*VALENS*There was a knock on my door and Lucian came in.“What are you doing here?” I’d taken on some of his work to make sure he spent more time guarding my mate. Although I’d assigned her warriors, none of them were as competent as Lucian or even as trustworthy.“I got some disturbing news just now,” he said. “It seems like Blood Moon is preparing for war.”“War?” I found myself sneering at the mention of Blood Moon. “They are gearing up for war with whom?” I asked and my Beta gave me a pointed look. “I see.” I laughed out loud.What the hell was Blood Moon and how did they think they could come at me? That bastard must still think my pups were his. Just thinking about him thinking of my mate made me want to bash his head in. Who the fuck was he to think he could have ever planted his seed in my woman? He was nothing but an impotent prick with sky-high delusion.“There’s a report of him meeting Alphas who you’ve fallen out with. In the past week, he has met about five of them so I’
*JACKSON*I’d become a stranger in my life. Things were happening but I could not keep track of any of them. Out of nowhere, Alphas started to present deals to me but not ones that helped my pack. They were all talking about bringing down the Cursed Alpha. I remembered the cryptic message I got days ago and it made me shudder. I’d thought it was a text from Chantelle but with the way things were going, I realised Chantelle had nothing to do with this.“As I’ve said, I can provide you with a hundred skilled warrior wolves. I won’t rest until I see that bastard buried six feet under and since his curse is broken, it should be easy.”I was nodding along to what he was saying but I couldn’t even remember his name. All that he’d said was that he’d help me since he’d heard I was going after the Cursed Alpha but I didn’t know how he got this information. I could only assume the person who sent me that cryptic message was working behind the scenes.Although grateful for them, I was still scep
*VALENS*I’d never met an opponent I could not take down. Some of them took more time than others but what mattered was that ultimately, I always won. There was a reason I was called a conqueror. Yet, for the first time, I met a man who was always one step ahead of me. It made me want to hit something, snap a neck. It was like an annoyingly incessant itch, no matter how much I itched, it never went away. I never thought that opponent would be someone as spineless as Jackson.This bastard once told me he’d not let me go for hurting the whore he called his mate and I’d laughed in his face because I’d evaluated him and he’d been nothing more than the many Alphas that thought they could scare me with empty words. He was not worth his salt and could not, on any given day, face off against me. Yet he was doing just that.I could not shake off the feeling that something was wrong but I could not determine what. It would be easy to say there was someone around me who was leaking my plans to h
I was going through an appeal from pack members to increase the budget for the kitchen when my phone rang. I picked it up with glee, not even bothering to check who was calling because I needed an excuse to escape the tedious work.“Hello?” I said into the phone.“You sound tired,” came a familiar voice. My eyes lit up and I could not stop myself from exclaiming.“Dami!” Even my wolf was excited to hear her voice. “How have you been?” As I asked that question, I felt a bit of guilt because I’d let myself get carried away to the point I forgot to even contact her.“Oh, I’m alright,” she responded with a laugh. She sounded a lot happier than the last time we spoke. “How have you been?” She asked.“I’m alright! How are things going for you? With the moving and all.” I brought the conversation back to her.In all honesty, nothing was going on with me except for the fact that it felt like Valens was hiding something, something that made him incredibly pissed. Every time I asked if somethin
I was taking a break from work by scrolling through an online baby store when someone knocked on my door.“Who is it?” I asked, adding a cute set of baby sock-shoes to my cart.“It’s Lucian. May I come in?” It was rare for the Beta to visit me like this so I asked him to come in with a curious frown on my face. “Good afternoon, Luna,” he said, his expression as blank as usual.“Yeah, good afternoon,” I said as I locked my phone and sat upright. “Is there a problem?”“No,” he responded but after a bit, he spoke again. “Yes. Well, it depends on how you look at it.” Another pause during which he drew a deep breath and then released it. “What am I saying? It’s a problem.” He shook his head with a stiff posture. His beefy muscles were corded and he looked like he was on the verge of an explosion.“Have a seat first.” I offered him a seat, partly due to the tension I read on him and the fact that he was fucking huge and towering over me in an enclosed space.Lucian was supposed to be my Bet
It was chaos after that. Chaos and pandemonium and everything in between.The first thing I did when I got out of my office was to go find my mate and tell him everything Lucian had confessed. His expression, much like mine when I first heard from Lucian, transformed from surprise to anger in the blink of an eye.“That stupid bitch.” I caught him by the hand when he almost stormed out. I’d felt a sharp pain at the side of my rib so I held his hand and doubled over as I gasped for breath.“What – where does it hurt?” Valens doubled back, his anger morphing to concern in the blink of an eye.“It’s - it’s okay. Just a normal random pain.” I didn’t mention it hurt as much as getting stabbed. “I asked Lucian to put her in the dungeons.”“You trust him to not give her a heads up to run?” He asked.It was not an irrational concern and I was ashamed to say I’d never thought of that. Despite it all, I continued to see Lucian as Valens’ Beta. He was loyal to Valens and although he tried to pro
By evening that day, the entire pack was silent. It was weird to me because usually, I’d ask Dahlia to tell me what was going on in the pack and now she wasn’t here anymore. It’s like she’d disappeared into thin air. Knowing her better now, I knew she had planned that too. She was smart so there was no way he didn’t know she’d be caught one day so she must have put in thorough plans into escaping when her crimes were exposed.As for her brother, he was not in jail because he was Valens’ Beta. I’d had to step in when it looked like my mate would unsheathe his claws and take a swipe at his chest and I knew the Beta would not try to defend himself. He’d take it without a word. For now, we put Lucian on probation.I was stressed, feeling feverish and stewing over Dahlia’s lies and how well she played me. It was as if the puzzle of life suddenly clicked. Everything made sense now, from how protective she seemed of Valens to the things happening around me. A girl like Dahlia who could sell
*JACKSON*“Alpha Jackson, you are a genius!” Alpha Shawn praised me.Shawn was one of the many Alphas I met through my mysterious benefactor and the most powerful of all the Alphas I’d been introduced to. I found him obnoxious and too talkative but he had a large number of resources to throw away as long as he could watch the Cursed Alpha get trampled on. His stocky build was more like a Beta’s and he constantly stank of garlic so he wasn’t the most pleasant person to be around.He was a man that I would have dismissed if I didn’t know the power he wielded. Sometimes while we conversed, I felt resentful that a man like this had so many resources to spare while I was now battling bankruptcy thanks to Alpha Park.As if that bastard had known what lay ahead, he’d started to sell his properties in Blood Moon. I heard he’d made investments in Redville. Thelma had somehow found out that he’d willed everything, including his clothes, to his daughter. Everything he had left would go to her. I