Chapter 30 Never Regret It
Alicia sensed a dangerous aura emanating from Damian as he mentioned Vivian and Caroline.
She knew that Vivian's pack was a friend pack of the Golden Moon Pack, and that her father would likely form an alliance with the Golden Moon Pack to attack Damian's Moon Halo Pack if Damian harmed Vivian.
"Don't kill them, please," Alicia pleaded, gripping Damian's hand tightly. Her eyes betrayed her worry for him.
"Vivian is Alpha Ellis's fiancée. Her pack is friendly with the Golden Moon Pack. I don't know about Caroline's pack, but I do know that if anything happens to them, their fathers might join Alpha Ellis in a crusade against our pack. I'm not worth putting yourself at risk like this."
Damian knelt down, took Alicia's hand, and kissed the back of it. He smiled and assured her, "You're worth it. But don't worry. Killing them will only dirty my shoes. I'll make them suffer worse than death."
With that, Damian strode towards the E zone and heard Caroline's piercing, shrill voice.
"If you lay a hand on us, my father won't spare you or your family!" Caroline threatened.
Lee grunted, completely unfazed by Caroline's threat. "I don't have a family, just a life. But I wouldn't mind sending you to hell before your father brings the pack to kill me."
Realizing that her threat was futile, Vivian tried to bargain her way out of the situation. "I can pay you. Ten thousand dollars, or even a hundred thousand. Name your price, just let us go."
Caroline followed up by turning to Lee, "I have money too. My father is the president of the bank. He'll pay you whatever you want."
"No problem. A billion dollars a head, cash only. Do your rich fathers have that much money?" Lee replied with disdain, staring at the two she-wolves crouched on the ground.
"A billion bucks in cash?" Caroline screamed, "You're insane! You old jerk!"
Vivian, in contrast to Caroline, was calmer. She steadied her voice and addressed Lee, "Lee, you know this apartment building belongs to the Golden Moon Pack, right? If you let us go, I promise I'll ask Alpha Ellis for the money. I'm his mate. He will pay you no matter how much you want."
"Really?" Damian appeared, holding a small, delicate black pistol.
He turned back to the Alpha, who was standing about 10 feet behind him, and asked, "I'm curious, how much would you pay for this bitch, Ellis?"
"Ellis!" Vivian saw hope and stood up, "Ellis, I'm here!" she called out.
Ellis looked around in surprise, noticing the two Betas lying lifeless on the ground. He saw Vivian and the shivering she-wolf who had feelings for Damian.
He demanded immediately, "Vivian, what have you done?"
Vivian shook her head with tears in her eyes and pleaded to Ellis, "Mr. Howard tried to kill me. Please help me."
Lee took Caroline's phone and handed it to Ellis, saying, "Alpha Ellis, this video will tell you what your mate and her cousin did to a good, innocent girl!"
Ellis watched the video Caroline had recorded of her and Vivian bullying Alicia. Their evil laughter and insults, interspersed with Alicia's cries, reached the ears of all present through the phone's speaker.
Damian clenched his fists and tried to steady his breathing, attempting to control the urge to shift and tear the two bitches apart himself. But he knew that the bullying Alicia had endured was far worse than what was shown in the video.
"Damian..." Caroline's legs went weak and shook even harder after seeing Damian approach her. The overpowering Alpha aura emanating from him was so intense that she could barely breathe. She had never seen him so angry.
Damian gritted his teeth and said, "I told you, Alicia is my mate, and your bullying of her is a declaration of war against me and the Moon Halo Pack!"
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean it." Caroline murmured, trembling.
Vivian's eyes widened as she questioned Caroline, "Hey! You didn't tell me that mongrel, Alicia, is Damian Howard's mate!"
"I... I forgot." Caroline lied, sheepishly averting her eyes and not daring to look at Vivian. She deliberately hadn't told Vivian because she was worried that Vivian wouldn't dare to help her punish Alicia after she learned that Alicia was the mate of the King of Rogues.
Lee's mind was blown away by Damian's revelation. He had never suspected that Mr. Howard, their neighbor, was the Alpha of the renowned Moon Halo Pack, let alone the fact that Mrs. Alicia was his mate.
