Luciano's POV "Alpha." I heard someone call while simultaneously knocking on the door.I was in the midst of getting ready to attend the pack council meeting. It had been quite a while since I attended one due to the fact that I had been either postponing the meetings or asking Darius to go on my behalf.My mother's sudden death had broken me that bad, coupled with the fact that I had mated the omega who could be her killer.Thinking about it made me want to dig up a hole and bury myself alive inside it.Six days had passed since the ugly mistake that should never have happened, occurred between Freya and I.And the amount of self hatred I felt toward myself was still immeasurable. The fact that Killian also made it a point to always remind me of it at every chance he got didn't help matters either."Are you in there, Alpha Luciano?" Another voice wafted into my bedchamber.This time, the voice was unmistakably Reginald's and he sounded quite impatient.I stopped knotting my tie as I

Luciano's POV "The rogue is dead, Luciano," Darius uttered, gazing down at the illumination from his phone. "Reginald just sent me a text.""Damn it." I muttered, pursing my lips into a thin line.I couldn't give a fuck about whether or not the rogue lived, but the fact that he had kept the true murderer's name to himself until his death, infuriated the hell out of me.Last night, I had paid him a visit at the dungeon and had asked him to tell me the murderer's name to get the remedy to his gunshot injury which had turned a disgusting green and had maggots crawling out of it.However, to my utter frustration, he had remained mum about it. Even after I dealt him several blows on the head with the log of wood I had found lying around in the dungeon."That rogue is the most stupid idiot I've ever encountered. He just wasted his life for the fucking murderer. He could have simply confessed, now see where his fucking loyalty has landed him." I howled, trekking into the palace room where t