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Alpha Alfonso’s POV

“We are not helping her…”

“I said we need to help her!” I almost scream at Bimbo

"Why? She insulted us. Do not show weakness now, Alfonso”

"No," I say, pushing myself up from the floor. "I made a deal with her”

I walk to the door, but I find myself hesitating because opening it means facing her again. It means seeing the disgust in her eyes, the hatred, the fear. I don’t like her that much either, it’s just that her current predicament reminds me so much of mine

Dakina goes quiet for a while and I decide to listen.   This is when I hear footsteps then another voice. Someone else is out there.

"Dakina? What an... unexpected pleasure. Actually not totally unexpected. The dark witch said I would find you here."

 I know that voice. Elaina. Lucan's mother. She has finally found Dakina

"Alfonso finally ran out of patience, did he?"

I wonder how she knew that her step daughter was with me. Did the guard from earlier suspect something and went to report? Could it be the dark magic she was talking to Dakina about? I have a strong urge to just open up the door and control the situation, but I decided to listen for a while.

"Please don't hurt me," I hear Dakina whisper.

"Hurt you? Oh, no. That's not my style. I prefer... persuasion. Me and my son are only asking you to bear children for us, that is all. Or do you not want your father's name to continue?"

The sound of Dakina's weak protests, the way her voice is fading tells me everything I need to know. This is no ordinary. Elaina is doing something to her. Drugging her. Taking her.

"I have to act now…” I tell my wolf

“Leave her alone! You still look a mess!”

 “I am going!” I do not listen to Bimbo

“Just wait a bit! Do not save her yet!” he tells me. “If you save her now, she might not appreciate it. You know she has a reputation of being ungrateful,” he tries to reason with me

“If ai don’t save her now, she might die, or even worse be captured and thrown back to Lucam again,” I argue back

“Alfonso…” Bimbo starts to talk again, but I don’t listen this time around. I refuse to wait behind like he is advising. I immediately take action. When I want to open up the door, Bimbo struggles with me, I force him to act with me- he is my wolf after all and I can control him when he becomes stubborn. I force him to open the door. I force him to go into a state of emergency. Now my wolf is already pushing to the surface, my claws extending, my fangs dropping down

What I see makes us mad

Elaina is bent over Dakina' and Dakina looks like she is unconscious. I see Elaina blowing something that looks yellowish under the dim light. The texture looks like powder. Then she proceeds to try to lift Dakina's limp body, preparing to carry her away.

"What are you doing?" I growl, and Elaina jerks from the suddennessof my voice

I see that she is thrown of Balance by my sudden appearance, but because she wants to keep up with her nonchalant herself immediately and looks at me- forcing her eyes to be cold. "Alpha Alfonso, what a surprise…”

“Step away from her…” I interrupt without allowing her to finish

“Why do you care about her anyway?”

"I said step away…" I snap

"Or what? What will you do? You seem to forget that you are in my pack and under my rules"

“Do not push me to the edge, Woman…” I snarl

"You would not do anything to me,” she rolls her eyes dramatically. “She's coming with me," Elaina says, lifting Dakina and  standing with her in her arms. "Her father before he died approved that she marry my son. She belongs to us now."

"She belongs to no one," I snarl sharply .

"What are you trying to prove? Are you trying to say you care about her? Everybody knows you don’t care about anybody but yourself. I see… you want to use her too, right? Well, this one is not available."

"Put her down."

"Make me."

“ I am warning you…”

“ I said, make me!” she every day challenges me

“Fine!” I growl. I give my wolf full control to do whatever he wants. I gave him the power to control me. If there is anything that Bimbo does not like, it is baseless confrontation - especially from obviously weaker wolves that he can snap in two without even raising a finger. Minutes ago when she was confronting and challenging me, Bimbo was already growling in my head in anger. Now I have given him the power to do whatever he wants to do

I take a back seat in my life. It feels like I am hypnotised. I move without controlling any of my movements. I make decisions without even being totally aware of the decisions that I am taking. I just go blank and weak. I just watch what is happening. I switched places with my wolf- and make him do main control while I sit back in my head. I approve of it when my wolf controls my body to grab Elaina by the throat. I love it when she struggles under my strong hold, her hands desperately clawing at her throat-fighting and struggling for me to release , but we don’t 

“S… stop…” she struggles, her eyes turning blood red with tears already forming in them. “Lucan… must hear… about… this…” she strains to talk, while gasping for air

“And who would tell Lucan?” my wolf gives her a dangerous stare and immediately she realises what she has been dragged into. She realises that she might not live here alive. She realises that she has just gone loggerheads with the great alpha Alfonso and her head might go off for this.

I  am thinking that we would just strangle her a little and leave her alone just to scare her. But my wolf has all plans- he begins strangling too hard

“What are you doing?! I managed to send a signal to him.

“If we are going to deal with her, we should deal with her well. If we leave her to go, she will tell Lucan that you are with Dakina…”

“I don’t understand?” I say, almost panicking. I almost started to regret why I gave Bimbo power over me. I forgot that he tends to overreact especially when he feels angry and insulted. He does not ever give us a chance.

“We need to give her an everlasting lesson…” he says simply

Elaina on the other hand begins to struggle more practically. By now Dakina’s body has fallen off her hand and she focuses her power on struggling with me, but she is too weak to even lift any of my finger off her neck before I know it.  She does everything. She even tries to call her wolf with a weak  howl so she can transform into her wolf form, but my strength is too strong for her to transform- my hold stifle the voices she makes. Even if she changes into her wolf form, I will still defeat her because I am an alpha and she is a luna

When she sees that she cannot transmute, She starts chanting weird ass spells, but they sound funny to me. She probably has not mastered them well or her witch doctor is a scam, so the spells fail her. She is frantic. Life is sipping from her slowly and my wolf enjoys watching this. “Please,” she finally retorts to begging, struggling and gasping more. “ pl… please… I would go and never come back… I… I… I… will… n… not tell “…u…c…Lucan

My wolf gets bored of this whole struggle and before I can even do anything or say anything, my claws are buried deep in Elaina's throat before he pulls it out

Elaina makes a loud gasp. Her life flashes before her eyes. She staggers backward, blood gushing and propelling from the throat wounds like a sharp projectile 

"You..." she gasps again, clutching her throat and fighting for air to breath

"I warned you," my wolf says, completely calm now. "I told you to step away."

She falls to her knees. I see fear in her eyes. “Please help me. I don’t want to die…” she mouths, but we just keep looking at her. This is her punishment. She is on her knees for a while before she falls forward onto her face. Blood pours the more on the floor, and its stench envelopes everywhere

Now my wolf retreats and I get back control. I am now back to myself. I stand there for a moment, looking down at the dead body. “What have I done?” I whisper. “This is going to cause a war… we need to leave!”

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