LOGAN MILLER LOGAN WAS CONFLICTED on whether he should confront Fiona and Bruce. He connected the dots and realized how much of a fool they had played him for, and how blind he had actually been. He had avoided Fiona as much as he could. He did not even care about the nights she did not sleep in their room; he did not want to think of where she might be and what she might have been doing with Bruce on those nights. As for his relationship with Bruce... there was no Alpha without a Beta. And he could not just banish Bruce without telling the pack what was going on. He was not ready for that, so he put up a fake font of smiling and laughing when Bruce was around as he planned on what to do about everything going on in the pack. He woke up the following day after seeing Claire and her husband, the human billionaire, and he was feeling somewhat apprehensive about the whole day. As usual, Fiona's side of the bed was empty, but he did not care. He brushed his teeth and went to the kitch
LOGAN MILLERLOGAN FROZE. HE could feel his blood run cold as he came to realize what he was seeing. Claire was married to a lycan. And she must have known. Getting married to a lycan meant she agreed to the curse and was prepared to share the weight of the curse with the race.Throughout their childhood, the curse of lycan had remained a myth. Even the whole idea of lycans - humans that were like the brutal cousins of werewolves, but they did not have wolf spirits. They had beasts that were savage. They did not shift into wolves like werewolves did, instead, they usually remained on two legs like men but had the features of a wolf, like claws and improved strength and agility. They were very much bigger and stronger than werewolves.Logan retraced his steps. He ran away without attracting attention to himself. He ran to the spot where he had stashed his clothes and shifted back to human before hurriedly putting on the clothes and heading back to the pack.The sun was coming up as he
CLAIRE FISCHERI GOT OUT of the car as soon as Joram slowed to a stop. I helped Elizabeth and Lincoln out. The drive home had been silent. “Thank you for the ride, Joram,“ I said to him as we got down. He leaned down and looked at me. “Are you sure you want to get down here? I want to make sure you are well enough to make it to the mansion on your own.“ I snorted and nodded. “If you are worried that I am going to get attacked here, you don't have to worry.“ I took Lincoln's hand and turned away. Their mother was waiting outside the door, beaming with happiness as tears of joy streamed down her face. Lincoln tore away from my hands and rushed into the waiting arms of his mother. Elizabeth joined in the family hug too, while I stood apart. I noted the peering stares from some members of the pack as they watched. “What happened?“ Elizabeth’s mother asked. I looked down at my clothes and saw that I looked rough and scratched—like someone had been in an accident. “Elizabeth still nee
ALEKSANDER VON SINCLAIR"YOU LOOK LIKE shit," Joram muttered.Alek looked up, watching Claire go up the stairs. He watched her closely for any sign of sluggishness or shaky legs. "Does she look alright to you?" He asked under his breath."She looks and sounds alright," Joram said. "You on the other hand..." He looked at Alek's leg. It was no longer bleeding but the flesh was still open. "You look like you were in an accident.""Haha, very funny," Alek muttered sarcastically, turning and walking into his office. "The police did not suspect anything I suppose," Joram said.Alek nodded. "I hope so. We cleaned up before they got there, but they were concerned about me.""Why wouldn't they?" Joram asked. "I am sure they recognized you from the Forbes magazine, and your contributions to their economy."Alek snorted. He picked up the bottle of Scotch and poured it into a small glass cup."So... who attacked you?" Joram asked. "Give me details. Should we be concerned?"Alek drained his drink
CLAIRE FISCHERI DRESSED UP quickly before going downstairs, where the doctor was waiting for me.“Doctor Martin?““And you must be Claire?“ he asked.I nodded. Doctor Martin was a man of medium height and weight. He had a light sprinkling of ginger coloured hair on his head, but his most noticeable feature was his eyes. They were very warm and kind. They immediately put me at ease as he shook my hand.“I heard you were in an accident,“ he said.“Yes,“ I said, sitting down on the couch as he opened his bag and propped his full array of equipment on the table. “But it is not a big deal.“He chuckled dryly and replied, “I passed the scene on my way here. It was hard to ignore, and it looked like a very bad, fatal accident, especially if you are nothing like Alexander and his brother.“I frowned. “You know?““That they are not like normal humans?“ He scoffed and nodded. “I met Joram when I was in my first year of college. I had stumbled onto Alek raging out in a full moon.““Did they tel
LOGAN MILLER"WHY IS BASTIAN here?" Bruce asked Ruth in a small whisper. They were behind the pack house, hidden and alone. "He should not be here.""Watch your tone," Ruth snapped. "Don't forget who you are talking to."Bruce scoffed and looked away. "Because you are screwing my daughter does not give you the right to be rude to me." Ruth continued."Shh," Bruce whispered, coming closer. "Don't say that out loud. You don't know who might be listening.""And it would be a shame if Logan knew what was going on between you and his wife," Ruth smirked."What do you want?" Bruce asked. "I am only telling you my mind. Bastian should not be here. It is too soon for him to try and overthrow Logan." He looked around sharply. "Majority of the pack still love him as alpha."Ruth nodded. "That is why we won't be overthrowing Logan now.""So what do you plan on doing?""You are going to get him into the heart of the pack," Ruth said."And how would I do that?""You are going to appoint Bastian a
