Claiming My Wolf
Chapter 46

~~Micah’s PoV~~

It’s Friday night and while the rest of my pack is celebrating the next Alpha’s birthday, I’m stuck in this dirty bar again. I wonder what Sadie’s wearing tonight. She looked amazing at Ava and Aaron’s party, and the memory makes me smile.

“You look like you’re thinking of something good,” a woman’s voice says and I blink to replace her standing right in front of me. “Want to make it a reality?”

I’ve seen her in here a few times over the last week to know what she’s offering. Every so often, she leaves the room with another male wolf and comes back ten minutes later with enough cash for another drink. Young, old, doesn’t seem to matter.

“Piss off,” I growl at her. “I’m waiting for someone.”

She shrugs, not offended by my rudeness, and wanders off to try her luck elsewhere.

“Mr Geary?” someone else says a minute later. This time it’s the same wolf from the other night, the one who took me to the meeting in the first place. “They’re ready for you.”

Finally. It was fun to do this for the first few days, but I’m getting tired of it now. I’m ready for some action, and more than anything, ready to get back to my pack. I didn’t know quite how much I liked being a part of it until I wasn’t.

She takes me back to the same room from the night before, and the same guy is waiting for me with the same two goons behind him. I look around, hoping I’m missing something, but there’s no one else there and I start to get frustrated. “What is this? I told you I wanted to talk to your boss.”

“You will,” the man says, gesturing to the seat across from him. “Take a seat.”

I don’t have much choice, so I sit down.

“I’ve just been asked to double check that you still want to do this,” he tells me. “This is your last chance to back out. Otherwise…”

“I do the job or you kill me,” I say, filling in the rest of the sentence. “I’ve got it. Let’s move this along.”

He raises his eyebrows at me, but turns to one of the men behind him and gives him a nod. That guy leaves the room, closing the door behind him.

“Once you’ve met with my employer, you’ll be leaving tonight to carry out the task,” the guy sitting down tells me. “There won’t be time for you to go home again.”

That’s a bit of a problem. I won’t have a way of getting any information to Logan then, but I shrug like it’s no big deal. “Fine. It’s not like I have much of a home right now anyway.”

The ghost of a smile crosses his face. “Indeed. But if you’re successful, you might replace yourself a new home, with us.”

“Us?” I repeat.

“The new pack that is going to run the whole territory,” he explains. “Under our new Alpha.”

He looks to the door which opens at just that moment. I turn to see who he’s talking about, and my jaw drops open when I see who walks in.

“Dad?”

This can’t be real. I blink quickly, as if I might be seeing things, but it’s him alright. His scent gives him away even if I couldn’t see him for myself.

“Leave us, all of you,” he orders and everyone else immediately leaves the room. He sits down across from me as I try to make some sense of what the f*ck is going on here.

I hope that somehow he found out what I was doing and decided to teach me a lesson. I hope that this is all a setup, that it’s anything other than what it seems like.

Which is that my dad is a f*cking traitor.

“You really couldn’t leave well enough alone, could you?” he says as he leans back in his chair, looking me over coldly. “Had to try and play hero?”

“This is why you shot down my idea about sending someone undercover?” I ask, trying to put all the pieces together in my head. “Because it would lead back to you?”

“I’ve covered my tracks very carefully,” he says, like it’s something to be proud of. “You weren’t supposed to get involved. It would have been better if you didn’t know. But now you’re here, and the truth is, I need you. With all the extra protection they’ve put on her, you’re the only one that can get close to her.”

My heart sinks even further as I realize what he’s saying. “You actually think I’m going to kill Sadie?”

“That’s what you agreed to, isn’t it?” He smirks at me. “You said you’d do the job, or you die.”

“You know I’m just here to expose them,” I growl back at him. “To expose you, you son of a…”

“I know that was your plan,” he cuts me off. “But things have changed, haven’t they? Now you’ve got a choice, Micah. You can do as I say, or you’ll die. Who’s going to notice one missing rogue? You’re cut off from the pack. You’re all on your own.”

“I’m your son,” I can’t help pointing out, my face screwing up in disbelief. What the f*ck is wrong with him?

“And if you join me now, if you make me proud, there might be a place for you in the new order,” he says.

Make him proud? When have I ever done that? I tried so hard for so long, and now it turns out he was never someone I should have been trying to impress in the first place.

“What is all this about?” I ask. I still don’t see the big picture. “What do you want?”

He leans forward, his gaze hot and intense. “I want wolves to be what we used to be. I want to stop this mating with humans and diluting our bloodlines. I want us to be strong and unbeatable. And if I have to break a few things to make things better, then I’m prepared to do it.”

Break a few things? “You killed Sadie’s parents.” My eyes widen in horror as I realize it must be true.

He doesn’t even try to deny it. “I would have done it sooner, but It took me a long time to figure out who the second vessel was.”

What is he talking about? “The second one?” I repeat. “Who was the first?”

He huffs in disbelief. “You really haven’t figured it out yet? Pathetic.”

I start to growl at the insult but then it hits me. “The Luna. She was a vessel too.”

Of course. She was attacked on purpose and killed, and Kara along with her, because it would have passed to her.

“They were together the night the moon goddess came,” he tells me. “The Luna and Sadie’s mother. She passed her gift to them both. I’ve gotten rid of the two vessels and one of the heirs. Now there’s just one left. And you’re going to finish this.”

“And then what?” I ask, trying to work out the last part of the plan. “After Sadie dies, what will you do?”

“I have an army ready to go,” he tells me. “As soon as the mate bonds break, we’ll strike before they can muster any defense. We’ll take over the whole area and set up a new kingdom, a place where wolves can be wolves again.”

“With you as the king,” I guess.

“Of course.”

He’s mad. He’s completely insane, and I finally see it clearly.

But I know I have no choice. He won’t hesitate to kill me if I refuse, so I try my best to look like the whole thing excites me.

“So if you’re the king, does that make me a prince?”