Chapter 3

He looked up slightly, revealing fierce, bloodthirsty eyes.

I remembered at that night when I opened the door, his wolf sprang at me, maw wide: its fangs sank into my throat like silver daggers, while claws ripped through flesh to grasp my beating heart.

I tasted blood and something else… the coldness of its feral intent.

Karl hit those eyes and his temples suddenly jumped, "Is that rogue wolf?"

Andrew nodded, "You are right. He has been working cases for years and I've never seen anyone more brutal. Not just burglary but murder."

The rogue wolf's just-as-grim sight sank slightly as he met Karl's.

What kind of look was that on his face? I probably guessed.

In my bedroom, there was a mateship picture of Karl and I hanging, and he'd glanced at it when he'd burglarized. This was why he recognized Karl.

"Karl, what's wrong?" Andrew asked and signaled the warriors to take the rogue wolf away.

"Did he kill anyone else? How many?"

"So far, based on what's been reported, two clans have been burglarized by him, so he's killed two."

Karl was relieved.

"I'm afraid there are others who have been murdered, but we haven't received a report yet, and maybe the ones who live alone and have been murdered for a couple of days, no one knows about it."

Karl's newly relieved nerves abruptly tensed up again.

Andrew could see that something was wrong with Karl, who had always been calm in his eyes.

"I heard from Steven that you and Julie have been going cold turkey lately. You haven't set paw on your den in weeks"

Karl was a little annoyed and didn't answer.

"Danielle left you to go improve her useless emotional mastery skills across other packs when the Bloodmoon pack hit ours. We were suffering from the enemy on our back, and when it was the hardest time.

She didn't make a single mindlink to care about you.

It was Julie who didn't ask for anything, accompanied you by your side. Harming Julie for Danielle? It's not worth it."

Karl lowered his head and felt unhappy.

They were about to go upstairs.

Karl's phone rang, he took it out, it was from our den warden.

On weekdays, the den warden only contacted me and basically never contacted Karl.

They should have contacted me before this call.

"Hello."

"Alpha Karl, are you at your den? The teller at the Luna's Hearth Department Store, sending the cleaned moon watch over, and he hasn't been able to get through to Luna Julie."

Karl's temples suddenly and vaguely jumped, "Couldn't you get through to her either?"

"No, we were right in front of your den and no one answered the door when we knocked.

Funny, actually, you know, I haven't spotted you and Luna Julie anywhere lately. Everything okay?"

Karl's heart suddenly beat faster.

He hadn't been to our den recently, it's normal for the den warden to not have seen him, but I didn't come to work and should be at our den, so how could the den warden not have seen me?

I had to purchase groceries once every three days at the latest on weekdays.

"Are you sure, you haven't seen Julie go out more than a week?"

"No, Alpha Karl."

My wolf floated in the air, looking at Karl just as close as I could.

He was suddenly a little unsteady on his feet in general.

On the other end, the den warden suddenly made a startled noise.

"Huh, the door to your den, seems to have broken a corner? It's the best security door, it weighs a hundred kilograms, why is the corner rolled?"

I remembered this detail: there was a knock on the door, saying that something had been delivered.

I thought that it was Karl's moon watch that had been washed and opened the door to get it.

Only as soon as I opened the door, the man in the delivery suit, raised his hand and sprayed silver dust at me, and with a poisoned dagger in his hand, he pressed it against the door to force his way in.

He shifted into a strong wolf instantly. His force was too great, I want to close the door but I could not, I also get numb and cannot make a sound under the effect of the silver dust.

As soon as I tried to call up my wolf and shoot a mind-link to Karl, the rogue wolf had already caught up with me and drove the poisoned dagger into my flesh.

I was disabled to do either.

I could clearly see that Karl's hand holding the phone was trembling.

A cold sweat also broke out on his forehead.

"What do you mean, the door is broken?"

I didn't go to work without taking any leave of absence these days.

In the past, no matter how angry I was, I wouldn't have gone more than three days before I took the initiative to mindlink Karl.

I had never been this out of line.

Karl seemed to finally realize something was wrong.

"Yes, Alpha Karl, are you at the Pack Headquarters? Why don't you grab a trip back, I feel something is wrong."

As Karl's wolf surged, its eyes bled into crimson, and the tendons along its neck rippled like snakes: each pulse of blood got visible through the thinning fur.

"What's the matter, Karl?" Andrew looked at Karl who was so out of sorts and also felt his back dipping in a cold sweat.

Without say anything, Karl rushed straight out of the Nightwatch Division.

"What the hell was said on the phone? You forget to take the tarts." Andrew came out after him.

"No. I need to go." Karl got in his car, started it up, and he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Karl, tell me what's going on?"

"Something may have happened at my den..." Karl moved his hands.

"Something happened? Property or Julie?"

It was both property and Julie. Karl didn't dare answer anymore.

When he stepped on the gas, he drove out of the parking lot gates and drove at a rapid pace to our den.

My wolf floated in the air, watching the car that raced far away.

Karl was finally going to know the news of my death, he looks nervous and afraid.

But I was dead, my life stopped forever.