6 - The Alpha Heir

“Lowlifes! Keep your despicable hands off my Luna!”

Bloodshed should never have been revealed in the relationship between a Master and his subordinate. In violation of the commandment engraved in the word, the Alpha must not harm his subordinates if not in matters of warfare.

I knew that. My wolf moved on its own.

A sweet scent mixed with bitterness, sourced from the neck of a Luna girl lying stiff on the floor of her room. It was like an ecstasy inside my head, like a glass of melody intoxicating my senses.

My power was out of control. Not completely controlled by my wolf, but precarious enough to decimate twelve of my subordinates who were working under my control.

“Your Majesty!” An unimportant voice began to emerge from behind. It was not enough that I rendered all of my subordinates unconscious, the servant who had no magic power was also hit by my deadly claws.

I attacked them all. An Alpha like me with strong blood, has a record of being almost impossible to lose control of his power.

'Stop it! Fool! Your power is not for killing others!' was what my wolf said inside my head.

My roar woke up the entire palace, touching the ears of the elders in the most despicable manner. I stepped on the bodies of my subordinates as footholds, to touch my eyes to the body of a girl whose back of her dress was no longer formed.

'Rosie.' My wolf said the name. All the nerves in my hands did not follow my will. Faster than a second, I brought Rosie's body into my arms. My body, which smelled of blood, mixed with the fragrance of her pheromones.

It was so messed up.

“Young Master.” A male figure came following amidst the chaos. Of the many people who tried to stop me, he was the one who dared to step this far.

“Forgive me. However, this is the mandate of the great elders,” the person spoke with a mouth that my eyes could not respond to.

What I felt was Rosie's body slowly being pulled from my arms. Another figure I didn't recognize came in and took her away from here.

Various men in white robes approached me. A thin needle, hollow in the center, was plunged into the shaft of my neck until blood flowed there.

My scream of rage was replaced with a painful cry that woke up the supernatural spirit inside my body. Raven, as the one holding my hand, repeatedly apologized with her body covered in blood.

This ritual, I forgot when it was last held. I can remember, but reluctance is the main choice. Embarrassment rose as I recalled that the last time the healers in my palace stabbed me like this, was when Delancy left me.

If there was a hole, I would bury myself and my past there, so that I wouldn't have to be ashamed of having the same ritual repeated years later. Just because a new Luna came into my life.

The ritual took away my memory until three hours later. My vision returned to use after I realized it was no longer the cold floor that accompanied my back, but the soft mattress where I always woke up in the morning.

“You,” I called out to the figure inside my body, who was the main culprit of my drunkenness last night. “Your job is to prevent me, not make me lose control even more.”

The answer was blank. Just now I remembered, that the ritual made half of my internal power disappear for a few days. In other words, for the next few days, my wolf would be dormant and probably unusable.

“Good morning, Your Majesty.” The same figure that appeared inside my head departed from outside, greeting my room with various items in his hands.

“Come in,” I said. “What a coincidence that I wanted to call you. What about the elders?”

Raven went about his morning activities, his routine of preparing my breakfast on the bed very deftly. I noticed something odd about the list of events he had brought for me today. Of course, Raven didn't deign to answer my questions.

The answer was predictable. The grand elders were angry with me that night. Otherwise, the deadly ritual would not have been performed.

“You lost enough blood last night, so the grand elders asked you to rest until noon before the aides pick you up,” he explained after finishing my meal preparation.

“Stop your pace for a moment.” I forced his hand to face me again. As soon as he finished his task, he hurriedly left my room as if he was avoiding my questions.

“Where did she go?” I asked.

“I didn't quite catch what you were referring to, Young Master” he rambled.

“Don't joke, you know I hate to twist my questions. Or would you prefer it if I brought your parents to this, those old people?” I him her. “Raven, look me in the eye. Where is she now?”

“Miss Rosie...” Finally, after giving his a little threat, he gave up all his defenses. “The grand elders placed Miss Rosie in another room, for her safety. Until the preparations for the ceremony begin, she will be under the direct supervision of the elders.”

