Sophia could not believe her ears. What was the alpha king thinking? Why would he tell his right hand man, Vieira , and the healer to go while she stayed behind? Damn it. What was this all about? " Do..do you mean I should stay?" She muttered. Derek nodded his head. " I will see you later." Vieira said and tilted his head in a low bow. " " Live long, your majesty. " The healer said . In a matter of moments, both Vieira and the healer were far gone from the room. The only thing that remained there was the scents. Scents that they had both left behind. Sophia could still not believe it. She watched them as they left, not knowing if it was really not until she was left alone in that chamber. Not alone but with no other person than the supposed vicious alpha king who had penetrated her belly with his claws and tried to eat her not so long ago. What was he thinking right now? Derek, on the other hand, was not entirely comfortable. There had to be something about the intruder that he
Derek was shocked. His eyes had dilated. Though the pack she had just made mention of was not in very good terms with the dead valley pack, he had more reasons to be surprised. She just says that she was the daughter of the alpha king. How possible was that? Who was she really? How could the daughter of an alpha king possibly be the outcast of the pack just as she had claimed? It definitely had no strand of sense attached to it. Or was she lying to them all along? Could she really be the spy he had earlier on thought her to be? His head was a mess. Thoughts jumbled through him. Or maybe the alpha king had no idea Sophia was his daughter. Whichever case, he had to confirm his curiosity right away. " Red moon pack?" He asked. Sophia nodded. " Yes. The red moon pack. " Are you certain about that? You are really positive that it is no other pack. It has to be the red moon." " I can understand that this pack is not really a fan of the red moon. But I don't think I can change that fact.
The next day, Sophia had not woken up from what ensued the previous day. She lay back on the bed that her body was already used to lying on. Her face registered peace and tiredness at the same time. The healer was using certain acupuncture needles on certain parts of her body. " Sophia. " She said. " If you can hear me, I need you to wake up. We do have a whole lot to talk about. Do you hear me?"No response came. The young lady was cruising in her sleep. " I will just wait till you are up. " A knock came on the door. The healer turned in that direction. It had to be the alpha king. She nearly let out a sigh but held herself. Why was he always knocking? If he made his way through her house to this particular room, what then was the need of knocking if he had not knocked earlier on?" You may come in. " She said. The door opened and Derek walked in. This time, he was alone. Vieira was not within sight. " Your majesty. " She said, rising to her feet. " Good day. " She tilted her he
A couple of moments later, the healer was alone in the room with Sophia. The young lady was still lying down on the bed with no signs of getting up. The healer sat beside her on the bed doing nothing. She thought of the way the alpha king had questioned her for asking the question that she asked. If not that she was already an elderly person in the line of werewolves, she probably would have stuttered and given herself away so easily. Derek was no ordinary person. Had it been that it were not her kind of person, the man would have definitely had his way without any stress. Keeping the rhythm of her heartbeat was a trick she learnt very long ago, when she was still young. Now, she was of age. Certain things were not difficult to do now. Derek had tried his best to get the slightest hint of aloe in the words that she had said not long ago. But he failed. He was not able to find any damn thing about her. " Sophia. " She muttered to herself. " You need to wake up soon. We have things tha
Derek and Vieira had arrived at the court. However, they were yet to enter. Derek knew that the council would want to bring up a whole lot of issues all in the name of showing care to him. But in the real sense of it, he knew they were trying to find the easy way to get him out of the throne. Maybe he would just give them what they were yearning so desperately for. He had fixed the decision as to what was going to become the fate of the young lady who had ended up somehow in their pack. " Vieira." He called. " Yes, your majesty. " Vieira said, bracing his shoulders. " Do you remember what I told you earlier on? " " What exactly are you referring to? You said a lot of things. " " About the throne. I remember I said something before I got to the chamber of the former alpha king. "" I don't think I remember." Vieira replied , feigning ignorance. He knew what Derek was saying exactly. Derek smiled. " You think you don't remember which means you actually do remember. Tell me, is tha
The casting of ballots was a system of voting that was only used once through the reign of an alpha king. This was an exclusive right the members of the council could exercise at any point in time. However, they had that right to be used just once. No one could say how or when the rule came into place but it was a common thing to note that the system had been used for years of the existence of the pack. It was a way of bringing down the alpha that was in power. In a situation where the members of the council seem to feel too displeased with the reigning alpha and we're unable to bring him to their feet, the strategy was always employed. In fact, it had been used to tear down the reign of a good number of alpha kings as can be accounted for by the records . Every powerful alpha that rose to the throne always did all they could to bring down the system. But it was always brought to nothing. Derek never imagined something like this would even come up. Besides, he felt that he was already
Ruckus paced to and fro in his room with so many thoughts running straight through his head. In fact, if he were to be asked, he would say he could feel the entire body system thinking alongside his head. His head was purely on fire. The thought of whether the plan would go as he had planned was troubling him. That was the idea of Badmus. Badmus had told him back then when he had just finished having a brief talk with Jael that he had a perfect plan. A plan that was going to help them hit the goal that he has had in mind for a good while now. Badmus brought the idea to really kill the reigning alpha king on the full moon which was meant to be his father's birthday celebration. The idea was to first give him a hint of what was going to happen. Since he tried to keep a secret within the circle of the council members and it never worked out perfectly as he had thought of it, then he would use the same means to set a trap for his father. A death trap. According to the plan, he would give
When Ruckus arrived at the chamber of his father, the alpha king, what his eyes saw had to be the opposite of what was at his own chamber. There were more guards loitering around the whole place. For a moment, he stopped, gazing at what was before him. What did the alpha king have in mind? At least, for someone like him, the alpha king needed that number of people to be able to pull him down. There was no doubt that Ruckus was one of the strongest werewolves to grace the pack. Maybe his father was impatient enough and was now willing to drag him into the ditch. " Badmus. " " Yes, lord Ruckus. " " What do you think this could mean?" " I have no idea. I was going to ask you the same question. " Ruckus eyed him. " What do you mean by that? You were going to ask me the same question? You have been moving around. You should know better than I what this number of people are doing here. " " Lord Ruckus, " Badmus moved his mouth closer to his ear and said in a whisper," I think your fa