Marcus never imagined he would resort to this.The day when he told off Alpha Jack and claimed he wanted to protect Emily, he had not lied. He believed he would do anything to protect her, and not just because the pack would get suspicious by her sudden disappearance.She had something he could only dream of, and he wasn't eager to let her go.But now, there is no other way to save himself, to save his title. There's no other way to get back what rightfully belongs to him. And the fact that Mathew is no longer in the pack will make his job easier.Emily is gifted, almost as much as Mathew is, but she doesn't know it so Marcus is going to take advantage of that before it gets too late.He tells his wife what he is going to do, but she protests at first. After minutes of trying to make her see why it is important to carry out the plan, she agrees, grudgingly, of course. Becky, unlike her sister is a pathetically weak woman and that is one of the things Marcus dislikes about her.It tak
For the past days since he left White wolf pack, Mathew has avoided living at the house he bought in River Oaks, choosing to live at the hotel instead.The house is just too big and gloomy, plus it brings back some bad memories. His heart aches badly. All he wants is to have Emily back and if he didn't live such a complicated life, he would do anything in his power to get her back.He would beg and do whatever she wanted until she was back in his arms, but now all he can do is sit in this damned hotel and avoid her and nurse his broken heart.He never thought love was this powerful to make his life even more miserable than it has ever been before.He sits down and goes through all the reasons he cannot be with her, all the reasons it would be pointless to mend their relationship and make her his wife.All problems that can't be solved. But he thinks it is worth it to give it a try. It is foolish to do what he is about to do, but there is nothing else for him to do if he is to have her
After freeing Mathew, having him sit down on a chair and given a glass of water to restore the color that had drained from his face, Emily listens to the story of Mathew's past from one of the old men standing with her.And it is a story she would not have imagined, leaving her weak in the knees at the end of it.The interesting thing is that there are two versions of the story, one from the old men. Mathew also has his own version of the story. This is the story according to the old men.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Mathew's parents were born of the Alpha and Luna of a certain pack, the Crescent Wolf pack. It was one of the few packs that had decided to live in isolation from the other packs, living among humans and hiding in plain sight.The wolves blended in with the humans, found human jobs to sustain their families and visited their Alpha whenever they were in need of him, their Alpha who had built a house in River Oaks.Among the wolves that visited the Alpha for assistance was a young w
A time came when Vanessa found her mate, but the Alpha Sebastian never wanted to let her go, demanding that she reject her mate because he had invested too much in her to lose her. They had dated for years and he paid for her tertiary education, bought her an apartment and a car, as a good sugar daddy that he was.And all of a sudden she was going to leave him. He put up a fight and once even tried to kill the boy but didn't succeed, and in the end, Vanessa and Gage (that was the name of Vanessa's mate) moved in together.Vanessa fell pregnant soon after, but there were doubts as to who was the father of the baby. Gage suspected the child wasn't his, and that strained the relationship between him and his mate a great deal, until he disappeared from her life one day.Vanessa was devastated by his departure, frightened by the prospect of having to raise a child on her own when she was unemployed.The child was born a few months later, and it was a male child.She named him Joseph, and fo
Mathew doesn't hesitate to answer her question, telling the story as he remembers it, and this is the story according to him:He remembers the first day he heard the words that he wasn't the Alpha's son, that he was being kept in their house out of pity. His parents had abandoned him because even they thought he wasn't good enough to raise and he better behave or he would be tossed right out on the streets where he belonged.He was six years old and the words had come from the Luna of the pack, who obviously feared Mathew because, to be honest, the boy looked more promising than her own son, more talented and more suitable to be the Alpha's heir.Everyone felt threatened by him even though there was no need for that; Mathew or Joseph had never shown any real interest in the Alpha position.But there was no way to convince the Luna and Alpha about that, as they insisted Mathew be shown his place.He was paid since he was ten years old to serve the Alpha's son, and it was then that he st
Thanks to Mathew's direct involvement in every part of the Alpha's son's life, academic life included, he had an easy time in university.Well, only where academic performance is concerned.He developed this habit of gambling and soon, the funds his father deposited in his account weren't enough. Mathew knew the Alpha's son had a habit of stealing since he was a very young boy. Unfortunately, this habit grew to alarming levels when he got in university. His need for money kept increasing as he kept creating more situations that required huge amounts of money, and Mathew could not do much to stop him. He dated a new gold digger every week and lived a very expensive lifestyle.He sold his car, but that wasn't enough to cover the huge debt that had accumulated, and in the end, he hacked the bank accounts of the pack.The Alpha and Luna died because they tried, for the first time in their lives, to lecture their spoiled son. They must have suspected that he was behind the thefts that kept
The new revelations cause Emily to hate Jack even more. He is a murderer; a spoiled brat who was used to getting away with shit because of his wealthy and powerful parents. He is the selfish liar who grew up using people and treating those below him like trash.He is sick in the head and she is going to make him pay for what he did...Emily holds out her hand to help Mathew to his feet."Let's go home. I will get you something to eat."She has a tender and maternal look on her young face, and Mathew is moved. He still loves this girl to the moon and back, and he will forever love her. He can feel that there will be no mate for him, he already fell in love and the moon goddess would never consider giving him a mate. She was the one but he couldn't keep her due to his messy life. Such a pity."I have to be taken away, Emily. If I decided not to get caught, these people would never have found me. They have visited this place a hundred times yet they couldn't find me and I have been here t
Mathew takes off his tie and tosses it on a chair, then goes back to cutting the vegetables."You have always complained that I never told you about..."She interrupts him immediately."Please stop. I understand completely the reason you have been reluctant to share information about who you really are, so you can stop feeling bad about it."Mathew watches her for a moment, then returns his attention to the task.His kitchen is very small but very neat and organized. In the pack house, there are two kitchens, each of them as large as a kitchen could ever be made, but Emily thinks she prefers being in this tiny one with Mathew. She would prefer to be here any day."Nevertheless," Mathew says. "You are going to be the first, and perhaps the only one, to hear this. The day that Alpha Sebastian and his Luna passed, I walked in on them just before the Alpha slipped away. I was told that he was sorry for the way he had treated me all those years. He thought I would overshadow Jack, because I