The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King
Chapter 138

Chapter 138

Greg rolled his eyes as he responded to Kelissa Kylton’s inauthentic hospitality, “Like I had a choice.”

“Good that you know who’s in-charge here.” Kelissa smirked bumptiously,

“No, I don’t. I just know that it’s not me.” Greg lied with ease. This was going to be easier than hethought. Whoever was harming Lucianne already assumed that Greg had voluntarily surrenderedsuperiority the moment he made the call and cited the code. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Greg Claw was inferior to no one. No one! …Alright, fine. No one, except Lucianne. 3

Kelissa scoffed darkly at Greg’s response and asked, “So, are you saying that I don’t look like someonewho’s capable of leading this work?”

“No. All I’m saying is that until I meet the full team, I cannot gauge who’s leading it.”

“What if I tell you that there’s a consensus that I’m the one who calls the shots, and the rest are nothingmore than mere advisers?”

“I stand by what I said, Kylton. Until I meet the whole team, I won’t know who’s really in-charge. If Ilearned anything, it’s that the official leader isn’t always the leader. Some ‘advisers’ can be so influentialthat the official leaders are just mindless puppets.”

“Are you trying to agitate me, your Grace?” Kelissa was getting impatient. If Greg were being honest,yes, he’d very much like to agitate and tear up anyone involved with hurting Lucianne.

Still, the Duke kept his thoughts to himself and chose to say, “Do you want me to give you my honestopinions, or did you recruit me to sugarcoat everything, Kylton?”

That made Kelissa pause for a brief moment. “Hm. Well, I suppose I would have to respect yourperspectives and judgments, seeing that you’ve been in this line of work long enough.”

Greg muttered monotonously, “Wow, I’m flattered.”

“And don’t think of mind-linking anyone, by the way. The device on your wrist would know.” Kelissawarned, and lifted up her phone as she continued, “And I’ll know, too.”

“Yeah, I figured. Would’ve done the same thing if it were me.” Greg said, unperturbed.

A smile graced the heiress’s features. “Thank you for approving.”

Greg retorted flatly, “I’m not. I just agree that this is a good precaution to take.”

Her smile faltered as she noted, “You really don’t make it easy for people to work with you, do you, yourGrace?”

“Why do you think I work alone?” Greg needed to annoy Kelissa until she was angered. He needed toact as if he was reluctant to join them, and how he was now taking out on those who threatened him.

There should be a gradual willingness on his part to work with them, not a total change of heartovernight. Only then will it be believable that he had actually switched sides, from protecting Lucianne toharming her. In truth, Greg knew that nothing can ever tempt him to hurt the Queen.

After a moment of silence, Kelissa decided to change the subject to keep her cool, “It wasn’t me whowas supposed to come. It was…”

“Livia?”

“For once, can you just not imitate me when I’m trying to be nice?!”

Score! Greg’s animal celebrated the heiress’s erupted temper. “Apologies, heiress. Please, continue.”

Kelissa took a deep breath to calm her nerves. Her onyx eyes regained some lilac shades before shecontinued, “No one was supposed to come. It was just the chauffeur. But I came because I wanted topersonally tell you about the rewards you’d reap from working with us.”

“Didn’t you already send someone with that information to my casino last night?”

“Livia didn’t set out the full extent of your rewards last night.”

This caught his attention, and his eyes fixed on hers as he said, “I’m listening.”

“Livia only told you that you’d be second-in-command. She didn’t mention another gift I have in mind foryou because I didn’t tell her this.”

There was a pause, and the only sound came from the limousine and the soft music playing in thebackground. Greg leaned back into his seat and asked, “Are you going to go on, or is this you promptingm e to irritate you?”

Kelissa took another breath before she responded, “Apart from being the third most powerful personafter the King and Queen, you’d get her: the wolf.”

Greg’s eyebrows raised in genuine surprise. His animal’s ears perked-up as well. “I don’t follow.” Heconfessed.

