The Chronicles of Moon

Dark plans

“You messed up again. You couldn’t even get your hands on one little girl? I’m starting to doubt you are capable of doing anything right. I am running out of patience, and I need the white wolf before my half-brother marks her. I have already gone to great lengths to see that it won’t happen too soon, but I’m running out of time and patience, Jamie.” Caleb’s tone is stern; he’s not even facing Jamie. He sits in the darkening office, looking out of the window. “Because I am a forgiving man. I will give you one more opportunity to impress me, and I suggest you do, or I will remove your head instead of Colin’s.”

“Yes, Alpha, thank you, Alpha. I will do better.” Jamie stammers as he backs out of the office, closing the door.

“Fuck.” He mutters under his breath and races off to his room. Pulling out his phone and scrolling through the contacts.

“I need you to tell me everything and tell me they haven’t mated yet. I’m not about to lose my life here. I need that girl, and I need her now.” Jamie is bold and assertive now in the safety of his room.

“I don’t know what you want me to do. I told you how to get your hands on Colin, and if you get him, you will get Moon too. She would follow him easily. You are the one that couldn’t get that pup to use as bait. From what I’m hearing, that little brat means as much to Moon as she does to Colin. It would have been so easy how the hell did you fuck it up?” the voice on the other end of the phone is annoyed, snapping back at Jamie.

“I didn’t; the pup saw us and took off before we were even close enough. I couldn’t risk running into the packhouse after her.” Jamie tries to defend himself.

“The others did a good job killing the patrol and staging everything. You seem to be the only one unable to do anything right. Maybe your heart just isn’t in it.” The sarcastic voice starts laughing at him.

“It doesn’t matter if my heart is in it or not. My head is going to be detached from my body if I don’t figure everything out and fast. Tell me everything you know.” Jamie flops down on the bed, utterly defeated. He got himself into this mess, and now he has to see it through, somehow.

***

“Why do you keep giving him chances? He’s proven how worthless he is.” Maddox walks into the room like it is still his office. Striding to the chair across the desk, sitting down. Caleb turns the chair to face Maddox, a smile quirking on his lips.

“What, you don’t find him amusing, father?” Caleb leans back, amusement dancing across his face.

“No, and I find him to be a waste of space and time. We need that white wolf. I want her now.” Maddox slaps his palm hard onto the desk. He is not as amused by all of this as Caleb is.

“Temper, temper, father.” Caleb tisks in amusement, the smile never fading. “Even if we don’t get her before they mark each other, killing my half-brother will only make it so much sweeter for me. You were the one that insisted we let him live in the first place.” His gaze turns cold as he finishes the statement.

“I had my reasons.” Is Maddox’s gruff and short reply.

“Oh, I forgot you made a promise to mom. So sweet of you to keep your word to her. Well, I didn’t make that promise, and even if I had, they are simple words easily broken anyway.” Colin has no feeling in his words. He has very little interest in anything if it does nothing to help him. He would not give two thoughts about a trivial promise if he found something to better suit his needs.

“That doesn’t matter now. We just need that wolf. With her, you will be stronger, so much stronger. We can take all these packs and join them into one with you as King. Just like the glory days.” Maddox muses lost in his momentary delusions of seeing his son as King.

“You are right. I should rule all these pathetic packs, all fighting amongst themselves for dominance. They need a firm leader to show them the way.” Caleb begins to chuckle.

“Didn’t you start most of the packs fighting amongst themselves?” Maddox looks at his son proudly for a moment.

“I started nothing; I only fanned the flames.” Caleb laughs a bit harder, content with the turmoil he helped spread. “If they are fighting amongst themselves, they will gladly follow someone willing to show them the way out of it all. The power of the white wolf will ensure that. They will be compelled to follow her if that fairytale is to be believed.”

“It is true.” Maddox states firmly standing and walking the room, “I have studied every shred of evidence. I only wish we had found her first. How was she hiding what she was for so long? People should have seen her. They should have been drawn to her like a moth to a flame. Why haven’t we found her before now? What do you know of this girl?” Maddox demands, staring Caleb down with something wild in his dark eyes.

“I only know that her name is Sarah Moon, and she is from that little backwoods pack. Big pine, Big fish, I don’t know Big something or other.” Caleb, found it to be unimportant to remember the name of her pack.

“You mean Big Springs pack?” Maddox asks a look of shock spreading across his face.

“Yeah, that one. Why does it matter?” Caleb is intrigued now.

“I always knew that old man was up to something. He didn’t like me and refused to have dealings with me. I never had a reason to move against him. His pack was too small to care about. Still, when he refused an invitation for him and his granddaughter to join us for your eighteenth birthday, I grew suspicious of him. I went there and just wanted to talk. He didn’t want to hear me out. I did see the most ordinary-looking girl leaving the woods. She is your age. I watched her, and she didn’t seem to have a wolf, she was tripping over every twig in the dark. Mark found me lurking in the woods by his packhouse when the rogues attacked. Well, we had words about his little granddaughter, which didn’t end well for him. I just didn’t think that girl could have been, damn it. She was right in front of me. I watched her for hours. She never shifted just sat reading alone in the woods.”

“From what my guys saw, she can’t shift completely; it was like she was stuck in between,” Caleb informs his father.

“Well, we will need to fix that so she can reach her full potential, then, won’t we? We have plans for her.” Maddox snickers.