Damon’s POV
“Good morning Bunny” I kissed Lyla’s lips even though she was sleeping and whispered into her ear.
She stirred in her sleep before opening her eyes slightly and smiled at me. I knew she was cold from the way she wrapped herself in the thick blanket immediately I stood up from the bed to take a shower.
“Come back to bed!” She whined, missing my body heat. I was sitting right beside her as she lay down on the bed.
“Not now baby. I have a meeting that I need to attend, I’ll be back soon” I caressed her hair.
“So early?” She asked, pouting.
“Yeah. We need to move fast before things get bad. Last night, our men sighted some vampires close to the borders, and reports from the others packs are not in any way good” I explained further.
She nodded.
“Just stay safe!” She lifted her body and kissed my forehead. “Can I go with you?” She suddenly asked.
“I don’t think so, Lyla. It’s not a place you should be” I advised.
“Because women are not allowed to sit in meetings, right? Why didn’t anyone tell me I’m in a misogynistic community that gives no regard to women?” she rolled her eyes.
I laughed at the tantrum she was throwing.
True, my father never allowed my mother to be involved in the Pack’s affair even though she was an Alpha wolf, one of the strongest female wolves in the world. He made her sit at home to take care of Devante and took me along because he thought I needed a strong mind to be able to lead the Pack someday.
“That’s partially true, Lyla. But if you want to come, then get ready and meet me downstairs in ten minutes. I’ll be waiting for you” she grinned widely at me.
I kissed her softly before walking out of the room. As soon as I reached the ground floor, Tunde and Devante were already waiting for him.
I was expecting Tunde’s normal cheerful and mischievous side but what I saw was the total opposite of who he is. He had bags and dark circles under his eyes. His fingers were bloody as well.
Grabbing his hand angrily, I pulled it closer to his face, “What the hell is wrong with you, Tunde?” I growled.
“Forget it Alpha, it’s nothing” He replied, smiling bitterly.
“That’s a fucking lie and you know it. Why did you wound yourself?” I asked again.
“It’s nothing” he replied, raising his voice this time.
“Don’t mess…”
“I said it is nothing. I’m fine” he interrupted before I could say anything else or even complete my statement.
“If you say so” I barked. “What are you doing here, Devante?” I turned to my brother.
“To ask for your permission to attend the meeting as well. Since some of the new pack members are attending, I thought I should too, with your permission though”
“Since when did you start talking to your brother this politely” Tunde snickered.
“Since he held my neck up against the wall ready to strangle me to death, I realized I didn’t need to be told twice about how deadly he can be” Devante replied.
“Damon is just a big bully, he can’t kill you or harm you”
“What! Have you seen him when he’s mad?”
I furrowed my eyebrow.
“Do you idiots realize I’m right here?”
“Really? Oh my God! He’s here” Tunde added, feigning surprise.
“Whatever” I clicked my tongue in annoyance. I folded my hands against my chest as I awaited the arrival of my Luna.
“Who else are we waiting for? Everyone is waiting for us. We can’t afford to keep everyone waiting” Tunde asked
“Lyla. She’ll soon be here” I replied, getting agitated already.
“How soon will that be? You know how women are with…..”
Tunde didn’t get to finish his statement when Lyla walked out of the elevator, holding her hair in an upward position, trying to tie it up.
“Can you help me with this?” She asked as she dropped her hand in frustration, stretching the hairband she was about to use to me.
I collected it and hesitated for a minute. I haven’t done this my whole life and here I am, trying to tie a hair up.
Once I lifted her hair, her slim, shiny neck called my attention, making me swallow hard as I felt my trousers getting tighter. This made me want to mark her all over again.
I dropped her hair and fixed it properly to cover her neck.
“What?” she asked
“It’s beautiful this way. You don’t have to tie it up” I advised.
“I didn’t even get to brush my hair” she whined.
“You’re beautiful in every way, okay? If you didn’t brush it or not, it doesn’t matter. You’re still the most beautiful woman on earth” She blushed and I kissed her nose.
I used that chance to take a good look at my woman. She looked so beautiful in the knitted sweater and skinny jeans she was putting on. The sweater was peach color and it blended so well with her skin.
Her plump lips were seducing me even without an effort. Once she saw that I was looking at her intently, she blushed hard like a red tomato this time and bit her lips.