“Livia thinks that after making you second, I’d convince you to mate and mark her. But after hearingabout how you…treated her in your last two encounters with her, I doubt she sounds like a very temptingprize. And with my cousin and her dumb friend’s constant ranting around the house, it’s not very difficult to come to the conclusion that you only want the wolf.”

His eyebrows furrowed as he tried to comprehend Kelissa’s goal. “So, this master plan of yours is for meto claim Lucianne so that you’d be free to steal the King?”

It was Kelissa’s turn to roll her eyes. “No, your Grace. The plan is for me to steal the King first, and whenthe wolf’s heart breaks, you’ll be there to sweep her off her feet.”

“I’m rather worried about the competencies of your other advisers, Kylton. Has no one told you how farfetched your plan sounds? Have you seen how my cousin looks at the wolf? Even a blind creature wouldknow he’s dead set on making her the Queen. You think he would let her go that easily?”

Kelissa’s expression showed distaste as she admitted, “No. I’m ambitious but not naïve. I know it’stedious and difficult, and it’s taking time. But the goal keeps me going. The more… functionality isstripped from the wolf, the less likely Xandar would see her as being capable of being his Queen. Andwhen he finally decides that she has to step aside, I’ll be there to take my rightful place on the thronewith him, producing a proper heir thereafter. And the wolf will be yours to take.” 1

“Ah, so you’re going to break her until the King decides to let her go.” Greg said monotonously.

“I promise to not over-break her, your Grace, for your sake.” Kelissa said with an inauthentic smile.

“How very kind of you.” Greg uttered in sarcasm.

Ignoring his tone, Kelissa said, “I just need her to be… a little damaged so that it’s obvious she is not

qualified to wear the crown.”

“Hence, the infertility poison.” Greg noted as he masked his anger and dismay.

He masked it well. Kelissa didn’t suspect a thing when she said, “I hope you wouldn’t mind not beingable t o have kids with her.”

“Never liked them. Noisy, messy and pesky creatures.” This was not entirely a lie. But in a perfect worldwhere Greg could be with Lucianne, he’d happily have a dozen kids with her if that was what shewanted. 3

“Oh, that’s a relief.” Kelissa’s remark brought Greg out of his thoughts.

Greg rehearsed this next part in the mirror the previous night to make sure he’d be in control when heasked, “What else are you going to do to ‘break’ her?”

The heiress immediately assured, “Nothing physical. The next one is more like a small scandal. It’s still adraft, a plan that we’ll all have to discuss as a team. I expect your full participation. But don’t worry, I’llhave your needs at the back of my mind to make sure we don’t go too far.”

“Mm.”

“You don’t believe me.”

Greg smiled to himself as he repeated Lucianne’s words to Kelissa, “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Being oblivious to the smile behind his response, Kelissa merely uttered, “It’s going to be an interestingexperience working with you, your Grace. Now, as a precautionary step, I need you to take this.”

She handed him a pastel yellow pill as she said, “Just to keep the Kyltons’ subsidiary residence private,you’d understand.”

Greg had seen the pill before and checked for it’s watermark just to make sure it matched the one heknew of before ingesting it, putting him into slumber for two hours.

When he awoke, it was another five-minute drive before they reached the Kyltons’ residence. Thechauffeur opened the door, and Kelissa got out first as she told Greg, “Come on, let’s introduce you tothe others, though I doubt you’ll need an introduction for most of them.”

She wasn’t kidding. When he entered the main sitting room, everyone was a familiar face, except for thethree creatures by the corner. A man in a teal T-shirt with stormy-grey eyes had an arm rested against

the fireplace as he watched the dancing flames. His scent confirmed that he was a wolf. The other twonot far from him were clearly Lycans, rogue Lycans, to be precise.

The wolf studied Greg briefly before returning his sights to Kelissa, who ordered two servants to showhim and his men to a meeting room down the hallway. After Kelissa had told Greg to ‘make himself athome’, h e smirked as he said, “I have to agree that it’s going to be an interesting experience workingwith you, Kylton.”

Kelissa smirked cockily before she left Greg with the others while she herself left the room to write upcheques for Jake and his rogue Lycan bodyguards.