The Couple

Christian

I was furious with all that was happening. I didn't imagine things might get out of my hand so soon and so much that I wouldn't get to know what is happening with my mate. It was more frustrating for me that she didn't trust me enough to share things with me.

She insulted Olivia, said so many awful things to her that I couldn't even imagine. When Blake called me to inform me that they are leaving immediately, I knew that things went a bit wrong. But what I didn't realize was that things are messed up for life.

We just signed the treaty and I asked Olivia a favor as a friend and she cried because of me. I am informed that when Olivia returned she was crying and directly went to Blake to ask him to leave immediately and take her home. If it wasn't the treaty, Blake would have initiated the war. Olivia and Blake might not be on good terms even after these years of their marriage but Blake still holds her to the position to initiate the war for her prestige and die for her if it is the last option to him.

He didn't even wait for me to bid them a proper bye and drive with them to the outskirts of my pack border. Now, I am doubting if he will resign the treaty. He is the nearest pack to us. I believed they will be the first one to help our pack in need when the fated war starts, but I doubt my thoughts.

I tried talking to Olivia but each time it was Blake whom I reached to. I even tried to use other's phones to talk to her but I think Blake has restricted her to talk to anyone in my family and I don't want to scare my pack so I didn't involve Olivia's parents and her sister.

Till today I don't know what actually happened. I was angry with Celia, I wanted to help her but she chose to betray me. I really felt something was wrong and she was threatened somehow by Harris. But I believe I was wrong. Moon goddess can choose wrong mates for you.

I even checked for her parents' safety and I found out they were safe. She even called them here to meet her new boyfriend, Harris. Jeanne informed me that neither of her parents approved of Harris,they didn't even acknowledge his presence which I witnessed myself when they arrived at my house for dinner one night during their stay. His parents got along well with my elders. They even made plans for the next day and for their visit to the town.

No, Jeanne still doesn't know anything about my relationship with Celia, her being my mate or the prophecy. She was just informed of the happenings in a general manner and out of concern for her friend. But know she has her own doubts.

When we got the news about Linda and John getting rescued by police when Celia practically forced one of their friends to check for them. Jeanne says it was Harris's deed and Celia is just trying to save one or another. My one part believed her and wanted to trust my Heaven but the other part was in constant denial.

I decided to go for the facts we have until now and decide if I can trust her again. Maybe, I should hear what my heart is screaming to me but it can be the death of my whole pack and I can't make this mistake. I can't afford such a mistake.

I was discussing things with Ethan in my home office about some pack things and how to mend our ways with Blake's pack again. I can't see the future but I can see a war happening either because of prophecy or initiated by Blake after a year to avenge his wife's insult. He won't leave the matter in the past nor will forgive us until he gets blood. He has been the alpha who demands blood for even a tear from his loved ones. He was the one I looked up to who taught me that the world can be cruel and to protect your loved ones you have to be the cruelest.

It was only then Tyler entered the office without a knock with Bryan. Bryan was clearly trying to knock on the door and ask for permission but Tyler seemed to be in a different hurry and barged in. I glared at him for interrupting us. They both seem out of breath like they came here running from a long distance but none of them look tired or even run out.

"You better have a good reason to barge in like this or I am sorry cousin." Ethan came in front of me and stood between us like a wall to protect him. 'First, hear him mate. Obviously he knows he is dead after the rogue mistake.' In trying to protect Tyler from wrath, Ethan pushed the wrong buttons this time. Reminding me, his past mistakes are not good. But still I backed out since my wolf was calm for the first time after one of the pack members insulted him.

"I went to a club with my colleagues. Luna was also there with that bastard."

"So, are you here to tell me that bitch was hanging out with some other man? What am I supposed to do?" I growled at him although my wolf was not angry at him but I wanted to vent out any anger, my rage. I took a step forward but Bryan stood in front of Tyler and spoke instead of him.

"There is more to listen to, please hear Alpha. Maybe our Luna is in high danger."

"That is all I hear but no one says about what danger." I couldn't hurt my cousin since he is the only connection of Mumma and Dadda to my uncle. His sense of belonging. I picked up a chair and sent it flying to the wall.

"She asked me for help tonight." It was Tyler who shouted out of fear this time. I stood in front of him with my hands bound behind my back so I wouldn't kill him before he finished speaking.

"Speak!" I ordered him and he said it all like how he always smelled fear, nervousness, depression and anxiety from Heaven but tonight she smelled confident although scared and more nervous but he smelled a confidence this time. Harris fell and she deliberately took him to his home. She asked him to help her and even told Zachary to inform him that she is taking Harris to his penthouse. He asked Oliver to stay and tell him about the next happenings as he left immediately after she left and went home to talk to Bryan first.