If she did that one more time, I’m taking her, here and now.
“Alpha, Luna. Can we go?” Tunde asked, glaring at the two of us, gnashing his teeth together in anger.
“We shall” I smiled at him and his face contorted with disgust.
I held out my hand to Lyla and she took it as we began walking towards the Pack’s office for our meeting.
“I want you to sit beside me” I instructed Lyla as soon as we walked in.
I sat at the edge of the round table and made Lyla sit at my right side while Tunde sat at my left side.
“I apologize for being late and keeping you all waiting. Without wasting so much time, I’ll start with introducing my people before Beta Moon introduces his people as well for familiarity sake”
Beta moon nodded, agreeing with me.
“Here is my Luna, Lyla,” I said, pointing at Lyla and smiling at her. “On this side is Beta Tunde, my most loyal subject, Gamma Dean, and my youngest brother, Devante. Others might join us later” I concluded the introduction from my part.
Beta Moon stood up and started the introduction.
“Here’s Grandma Tabitha, I’m sure everyone saw who she was yesterday,” He said referring to the white-haired lady. Her mention made me remember that there were still a lot of questions I needed to ask Lyla about this lady.
“Here’s George and Kate, the Alpha’s children. George will be our next alpha once we have our pack back. They’re twins and they just turned eighteen. That’s the Pack’s only surviving elder, Elder Patrick. That’s all, Alpha” I nodded, giving him the go-ahead to sit.
“I would’ve loved to promise you all that you’ll get your life back but I won’t because for now, the future is not that clear, my apologies. We need to discuss how to protect these two packs. Discussions already started within ours but we felt the need to involve the Silverline Pack as well”
Tunde suddenly raised his hand.
“I’ll love to propose the Uranium idea again. The war against werewolves is enough to get rid of every single one of us before the year runs out and no! We cannot live among humans.” He banged his hand hard on the table. “There’s no other alternative for us to do this than get our hands on those uranium” he added.
“Xander will not agree to it,” Dean said. “He won’t agree. That man is evil, stubborn and selfish”
“This war might be his game. We all might just be dancing to the tune of his music. He has uranium to protect his people and yet, he refused and let us be savaged by animals. I believe this is all his doing, a way for him to gain more power” Moon added, anger in his eyes.
“We asked him for help when we started sighting the vampires at our borders, he turned his back to us” George added, explaining the reason behind Moon’s anger.
Lyla held my hand from under the table as soon as she felt my discomfort with what the boy had just said.
“Let’s give him a call,” I suggested.
We brought out the Park’s phone and made a phone call to Alpha Xander. I told them to proceed with the call while I made a call to someone else.
By the time I joined them back, the look on their faces as Dean talked to Xander said it all.
“I can’t give them to you free of charge. Three uraniums are enough to keep your pack safe and all that’s needed is just four billion dollars to get your hands on them” he advised.
Lyla was fuming as he spewed out his nonsense.
“Xander,” I growled into the phone and he laughed.
“Damon, it’s so nice to hear your voice again”
“I can’t say the pleasure is mine, Xander. I never knew you were that expensive, four billion dollars for three uraniums. Wow, that’s a lot of money. Let’s change the plot twist a little bit, how about Five uraniums in exchange for the lives of your wife and three kids?”
“Don’t mess with me Demon”
“That’s the only thing I was taught to do, Xander. How about you drop this call and make a phone call to your family on that private island? You can call me back when you’re sure about how dangerous I can get when I’m mad*
He dropped the call even before I could press the red button on the phone.
I sat down, as everyone looked at me with questions.
“Don’t worry, he’ll call back”
Ever since I found out about Xander, uranium, and the fact that he purchased a private island where he kept his wife and kids away from the rest of the world, I made a deal with Lucas. Some of his men have been lurking around the area for months now and today was the day I needed them to attack.
Lucky enough, one of them is a wolf; A big, deadly wolf assassin.
“Are you sure he’ll call back?” Lyla asked
“Don’t worry about it love, he will”
Five minutes later, the phone rang.
“I’ll drop it off at your uncle’s house by noon next tomorrow. Call your men off” he yelled.
“Not until I get my Demon hands-on that Uranium. Deal with it Xander, like a man” I advised before dropping the call this time around.