BRUCE ORGANIZED HIS men and they all trooped into the woods. "Where are we going, Beta?" One of the men asked Bruce asked they walked on."Out of the pack for a small mission," Bruce answered vaguely."What mission is that?" Another one asked.Bruce remained silent as they cut through the shrubs. He remembered what Ruth had told him. Even though he hated to do this to his friend, he knew he had to. And this was the perfect scenario to start to spoil Logan's name in the pack. "The alpha wants us to bring in some of his friends," Bruce said."Some of his friends..." the first man repeated. "What pack are they from?""I have no idea, " Bruce answered. "He did not tell me anything about a pack."Some of the men slowed down, frowning. "So where are we supposed to meet them?"Bruce turned and looked at them. "They are going to be waiting for us outside the borders.""Are we meeting with rogues?" A young man blurted. The men around grumbled and looked at Bruce, waiting for an answer from Br
LOGAN MILLER LOGAN WAS STILL in his office, thinking about Claire when the door opened and Fiona walked in, swaying her hips seductively. Logan looked up, surprised. "I was not expecting to see you." He said."Am I not welcomed here?" She asked.Logan snorted. "I did not say that." "It sounded so," she replied, pouting her lips. She came around the desk and sat on Logan's lap. Logan took in a deep breath. If his suspicion about Fiona and Bruce were true, then Fiona was doing an exceptional job at hiding it. He could not smell any of Bruce's scent on her."We have not been so close anymore," she said lightly."I wonder why," logan said sarcastically."You have been very busy. That is why," she said, swinging her leg around to straddle him. "Busy with things that don't matter like my sister. That bitch Claire." Her voice lowered to a hiss."Claire was your best friend," Logan said. "You had us all fooled."Fiona scoffed. "I was never her friend." She arched her back, grinding her pel
CLAIRE VON SINCLAIRWHAT LOGAN TOLD made me wish that I had taken his advice and sat down. I grasped onto the edge of the table, trying to keep myself from falling as my knees went weak."Claire," Alek yelled. He bound over to me and held me up with my waist. He snatched the phone from me with his free hand and put it to his ear. "What is it?" He asked."My Beta dug up the body of Bastian," I heard Logan say. "He must have called the number, pretending to be me, and Claire told him."Alek released a deep sigh. "So what now?""I have to report it to the werewolf council," Logan said. "That is what the pack wants.""The werewolf council?" Alek asked with a chuckle. "Is that not a bunch of old men that pretend to be rulers of the werewolf packs around the world?"Logan gasped. "Such disrespect.""What you should be thinking about now, Alpha Logan, is what you are going to do about a Beta that is not on your side," Alek said.I took the phone from Alek and took a shaky step away. "Logan."
CLAIRE VON SINCLAIRI DID NOT see Joram for the rest of the day after his outburst in the dining room. "I can't find Joram," I said to Alek in his office. He waved me in. As I walked in, I realized that I had never really been inside this man cave. It always felt off-limits, and I did not have many things that would need me to be here.It was a large, white oval room, dimly lit. It was like an entire apartment on its own, with couches, a large mahogany desk at a corner with his leather chair behind.I counted two tables with bottles of whiskey and Scotch. There was also a mini bar at the far end of the room."You look surprised," Aleks's voice drew me from my reverie."I have never been in here," I replied.He chuckled and stood up. "You are welcome here anytime." He said. "In fact, we should build an office for you too. You will be handling the affairs of your people there.""My people," I scoffed. "Like they are not also your people.""I would like the office to be close to mine,"
LOGAN MILLER HE WAS STUNNED beyond words. As he left Ruth's house, he heard her last sentence ringing in his head. She said she knew things. Was this one of those things? Knowing that he wanted to protect Claire and hide Bastian's body further away. But how had she known? Was it even possible to stay a step ahead of them? These questions flooded Logan's head. He could feel a migraine start as he walked through the woods. Well, the situation could still be salvaged, he muttered to himself. He could just try and avert it. If only he and Bruce and maybe a few other men knew, he could just shrug it off. He got to the strong stream and crossed it without any issues. They had gone out of the territory now. How had the men even found the body? What made them come this far in their search? It could not be that they followed a scent. He shook his head. Every scent was washed away by the current and air updraft of the stream. So what gave them the idea? As he came upon the scene,
