Lucan’s POVIt is morning already, and I am so tensed up. I have so much at stake. I could not even sleep properly the previous night.I am just thinking of the next move when I hear a knock on the door. “Come in“ I mutter grudgingly And in walks Charles. The look on his face makes my stomach drop. I can already tell that he is carrying bad news ."Alpha," he says, but I can’t see that he is trying to sugarcoat whatever he is going to tell meI am impatient. I just want to hear what he has to say. “Just spill the news…” I say with gritted teeth and a straight face that is supposed to show that I can handle whatever he is going to tell me"The pack elders want to see you. They're demanding a meeting today."I try to sit up straighter in the hospital bed, just to show my indifference, but my ribs still hurt like hell. "What do they want?" I still keep a straight face."They want to discuss your claim to the alpha position," Charles explains. "They said that it is mandatory for you to
Lucan’s POVI feel panic rising in my chest. A fighting contest? After what happened with the chief guard, I'm not sure I can win a fight against a strong opponent. But this is unfair! I am injured and they all know. They just want to see me failI can only let this happen. I cannot let the position that I have thought for just go away like that."They said if the chief guard could beat you up so easily, it wouldn't be hard to find someone to defeat you in an official contest. Do you want to call someone else their Alpha. Someone that is not you" Charles adds. “I think they are doing everything to make sure that you don’t sit on that throne.”This is getting worse and worse. Everything is escalating beyond what I expected. I thought I could control this pack easily after killing Holland, but everyone is turning against me. Can they not see? Can they not see that I am to change that they need?"There's more," Charles says and I am almost at the edge of bursting out loud and telling him
Lucan’s POVMore people keep coming into the room. Soon there are at least thirty pack members crowding around, all staring and whispering and laughing at me. They keep taking pictures of me and it feels like I cannot do anything. This is humiliating. Nobody is even trying to help me. Nobody is even trying to step in. It is like I am alone Gida does not even try to get them out. She just stands and looks like nothing concerns her“Did you hear what he did to Doctor Danser?”“He killed her son, poor woman…”“He is so cruel,” one person, I don’t know who spits at me. A heavy glob of saliva."I said get out!" I scream, but my voice cracks from pain and anger. My voice is not even loud enough because I am just recoveringThey just laugh harder. These are people who used to bow their heads when they saw me. People who used to call me "Alpha" with respect. Now they're openly mocking me to my face. I should have just fucking done the coronation, but I decided to listen to a whore with a br
Lucan’s POVI rush to get a pen and a paper, and when I put the pen in Elaina’s hand, she just let it fall to the floor, just like that I hold back a growl of frustrationShe's too weak to even hold it properly. Her hands shake and she can't control her fingers. Where is the strong woman that I have always known? This one right here is a vegetable! I don’t think I can entertain a vegetable!"Elaina!" I say louder. I tried to hide my frustration. It cannot be that hard. It cannot be so hard to speak. It cannot be so hard to just fucking hold a pen and write. Write the name of your attacker. "Listen, Elaina, you have to try! I can't get revenge if you don't tell me who did this!"She makes a weak whimpering sound and closes her eyes. She's giving up. She's not even trying to help me find her attacker. She is so weak! How can she be this weak, when she always tells me to be strong? That means she has been pretending. She has been pretending all these years. She has been acting like she
Lucan’s POVThe young Doctor looks at Charles with fear in her eyes. She is a new doctor after all and she cannot just lose her license like that. Her whole career would be over before it even started. She knows the implication of rejecting a patient that needs help. She is not like other doctors that have gone too far in this profession that they can get away with anything of this type."Fine," she says through gritted teeth. She is hesitant "I'll treat them. But only because I have to, not because I want to,” she kisses her teeth"What is your name," I ask, even though every word hurts my throat. “Gida…” she answers me reluctantly “Gida who?” I try to maintain my Alpha composure “Gida Nighwaters,” she grumbles “Now, Gida Nighwaters, I shall spare you a little bit when I get well. I will not spare you completely, because you have disrespected me today. But I will spare you a tiny little bit,” I take a prideful stance as I speak. “You should be thanking Charles here for making you
Lucan’s POVThe person lying down there is a woman. As I point my flashlight closer to her face, I see herIt's Elaina. My mother.The way she says my name is not very clear. Her voice sounds broken and weak. Like her throat is trapped in a kind of underworld. But as she makes the sound, I know that it is my name that she is calling. “Lucan,” her voice sounds so strange as she calls my name again. It makes me wonder what happened. Even though she is weak, something is wrong with her voice. Something that I cannot figure outImmediately I see her, I forget that I am weak. I forget that I am tired and my own body is screaming for help too. I don’t know where I find the strength. I rush towards her and I bend to feel her in my arms, scared that she would die and this will be the last moment of us together I forget my pain for the time being, and I hold my mother in my armsHow is this possible? I had personally made sure that my mother was locked up in her room because she kept throwing