My mind was pretty much in a mess as Pularis brought me back to the hospital to get treated. I still couldn’t believe what happened back at Duncan’s place, as my injuries were getting wrapped up in the bandages. Not by a doctor or a nurse, though… But by Pularis.“You don’t need to do this, you know,” I told him, being very careful as to not upset him in any way.“Maybe not. But I feel like doing this,” he returned, not keeping his eyes off his work on my arm.I couldn’t help feeling uneasy, though. He is, after all, a member of the Council of Wolves. Even if he treats me kindly now, because of Duncan my reputation was brought down terribly. Surely he saw me as a criminal just like everyone else. Moreover, with the fate of the pack…“If I can ask something, is it true?” I asked then.“About what?” he asked back, still not glancing up at me.“About the Bluemoon Pack’s disbandment.”That got him to pause that time, as he looked up at me with a cold expression. A look that made me flinch
Duncan's POV"Is Auntie Ashley going to be okay?" Dylan asked me, as we sat out in the halls right outside the closed doors to my room, where Ashley was. With us was Spencer, who was pacing around the halls to calm himself down."She'll be fine, son. Everything will be okay," I said, more to reassure myself than it was to reassure him.After that incident with that Council of Wolf member, my son and I instantly went to check on Ashley, and called for Ashley's doctor to get to my home for her. Get her the help she needs to recover from what that monster did. There were some difficulties in getting him here, which did not take long to resolve after I contacted Spencer to bring him."It's one thing that that bitchy slut went and poisoned Ashley. Now you're telling me one of the Council of Wolves did the same?!" Spencer questioned me, ceasing in his pacing as he turned to me in rage. "What's more, you're really telling me that he is having our pack disbanded?! What about Ashley?! She's a
"If you want to find that doctor and beat him for neglecting even the simplest of treatment for Ashley, you can," I told him, knowing well that Spencer cares for Ashley just as much as I do."As tempting as that sounds, I am more enraged with the person responsible for this. Or should I say 'people'," he denied, though still seething in rage.How I understood so well of his rage, for I was just as angry with that councilman mutt for dealing so much hurt to my Ashley. When she was already in enough pain because of that slutty 'wife' of mine. And after dealing so much pain to her, that dog dare take my wife away while leaving this poor innocent soul behind in agony?! Rage filled me when I recall how he carried her out of my house. As though she was some princess when she was nothing more than filth itself."I don't understand why this is happening to me..." Ashley spoke, her voice cracking a bit, as she raised an arm up to her eyes, concealing them from our sight. "I did nothing wrong;
Susan's POVAfter Pularis got me treated at the hospital, I thought he was going to leave me here, where I would get plenty of rest and further professionalized treatment from the doctors and nurses. Instead, to my increasing shock, he was bringing me back to his house to get those. That is, a house from the Bluemoon Pack, in which he had purchased for the duration of his stay prior to his arrival here.I had thought he was jesting when he said I would be discharged early, since I was certain there were things even the Council of Wolves had no authority over. Come the doctor’s visit, and he pretty much confirmed that I was going to be leaving with Pularis.“You know, you really don’t need to drive me to your mansion. I’m fine returning to Duncan’s place,” I assured him, as he carried me to the guest room with some servants following us, much to my embarrassment.“After I helped you? When we both know he will only do worse to you?” Pularis questioned, prompting me to be silent. “I did
Duncan's POVI ran across the woods in my wolf form, heading straight to a peculiar place a small distance away from the pack. An abandoned hut, to be exact, where that dastardly boy was being held.The travel there was a bit far to my liking, but it was the perfect place to hide and keep that thing. It was, after all, abandoned, and it was in the middle of the woods. Susan would never expect that 'precious boy' of her's to be held outside the area. And even if she does get any bright idea of leaving, with the patrols around the perimeters, she will not make it far. Much less make it halfway to the brat.Same with the boy. The hut may have been abandoned, but by no means did I leave the boy unsupervised. Who knows exactly what sort of tricks were being taught to him at the big house? The mutts I hired to watch him are the best hunters of the Bluemoon Pack. Nothing and no one will escape them. Especially not some brat.A smirk formed on my face as I began to think about what I would do
Susan's POVAs soon as I had panicked about Justin, rather than let me go, Pularis had me chained to the room, to my shock and dismay. Not only that, but he even ordered his servants to not release me, while he had gone out to find Justin for me.Only thing is, however, not only did I not know where Justin was being held, Pularis did not ask a single thing about him as he left. Not what he looked like, what he may smell like, nothing. He didn’t even ask if the son I was worried about was the one who was with Duncan. It worried me more if he was ever going to find him. And it worried me even more if Justin will still be safe until then. ‘Justin… Please be safe,’ I prayed, looking out the window at the crescent moon shining down. As I stared, I couldn’t help wondering if the Moon Goddess or anyone up there is enjoying what has become of me. It was bad enough that I was framed for a crime I never did, all my hard work and effort to not be recognized, and let’s not forget how Justin- the
