Chapter 9

“Will you be back this afternoon?” He asked; the harshness from his voice was gone completely and it was replaced with curiosity.

I turned back to him slightly and nodded once.

“Yes,” I answered. “Why do you ask?”

“The celebrity dinner party is tonight and as my luna, you need to attend,” he answered.

My eyes widened and I stared down at my clothing once again, feeling my face heating up with embarrassment.

“I don’t have the clothing to attend such an event,” I told him sheepishly.

“That’s why I need you back early this afternoon. I have a meeting before the party; on my way, I’ll drop you off at the boutique,” he told me.

I knew right away that I didn’t have a choice in the matter. I nodded once and turned towards the door once again.

My breathing grew heavy as I left his study; I tried hard to not hyperventilate right then and there. I was going to a celebrity dinner party. I was going to a celebrity dinner party with the wolf king.

Well fk.

Theo’s POV

Theo stared after her; there was something about her he couldn’t shake. Of course, he heard the whispering and the murmurs of the servants around the palace. He knew of the maid that turned up dead in the library; he also knew he was nowhere near the library.

But he wondered how someone as simple-minded as Molly would know such a thing as well. Surely, she didn’t go investigating this murder on her own.

“Her scent…” his wolf, Neil, breathed. “It still lingers.”

There was a deep longing that rose in him as he continued to take in her lingering scent.

“You want her, tonight, and you can’t wait,” Neil laughed. “You never wanted a woman so badly.”

Theo took a deep breath, trying to restrain the hot flow that surged through his abdomen.

Theo’s POV

"No, I'm just ...... curious about her."

“Ha, just curious?”

“…Just curious.”

He took a sip of water and pushed down the heat coming from his lower abdomen.

Theo, you can control yourself.

“Travis, come in here for a second,” he called his Beta wolf into the study via mindlink. Beta Travis was the only other wolf he truly trusted.

Travis arrived shortly after being called; nobody kept the wolf king waiting for fear of what he might do. Even if Travis was a trusted Beta that worked closely with Theo, he wasn’t stupid enough to keep him waiting.

“I can’t help but be suspicious about my new luna,” Theo admitted, meeting Travis’s

obeying, yet curious, eyes. “I need you to investigate her.”

Alyssa’s POV

“Now that we are family, I think it’s only fair that we ask for a small share of your assets,” Alyssa said into the phone, clutching it eagerly as she waited for a response on the other end.

“Is that so?” Queen Goldie said after a short pause.

“We are the luna queen’s family,” Alyssa said. “Which means we are your family. We don’t have much money. I thought Molly would have told you this already.”

“She failed to mention it,” Queen Goldie responded, her tone sounding disinterested.

However, she didn’t sound too upset that Alyssa had called her out of the blue. She had mentioned that she’s been wanting to talk to Alyssa and get to know her a little better. Considering she was Molly’s stepmother.

“Stepmother to stepmother, I think we can make quite a beautiful team,” Alyssa breathed.

Queen Goldie gave an icy laugh, but she didn’t deny what Alyssa was saying was true. Alyssa smiled as Goldie agreed to send her a check, but they also agreed to never breathe a word of this to either Theo or Molly.

It would be their little secret and if all goes to plan, Alyssa was going to run the royal family dry of their money.

Molly’s POV

“I don’t understand… you want me to what?” I asked, staring at my father with the utmost disgust on my face.

I stood in his living room with my bags beside me on the ground, ready to leave for good. I had to admit that it was difficult leaving my old room, the one I once shared with Asher before he was sent to the hospital by my father and his wife, Alyssa.

“You think just because you married the wolf king you are in the clear?” My father said, narrowing his eyes at me. “You aren’t even close to being done here.”

“What more do you want from me?” I asked, trying to keep the tears from welling up in my eyes.