Chapter 149
Liam POV
The next few days in the house were a flurry of activity. I don’t agree with anything that Alpha King did in the prison, but it did get results.
Ebony provided the full list of names and access to the bank accounts to which Alpha had transferred funds. There were 17 names on the list. Two were already dead, eight family members were to Alpha’s, and three were currently serving as
Alpha’s.
I have told Alpha King, but told him that I had already told Valerie who was handling it. I could tell he was pissed, as he wanted another body to bleed, but advised a different approach. We sent evidence packs to the packs to let them know we knew. We sent multiple packs so Luna’s and the Elders had access to the evidence as well.
In the packs, we also sent a picture of Lewana in the state she was found in, and confirming she is the Luna Queen now. They can deal with their own family drama, but if they don’t make every effort possible to find the Luna Queen, they will be forever out of favour with the Alpha King.
William confessed to all of his crimes, but it was clear he knew nothing of value. Anthony was still not cooperating. He tried to give us some information about privileges, but claimed he couldn’t tell us everything as he was protecting Cordelia. Stated he didn’t care if he was tortured or killed, as long as Cordelia was safe, his legacy would live on.
The rogues, on the other hand, were more of an interesting story. I call together the strike team along with Alpha King
and Arthur.
“There’s another Alpha King. At least that is what they are claiming“.
Alpha King is livid. “What? I am the last in the bloodline. My father had no other children“.
“They know that. But whoever this Rogue Alpha King is, he’s apparently powerful and behind basically every attack and uprising in the last few years. His goal is to replace you and destroy the humans to take control of the world for werewolves again“.
Arthur tries to step in front of him, and we can both tell he is seething.
“Conrad, you need to breathe. Calm down, son“.
He is trying, but the breathing seems to be fueling the fire within, creating an inferno with him waiting to explode.
He stands up, grabs the chair he was sitting on, and hurls it out the window, exploding the glass within the frame. Everyone in the room runs for cover before the rest of it unleashes.
“HE CAN NOT CLAIM WHAT IS MINE. I WILL RIP HIM LIMB FROM LIMB. WHERE IS HE?“.
I can’t stop the shake in my voice. “We don’t know where he is, and neither do they. They were just foot soldiers and never met him. They have given us the locations of some of the camps they trained at, so we are sending hunters to check the
sites“.
“I’m going with them“.
“Sorry, Alpha King, but they already left. You’re not in the right state for the mission right now. I promise you can come
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when we have a location on Luna Queen, but not until then. You need to control yourself more“.
He lunges straight for me and goes to punch me, but Arthur intervenes. Together, we manage to pin him and restrain him. We try to hold tight as he thrashes beneath us and screams.
“YOU’RE ALL KEEPING HER FROM ME. I WILL KILL ANYONE WHO TRIES TO KEEP US APART“.
“Breathe, Conrad. You’re never going to get her back if you can’t come up with a plan. She needs you. The one in control“.
He eventually calms enough that I can let go, but Arthur doesn’t until he has completely stopped. I sent everyone else out of the room. We need to start doing damage control on this, as someone might see this as a time to attack the pack.
When Alpha King is sitting up in a chair and calm enough to talk to, I can’t hold back anymore.
“We need to get him back on a dose of high sedative again. He can’t be doing this“.
Arthur shakes his head. “He will just develop a tolerance to the sedatives, and we need him functioning to help find her, let alone protect the pack as we are also vulnerable without her here“.
“She has been gone nearly a month, and everything is getting worse“.
“That’s why we need to focus on bringing her home, Liam. It’s the only way“.
Valen is thrashing inside me and struggling to calm down as much as I am. “I need air. I need to run“.
I storm out of the room and sprint towards the forest. I don’t even remove my clothes. I just let Valen run.
The sun warmed our fur as the soft breeze brushed through our fur. The feeling doesn’t last long. The weight of the world is chasing us, and it’s not long before it catches up.
We end up near the lake and just collapse. Valen lets out several howls of pain. Pain for our pack. Pain for our lost brother. Pain for our taken Luna Queen. It took us years to get to this point, and now we realize our Kingdom is built of nothing but sand that has slipped away in a month.
We must have passed out from exhaustion on the shoreline, as when we woke up, it was dark. I wake in a panic and check in with the pack and can tell everything is fine. Arthur must have taken over. Again.
I swear we need to give that man a medal or something after this. I have always been the fun man–child between Alpha King and me, but it must feel like having two rebellious teenagers on his hands with what he has had to handle.
I’m not fit to be the Alpha King Beta. Once we have Luna Queen back, I should step down to a soldier or something and give the role to him. I’m useless at it anyway. He needs someone stronger. He needs someone better.
