Chapter 33 COUNTERMEASURES
VANCE'S POV
"I know that this can't be good," I said to Miriam, closing the door of my home office. She sat in one of my chairs in the corner of the room. I stood facing her.
"I don't foresee any dangers for Sianna or your baby but.......there is trouble brewing for you."
I folded my arms as she went into details. "Someone wants to wage a war for the rouge you have in your custody."
"Who?"
"I see a woman coming with her pack." Miriam sighed "Visions aren't clear sometimes but be prepared for anything or are you aware of any troubles afoot."1
"There is only Hank, the rogue chief and we have him in our custody. His minions are being hunted for days now."
Miriam had assisted with the witch who helped the rogues unlock my vault in the bunker. She took away her powers and rendered her without any magic. She was another forced victim but we found out that Hank killed her mother after she disobeyed him as a warning. Her father was kept as leverage and that was why she gave in.
Miriam tapped into his mind and memories so that we could obtain much more information, and over the past few weeks, we managed to free some hostages and reconciled families together. Being a part of the council made me a part of the law that secured all species. But with Sianna now pregnant, I didn't want anything to take me away from her side.
Hank pleaded with the council. Years ago he was placed in prison and then exiled as a rogue from the Wynder Moon Pack after being accused of raping a warrior. He claims that he was framed but our system failed to exonerate him. He paid for a crime that he never commit. Said now he does what he does for survival and most rogues have to steal to eat. No pack would accept a criminal like him. What could he expect when he was confiscating my weapons? That in itself was an act of war.
With that, the council supplicated for me not to kill him but he will remain in prison until further investigation could be done to prove if he was innocent for leniency to be granted. The basis is that he resorted to a criminal life because society forced him into it. Of course, the council is merely acting to show fairness and compassion to all species. I foresaw his end, and it was going to go my way, which was in death.
"The council is trying to be fair with him, but I don't see why we are even holding back on his execution. If a war happens because of him, there can be one choice, which is to execute him. Most of his followers are dead, anyway."
Miriam supports his thought process, "Sianna is your weakness. Protect her at all costs. I do not doubt that you will protect the rest of us."
"How much longer do we have?" The good thing is that I have a trained army of warriors that is consistently prepared. "Twenty-nine days."
"That's good enough for me." I sighed, "Can the war be avoided?"
"All things can be avoided based on our actions and choices." She always spoke philosophically.
"Then I shall surely get to the bottom of who wants to wage a war with me." Although I had murderous thoughts, I managed to smile.
For a brief moment, her eyes shone, and I could tell that she sense something. "Your mate needs you. You have an unwanted visitor." She patted me on my arm and opened the door. I accompanied Miriam to the living room when I saw the familiar female speaking with Sianna. I did not hide my repugnance.
Miriam was inclined to let herself out. A tense atmosphere is not conducive for an elderly woman.
"Alpha, good afternoon." She tried to break the tension in my house. "I came to have the privilege to meet my Luna. Also, there are matters to discuss."
"You know better than coming to my house for pack business. Only my Beta, Gamma, and family are allowed to be here if you were not permitted." I rebuked her savagely. Sianna rubbed my arm to quell my anger. "Get the fuck out!"
After she left, I hugged Sianna and kissed her lips. I released my anger into that kiss as I brutally dominated her mouth.
"I have to go to the pack house. I won't be long. I promise."
"Okay, but are you sure that it's business and nothing else?" Her brows lifted accusingly. "She went through all that trouble of coming to our home, for me to meet her."
The shock of her words maimed my movements and my jaw tensed. Realization dawned that she knows exactly who the woman was. To demonstrate to her that I had no reason to lie, I relaxed and smiled innocently.
"She was a special assignment and has to give me her report," and I planned to strangle her while I'm at it, which is what I wanted to add but did not. Sianna was not convinced. "There is nothing between us."
"Did you fuck her here? Was she used to being here with you?" She shouted, pointing her index finger at me.
Marching up to her, I tried to cup her face but she hit my hand away, "Baby, no woman has slept here before and definitely not in my bed." She reluctantly moved forward when I pulled her by the waist to hug her. "She won't show up here again. I promised to deal with her."
She fought to escape my hold, and because she was pregnant and fragile, I released her slowly. Damn that blasted bitch. What the hell did she say to Sianna? If I questioned my mate if she had said anything to hurt her, would that make her angrier? Women can be paradoxical and complicated at times.
"Be home for dinner and don't let me smell another woman on you." Hands folded across her chest and in a dominant stance, every cell showed her firmness.
"I love you, sweetheart," Sianna was half-way up the stairs when I said that.
I can't believe she let me off this easy. Happy to escape that argument, I grabbed my keys and left with a hefty desire to throttle that she-wolf.
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At the pack house, I found her in my office waiting. She was leaning on the front of the desk with her ass plumped on the pine wood. I growled and she stood upright noticing my appearance and faking a sad face.
"Vance, I didn't disrespect Luna. Why must you get angry?"
I walked to my desk and sat. "You damn well know why." I slammed my fist on the desk and she jumped as the furniture vibrated.
"I know that she is your mate but our history cannot be erased." The mistake in this was that she forgot the terms and conditions of our past association.
"You were a fuck buddy, not a girlfriend so get over yourself!" The memo needed to be reiterated.
Pain struck, she snapped "We were engaged!" It was like she wanted to cry but that didn't bother me the slightest. "I was pregnant and you made me think that we had a future!"
