**ANTONIO**

Punching the inflated bag out of anger, the fact that Leila was still missing kept ringing in my head making me punch the bag all the more.


Anger surged through my veins as I stopped punching the back for some slightly seconds and paced up and down trying to stabilize my breathing.

But that wasn't helping so I just went back to punching the bag like it would relieve me of my anger.

It made me feel like all the effort I had wasted to keep her under me suddenly flushed out the drain as she was not within my reach any longer.


I had done all my best and did things that I wasn't proud of so she would be under my wings and would be ready when I wanted to make her useful but when it was just about time, she was nowhere to be found.

At first, I had thought that it was all the doings of Alpha Xander and I was set yo raid the Moonstone pack again and burn all my workers in there alive for not telling me that Xander had laid his hands on Leila, or was even planning a attack.


But then, those thoughts were cleared when my shadow workers at the Moonstone Pack informed me that Xander was still looking for Leilaa as much as I was and Leila was in nowhere near the moonstone pack.

Infact, Alpha Xander hadn't been back since the day he left in search of Leila.


As I tried to reach a conclusion on what was going on and what exactly went wrong, It then settled in my head that both of us— I and Xander— were at the end of losing games.

If I didn't find Leila, I couldn't get the powers I need and Xander, he was just driven by love for his mate.

Someone else must have abducted Leila and for the first time my mind retracted back to Lucian.

Her second chance mate.

Initially, I didn't have any course to suspect him at first because he didn't look like someone that would launch an attack, let alone to someone like me and I kind of wanted to hit myself in the face because I was the one always trying to advice others not to look at the innocent side of others.

But then re thinking the whole situation; I resolved that maybe I was just looking too far for Leila.

She could be within grasp, within reach and all I had to do was make the move. All I had to do was reach out and I guess that's certainly what I was going to do.


And also considering the fact that Lucian hadn't been seen since the impromptu attack.

If I remember properly, I had left the room with Amelia when he came and was knocking on Leila's door.

Amelia had let him in and it wasn't up to 10 minutes into that and the attack came suddenly.

We never saw Leila or Lucian in that room neither did we see them come out.

And presuming that they died in the attack, we didnt find Leila's body not to talk of Lucian's body.

Lucian was of Alpha Bloodline and if anything had happened to him, if he had died precisely; their pack would have had a sign.

If that was what had happened, I was very sure that his father would have showed up here the moment he heard of it and words was not too hard to spread around here.

Especially when it was all about death and finding an Alpha heir that should be pronounced death.

We would have gotten a lot of attacks from Lucian's pack and probably would have been framed for killing their son but unfortunately none of those came and my thoughts were sealed.

They could be the only possible people that had abducted Leila.

With that coiled up in my brain, I decided to pay them a visit but then the only problem here was I had no idea where Lucian's Pack was situated making me a much more bigger fool.

This wasn't right, I have been friends with Lucian's father for years and I didn't know where his pack was situated; that didn't sound like me at all.

Perhaps I should have listened to Leila when she begged me to let Lucian go but I was blinded by my selfishness and greed that I didn't even consider her options for a moment.

And now I'm been more weird because I can't even imagine that I'm calling myself selfish and greedy.

Thinking about it, under normal circumstance; Lucian was never supposed to remain in my house because of his pack.

Instead, it would have been arranged for him to finally come and fully claim his mate.

I sighed at how many impulsive decisions I had made that had turned out very dangerous.

If I didn't get her back as soon as possible and another pack takes a hint of her powers and uses them in their favor—which Lucian's pack must have noticed by now— that' means all my efforts were all wasted in achieving nothing.

And I wasn't the type that would allow myself achieve nothing.

it was either I hit the jackpot or I don't try at all.

And I had already started trying in claiming Leila's power and I would never let anyone take that away from me.

The thought of another pack using her powers made my blood boil and I went back to exerting the anger on the inflated ball.

If only physical pain could ward off internal pain then everything would have been nice.

"Dad, don't you think you're punching on that bag a little too hard? Even I can see that the bag is deflated already and you're just hitting the wall." Amelia called out to me and I stared down at my fist while blood trickled down from them.

Yeah, that's what happens when I am on the losing side of the war.

Up until now, I had control of all situation and even made the Alright Alpha Xander abandon his throne in search of a woman but I had failed to think just one time and everything had fallen apart.

I am going to fix this! And I better start doing it fast.