Chapter 614
The bells chimed loudly.
I looked down at the window and sure enough, there were about two horses.
I couldn’t see who was on the other end, but I knew my brother rode one.
Xaden had been gone without a word to anyone, which had shocked me.
It was unusual for him to go anywhere without me.
Ever since Jasmine had left the pack, he had been acting strange and moody.
At first, I had been worried he had caught me in my web of thousands of lies, but then I waved it off.
Jasmine was gone.
If he had known anything, he would have confronted me from the outset.
I turned my back on the window and closed my eyes.
Lisa was a filthy bitch!
One I ultimately regretted having anything to do with.
The more I thought of her and how she had blatantly come to threaten me, the angrier I became.
She had even dared to shift and scare me with her wolf!
Angrily, I walked to my dresser and began to scatter the table.
I screamed and sent the mirror spiraling to the floor.
It shattered into a million pieces, and I flung anything and everything I could find.
I breathed heavily once I was calm and dropped to the floor.
My hand was bleeding from the mirror cut, but I didn’t care.
I wanted that bitch gone!
I had hoped that once I used her, it would be easy to get rid of her.
At least some Gold and jewelry would have her on her way.
But she had proven to be difficult.
She had proven to be ambitious and greedy!
She wouldn’t take jewelry or any wealth!
She now wanted Xaden.
How stupid.
Although it was very clever.
If she could take Xaden and make him hers, then she could become the Luna of the pack.
That meant she would be my sister-in-law.
That meant war.
Lisa would ruin my life and use her threats against me.
Being the Luna of the most excellent pack in the entire world was bigger than any wealth I had to offer her.
She knew that.
We both knew that.
The only chance I had was eliminating her.
I would have to have her killed.
No one.
Absolutely no one would miss her.
As I started thinking of ways to have her erased, a knock came at the door, interrupting me from my thoughts.
“What?!” I hissed.
“My lady, your brother has sent for you.” A small, tiny voice.
I paused my calculations.
Perhaps Xaden had finally come to his senses and wanted to apologize for his erratic behavior.
“I’ll be down,” I said.
I smiled to myself.
To appease me, I would demand my mother’s necklace.
Our family heirloom, he had given to that whore.
I set Lisa and her scheming threats aside.
I was going to handle her later.
I rose to the floor, cleaned up the blood that dripped from my arm, and made sure I looked pleasant.
My life was finally about to start.
Ever since Xaden had left, I had noticed that Fiona and Erik barely spoke to each other.
She always looked at him with contempt.
That was if she even looked at him.
While he pretended she didn’t exist.
It was safe to say that whatever silly ideas they had had vanished.
I was his mate.
His perfect Luna.
And mother to his daughter.
As I walked out of my bedroom and down the hall, I began to think of Jade.
I adored her.
The only child I actually ever cared about.
Usually, I hissed at children and wanted them far, far away from my sight.
But there was something about this beautiful girl with her raven curls and perfect ebony skin that just drew me to her.
I had gathered that her mother had died in an attack orchestrated by none other than Jasmine’s father.
The man who had stolen me.
So I understood her, and I intended to raise her as my own.
As I imagined Erik and me happy in our own pack, living as one family with Jade, I noticed the energy was off.
Something was wrong.
I went to Xaden’s throne room, where I suspected he would be.
He was.
Backing the throne stood my brother.
Other top-ranking members of our pack stood.
Erik, Fiona, even Nanny Nia.
What was that witch still doing here?
Jasmine wasn’t here any longer and her service were no longer required.
There were eyes all around; I felt their piercing gaze on me.
I swallowed heavily as my feet suddenly felt reluctant to move.
Was there a sort of announcement that I had missed?
The room was almost full of people.
I walked to where the throne was, but stopped at the steps leading to the seat.
I looked to my right and I saw a strange man.
He had pale white skin, white hair, eyebrows, and eyes.
I furrowed my brow, wondering where exactly I had seen him before.
And it hit me.
Once it did, I reacted so badly it was as though I had been slapped.
He was a snow wolf who had been in the moonlight pack!
One of Father’s slaves.
And then I looked sharply at Xaden.
Was this whom he had brought?
And then my mind went to the man on the second horse I hadn’t clearly seen.
Was it him?
And the realization hit me like lightning.
Xaden had gone to the moonlight pack.
My heart began to race and I felt my body tremble.
“Xaden.” I managed in a quiet voice.
My elder brother slowly turned around, his eyes spitting fire.
Fire that seemed ready to burn down the entire pack, with himself included.
Soon beads of sweat gathered at my forehead and my tummy ached terribly.
I subconsciously took a step back.
But my brother, his long dark hair loose, his aura vibrating through his body, progressed towards me.
He was out for blood.
And something told me it was my own blood.