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Chapter 53
Cassandra MHere's for tonight. We are still on the hard part, and as much as I wanted to rush, this part is a bit harder to write, plus the summer gives me little room for writing with the whole gang at home. So please bear with me, and I hope you will continue to stick around. We will meet new and recurring characters soon, and hear something from the Black Shadow Pack. Thank you for reading and for all the gems! Don't forget to use your gems before they expire at the end of the month! 💜
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THE BETA AND I Chapter 54
CATHERINE. I haven’t encountered any of Maddox’s pack members except the Omegas at the packhouse, so I had no idea what I would be facing. The Beta wanted me to go somewhere and hide until the training was over, but Purity and I agreed to face it head-on. I knew Maddox was pure evil, but a part of me wanted to believe that the people in this pack were part of the family my forefathers governed, and based on how proud Grandpa David would talk about them, I knew most of them loved the Montrell. And I hoped they would remember that before they attacked me. It was already past ten in the morning when I decided to go down and head for the training area. I knew no one among the people I saw along the way, and although they were looking at me weirdly as if scrutinizing me, I kept my head up and kept walking. “Finally, you showed up.” Maddox’s voice rang in the quadrangle, and all heads turned in my direction as I walked toward the makeshift arena where they stood. “Of all things, I hate
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CATHERINE. “I love you too, Jace,” I said it back with a wide smile on my face before I slowly put down the receiver. The moment it clicked, my lips quivered as my hands coiled into fists. I just lied to my brother and plunged myself deeper into Maddox’s hell. *FLASHBACK 30 MINUTES EARLIER.* After the training with his Ace warriors, Maddox took Daisy and me to a warehouse where some of his illegal weapons were stored. I had no idea this place existed or why he showed it to me, except that I thought he wanted me to know what he was capable of doing. Grenades and guns of different calibers were there, as well as high-class explosives that I had never seen in my whole life. Daisy was enamored with them, but it worried me. But I didn’t have time to think about it or ask him about it because he already had another thing in mind by the time we left his warehouse. He took us directly back to the packhouse. It was already past lunchtime when we came home, but instead of eating lunch, h
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CATHERINE.“Drink.” He growled. I growled back before I grabbed his forearm, sinking my fangs into his wrist, hoping I would hit his pulse. But then, for shifters, it takes more than just hitting the pulse for him to drop dead, especially if he’s an Alpha. The taste of his blood, his scents, and the sparks between us were spreading tingles between my thighs, but I knew where my heart and my head were. “Enough.” He chuckled as he pulled his hand away.I already felt a connection snap within me, and I took the opportunity to throw my head back and moan with my eyes closed, letting him think I enjoyed his repulsive blood as I mindlinked his Beta.‘Beta Xander, Luna Catherine here. Come inside the Alpha’s office. Don’t knock. Just come in.’I disconnected and blocked off my mind before I opened my eyes. I knew Xander was nearby, but it was up to him whether he could help me or not.Maddox smiled as his knuckles brushed against my cheek, and I stepped closer to him just in time when the
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ALPHA JACE. “Something is wrong. It’s Catherine, but it’s not Catherine.” I said this as soon as I heard the phone click on the other side. “I was about to say that,” Amara said as she walked from the window to my desk. I pushed my chair back, and she slipped on the space between me and my desk, anchoring her ass on the table as she stood in front of me. “Catherine will never break up with Tyler this way. She would find a way to talk to him and explain.” “But it felt like she was avoiding having Tyler on the phone so she wouldn’t break from the act she was putting on.” “I can’t believe she just fucking told me this over the phone and not face-to-face.” I sighed and leaned forward, leaning my forehead on Amara’s belly. Her hands ran over my hair as she spoke. “We need to find Tyler. He was upset when he left.” I tried to open a mindlink with Tyler, but his mind was totally shut off. I could only imagine the thoughts in his head. I stood up and took Amara’s hand before gently pu
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CATHERINE. “I don’t want you here. You better leave.” Maddox’s voice reached my ears as I neared the dining room. “But Mom wants to...” A female replied, but she was not able to finish her words as Maddox intercepted them. “I don’t fucking care!” He roared, and my heart thundered loudly. They were arguing, probably because she was not supposed to be in the packhouse. “Can you calm down, please?” The female said. Her voice sounded familiar, but I couldn’t pinpoint where I heard it. But the moment I turned to enter the room, I found the answer I was looking for. The female sitting at the dining table with Maddox was the same female that haunted my nightmares for over a year. And she was back to haunt me more. Zoey. My brows raised when Zoey’s gaze met mine. I had no idea if I was upset she was with Maddox, or because she was somehow linked to Tyler, and for some reason, it didn’t seem right that she was with Maddox. “What are you doing here?” Maddox’s voice snapped me from thro
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TYLER. Jace didn’t want me to go with them, but I put my foot down this time. I was done letting Maddox stomp over me. I wanted to be there and see Catherine for myself. Everyone around me kept telling me that Catherine might be under some threat and that she had no choice but to say those words over the phone and to denounce the pack, and I wanted to believe them so badly. But I wanted to see her with my own eyes. If Catherine really did choose him, I would let her go without any fight, but if he was threatening her, I wouldn’t give up until I got her back or until I died trying. In the end, we voted, and everyone agreed that I would go with them after the Luna countered the Alpha and explained that if Catherine was confused at the moment, maybe seeing me would snap her back to reality, and she would decide to come home with us. That was what I was hoping for, and I didn't want her to think I abandoned her. After we had decided, we sprang into action.We were supposed to take th
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CATHERINE. I was still reeling in anger, even if it had been more than thirty minutes since Carlotta left my room. So when Maddox sent me a mindlink to come down to his office, I already knew it must have something to do with it. I didn’t want to go, but the way he ordered me left me no room for objection as he shut down his mindlink afterward.If this were another day, I would probably ignore him. But with Zoey here earlier and my father and brother on their way here, I had to. I didn’t want to be left with no information, even if the one who would give me it was Maddox himself. So if Carlotta told him about us, then I had to swallow that, and hopefully, I came out of his office alive.It had been more than an hour since Zoey left, and I was assuming she was already home by now, and hopefully, she was able to reach out to Amara.My only prayer was that Maddox didn’t meet her before she left and ordered her not to say anything about my ordeal. But if anything, Xander didn’t say anyt
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TYLER. We arrived at the Dark Forest border, and the resistance we expected didn’t come. The warrior that contacted the packhouse for our arrival informed us that Alpha Maddox and Luna Catherine were waiting for us at the packhouse. Luna Catherine. A title I could never give her. I knew she would be a perfect Luna. Perhaps that was why she was mated to an Alpha. But despite that, I was not giving up until I saw with my own eyes that she wanted that position and that she wanted Maddox. I grew up with Catherine, and the female I knew never cared about any title. Didn’t she leave the pack and live like a regular human for 18 months? Commuting on her way to school and learning how to do household chores when she was treated like a princess in her own home? Catherine would never leave me for the title unless she did fall for Maddox. And that was what I was about to find out. Only I, Jace, and Uncle Jacob were allowed entrance. The one-car convoy that we had, which consisted of fo
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