All Chapters of Owned By The Rogue Alpha : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

DEL MORINO I stood rooted to the spot as the doctors came and took his body away. I still couldn't believe it, it felt like a nightmare that I didn't want but it still stayed.My heartache and I thought of Layla too. If she would leave me just the way Adrian had. We both had our differences and didn't see eye to eye on most cases but I didn't want him to die.For the first time I felt so weak and the position of Alpha became too heavy for me.When they were all gone and the door closed. My brothers who had come one by one each expressed their condolences in their own unique way, some by taking a firm hold on my shoulder and others by nodding stiffly. They had all felt the blow and had sent words to other packs to beware of Drake and also a bounty had been paid on him.“We’ll make that fool suffer for this.” Finn said, his voice was hardly audible above a whisper and his eyes were dark with anger. Finn had been the last to leave.I knew how difficult my brothers were when they got an

DEL MORINO “We have got news that a man was seen crossing the lake beside RidgeWolf pack.” Finn said to me the next morning after we had prepared Adrian's body for burial.I was supposed to be there but I couldn't bring myself to.“Celeste has no surviving relative.” He continued. “Her mother killed her father when he found her with her love.”I shook my head slowly as I flipped through the pack reports.“I guess it's a family trait.”“I think so.”“She's been prepared to die, she would be beheaded. Such a person doesn't deserve to be banished, she will only get worse.” I said.Finn exhaled.“How is Layla?” He asked slowly.“She lost the baby.” I blurted out before I could stop myself. I didn't want to look up at him to see the pity in his eyes because I hated it. Hates it when someone feels pity for me.“About the man that was crossing the lake?” I asked, trying to push the pain away as I picked up a pen and signed on the report. “Locals feared that it might be Drake and rumours h

DEL MORINO With the burden of the past few days bearing down on me, I left my study. Now, the reports I had been quickly reading, the never-ending pile of papers and the incessant ringing of my phone were all meaningless. It was all irrelevant. One person and one thing had taken up all of my thoughts. Layla. I was unable to concentrate on anything else. Not while she was struggling for her life and now one of the maids had delivered the piece of goodnews I had been waiting for. Not when each moment without her was like a knife piercing my chest more deeply. Every step felt like a test, a challenge to my own resolve as I moved down the hallway.I stopped when I got to her room, my hand lingering over the doorknob,. excitement and fear pinned me down as I exhaled.I didn't know what to expect, the burden of Adrian's death was still weighing me down and the last thing I wanted was for the doctor to tell me something else that I didn't want to hear.I softly opened the door and slip

DEL MORINO I sat in my study staring out the window. This morning the expansive estate seemed incredibly peaceful. Birds were chirping in the distance as the sun which had just begun to rise shone over the well-kept gardens.But the quiet was oppressive as if something were dangling in midair just waiting to move. I absently scanned the edge of my desk with my fingers, letting my thoughts stray to the same things that had been on my mind for the previous few weeks. I heard a knock and I turned slightly in anticipation of seeing a servant as the door creaked open. But my brother Finn was standing in the doorway. Today, his normally composed manner seemed strange. His posture had a kind tension that I couldn't quite place. I noticed a change in his expression and a lift of the weight in my chest upon seeing him. “Finn,” I said, my voice rising above the silence. “Come in.”His boots clicked softly on the marble floor as he entered. I could tell that he was carrying a burden too.Fi

LAYLA The packhouse was too still and too silent. It seemed as though the world outside was very different from the suffering I was experiencing within, even though I could hear the maids working below, the kitchen staff getting ready to serve breakfast to everyone. I couldn’t get rid of the sensation that something had changed. I had lost my baby and Adrian was gone and I couldn't stop blaming myself though. I didn't want to think about anything, but somehow I found myself going down memory lane, my head swirling with thoughts I should have avoided I squeezed the tears that had I had resisted from falling earlier out of my eyes and closed my eyes briefly.I had lost my baby, it was the only thing that had connected me and Drake but I had wished everyday to see my child. And now, I wondered if Drake knew that I was pregnant when I left? Or maybe he knew but was acting like he didn't? Or maybe, it might be one of the reasons why he wanted me back.When I thought about the betrayal an