Arranged To The Beast Alpha
WOLF-LESS

DAMIEN

"Good evening Alpha Damien, Beta Kai." Everyone we came across chorused the same greetings as we strolled the mansion heading to my private library.

It almost felt scripted. Their greetings playing on repeatedly irritated my ears, but as Kai had suggested, I was to keep my anger at bay.

The fear in their eyes as they scurried past me was undeniable. My actions nurtured this fear, but with Leah, it is hoped to be broken.

Hope is a scanty word that is so hyped by humanity that it blinds the human eyes from seeing reality. I wasn't about to let it do the same for me but to satisfy my people and show them the effort placed in this plan; it was more than Enough.

"How was breakfast?" Kai reminded me of the tense atmosphere that filled the breakfast table. Although it was amusing watching her look so mesmerized by paintings I had gotten the night before after replaceing from my source.

"Kane wasn't in the last meeting." I sneered, the mere thought of the man, a displeasing thorn, forced into my mind.

"He had a quick visit to the neighboring packs, he's in search of a husband for his daughter. She has no mate." Kai replied. " She was your first option." He glanced at me and averted his gaze as quickly as possible.

"And why wasn't she chosen to be my Luna?" Kai halted, his brows raised, "You should have brought her to me." I added.

"You would kill her the very moment Age steps her foot in here." He replied thoughtfully. Right about that point, Kane knew better than to present his daughter to me. That lying bitch only had her head spared because of her father's role in the council seat. A thrift and a deceiver, she was and would always be.

I slipped my hand into my pocket, taking out the pendant, I ran my hands through the familiar pattern.

"It's been 10 years, why keep that thing with you?" Kai asked as we arrived at the library.

I pushed the door open, ignoring him. For the past ten years, I had been coming into this large hall of books, trying to piece out the meaning of the pendant's inscriptions.

Kai had given up five years as we could not trace its meaning to what the woman meant by saving the world and replaceing them.

I selected fresh copies of Greek mythologies and ancient power, most of which had arrived from the human world; they seem to have fantasies of our lives but know nothing more than what they cast as Myths.

I took my seat and opened the first book; I took out the pendant, trying to look for a picture that would match the pendant or at least fill my mind with new information.

"I profiteía tou asiméniou krystállou planátai ston kósmo mas. ta kommátia tou tha vrízoun ton kósmo kai tha ton katastrépsoun. sta sostá chéria, to kakó den échei kamía pithanótita na antimetopísei tis ámynés you, allá se láthos chéria periménei i katastrofí na vrei tous asimenis krystallus giati i epoch this profiteers plisiázei." I read out the Greek inscriptions.

"For the age of the Prophecy is drawing near." Kai chimed in, forcing my gaze to meet him in a stoic frown.

"Sorry." He apologized.  

"The prophecy of the silver crystal hovers over our world. Its fragments will scatter across the land and bring destruction. In the right hands, evil has no chance against its defenses, but in the wrong hands, disaster awaits the world, for the age of prophecy is drawing near."

Over the years I have had speculations. So many what-ifs have set me back, but there hasn't been any discouragement, no matter how time flies. I made a promise to her, and I have to uphold it.  

Taking my time to study every book was disappointing; most spoke of mostly fictional things that didn't even exist in our world. Nothing about the silver crystal or anything relating to it.  

"Same result?" Kai asked.

"Yes," I grunted, displeased. I pushed the book aside, slipping into deep thought.

"Help..." a faint scream caught my ears; I lunged out of my seat, and Kai leaped up as well.

"Did you hear that? It sounded like...Leah." I charged out of the room, my legs moving in a super fast strides as I followed the path my instincts clawed out.

My heart pounded in my chest as Kai and I charged out of the library, his urgency matching my own. We skidded to a halt at the entrance of the ballroom, where we found Andy and Cleo pacing frantically, eyes wide with fear.  

The atmosphere was crackled with tension, and every second of silence twisted something tighter inside me.  

"Where is she?" Kai's voice cut through the air, sharp and demanding, even before I had a chance to speak.  

"A guard showed up, saying Alpha Damien had sent him to retrieve Luna Leah," Cleo stammered, her voice barely above a whisper as if admitting it out loud made it more real. "Then... then we heard her scream."  

The words hung in the air, slicing through me. My thoughts blurred, dissolving into a single point of panic. Fear, cold and unyielding, gripped me, a feeling I loathed so much I would burn my skin never to feel. But with this girl, hiding more than her inexperienced self could take.

I couldn't dwell on my hate when it was her life on the line. I clenched my fists, willing myself to hold it together, but my pulse was deafening, drowning out everything else.

Behind me, footsteps echoed down the corridor, and I whipped around, seeing two maids approaching, both wide-eyed, keeping their distance like they'd sensed the storm brewing in me.  

"The... the secret passage, sir," one of them stammered, her voice barely audible. "It leads to the back gate. We heard the scream coming from there."

The moment she finished speaking, I was already moving. Leah's name pounded through my skull like a war drum. I knew that passage as well as the back of my hand, every twist and turn.

I could get there blindfolded if I had to. With barely a thought, I let my wolf take over, muscles and bones snapping into place as my wolf surged forward. My vision sharpened, my senses tuned to every sound, every scent, and I bolted down the passageway, claws tearing into the floor beneath me as I sprinted.

When I reached the back gate, my heart hardened. A car was just starting to leave, the faint scent of Leah lingering in the air. Without hesitation, I launched myself forward, my powerful legs; I jumped the trunk, and the car pressed damage.  

A snarl tore from my throat, loud and fierce, reverberating through the night like a warning, a demand.

I attacked the men who stepped out of the car, leaving no piece of them attached to their main body.  

"Damien! She's unconscious." Kai yelled as he scooped Leah in his arms.

*Get her to safety and call the doctor.* I mind-linked him.

He nodded and set off while I sniffed around the scattered bodies for anything that would lead me to the mastermind behind this attack.

Failing to replace anything useful, I returned to the mansion, changed back to my human form, new clothes were brought to me, and I changed into them and hurried upstairs.

I met Kai racing out of her room, "Her breathing is getting faint; she sustained a head trauma and did not heal on any account; she's wolf-less Damien." He said and my heart sank. She is wolfless?! Can this get any worse?  

"Get the doctor now!"