All Chapters of The Luna’s Wrath: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

OLIVER POV“Sit, Oliver. We need to discuss our situation.”With a sigh, I picked up my overturned chair and flopped down on it.“I received a notice from the Royal Courts. Oliver, you need to release him.” My father started.My eyes nearly popped out of my head. “No! He is my top suspect!” I wouldn’t entertain the idea for a second. Of course, he wants to protect the weak son.“There is no evidence tying Aiden to Frankie's death. It is unlawful to detain him any longer than you already have. Word got back to the Royals about a murder, and Aiden was being held in lockup with no attorney or evidence. I don’t know how they found out so fast, but the Royal Beta has dictated that Aiden Harris is to be released until proven guilty.”I pushed from the chair. “He did it! There isn’t a doubt in my mind that if we release him, he will cover up any trail we may have.”“Oliver, our hearts are just as broken by the loss of Frankie. She was very much one of our pups, even before she married Aiden.

ARIA POVMy heart clenched at the thought. My wolf, Lyra, whimpered. She was a sister to us, and she was hurting without anyone to help her through it. Sure, she could have technically come to talk to us, but I know my parents were determined to make this marriage work. Had Frankie gone to them? Did they tell her to grin and bear it for the term dictated? It sounded like something they might do, although they didn't fully understand the extent of her misery. Did she go to Oli? He’d become distant and cold after the wedding. Were they still even friends?I had too many questions, and I was going to get them all answered. Frankie was a part of my soul. I loved her with everything in me, as did Lyra. We were going to figure this out.We pulled up to the pack house, a place that once brought me smiles and laughter, but now felt like a cold tomb.There was no joy without Frankie in this house, because without Frankie in it, it wasn’t a home anymore.I stepped out of the car while my driver

ARIA POV“I never said you did. But now I am starting to think you might have. Why would you jump to defending yourself about the murder of Frankie when all I was accusing you of was sleeping with a married man a few days after his wife died?”Murmuring broke out around us, and I watched panic flash across Alice's face.Did she do this?Lyra was fighting to take over. The thought of Alice harming our pack sister was tearing her up.“No, I didn’t do anything to Frankie. I swear.”“Then why did you bring it up?” I looked around at the group. Many of the expressions appeared as confused as I was.“Does that make sense to anyone else? You have all heard it. I was addressing her as a homewrecker, and she was the one who immediately defended herself about the mysterious death of Frankie. Am I wrong to suspect a slip of the tongue?”The responses were mixed. Many wanted to believe it was rogues, as a few warriors were pushing the narrative, but the majority were becoming as suspicious as I w

NARRATIVE POV“We will still succeed. Don’t worry about that. Aria is off the table. I won’t risk upsetting the Goddess and taking on her wrath. We don’t need the extra attention. No one else can mysteriously die in this pack, or the Royals will step in. That’s the last thing we need. Frankie’s body is missing, which is problematic enough; we still need to find it. We also need to figure out who the hell set that fire. Now Oliver and the Gammas are convinced that that is where Frankie was killed.” Aiden felt like he was spinning. This was supposed to be a simple plan, but he was already realizing that things weren’t as easy as Alice and her aunt had suggested. Maybe he shouldn’t have listened to them when they first met.Aiden bit the inside of his cheek. Sometimes he felt that Alice and Yasmin were plotting against him. It wasn’t what they said, it was what they didn’t say that made him worry. Was he being led like a fool?“Aiden,” Alice started again. She wrapped her arms around his

FRANKIE POVAiden wasn’t a planner. This had Alice all over it, but that presented a dozen more questions as to why and what the benefit was for her. It couldn’t be as simple as becoming the Luna of the Blue Ridge pack.No, there had to be something else.Sudden movement to my right pulled me from my thoughts. There was someone in a dark cloak leaving the pack territory and heading towards this rogue male.So he was waiting for someone. Not just anyone, but someone from my pack. Who? I couldn’t see their face, and the cloak hid their figure. They masked their scent, making it clear that this was not a meeting that wanted witnesses. There was still a certain level of familiarity with this cloaked figure.Was this Alice? That would make sense. So, Alice had a rogue man outside the pack? Was Alice's plan to have Aiden push his family out and take control of the pack, only to betray Aiden in the end and have her secret rogue lover take control by her side?Could it be that cliché? It was