Klaus PoV“What?” I murmured, “did my wife just claim to be the daughter of the previous Alpha?”Initially, I thought I misheard. I struggled with the pain spreading through every part of my body to following the proceedings of the public trial. And then she said it again. Louder, with much conviction.“Could this day get any weird?” I groaned.First, Kyle had pounced on me like a vengeful spirit and gave me a thorough thrashing. That bastard was lucky I was chained, or I’d have bitten his head off. Still, I owed him a beating.Second, Aurora was claiming to be the child of the previous Alpha. From what I heard when I joined the pack, the previous Alpha and his wife were ambushed by bandits near the headless valley. They were on their way back from delivering their baby when the attack happened, and no one survived. “Could it be that Aurora was the child that was delivered?” I wondered, “is that why she wouldn’t tell me anything about her past? Or about her parents?”Anytime I asked

Axel PoVI was scared of very few people. In fact, the list of those I feared was so miniscule you could read it one breath, and Klaus was slowly wiggling himself into that list. When I noticed Klaus’s strength many years ago, I had big plans for him. The plan was to use him to expand the pack, and make the pack legendary. I never imagined that his strength, which I had greatly nurtured and refined over the years, would be directed at me.“And it’s all because of that bitch,” I snarled, tightening my fist. Aurora would ruin everything, and I greatly regretted not slashing her baby throat twenty-five years ago. In hindsight, killing a baby would not make me more monstrous than I already was. I’d already murdered my Alpha and his wife, would adding their baby to the list made any difference?“Stupid, Axel, damn stupid,” I scolded myself, “you should have killed that bitch when you had the chance.”If I’d killed her, she wouldn’t be causing me problems. “If only I had the nerve,” I mu

Klaus PoVI watched as Klaus tenderly poured the wine. It was difficult to believe that he was a cold murderer who’d murdered a lovely couple in blood. Worse still, the couple he murdered turned out to be the parents of my wife. It was too wild to believe, and it almost sounded like a fiction, horror story told to scare children around a bonfire.Yet, it was so real. Axel hadn’t murdered just any body, he’d murdered his Alpha. The same person he had sworn to protect. He must have taken an oath of fealty to his Alpha, like betas do. Yet, he had no problem breaking that oath in the cruelest way possible. Axel hadn’t just committed murder, he’d committed the worst crime any beta could ever commit, murder their Alpha.“I remember that time we went on our mission to Paris,” Axel had a slight nostalgic expression on his face as he spoke and poured the wine, “you were barely eighteen, but legal enough to taste alcohol for the first time.”“I remember,” I replied as the memories flickered

Aurora PoVWhen Klaus told me Axel had tried to poison him, I was not entirely shocked that Axel would pull a stunt like that. In fact, a small part of me was excited that he did.Klaus had an unhealthy fascination towards Axel. He almost worshipped the terrible Alpha as a god. No matter how much I tried to warn him about trusting a treacherous man like Axel, he never listened. He thought it was woman talk.But Axel had gladly proved me right. Now Klaus knows that he was dealing with the devil, and needed to treat Axel like an actual devil. That way, his hesitation to fight Axel to the death was dissolved. Now the real challenge was to make Klaus believe he can win.“You doubt your strength, Klaus,” I smiled gently, cupping his lean cheeks in my arm, “I have a very important news to tell you. Perhaps, it would be the motivation you need.”“Really?” his face lit up, “what is it? Tell me.”I looked deeply into my husband’s bright blue eyes and I knew I was right. Klaus had all the makin

Klaus PoVI’ve seen Axel transform more than a thousand times, yet, each transformation always manages to scare and fascinate me. He hunched down on all fours, but his knee didn’t touch the ground. The transformation started from his legs, which were firmly planted into the ground. Sprouts of hair grew on his legs, congealing together to form a brown-blackish fur. And rapidly spread to every part of his body.His bones cracked. Toes and fingers extended into claws. The cracking of his spine was clearly heard all through the pack, as he morphed into a fierce, heinous wolf. His nose grew, eyes grew apart, and mouth morphed into huge, scary fangs. Then came the howl, and everyone gasped in horror and shock. Axel was the Alpha after all. His howls made most wolfs in the pack keel over but a few managed to keep their feet together. Al, Ed, and Aurora were, unsurprisingly, part of the few.Axel’s transformation had barely lasted a couple of seconds. Five seconds before he was hunched on a