Pularis's POVI was driving back to the disgraced Alpha’s house to retrieve Susan’s kid. Apparently, the boy was abducted by that guy and his men when they were somewhere that was without people. Where that ‘somewhere’ was, the she wolf didn’t say, though it could be prison. Her friend did mention that Susan was falsely accused and arrested for a crime she didn’t commit, earlier. An indirect piece of info about the ‘Alpha’ that pissed me off even more.Just what kind of Alpha does not look deeper into an incident before making that sort of decision? The fact that that one werewolf said such about Susan so truthfully could only mean he had been neglecting his ‘homework’. If anything, I question if the predecessors even properly taught him the responsibilities of an Alpha.‘All the more reason to have this pack dispersed,’ I thought, irritated that there had to be a process to be done for that to actually happen in the council. Though we usually would have the final say in a situation i
It did not take me much longer to arrive back at the disgraceful Alpha's household. Once there, I begrudgingly got out of my car and walked up to the door. To my small astonishment, the front door was already fixed up, albeit poorly. Still, it did nothing to deter me and what I needed to do, as I gave it a 'little' knock, causing the door to tumble down."This door is very poorly fixed," I said out loud, making my presence known to the residents inside as I walked in.When I entered, I noticed the three people who were supposed to be here were missing. I had thought they ran off, when I took in a breath, and sniffed out two of three familiar scents upstairs, with one unfamiliar scent.Of the two scents I knew, I instantly noticed the disgraceful Alpha was not one of them. Something that made me narrow my eyes in disgust.‘He ran away, didn’t he? Either that or…’ I began to wonder, having half the mind to summon a search party for that runaway, when I heard footsteps upstairs.“So you’
"How disappointing..."How I felt my world stop when those words came out of his mouth. ‘Disappointing’? In who? For what? If it was how I failed to have Duncan change his immature, hardheaded ways, that was fine. If it was anything else- namely the incident four years ago… But that couldn’t be it, could it?“For you- whom I personally accepted and selected to be my son’s mate, his Luna supporting him- to do something as foolish as to poison one of your own people? Even if I personally didn’t like the affected werewolf so much, by no means did that make it okay for you to do that sort of deed,” Dingo spoke, raising my surprise. “Wait… You actually believe that I did that?!” I gasped out.“Hah! I knew you finally see things my way,” Duncan, on the other hand, cheered happily. I may have been in shock to say anything the first time I was accused of this misdeed, but to be accused by the one person who had been on my side, supporting me throughout my married life? There was no way I wa
I arrived back down in the living room, as requested. Upon arrival, I found Dingo sitting on the sofa still. His head rested on his knuckles, and I could sense that he seemed upset about something. Sitting on the other sofa across from him was Duncan, who leaned back in his seat and had his legs crossed. Almost as though he didn’t have a care in the world, as per usual when it came to his father.Dingo took notice of me at the door and lifted his head. “Susan. Come here,” Dingo spoke.I didn’t like the tone he used when calling out to me, though. A tone he normally used when he was tired of something, that spoke trouble in more ways than one. And something told me…That tone was for me.I approached him at his request, stood by the sofa. As he gestured me to sit, I sent a nervous glance at Duncan, and sat on the edge, as far from him as possible.“Duncan told me some very interesting things, Susan. Said that on top of committing attempted murder to Ashley, you had a child with another
A sigh escaped my lips when I recalled every bit of that day. After results showed that I was, indeed, pregnant with Duncan's baby, Dingo was quite quick to have a marriage set up between us, and help me learn what it means to be a respectable Luna. With word spreading about how Duncan was cursed to not have a child, pretty much everyone supported the marriage. Saw it as a miracle how I was holding his baby.All except for Duncan. Who believed that I managed to lie to his father or changed the results somehow to make it seem like I was pregnant with his baby. Of course, under Dingo's wishes, I didn't tell him the truth, and instead did everything I could to learn how to be a worthy Luna and change Duncan's ways somehow.'And yet, look at what's become of me now,' I thought. ’Not only did I fail to keep my promise to set Duncan straight- with Alpha Dingo’s assistance, no less- but I got framed for a crime I didn’t commit. Worse off, I don’t even know if Dingo believes that I wasn’t res
