Chapter 2

The elevator doors opened and Steven was already waiting for Karl.

"Meeting starts in three minutes?"

Steven nodded.

Karl walked by and turned back, "What else?"

"Chief healer hasn't been in the office for a few days, and there are a few documents that are stuck in her process."

The chief healer was me. The pack once faced a brutal onslaught from our rival, Bloodmoon Pack, and I was the one who helped Karl with everything I had.

Karl later gave me the title of chief healer in the pack.

Karl frowned hard.

"Alpha Karl, my mate and I argue too, but I always give in. She comes around as soon as I sweet-talk her. The mate bond between you runs deep in the pack, if you buy her a bouquet of flowers and go back, she will surely immediately lose her temper."

Steven finished talking and was really hoping things would lighten up between us as mates.

Karl's cold expression, however, did not ease up at all, "Just mind your own business."

"What about the file stuck at the chief healer's?"

Karl suddenly kicked the door hard and snapped, "Bring the files to me."

"Who the hell does she think she is? Does she really think our pack can't turn around without her?"

Steven trembled in fear, no longer dare to say a word.

Karl walked into the office, undid his tie and flung it aside.

Crossing his arms to calm down for a few dozen seconds, he then sat down to start the werewolf council meeting.

After the meeting, Karl again slept at the office.

Behind his office, there was a fully furnished bedroom for him.

In the late afternoon, Steven knocked on the door.

"Beta Andrew told me that he brought two boxes of moon-silver berry tart on his last pack trip. He's been busy lately and he asked me to go pick them up for you."

Moon-silver berry tarts were Karl's mother's favorite, Karl's pack brothers all knew that.

Steven said he would go fetch them.

Karl's hand holding the pen paused for a split second,

"No, I'll go myself. It's just right to send the tart to the Moonstone Manor at night."

Steven nodded and added, "You can go there with Luna Julie, your mother has always adored her."

Karl gave Steven a deep, meaningful stare, and Steven immediately stopped talking.

"Last night's warning wasn't enough? It seems you are tired of being my gamma anymore, or do you want to be a servant in my den? You are so interested in my private life?"

"Alpha Karl, I spoke too much and I won't dare to do it again." Steven bowed his head deeply in apology.

I looked at Steven. Just a year ago, his wolf had been torn and bleeding, a mangled mess barely clinging to life after being attacked by rogue wolves.

I poured every ounce of my power into dragging him back from the void.

Then he had been trying to help me all the time.

After the meeting in the afternoon, Karl drove to the Nightwatch Division.

There was no one in the Nightwatch Division who didn't recognize him.

Karl's qualifications are even higher than Andrew's.

If he hadn't been recalled by his clan when he graduated from the Werewolf Police Training Academy, he would still be in the police department, working side by side with Andrew.

During his internship, Karl worked with Andrew on a border drug trafficking case.

The old commander at the time, repeatedly requested Karl to stay in the police force.

But he chose to reclaim his birthright, returning to the pack as its new Alpha.

Andrew rushed out to welcome Karl, "Karl."

As if he'd just come out of the interrogation room, Andrew's eyes were red and bloodshot.

"Why don't you sit in my office for a while?"

"Been busy lately? "

Andrew nodded, "You heard about the spate of burglary and murder cases in the pack, last night we laid a dragnet and finally caught this rogue wolf."

"It turns out to have worked as a mercenary, his wolf is even stronger than ours, and he bites the bullet and doesn't spit out half a word even after he's arrested and forced to amputate a limb."

"Been a mercenary?" Karl frowned.

At that moment the hall suddenly stirred.

The Nightwatch agent kicked the rogue wolf's flank, "Show your belly, mutt before I rip out your throat."

A large wolf was escorted from the interrogation room, so Karl and Andrew sidestepped him.

I had frozen! This was the rogue wolf who had killed me.