staring at my younger self. Why could I see myself in the three of them?

“We are sorry” They all chorused and before I could ask a question, they sprinted off.

I muttered under my breath. “Who are they?”

*

The auctioneer hit his gavel against the wooden frame as he advocated for decorum. “Silence please”

Susan, who sat next to me, leaned by her side. “Everyone is scared of you. They are nervous that you haven’t made a move yet and that is why they are like this”

A smile crept at the corner of my lips. “They should be scared! When I get the land, do you know how much the return would be in the next six months?”

I whispered in her ears. “There is also a rumor that claims that the land is filled with gold and that is why everyone wants to claim it but how can they claim it when it will soon be mine already!”

Susan giggled, leaning on my shoulder. “I am glad that you are my mate”

“You should be”

As the auctioneer talked, Alpha Liam raised his paddle. “100 million dollars”

Darting my eyes at him, he smirked and in that moment, I raised my paddle. “250 million dollars”

Liam’s eyes widened and he raised his paddle. “300 million dollars!”

With a smile creeping at the corner of my lips, I said. “500 million dollars!”

His chest heaved as he stared daggers at me while I took in a deep breath because in the end I won!

The auctioneer yelled. “500 million dollars! Going once, going twice and the land goes to Alpha……”

I was waiting for him to hit the gavel on the wooden frame when a voice pierced through the air. “One Billion Dollars!”

What!

That was absurd.

Instinctively, I swung my head in the direction that the voice emanated and right in the second row, a woman wearing sunglasses raised her paddle.

She was stunning and there was this aura of elegance that swirled around her. She left me breathless but at the same time, who was she for her to spend such an amount?

All of a sudden, my heart slammed against my ribcage when I locked eyes with the man who sat behind her.

His eyes blazed with fury and I collapsed back to my seat!

He was supposed to be dead!

I had killed him with my bare hands.

So how was he here? How was the rogue king here?

Amidst the murmur that erupted because of the enormous amount that was mentioned and most importantly, the rogue king who was supposed to be dead, the auctioneer asked for the woman’s name.

“Excuse me, what is your name?”

Removing her sunglasses, placing them on her legs that were crossed over the other. She turned to look at me and the more I stared at her face, the more she looked familiar.

Darting her eyes back to the auctioneer, she said. “Elodie!”

At that moment, everything faded into the background and the name kept resounding in my head. It has been years since I heard that name plus the Elodie that I knew was nearing obesity! She was unkempt and her eyes were always puffed up.

But the woman staring back at me was beautiful! Probably, the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen.

Tilting her head to the left, her eyes pierced into mine and she repeated her name. “Elodie Martinez Marcel!”

I froze when it hit me that she was the same Elordie!

My Luna.