"I always told you that finding my mate would change everything. I had no love for you. I just needed a Luna for the pack." I sighed in annoyance. "You had the qualities but......you were not the destined Luna...... Sianna is."
Teary-eyed she laughed. "It's so easy for you to toss me aside. I gave you everything that I could. You forced me to abort our child!" 3
"You had no right to get yourself pregnant without my consent. You wanted to hold on to me by becoming pregnant with my kid." I knew that was the malevolent intention behind that pregnancy, and I wasn't going to have that. The day she deceived me was the day things went south. "I don't even remember proposing to you or how you ended up wearing my grandmother's ring. Didn't you drug me that night?"
"It wasn't on purpose, I thought it was a new aphrodisiac drug that we could try to spice things up, and there are no contraceptive methods that are 100% safe." The fucking lies that she repeats as though I would ever believe it.
"You are lucky to be alive. That is the only thing that you should remember." By this time I am releasing a series of growls. This bitch will not get the chance to be a hindrance to my relationship.
"Please don't be so angry?" She tried to come around to me and I growled, she backed up in fear.
"You made Sianna uncomfortable and she doesn't like you. And worse, you better not be trying to come in between us." I snarled with my fangs extended. "Keep the fuck away from Sianna and if you show up at my house again I will end you!"
"I am a diplomatic representative for this pack. So there is no way to avoid her completely." Her hands rested on the desk in front of me as she leaned over so that her round large bosom was obvious.
"Do your job and stick to it." She blew me off and sat in the chair facing me.
"Fine, Vance." Pouting lips and showing an unsophisticated innocence to which I was unperturbed.
"It's Alpha to you now!"
"Ok Alpha, I get it." She accepted defeat with her eyes lowered to the ground and her hands waving in front of her. "Esme, what's your damn report?" I said through gritted teeth. I would rather be home with my mate and unborn child. "The Blood Howlers Pack is under suspicion. My team that snuck in while I was there under your order found some of our weapons being stacked." She crossed her legs in the chair so that the pleat in her black tulip skirt parted to show off her legs. I averted my eyes feeling disgusted. "Based on the rogue reports that I got from Gamma Blayne their pack hasn't had a rogue attack for over a year."
This was interesting. Whenever I sent my representative out to the other packs to do their random audit and assessment I would allow a secret team to follow them as they stayed hidden. Their main purpose was to sneak around and find the secrets or issues that the packs wouldn't put upfront to make us aware.
"What's definitely sketchy is that Hank is mated to the Alpha's eldest daughter of this pack. My team found out that they know of Hank being here and she is recruiting rogues to have enough people to try to rescue him. I suspect that the rogues might be used as a diversion so that they could try to sneak in while we are busy fighting or trying to prevent the war." "Her name is Gail Howlers. Do you remember that you used to fuck her in high school?" Esme chuckled and then smirked, " Seems she must hold a grudge especially since you have her mate. She might think that you are jealous."
"The Luna Ceremony will eliminate that absurd thinking." Sianna is my first relationship. I was wild in high school but I went to Alpha camp and did my degrees online.
They were all aware that I don't like clingy women. I wanted my mate more than anything but these urges were hell to deal with and I swear I would have gotten blue balls. An Alpha's sex drive is three times that of the regular wolf. When Sianna rejected me, I masturbated every morning to get rid of my erections.
"Don't ever repeat something like that to anyone. If you dare to disobey me you will be punished severely." I Alpha commanded her. This was the issue with Esme. I know she wanted create an issue between me and my mate since I was harshly casting her
aside.
Esme was a cheerleader in high school and I was a football star. Gail was one of many girls I fucked back then. Esme's mate died in battle. He was an elite and it was self-sacrifice in the great war with the deceased Rogue Alpha. She found solace when I hooked up with her. I used to accommodate her to give her comfort.
But Esme was the only one that I fucked after graduation when I became Alpha where her mate died after. So we rekindled the steamy sex that we had. I know that she didn't want it to end. My mate was still out there and I never had feelings for her.
It was just a means to an end because I was a workaholic. We fucked and enjoyed each other then got back to pack business. The shady behavior that she displayed in expressing her desire for more was intolerant. Initially, I rejected the petitions, but when waiting for my mate seemed like an eternity, I began to think that I might have to choose a Luna. She concluded without volition that it would have been her.
Then she learned that I fucked someone else which caused her to panic and resorted to drugging me which led to our unprotective sex, and she actually conceived. Had the mistake been on my part, I would have allowed the child to live but I refuse to have ties with an unscrupulous woman. Goddess knows what a woman like her is willing to do to get what she wanted. I wasn't interested in finding that out the hard way, and Sianna came along in the nick of time. "Make the report in writing and submit it to Blayne by tonight. Go home and go have some fun." I wanted her out of my presence, or I might hurt her with the raging storm inside of me. "Go and open your legs to someone else."
"Why don't I keep you company and do the report here?" She smiled sultrily at me, ignoring my words in an attempt to recover some good energy between us.
"Get out and don't make me repeat myself." Unsurprised, I snorted. It's so predictable of her to offer me sex now. I signaled to the door for her to exit the office.
She screwed her face and left like a charging bull. "Humph."
I pitied who she was going to outlet that anger on.
Open mind-link. "Blayne get to my office now." Close mind-link.
It's time for some countermeasure to avoid a war. I went online to view my stocks to see how they were doing on the market. I scrolled through my schedule to see the meetings that were in the pipeline. Sianna offered to help as she should but with her being pregnant, I prefer to try to manage with Duke's and Keisha's help instead.
It's almost time for the Luna Ceremony.