Prologue — This is our Fate

Daxel

Ace

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I was looking through the latest budget report of our pack when a loud knock on the door took my attention away from the files I was looking at.

"Isn't it too early for the mail?"

“Come in.”

Telling whoever was behind the door to invite themselves in before putting away the file neatly in my right side drawer.

When the black oakwood door of my office opened, I saw the mail officer of my pack– Ellio– cautiously walking inside. He's holding a big brown box with both of his hands a golden envelope sat right on top of it.

"Good Morning, Alpha Daxel," Ellio greeted, bowing his head as a sign of respect," I was passing by when I saw this outside of the pack house's door."

He set the box on the table carefully, eyeing them with curiosity.

I nodded my head while eyeing the golden envelope. 'What could it be?' I heard my wolf, Ace, say.

It surely wasn't an explosive bomb as anyone would be smart enough to know that it was a death trap to send me one, especially in broad daylight. However, something exploded within me— and it was much more dangerous.

I eyed him and nodded my head again, "Thank you Ellio."

And with that he exited the room, but not without bowing his head slightly and putting his right fist on his chest before closing the door behind him.

I inspected the outer part of the box first, to see whether there was any information about the sender. There was a thick whiff diffusing around it. The smell was familiar, but I just couldn't put my head on it.

The information about the sender that I was looking for was not there. It was just a plain, and awful box. And I decided to finally open the box's lid and looked at what was inside it.

A thick and heavy book with ashes and golden powder shimmering on it. A portion of the cover was smudged, and that was never positive news.

'You meant, purposely smudged.' Ace commented.

"This is something I have never seen before, Ace," I noted to my wolf in my head.

'I did. I know I have seen that book before,' my wolf carefully whispered, 'but I can't remember where.'

Looking over at the book, if that's what it was even called, I took the golden envelope meticulously and opened its content.

"What could it be?"

I took out the hard black paper, and read the contents which were written in white ink, but that's not what caught my attention.

I scanned the paper, and I proceeded to slowly read the 7 highlighted words out loud.

"IMPORTANT AND URGENT BUSINESS MATTER: Earth Business"