Chapter 51 51
Phoebe~~
Alpha Dean took me out of the club, and it was as though I was the only remaining soul in the pack. I was darting my eyes around to see if anyone was familiar, but no one was. No bodies were lying on the ground, dead or not, so I was pushed to ask them who was standing beside me, “Where are all the pack members? Even if you had killed them, where are their corpses?”
He took a good look at me and raised his chin in a smile, “I took them all captive, because the target was Knox, and not them. His signature is setting palaces on fire, so I did the same to him.”
There was no way this could be true. Angeline explained how they hadn't been able to succeed in their plans, so why did they succeed just this first time that they tried since I came here? How come they were able to do this?
I was supposed to be happy for the attack, especially if Knox had finally joined my family that he roasted in the flame, but my mood became sour. He had warned me not to be here, and I refused. If I stayed back, would they have exacted this attack?
“Do you not believe that I could do so to Knox?” he scoffed and closed the distance between us. “I've studied that man all these years, and it wouldn't be in vain. I set his palace on fire, because that's the exact way he did to your family, or did you forget?”
I wiped my lips with the back of my palm, then responded, “So you mean that he had been burnt to death in that building? What if an innocent soul was there with him?”
“I didn't do the work alone.”
“But Knox is so tricky. How then did you succeed?” I asked him and folded my arms.
He looked amazed by my question. “I'm very sure that you know about his curse. Well, to save you from the cave where I had kept you so I could do this, he had to use black magic, which was generated from his curse. So for that, he would be weak for weeks, and I had to take advantage of it. I didn't see that act of his coming, because I thought he wouldn't risk himself to save you, and I had no bad intention, but to have you there, well taken care of, until I succeed, just so he doesn't come for you.”
Finally, I came to find out who was behind the abduction and why it was so tricky that anyone could fall for such a thing. He must have spent a lot of money to make that impersonation happen, and then it turned out for good somehow.
“We have to start leaving!” he said and began walking away, so I followed him immediately.
Since it turned out like this, what else was I supposed to do? I had no place to return to anymore, and what I hated most was how I felt bad for what had befell the Fearless Keepers pack. Maybe it was for the good, so I would get over the emotions. It was at least okay that his masses weren't harmed, because most of them knew nothing about what he did.
In the next few hours, we arrived at the Crescent Moon Palace, and I alighted from the car. I checked the time through my cell phone, and it was already morning, although the sky was still dark.
“This is my palace, and henceforth, you're going to be staying here. By now, your father would be so happy that I finally showed up, and then they would be avenged. So make yourself comfortable.” Alpha Dean remarked, and I bowed to him slightly.
It still hurts somehow that I wouldn't be seeing my mate again. My wolf had been wailing since we got the news, but I believed so much that we would get over it soon. Knowing everything had made me understand why Knox was able to find me in that cave, and why he was throwing up blood after that moment.
He also smelled of a demon, which was a result of the curse bursting.
For goddess sake, why was I even pitying him? Was it because of the little emotions I had been faking just so I could avenge my family? When he threw my family into that furnace, he didn't blink in regret and even smirked at them. He was so deadly, and might have let me live because we were mates, not because he loved me, so I shouldn't be feeling bad for him.
He deserved his death. If I could bring him back to life and kill him again, I would do it without hesitating. I loved it most that he died the same way my family died.
‘Who said my mate is dead? You're very silly.’ my wolf growled in my head, and I winced at the loudness.
So, what was I supposed to pray for? That he is reborn or survives from the flame?
I didn't realise how clenched my palms were until someone tapped me from behind. I turned nervously, and it was a guard. “Hello,”
“Please follow me!” he demanded, and I nodded, then began leaving with him.
Alpha Dean had left, and I didn't know when. To the moon goddess, I prayed to get over all the incidents soon and begin living my life to the fullest. Maybe soon, I would hear from the Alpha how he would help me and how long I would stay in his palace.
I was offered a vast room, and three female servants were assigned to me as well. Finally, I resumed living my life as the alpha princess that I had been. But guess what? Each time I watched my reflection through the mirror, I couldn't stop hallucinating about Knox kissing my neck from behind.
He always did that, and I wished I could get those soft kisses from him again.
One day, I had to even break into sobs after so much reminiscing. I missed my Knox. I missed that devil in disguise.
Maybe I wouldn't be so emotional if that revenge were done by me. It was as though I hadn't gotten enough of my fake feelings before his demise.
I hadn't mourned his death, and the times Alpha Dean reminded me to do the same for my parents since Knox was gone, I refused and couldn't even tell why. I felt it wasn't the time for that, and I wasn't in the position to do it either.
Weeks turned to months, and on the fourth month of staying in the Crescent Moon Pack, I came to finally agree that Knox was gone. There was no way he was still alive and hadn't come for his whore. He was indeed dead, and I had to take that.
I had gotten used to the new pack I found myself in, and thought it was time to resume my life again, so I decided to go meet with Alpha Dean in his office. I had come to know that he had so many mistresses and a luna, and I wasn't shocked because Angeline was once his sex object.
In this aspect, I respected the deceased Knox, because he had never brought to his palace a whore, so I would say that he had sex control.
That noon, I entered Alpha Dean's office to find him staring out through the window, so I bowed to him in greetings, “Alpha, I hope you're good…”
He turned to me with a smile and nodded, “You came to see me, so I should be asking that.”
I raised my face, “Uhm, I would love to know about my stay here and how my life would be. Remember, I just graduated from college before the death of my parents, and I can't prove that since I do not have my certifications. That being said, I can't work for a body that doesn't know me, which means I have to return to school again, or better still, get into another means of income that has nothing to do with education.”
He was just staring at me, so I had to let the words out quickly.
“Honestly, I would need your help. Invest in me, and you will get returns in the future. The money I had saved while with Knox would go nowhere, and I've already spent four months for nothing.”
After I concluded, silence stretched between us. He stared at me for so long and began walking back to his desk.
There, he folded his arms and responded to me, “Who said that I brought you here for all those?”
The question clicked in my head, and although I opened my mouth, I wasn't sure what to give as a reply.
“Youre going to be my mistress. Or Luna, if you want.”
Was he blabbering or what? I couldn't believe that he said that, so I quickly grabbed a seat before him.