BRUCE AND HIS man walked for almost half an hour without seeing anything. Bruce was starting to feel this plan slip through his fingers every minute they walked without finding the spot."That bitch could have been more specific," he snarled under his breath, flopping onto a rock. "We might start to head north now. We will walk at an angle, so we will meet with the others in the middle, then we will search the area together again."The man nodded and sat down. They were close to the stream. Bruce sighed and looked around. He was tired, and could not imagine the energy required to carry the rogue all the way out here, and then bury him, and go back without anyone seeing or noticing anything."Beta...""Yeah?" Bruce looked at his companion who was dipping a foot in the fast flowing stream."You know that if your plan works, Claire would be hurt too," He said.Bruce cocked his head and noted that his companion was the youngest out of the three. "Yes. I am aware of that." He replied."I t
BRUCE HURRIED AWAY from the pack. He crept behind a thick tree and watched as Logan went into Ruth's house. They had agreed to stalk Logan for as long as possible so he would not suspect where Bruce had gone.When Bruce was sure that Logan had gone in and was being occupied by Ruth, he continued his journey farther away into the woods, heading west. After almost half an hour was brisk walking, he came across the Tibet stream. It was a fast-flowing stream that was quite wide. As he looked at it and tested the current, he wondered how the Lycan had carried the body across.Using a stick, he tested how deep the water was, and luckily, it was not deep as it was only a couple of feet deep and would reach up to his knee, but even with the shallowness, the current of the water was able to sweep him off his feet."Beta?" Bruce turned to see 3 men of average build coming towards him. "Luna Ruth sent us, she told us to do as we were told without asking questions."Bruce nodded. "What we are go
BRUCE KNEW THAT something was up, and to his dismay, It seemed like Logan was starting to catch up on everything that was going on behind him. It had come as a terrible surprise when Fiona found out that she was pregnant, and it was very obvious that he was responsible, not Logan.Their plan had been to just manipulate Logan and make him fuck Fiona without condoms or pulling out, so they could easily blame the pregnancy on him. But the plan did not work out perfectly and Logan did not bite. It was like he saw through their plan and refused to sleep with Fiona.Bruce was going to try and convince Fiona to try and abort the baby. It sounded bad, but it would be worse if Fiona suddenly gave birth and the child looked nothing like the alpha.He walked into the pack house. He knew Logan had been on a call with someone. He suspected that it was Claire, and there was something he was keeping secret.He peeked out the window to make sure he was not followed. Then he put the earpiece to his e
LOGAN MILLERLOGAN AND BRUCE walked out. By now, the news that Bastian was missing had gone around the pack. Some people were glad that the rogue responsible for attacks on them months ago was gone, while some were worried. They wondered how the veteran warrior like Bastian could just disappear, and how safe they were. Some of them shared the same views as Bruce and were already suspecting that it was the Lycan clan that visited that was responsible for the abduction."How are his people holding up?" Logan asked."As they should," Bruce answered. "They are worried, some are scared. They have recorded a large amount of deaths in the past few months. Their male population has been reduced to a very few.""Those are not our faults," Logan muttered. He wanted to say it was Ruth's fault for sending them against Claire, and the Lycans. In fact, everything that happened was Ruth's fault.First, she manipulated him into dumping Claire, and then making the whole pack share in her hatred for Cl
LOGAN MILLERLOGAN FINGERED THE card that Claire had given to him. He enjoyed the texture and read the address to himself. He knew the place, it was a secluded expanse of woods uphill. So that was where the Lycan and his clan were residing.The door to his office opened and he turned around to look at Bruce. "Any news?" He asked. They had been looking for Bastian for hours, but it seemed like the rogue just disappeared into thin air. Bruce shook his head and sat down on the couch. "Ruth is going nuts." He said, looking at Logan. "Is there something I should know that I don't?"Logan chuckled and shook his head. He was constantly amazed at how tricky and deceptive Bruce was turning out to be. If he didn't know better, he would think that Bruce was also ignorant of everything. But he knew better. He knew that Bruce knew about the affair between Ruth and Bastian."Earth to Logan..." Bruce snapped his fingers.Logan shook his head. "Sorry. What did you say?""I was only just wondering wh
CLAIRE VON SINCLAIRI HAD BEEN about to leave the table to go and speak with Joram about how he was feeling before Lucia showed up at the door. She looked at Alek briefly before looking at me and saying, "I have not had breakfast. Can I join the table?"I paused chewing, wondering if I had heard properly. I felt Alek stiffen beside me too. Lucia raised an eyebrow at me and I heard Alek's voice float into my head, telling me that it was my decision to make.What could go wrong? I asked myself. "Of course, Lucia," I said. "You can join us for breakfast."I could feel Aleks's disagreement. But he had said it was my decision, and I made it."Are you sure that is a good idea?" He asked me.I did not take my eyes away from her as Lucia came towards the table and took a seat close beside Alek.The nerve of the woman, I gritted inwardly while I kept my face emotionless."Thank you, Luna Claire," she said and I did not miss the mocking sarcasm laced in her words. "I know exactly what Alek is t