All Chapters of The Alpha's Fated Encounter: Chapter 231 - Chapter 240

“The celebrity outcry has helped fuel protests around the country among the average citizens. The tides seem to be turning. Only a few days ago, it looked as though everyone was in agreement that the quarantine of this portion of our country was necessary for safety. Now things are changing. Along with the well-known celebrities, other philanthropists have come forward to show their support. That brings me to tonight’s special guest. Many will not know his name, but they surely know him by his many business holdings. Welcome, Mr. Donatello Moretti.”A collective gasp sounded through the living room. My own jaw fell open. When the camera angle changed, Donatello’s calm and collected smile greeted us. He was actually on the news. I’d never expected that he’d put his own life on the line like this. It had been my assumption that he’d continue working in the shadows.“Holy shit,” Luis muttered, echoing my thoughts.“Mr. Moretti,” the reporter went on. “Thank you so much for joining us.”D

MADDYThe news reports that followed were chaotic, to say the least. We all stayed up late into the night, watching. All the media outlets who’d been ready to condemn all of shifter-kind were now back-peddling so fast that I couldn’t help but laugh at them. Apparently, online message boards were lighting up with people coming out in support of us. The few words of dissent that were still demanding we be locked up were quickly shouted down.One overarching question kept popping up on every blog, newscast, and article. Where was Viola Monroe? Felipe had checked the stock exchange the following day, and the shares for The Monroe Group and all their known subsidiaries were crashing. It seemed that no one wanted to be associated with the foundation anymore. There was even word that South Korea and Australia were cutting ties with massive multi-billion-dollar national medical facility contracts they’d signed with Viola’s company. This was better than anything we could have done alone. She w

“Those people could come back at any time. Plus, it’s kinda fun watching them flail around and flop into the grass.”“I suppose we don’t know when or how the royals will attack again. I guess you can leave it up.”She’d grinned. “Oh, I’ve planned on it.”There had been a lot going on, and I knew I needed to do something special for Maddy. For months now, we’d really had no time or chance to breathe. The last few weeks had been the quietest and most relaxing time we’d had since the night I found her beaten body in her bar. It was time for me to get creative.Javi’s pack had returned to their lands after holing up at their spot until they were sure things were settled. I knew, in passing, that one of his guys was a chef and owned a restaurant in Tampa. A few calls and texts and I had something set for that Friday. The next thing I had to do was get everyone else out of the house.Abi and the rest of Maddy’s family hadn’t really been out of the house in weeks. It was time for them to get

NicoThree days had passed since Viola threw the cloak off what she and her family had been planning. Three days of chaos for me and the rest of my pack. Three days since she and the royals openly declared war on us. Not only that, but she’d called on every bigot and wannabe shifter-hunter with a gun to join in the hunt.I’d been on the phone with all the other pack leaders in Florida pretty much non-stop since Viola’s announcement and was just getting off the phone with a bear alpha from Miami when Luis stuck his head into my office.“You seen the news lately?”I gave a weary shrug. “No. Something else bad, I assume?”Luis stepped into the room, grabbed the remote for the small TV mounted on the wall, and tuned it to a twenty-four-hour news channel. On the screen, a news anchor read a report. Viola’s face was superimposed on the screen alongside him.“To reiterate, The Monroe Group’s marketing team says they were wholly unaware of the anti-shifter agenda being propagated by the upper

“The thing none of you are thinking of,” Sinthy said, “is that this vial was created to specifically reincarnate Edemas or his descendants. If you were to take it and not die, there is a good chance Edemas would return. His soul may come back and kick your entire consciousness into oblivion, essentially killing you. You’d be nothing but a meat puppet for an ancient king mad with a vengeance using your body.”That possibility hadn’t occurred to me. I pointed at Maddy. “Would that happen to Maddy?”Sinthy shrugged. “No telling. But she’s a direct descendant, plus it seems that Edemas’s daughter has already staked a claim in Maddy’s mind. She was reincarnated as Maddy’s wolf.”“I don’t think it would happen to Maddy,” Gabriella said. “She’s basically already a reincarnation of sorts. But it’s still a possible risk.”My shoulders slumped. “Okay. Not a good plan. We won’t talk about it anymore, all right?”Maddy tapped a finger on her lips, then said, “What if we destroyed it?”The rest of