Landons POV



We get to the Alphas house as soon as we could. Everyone is gathered but clueless.

The murmurs and mumbling of rankless men and women alike floats, hanging heavy in the air.

As Nadia and I make way through the teeming crowd, we finally see Vance, still alive, and Talia kneeling by his side.


What the fuck could have gone wrong?

I throw a glance at Nadia, but she does not mirror my astonishment.


Could she have known what was happening?

Why does she not feel sad about the fact that it's the third time we have unsuccessfully tried to ursurp power and it seems like the lupine and human universe are both against us and the stars would never for one, regardless of consistency or effort, align in our favor.

'What is going on?" I say, under my breath but loud enough for hr to hear and know she was the one I was talking to and the question was not rhetorical.

'We both have to wait and find out, don't we?" She plasters an evil smile on her face and looks away back at Vance and Talia where she is both bound and kneeling.

Why is my sister in such a position? Last I know, they were having an argument, but it was definitely not as bad as was this looks like.

Talia is silent and whimpering beside Vance, he pays no attention to her and all the efforts to call him seem more annoying than effective.

I'm at the front of the crowd now, Vance looks too angry to want me up there. Normally, my place is at his right hand, and then the gamma is on his left, but this is a matter we know nothing about, and so we both just stand and stare as everyone else was doing.

'Why is Talia on her knees?" I looked at Nadia.

Her gaze is straight and fixed and she does not even blink or move an inch.

'We got here together." Her face is screaming ‘don't ask me stupid questions' but this is not the place to trash her out.

The air is heavy and gloomy, and does not feel like something good is about to happen soon.

My eyes are fixed on Vance as he is the main character now.

He throws a nasty glance and Nadia an the next time he looks up, his eyes are midnight black.

Something drastic must have happened.

'Pack mates!" Vance gathers the attention in the ground in one loud voice

'Our heir has been killed!" Collective ‘oohs' and ‘ahhs' come from the crowd.

Alpha Vance is satisfied with the emotions his announcement gathered from the crowd.

The general feeling goes from sadness to anger. Some overly emotional mothers are crying and making loud annoying noises.

Talia is whimpering aggressively and begging on her knees. Suddenly, it occurs to most of the crowd that if Talia was bound in such a situation, it was probably her who was guilty.

From Talia, they all at once turned to Nadia, making me feel uncomfortable for standing next to her.

The betrayal is fresh again.

We tried to eliminate Vance the first time, when Nadia was supposed to leave a window to their bedroom open for me to creep up and do my thing that night, she failed because Vance did not only just catch her trying to do that, they apparently had an history I had not known about until then and he reminded her of it, before throwing her out of the room.

A year and six months later, Nadia and Vance started getting cordial. I noticed the air around them was no longer as stiff as it used to be, and they were exchanging words beyond just pleasantries.

'I see you both get along well now." I told her while we were headed back home from a pack meeting.

Nadia brushed it off with a simple 'Is that not how it's supposed to be?"

I read no further to it till one day, I caught Vance screwing someone who was not Talia. The door was shut before I could make out who it was. Three days later, Nadia confessed to having an affair with Vance. My wolf jumped out immediately and did everything short of killing her, apparently she still did not stop.

If it was the other way round and I was cheating on Nadia, she would have felt the pains coursing through her body, almost as lethal and painful as a mates rejection, but because she's the female, and I'm the male, I feel absolutely nothing when she and Vance get together, and so there was no way of knowing. Asking Talia who is the one enduring the pains would be creating suspicion, so after that even I did all the monitoring myself.

'Not just that," Vance's angry voice brings me back to reality.

The crowd is in suspense, waiting impatiently for the next set of words to roll out his lips.

'I was poisoned!" Vance grows angrier at hearing himself saying it. He threw Talia a murderous glance and I knew what game was on. Nadia's face has all the answers. A very annoying smile widens her lip for a split second.

Vance stretches a hand out in Nadia's direction, his angry glare softened gradually. Nadia immediately steps away from me and walks towards him.

Nadia holds the attention of the crowd as she takes Vance's hand.

The growl began to growl and whimper, those who could piece it together were angry at Talia as everyone could see Nadia's battered body and Vance throwing disgusting full stares at Talia.

'Get a spoon." He says to the maid who Nadia and I cajoled into poisoning Vance's food a few hours ago.

She dashes out and back in less than a minute. The look on her face is a mixture of so many emotions.

'Eat!" Vance commands as soon as Talia is unbound.

She seizes the moment to plead her case. She's talking and shaking feverishly and hardly completing a sentence before starting the next.

Vance turns deaf ears to all her plea and she is forced to take the food firstly in little morsels, a loud growl from Vance makes her speed it up and she starts to feel sick.

Talia clutched her stomach in pain and started bleeding from her mouth and nose.

I look at Nadia beside Vance, they are both holding hands, I knew what was up.

This was Nadia's revenge for how I treat her and sleeping with the lowly omega.

From then on, Nadia became Vance's. I had no choice as the Alpha could have any female if his choice if his mate was dead.