Chapter 9

Rylee's POV:

I looked at Ex-Beta James Harvey's face, seeing the calm threat in his eyes, and I replied, "Fine, Sir. I will calculate all the money that I spent on Nash."

"Good," Bella giggled, while Elizabeth pinched my right arm and muttered in a low voice, "Rylee, don't you think that it's best that you leave the money for Nash. You took care of him out of love. How can you collect all the money back?" Elizabeth asked me, her voice soft, but I knew that if I do not collect every penny that I spent on Nash, Bella would think that I still want Nash back.

"Don't worry, Elizabeth. I got this," I said and brought out my bank transaction history on my phone. I then calculated all the money I had spent on Nash since five years ago, while Ex-Beta James sighed and muttered to his daughter's ear, "Bella, I will be inside the house. If you need me, you come and get the money to pay her off. And do not attack the poor Omega again. It's against our pack rules to attack a fellow pack member, unjustly."

"But Dad, she was disrespectful to me," Bella insisted, her face twisted in a deep scowl, as her father stood next to her at the frontage of their magnificent home.

"I know, but she is hurting too. The moon goddess sometimes gives us the wrong mate and causes us pain instead of the genuine love that we are supposed to accept and cherish. I want you to be kind enough to her and understand that even though she and her ex-boyfriend weren't fated mates, they had something going on as true friendship. So he doesn't get angry with you and reject you like my former ex-mate did," Ex-Beta James recollected as he advised his daughter.

Ex-Beta James then places his hands on Bella's shoulders, as he stood in front of her like a good father and spoke to her with a soft voice. His voice sounded broken by the recollection of his past event of how Nash's mother rejected him for her boyfriend.

However, Bella was a stubborn she-wolf. So she glanced away and muttered, "Alright, father. But I still want to pay her off. So that she doesn't have any excuses to date with my mate again."

Bella's eyes narrowed at me as I looked at her with a cold expression. I knew that she didn't want to mention Nash's name to her father yet, as he would become enraged, but I knew that he wouldn't force his daughter to reject Nash.

Truly the moon goddess's choices sometimes are wrong. I rolled my eyes and looked away from Bella and her father standing on the veranda in front of me.

Bella then growled at me, "Who are you rolling your dirty eyes at?"

"Bella..." her father's voice came out calmly, but his tone held enough command to silence Bella. "I was just cautioning you now to be easy on her."

"But father, she rolled her eyes at me. I cannot tolerate her to disrespect me, even though she is a thief. As I wonder where she had stolen this expensive red dress from? How can a lowly Omega like her afford this red dress," Bella mumbled, and her father sighed and looked at me.

"Young lady, hurry up and calculate all the money that you spent on my daughter's mate and leave," he stated, his voice sending chills down my spine, as I knew that Ex-Beta James Harvey was a very powerful man.

I was threatened standing in the presence of him, and he was disgusted that I was a friend to his daughter's mate, but I didn't reply to him. As my gaze remained fixated on my phone's screen.

I continued calculating all the penny that I had spent on sponsoring Nash through the packs' University because it was expensive. I believe this money will help me to sponsor my brother, Levi, through his own study at the university. And a warm smile curled up my lips.

However, Elizabeth stood next to me and waited for me to calculate everything that I had spent on Nash.

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Alpha Malakai's POV:

I cannot believe that I was mated to a lowly Omega of my pack, the Dark Shadow Moon Pack. The moon goddess must be joking or gambling with me, to have me become mated to that weak woman.

Though she didn't know that I am her mate, and I didn't recognize it either, until she sat on my thighs last night and triggered my beast to consume her.

She made me extra hard, and I came a lot last night, a feeling that I had never felt with any woman before in our pack.

I was known as a bad boy, the reason being that I host different unmated women with the hope of finding my mate. Though I mostly date rich and strong females, I hadn't placed my mind on checking out the unmated Omegas.

My blood boiled with anger when I saw Mr. Nathan bullying her. He was threatening her with the CCTV videos of the VIP room that I had taken the Omega to.

Unfortunately, I had taken down the video, and even my Beta was not allowed to see it. I did so discreetly on my own after I had dismissed him last night. However, Fabian wasn't stupid when I ordered him to get the Omega a new dress and some underwear. He was not pleased with it, knowing the law that governs the Dark Shadow Moon Pack was that an alpha cannot mate with an Omega or marry one. But I mated with one, and I fear that she might have conceived my baby because I didn't use any protection with her.

Although I used my power on her to make her forget about who she had sex with the previous night.

It was a mind-blowing sex, and I tried to sniff her to know what she was like. But she had no scent, making me wonder what truly happened to her.

Most werewolves in our pack had scent and wolves, so why was her case different? Is that why I didn't know that she was mine? Because she lacked a wolf scent and her wolf was not present.

However, she was damn hot, and beautiful, and the worst, a virgin.

"Alpha, Mr. Nathan is here to see you," Beta Fabian reported to me as I was in my office on the top floor of the pack's hotel, a ten-story building. My office featured floor-to-ceiling windows and a powerful door. Though we made the use of artificial gadgets like phones, laptops, and artificial intelligence to control my office, the Dark Shadow Pack was not open for humans. Only werewolves were allowed into our pack territory.

"Let him in," I ordered, and my office door unlocked as Mr. Nathan came in, in his well-dressed shirt and trousers. Though he appeared tense, he walked up to my desk and prostrated.

"You sent for me, Alpha?" He asked, as I was settled on my office chair, and I looked at him.

"Yes. You are fired," I said.

"What? Alpha, what did I do wrongly?" He asked, trembling before me, and I fixed my cold gaze on him.

I wanted to tell him that I noticed him threatening my woman to spend a night with him if she wanted to get the footage of who she spent the night with. But I held myself from saying that, and I told him, "You have been reported for using your position in my hotel to sleep with some gullible women for promotion and other stuff. Like how you were threshing one to sleep with you for CCTV coverage."

"Alpha, I can explain. Please, Don't sack me. My mate is pregnant," he begged, falling down on his knees, and I scowled.

"You have a mate, yet you sleep around. Leave now, before I add to your punishment. I am only being kind enough," I glared at Mr. Nathan, and he knew that I wasn't as merciful as I am at the moment.

Mr. Nathan finally stood up and left my office, then I mindlinked Fabian and told him, "Invite Nash Cameron to my office. I have something to discuss with him. Also, Nathan has been dismissed. Get another staff to take over his job."

"Okay, Alpha," Fabian replied, not questioning my orders. Then I continued sitting in my office chair and waiting for Nash's arrival.