Vance's POV

The pack affairs are a little bit normal.


My beta, gamma and I were fully able to contain the incident that could have split the pack.

I still would not agree that it was the best nor only way to go about it, but it was Landon's idea and my gamma agreed.

'How do you think we should sort it out?" I remember asking Landon right after the pack meeting was dissolved that night.


Out of anger, I took a pup's life and the mother wailed and wailed in unison with other pack females, a little more aggravation and I'm sure they would have gone tooth and claws on us.

'Why did you do it?" For a minute, I thought Landon was about to judge me when he asked. He has always had my back most especially when it comes to handling pack members with an iron hand.


Am I going to lose the respect of my pack and also that of my beta? I thought to myself while still thinking about how to handle the situation.

Moonstone pack has been entrusted into my care since two years after I first transformed into my wolf, Alex.

'Why did you do it?" Landon asks me again, intruding on my thoughts.

'Fuck it!" I screamed out of frustration. Because nothing was coming forth and also because I was annoyed with Landon for asking me questions I do not want to answer. 'Because I fucking wanted to, I wanted to." I screamed at him.

I wish I saw signs of him being intimidated, but I did not.

'The don't ask us questions you know the answers to." It seems like he is driving at a point. 'If the mother moves wild or rebels, send her to her pup." He says with an air of finality that makes it seem like the case had been solved.

To me it very much wasn't. I'm the strong guest wolf in Moonstone and I am not to use my power against my pack members, but to use it to protect them.

'I'll see you both tomorrow." I say, dismissing both of them.

They are normally and instantly supposed to get up and get lost. But Landon tarries for a minute before finally standing up the chair with so much ego and walking out.

Tracy comes to smoothen a few things. She has been working really hard of late, or I've just bee noticing her more, I really do not know.

'Sit." I say to her as she tries to pick something up from the floor.

She pauses for a minute like one who could not believe her ears before standing up straight and looking at me for confirmation that I actually said what she heard.

I stayed silent and let her make up her mind. She finally trusts her heart and sits down.

'Are you aware of what happened?" She probably was not expecting the question as she looked very shocked and also out of balance, but definitely not clueless.

'Yes…" I can't hear what next she says after answering in the affirmative.

'What do you think I should do?" That's where her cluelessness set in. She stares at me for a full minute, unblinking.

I start seeing more than one emotion on her face.

She goes from shocked to clueless, then her face starts twitching uncontrollably.

'Are you okay?" Tracy eyes are red and her breath is deep and fast. Her eyes are looking downwards too.

'If you may excuse me, Alpha Vance…" She does not even complete her sentence before standing up from the chair, all the trash she picked lay at the foot of the chair where she sat.

Tracy walked out like she was pursued by seven demons.

What the fuck is wrong with everyone?

'Is this why you left me?" Nadia asks, making me aware of her presence. 'Is it what you are so bothered about?"

She walks over to me like she has forgotten that I almost tore her head off less than an hour ago.

'Get out of here, Nadia! Now!" She does not budge. Her defiant stance dares me to walk up to her and remind her that I am Alpha and that whatever I do stands.

'We have to figure this out, Vance." She replies, unshaken by the visible wrath that has consumed me.

I'm sure my eyes must have become midnight black by now.

'I love you, Vance." Nadia's voice sounds sweet and angelic. Unexpectedly, it softens something in me towards her. 'We really can not continue like this." She sounds like a voice of reason.

Just maybe I'd give her this chance. An Alpha's Luna is supposed to be both supportive and smart.

'What would you suggest about what happened tonight?" I take my chance by asking her, 'How should we go about it?" I'm looking Nadia straight in the eye, waiting for whatever she is about to say.

I can almost see her editing her thoughts, fully knowing that whatever she is about to say could make or mar us for a long time. It's some sort of a last redemption and I don't think she is not smart enough to use it well.

'I think her pain is valid." I see her treading carefully on the egg shells.

'That's not the question." My voice is not as hard as I wanted it to be, but I guess it has the effect intended.

Nadia moves her lips like she's about to say something and then shuts them again.

'I think if you put your mind to it, you could come up with the smartest idea." She says finally, putting her hands together behind her.

At that moment, she looked quite innocent.

She looked like my second bride, my second chance mate, my redemption from Talia who killed our heir and tried to poison me.

She looked like she has been through a lot and wants no more than a supportive mate after everything…everything.

I remember when Nadia and I started fooling around behind Talia. Phew, that's a story for some other day…

Nadia looked like the beautiful young wolf I had just married, who was going to have our heir, if the Moon Goddess deems fit, and help me pass this Apha blood to my lineage, keeping the fire of my ancestors' legacy burning.

It's been less than a month since unfortunate circumstances brought us together, but in this moment, I think I want to see past all that.

I want to love Nadia the way I loved Talia. I want to show her what I showed Talia, I want to make her my Queen that she is.

It's in that moment I realized that she has been standing there all the while with her arms clasped at her back.

Her silk floral gown follows the patterns of her body accentuating her sexy curves.

Suddenly, the lust I used to feel for her when I shouldn't came rushing back like it never left.

'Come closer." I say to her in a sexy low tone.