A mere twenty minutes ago, Lee had watched the CCTV footage showing Caroline and another girl, capturing Alicia. As he was going to rescue Alicia, Mr. Howard, who happened to come out of the elevator, noticed he was carrying a pistol.
When he told Mr. Howard what he had seen, Mr. Howard grimaced and asked him where the black business car was heading. He insisted on joining him in rescuing Alicia.
Meanwhile, Damian paid no attention to the conversation between the two girls as he mercilessly interrogated Caroline. "You called her a mongrel?" he asked her.
"I know I was wrong. Please forgive me," Caroline cried.
Damian grabbed Caroline's hair and forced her to look directly at him. "What else did you do to her before you recorded the video? What was in that drug bottle?"
"We only taunted her for having omega genes. We didn't do anything else. That pill was a regular flu pill," Caroline's teeth chattered as she spoke. She knew that if she revealed the truth, she might end up dead.
Damian held the gun to the stupid bitch's head and threatened, "I never hurt a female. It looks like you're going to make an exception for me today!"
Caroline feared for her life and she blurted out, "It's the heat pill. Vivian carry it here."
Vivian was quick to reprimand her cousin. "Shut up, you fucking fool! You're the one who suggested giving that mongrel she-wolf a heat pill and recording a video of her having sex with my Betas."
Damian was furious to the bone after hearing the nasty thoughts of those two bitches. How dare they use such a vicious method on his mate!
He pinned Caroline to the ground, one hand around her neck and the other holding the gun to her forehead. "Damn thing! How dare you!?" he shouted.
"Help, help!" Caroline struggled and swatted at Damian's wrists, but her efforts were in vain.
It was as if she saw a scythe-wielding Death standing behind Damian, who raised his scythe as if to reap her life. Her urine flowed down her legs, wetting her skirt.
Just as Caroline thought that the King of Rogues was going to end her life, Damian released her.
He looked at her and said, "I won't let you go to hell that easily."
After Alicia's shift, the phone screen went black, but the video continued to play, capturing the aftermath of gunshots and screams before revealing Lee retrieving the phone. Finally, the footage came to an end.
Ellis, furious, gripped the phone and crushed the screen. "Vivian," he snarled, "I warned you to stay away from Alicia and to cease spying on me."
Vivian shook her head in denial. "I wasn't spying on you, Ellis," she protested. "My cousin saw you picking up Alicia from the apartment, and I thought you were on a date."
Ellis sneered at her. "You thought?" he said with disgust.
Two years ago, he'd been thrilled when he discovered that Vivian, his mate, had the same hair color as his deceased mother's. However, he soon learned of Vivian's cruelty when she tortured and killed one of the packhouse maids, simply because he praised the maid after she mended his mother's teddy bear.
He buried the poor maid and then contacted his brother, Tobias, in the hope that he could reject Vivian.
Unfortunately, Tobias required him to tolerate Vivian as they needed to use the Luna Ceremony to lure their grandfather and the suspicious Alpha Victor to Los Angeles.
Alpha Victor had not visited L.A. in the past decade, and the Wilton Family members were required to attend the Luna Ceremony. So Luna Ceremony was the only way to ensure Victor's attendance. He could not reject Vivian.
Tobias offered him a pill that could erase mate pull, a new drug made by Beta Edward. Ellis took the pill, and the mate bond between him and Vivian was severed.
Ellis thought he could endure Vivian's viciousness until the Luna Ceremony was over. However, her behavior today reminded him of the dead maid.
He took one step towards the vicious mate, glancing at Damian in the meantime.
"Do what you want, Ellis," Damian said, sensing Ellis's intentions.
Vivian retreated in fear and stumbled over a Beta's body. Then she heard Ellis say the last thing she ever wanted to hear in her life.
"I, Ellis Charles Wilton, Alpha of the Golden Moon Pack, hereby officially reject Vivian Lewis Hamilton from the Red Crescent Pack. Never regret it!"
As the words left his lips, Ellis felt an excruciating pain as if it would tear through his soul, but it was a necessary price for his freedom from his cruel mate.