My laughter climaxed in response to his ridiculous answer. Safety, my ass. Do they think I attacked that Luna that night? I saved her. And this is what I get?

“Set up an appointment for me to talk to the elders,” I ordered. The hot meal he had just prepared, I threw roughly at his body until it splattered.

“What are you waiting for?” I pointed. Knowing that my temper was not in the best of moods, Raven took a step to excuse hisself without saying anything about my order.

I had to know, at the very least, where those damn elders had put Rosie. If I let her, my plan to get rid of her will be for nothing. 'Although last night I messed up my plan, but that was because she seduced me with her pheromones! She knows an Alpha's weakness, so she used her body scent to catch me off guard. Unfortunately, the same thing won't happen a second time.'

My meeting with the holy elders that day was unilaterally canceled. Instead, a representative came to me as a holy messenger from the grand stewards.

“Elders! Bring your faces here now! You're the ones I sought!” My rage barked in front of the elders' special building. The representative they sent failed to prevent me from coming here.

“What a shame.”

It wasn't the elder I was referring to, but a high-level grand guardian eventually intervened to come to me. Don't get the wrong, Biwako came to me not out of affection.

He just didn't want the grand building to be defiled by the childishness that he despised so much.

“Can't you confine your wickedness at least until the sun rises?” His gaze was wasted, but his words stabbed straight at me.

“Not you,” I pointed, unconcerned about our different noble statuses. “I wish to see the great elder. Move aside. I have no business with you.”

“Last night's ritual cleansed your blood, are you calling attention to it a second time?” he said softly yet piercingly. I never liked the way he belittled me with his glance.

No wonder, Biwako had always been incompatible with my late parents. Even after they died, her hatred for my family was still palpable.

“Are you deaf? I said I have nothing to do with you.” I pushed the old body with the strength I couldn't muster. The other guards could only scream as their leader was violently knocked down by a young Alpha like me.

“Elder! Come out! Where did you hide that Luna? Where did you say she was mine? Now you're hiding her from me?” My steps exploded in unchallenged, I shouted as loudly as I could so that all the great ranks would hear my arrival.

“My Prince. I hope you can be a little lenient before the Great Elders..” Out of nowhere, Raven was already holding both my hands like a criminal. This is the first time I've seen her dare to obstruct my will.

Don't tell me the elders have also influenced her brain. Raven is my loyal subordinate. She wouldn't have disobeyed without someone threatening her.

“Son Raven, leave him alone. Your job is done.”

The commotion I grasped did not result in a blank sheet. The elder, whose presence I wanted, appeared from the top of the second floor above my head.

His gaze descended on me with cold, unconcealable fury. It's a bit regretful, but it feels like after this my punishment will be more and more.

“Before you demand anything, would you be so kind as to forget an accurate explanation of what happened last night?” The echo of that deep voice muted the entire gravity wave of this building.

Trapped. The elder who spoke to me knew what I had planned secretly behind his back. Perhaps, this is the reason Biwako prevented me from entering earlier. Right now, I was digging my own grave.

“Holy Arthur,” I bowed my head as low as the frozen floor in the embrace of the echoing voice. “Last night, I protected my subordinates who almost touched Luna. My actions were correct. There was no way I was going to hurt the Luna you had chosen.”

“By sending a gang of Alpha and Beta hooligans to rape Rosie?” he chided.

I couldn't feel my blood on my fingertips now, my head was so locked to the floor that I couldn't return his gaze. A footstep slowly entered.

Not walking towards me, but stopped right where Arthur was staring at me up there.

“Don't be so cruel to our Prince, Elder Arthur. He just needs to be punished, isn't that the only way to tame a wild wolf?”

Damn it, there was no way I didn't know who was behind that voice.

“William Vermilion.”

“Your words! This is how you refer to your great brother!” Arthur was furious. His health had been declining lately, but when it came to William, all his divine power exploded uncontrollably.