Chapter 11

SABASTIAN POV

Haha…well that was quick. Looks like my prey is coming towards me without knowing I'm here to catch him.

‘‘Alpha, what is it?’’ Jason asked me as I stopped on my track.

‘‘I think I found the hiding werewolf,’’ I said through my mind, making all of them nod as they followed behind me while I trailed the smell.

After taking another turn, I stopped dead in my tracks. Opening my eyes that I had closed so I could feel the scent much more accurately, I looked in front of me. However, what I saw wasn't what I was expecting.

In front of me was a female silhouette standing. And not just any silhouette. She was probably the most beautiful girl in the world.

Gazing at her as we all stopped at some distance, from the panic in her eyes, I knew she was the werewolf we were trying to find.

So the werewolf who has been hiding from us for many months now and living under our nose sneakily was a female?

A she-wolf? Was my patrol this fragile now that they couldn't catch a hiding wolf?

I couldn't hold the contempt in my thoughts even when she was so beautiful.

‘‘Damn, she's really beautiful, ain't she?’’ My wolf hollered, making me look at him with complicated eyes.

I wanted to say he was creepy for thinking that, but I couldn't deny the fact he was right about one thing.

I was contemplating what punishment I should give such an amazing-looking girl when she walked toward us. The earlier panic that was evident in her eyes was completely gone. Or she had deliberately hidden it from us to show herself as strong. Whatever it was, she was looking very confident walking like that toward us.

‘‘From your recognizable eyes, it is clear you already know what I am. You people are the ones sent by the alpha to get me right?’’ She asked, making me confused once more.

Werewolf or no werewolf, everyone in our species held the power to recognize the power and position of other wolves through their aura. Didn't she recognize me as the alpha Sabastian, the strongest alpha in the world? Even if she was not able to recognize me as Sabastian, she still would have been able to know that I was an Alpha.

‘‘This__’’ Blake started. But for some reason, I was tempted to hide the truth from her. I wanted to see if she could really not recognize me or was just playing a game. And thus, I stopped Blake through my mind link.

‘‘Don't tell her the truth,’’ I said and everyone nodded their heads at me.

‘‘Yes, we are. And who might you be?’’ I asked.

‘‘Can’t you see that? I am a werewolf. Well, a werewolf without a wolf. If you must know what I mean,’’ she said, rolling her eyes. And though it was disrespectful for someone to roll their eyes at an alpha, I just couldn't bring myself to get angry at her. She looked cute rolling her eyes like that.

‘‘You are a lantern,’’ I asked, more than stated.

‘‘You guessed it right, Mr obvious. So I umm… I am bad with ranks. Let me introduce myself, then you guys can also introduce yourself to me before I go back to class. Thanks to your Alpha, if I don't go back to my class today, I'll receive a 100 points demerit, which will render me unable to pass this year,’’ she said, making me turn to look at the boys with a smirk.

Well, this was interesting. She was more scared of her point than the fact that she was standing in front of the werewolves who might be here to take her with them and that it could be the last day of her life.

‘‘I am Blake, the Beta of my pack,’’ I said, shamelessly, making Blake cough awkwardly and the others widened their eyes.

Well, I needed a rank as a cover for myself, and Beta is the best cover for me. Shrugging my shoulders, I was proud of my imagination when they were brutally crushed by the girl standing in front of me.

‘‘I said I'll introduce myself. Are you low on IQ or something?’’ she said to me, making my wolf holler in laughter, and I couldn't help but squint my brows at her.

Even if she didn't recognize me as the alpha, I was at least a beta while she was just a lantern. The least she could do was respect me. The nerve of this girl.

‘Calm down Sabastian, you are here to solve the case of this lantern. You can't just solve everything by killing. You have a report to make, remember?’’ I told myself, to calm myself down before I looked at her again.

‘‘Sure_’’ I started but was cut off as she raised her hand in the air signalling me to stop.

She checked her phone, gazing at the caller ID, and she smiled at us.

‘‘I have to take this call,’’ she said before walking a few distances away from us.

‘‘Alpha, why would you do that? The girl is so disrespectful. How can you even smile when she's like that,’’ Luke, the always I'll temper one, said.

‘‘We can't punish her so easily, Luke. She's not as easy as she looks,’’ I commented, looking at the girl who had a squinted expression on her face before she squealed in delight.

‘‘Why would you say that, alpha,’’

‘‘Because the person who called her is Mark Michelson. And if I'm right, Mark is the son of the council head. Why would a member of a council call a lantern who is hiding in a human university? Also, you guys might not have noticed, but I saw the scent pendant on her neck. There is more story than it shows,’’

‘‘And also, even when I used the hard gaze on her, she didn't flinch for a second, let alone submit to me,’’ I explained, making them nod their head. As far as I know, no lantern is capable of such a thing. Or maybe my theories were wrong because I have never met a lantern in reality.

It could be anything. And the truth would be known after I made her tell me everything.

I think the situation is a bit complicated and twisted, and I'll have to call Mark to know the details of it.

Sighing loudly as she ended her call, I leaned on the pillar, waiting for her to come so we could continue our conversation.

‘‘Yeah, so where were we? Introduction right? Hi, I am Alexis Clark. A lantern as you already know. I have been hiding in this university for a year now. My parents and pack abandoned me so I live under my care now,’’ she said, making my eyes go wide for real this time.

She had been living all by herself without having anyone to support her.

How did she manage for a year like this?

For the first time, my resolution of hunting down the rogues began to stagger.