My wolf was howling and asking for his mate. It was mocking me for not believing his own mate. He was angry and wanted to take control. It wanted to run and reach the penthouse and save his mate before anything much happened.

I already left for the car trying to hold my wolf back. He is fighting with me for control right now and I know that letting him take control will be the biggest mistake than not trusting my Heaven. I was about to let in the car when Ethan came and asked to drive as I am in the right state of mind.

I just wanted to get near my mate as soon as possible but he took the car in the direction of Mason's house. Mason is my commander in chief and trains the new pups and keeps the track of training of each pup. Jacob and Dan were already there.

Ethan pushed me inside the house while I was shouting and punching him. I even kicked Mason and him, I got successful to get myself freed. What they think of themselves, they can fight me? I headed towards the car when Ethan called out behind me which made me stop in between my tracks and went inside the house directly.

"Your wolf wants to come forward but you didn't let him because you know it will be a mistake and going there without a plan will also be a mistake. Greg mindlinked me and told me Jeanne left immediately after she got a call and that call was from Harris. Trust me without a plan, we will put the whole pack in danger Christian."

I am sitting on the couch in the living room of Mason's house. Tapping my foot impatiently on the floor while I waited for all of them to arrive. They entered the room with Bryan and Tyler following behind. Tyler had his head bow down with fear and anger. I don't care if he is angry with me.

"You guys better have a plan already. We don't have time for thinking much."

"Right now, we can't do much like turning off his cctvs tohid our identities or hacking his system to get the entry in the building. We need to think of a way to get in the building and yet hide our identities." "We don't need to worry about entry into the penthouse. I already asked Greg to make an arrangement to let us enter."

"Okay, but we still need to think of something if he forgets because we all know how he is when it comes to her mate." It took longer than I expected. I growled at no one in particular to ask them to hurry up with their planning.

"Since we don't have time to handle their CCTV cameras, what I think is we can use them for our use instead." It was Jacob this time, he is in the sheriff department. When he turned 18, he approached uncle himself with the idea to get into the sheriff department, so he can save all our asses when time comes and it happened a few times that whenever things got messier, he would find a way to get us out. Whether they were Bryan's fights or wolf sightings.

"How?"

"We can go up there with our faces covered and in all black clothes like an assassin. They would check for CCTV footage but won't get anything except covered faces and assassin clothes." No wonder, Uncle trusted him with the responsibility. I must say I am just able to handle this pack because of everyone's support and love which gives me strength and now for them I have to save their Luna for them.

Dan arranged for those assassin clothes in a hurry, we all got ready and covered our faces too. Till the time clothes arrived, Bryan and Tyler removed the number plates from both cars, although we might leave them far from his building but we still don't want to get our car recognized.

When we reached there, the watchman showed up to stop and I didn't care to halt to handle him. My fighters can play with him if they want but I am in no mood to play right now.

I looked towards Ethan and he spoke as if he guessed my question.

"Let me ask him." He mindlinked with Greg who is equally furious but he knows he needs to stay calm to handle the situation not make it worse. No wonder, he was the best guy for the beta position. "He stole the private lift key from the guard and hid it near the lift behind the plant for us."

By now my wolf has gone mad with all the cries, pleads and screams from Heaven he heard in his heart. I just couldn't stop hearing those screams. They didn't stop for a second and it felt like a mantra to me chanted in my heart. Somehow, it kept my calm while making me lose my control at the same time.

The moment I reached there, that bastard was dragging my Little and kicking my Heaven. I don't know where everyone else is, if they are behind me or not, but right now I don't care. I can handle these pups alone but right now I need to handle this son of a bitch.

I liked the way Harris left both ladies and ran for his life. My wolf was happy smelling that fear from him. I caught up with him and stood near a cupboard in his library. He went behind the table and got a rifle from it. It was an M16A3, I know it from my collection. I have many of those. I guess Ross was right when he once casually told us that Harris and his father are involved in mafia business just like his father. Bu this rifle is legal, I can tell just by looking at it as I got many illegal stuff from Ross for my pack's safety.

He turned around with the rifle in his hand and smiling. He definitely thinks that he can win this fight against me with this rifle, well you got it wrong pup. We might use rifles but those rifles fire different bullets. We werewolves will easily pick these bullets out of our body before it attacks our system and causes any damage.