I was taken to the healer at Alpha Dingo’s insistence, where I was taking the pregnancy test. The Alpha himself and Duncan also joined me to see the results of the test. On one hand, I had doubts that a baby would already be forming that quickly in me, as it was just last night when Duncan and I did the deed. On the other hand, considering the number of times he released in me, it may be possible that the baby really is already being made within me. A baby I was not ready to take care of.“This is ridiculous,” Duncan spoke. “I really don’t see why I have to be here. When we both know for sure she’s not having a baby. Much less my own. Besides, even if she did get pregnant, she was the one who wanted it to happen.”Dingo glanced at him with narrowed eyes, his face filled with much disappointment. “If you continue that biased thought process, you will never make it far as an Alpha.”Whether he didn’t believe in his father or knew his wise words held much truth but didn’t want to acknowl
I lied on the bed in the guest room, feeling mentally exhausted already with what’s happened so far today, even though not even half a day had gone by. And in the span of but a few hours, the most stressful thing that happened had to be Duncan’s baseless claim about Pularis being anything less than an Alpha. Moreover, my ‘boyfriend’.‘I had a feeling he would be upset with what happened that night, adding on how he lost leverage over me in Justin, but to think he would get this ridiculous…’ I thought, still quite baffled with how foolish Duncan turned out to be. This was not just in terms of his lovesickness for Ashley, or his naive ignorance in his Alpha duties. With that sort of accusation he made, I was starting to wonder if he was deluding himself to think Pularis was faking being a part of the Council of Wolves. An act that is but a crime, as Pularis had mentioned that night.‘Well, then again, if I think about it, what were the chances that the man who saved me would be someone
As we exited out of the car, Duncan, Dylan, and I walked up to the mansion. The former two speed walking on ahead, no doubt wanting to be away from me. Not that I minded. After what I learned, I want to keep distance from them, too. Well, not that they would ever know. Why, Duncan himself didn't know and yet…'No,' I stopped my thoughts, taking in a breath. 'That sort of thing is not even for me to say. If he never realized it, that would be his own fault. Besides, even if I were to say it, would he ever believe me?'Once that last thought came into my head, I became more convinced that there was no point in saying a word to Duncan about anything. He never believed me before, much less heard me out. Even if I was instructed by Pularis and Patricia to proceed as I usually would, that may proved to be a bit more challenging than it sounds. Still, I need to be calm, and proceed as I usually would. Regardless of the difficulty.Duncan knocked on the door, a bit too harshly. As we waited a
Susan's POVI sat in the car across from Duncan and Dylan, as the chauffeur drove us to Duncan's parents' house, somewhere outside the pack. During the drive, as to be expected, neither my husband nor my son bothered to look me in the eyes. Instead, they only had small chats with one another- mostly Dylan complaining about visiting his grandfather. And when they weren't talking, both would just look out the window, completely ignoring me. While it did bother me a bit to see them both ignore me so, at the very least, there was no Ashley here. I rather they ignore me completely in silence than ignore me by hanging around with her so lovingly."How much longer?" Dylan asked then."Shouldn't be much longer. Unless if we took a different turn than usual," Duncan answered, looking to the driver in front."At ease, Alpha. We are going the right way, and will be arriving at the master's mansion momentarily," the chauffeur said.“‘Momentarily’ doesn’t sound fast enough,” Dylan complained.“Wha
Duncan's POVA few days passed since I mind linked the slut about this family meeting. Now, weekend has arrived, and Dylan and I were in my room, getting dressed for the little 'meet and greet'."I don't wanna go to Grandpa's house. Not if she's there, and not without Auntie Ashley," Dylan whined, in which I sighed at."Took the words right out of my mouth," I agreed grimacingly. "Sadly, even I have no say to what my parents demand. Especially my father.""But you're the Alpha! Can't you at convince him to let Auntie Ashley come along?""Dylan's right. Surely you can talk your parents into bringing me along. Or better yet, have them come visit us," Ashley agreed, sitting and resting on my bed.A sad smile formed on my face at her request. "My beloved. You and Dylan both know that if I was able to do either of those, we wouldn't be in this situation," I reasoned. "Unfortunately, once an Alpha, always has the lasting effects of one. Even if I were to refuse, Father will use his Alpha Au
'That... That's my baby blanket,' I thought, shocked beyond belief. 'No, but that... That can't be. My mother, she's-'I stopped my train of thoughts as I glanced at Sarah, noticing the painfully sad expression she had, complete with tears forming in her eyes and trailing down her cheeks."And you're sure you don't want me to keep tabs on her? Watch over her from afar?" Patricia asked, in which Sarah shook her head to."You do that, they will eventually find out of her existence and try to do to her what is being done to me. And without her own mate to protect her, that will make her all the more vulnerable. It's safer for her to be far away from here, with no connection to me," she reasoned. A reason I could not make sense with. Especially not this 'role' I supposedly have, yet not know about. A role that may or may not be similar to that of an Alpha or Luna's, from the sounds of it.As if that wasn't enough, Patricia... She already knew me? This wasn't a lie or some kind of trick, w