He aimed at me while I just stood there calmly and dodged his aim playfully. He kept aiming but I shifted instantly and he missed me again. When I got tired of this foolish game with him, I got near his side with my heightened werewolf senses. Surely, we all agreed none of us will turn here but not that we won't be using our werewolf strength. I got the rifle from him and took my aim but before firing it.

"You poor shit, you didn't know where your feet were. I would have tortured you first before but you got some lucky pup, you will get an easy death for torturing my Heaven and my Little. If it wouldn't have been the threat of getting disclosed, I would have definitely enjoyed it." But I surely enjoyed firing that one bullet. It was a headshot. Making sure he can't survive.

There I saw my Heaven limping and making her way to the library. Ethan tried to support her but I know she is stronger than this. I just couldn't believe she handled all this alone, that filled my heart with pride and love. I can show her off and prove to everyone that she is the one who deserves to sit beside me not because Mother Moon chose her for me but because she is stronger to handle the threat on her way and protect herself.

But right now the more important issue for me is to sort this mess and take everyone out of this situation without sacrificing anyone and get to the roots of this mess.

I took Celia in my arms, Greg comforting Jeanne and resting in another corner of the room. Ethan felt a relief seeing Jeanne safe. Although she was draped in Greg's shirt, we don't want to know the details because we can guess what must have happened if we took more time to reach here.

I don't know how much Jacob, Mason, Dan knows but seeing Celia in my arms can explain a lot to them. I know I have to answer their questions, just because I am their Alpha, I can't hide the truth for long. Neither from them, nor from the rest of the pack.

Jacob handled everything, he bound Heaven, Little and Greg on chairs and blindfolded them. He killed Peter as well and all of the bodyguards, many wanted to cooperate but we couldn't take the chance and had to kill them all. Bryan destroyed the CCTV footage of the penthouse permanently. We left the place covering our faces, on my way out I found the guards dead on the entrance.

I went to Mason's house and changed our clothes again. Jacob was on his way when he got the information that the patrolling officers found the guards dead. They are going to search the whole building and find foul play. I refused to go back to the house and went to the forest to run.

It was almost midnight when Ethan informed me through mindlink that we got the call from the sheriff department to reach the crime scene. I headed home and got in the car with Ethan. We drove there and found the chaos is done, now we just need to clean the mess and leave this place for good. We made our way to the lobby after asking about the sheriff. Jacob was talking there with the sheriff.

We ran to Jeanne, Greg, Celia who are now freed. The Sheriff explained to us that they found the bodies of guards and inspected the whole building and found them bound on the chairs in the penthouse. They found everybody dead in the penthouse except these three. He told me that he has recorded their statements and we can take them home. Since Celia has no one here and she is friends with Jeanne, we have to take her too.

"I don't think she will be comfortable with us. Should we send you to your apartment?" I asked Celia.

"Broda please, we will handle other matters later." She almost shouted in her hoarse and dry voice. "Everything, okay?" Sheriff asked.

"Yes, we are leaving." Jeanne stood up and asked Celia to move too. Ethan took them to the car and I made my way behind them as well when the Sheriff stopped for a word in private.

"Something is off, Christian. You didn't want to bring your sister's friend to your home. Why?"

"We broke up, although it was a short relationship but I really wanted her in my life but she left me for Harris who almost molested her."

"Almost molested her? Give me everything Christian."

"There is nothing. We got along almost immediately after she got here. I protected her from Harris myself two times."

"Two times?"

"Yes, once at the club when he invited her and Jeanne and another time was at Houston's party. You can check if you want. All was good but after her birthday, everything changed. She ghosted me, then there were rumors of her getting with Harris, I tried talking to her but she never turned back." I looked up at him to see if he was buying it or not. Even though I am playing here, I told him the truth.

"You're not trusting me. Forget it, I will leave."

"It is not about trusting, it is about what is truth?"

"I tell you my truth, you find yours." I turned to leave but called out again.

"But this is not the complete truth."

"Yes, there is more to it. I trusted that she actually left me but my sister, Jeanne kept saying that it must be Harris doing something, she will never be with such a guy."

"Doing what?"

"I don't know. After her birthday, we never met or talked. It was only me texting her, messaging her. She never talked back."

"Will it be you who killed Harris for your ex-girlfriend?"

"I wish it was me, but you don't kill for people who don't love you." I left the place and didn't look back even once. Ethan drove us home and no one talked in the car.

Greg went in with Jeanne in her room. I gave him a concerning look before he closed the door. He nodded in response to assure me that I left my little sister in the right hand. I went into the room pulling Heaven behind me.

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