Max’s POV
“She’s gone. I can feel it.” I say to my friends sitting around the table in the dining hall.
“Well, aren’t you happy about that?” Nicole asks me. She’s been giving me hell for abandoning my son.
“It’s what I wanted but my wolf is feeling a little down.” I tell her.
“Well, deal with it. You got what you wanted so I don’t want to hear about Sabrina anymore.” She says to me. The rest of the guys remain quiet, afraid to say anything that will have me upset.
I had to use my alpha tone to force Nicole in to submission when I ordered the rest of the pack living in my pack house to move houses. She still isn’t happy about being forced to abandon a pregnant Luna but she couldn’t go against alpha orders. Although she had Tristan look after Sabrina because she couldn’t.
To be honest, I was glad someone was keeping her alive. Well, my wolf was glad. I on the other hand couldn’t care. If she’s so strong, then she can survive anything. She doesn’t need any of us, she proved that when she took on all those warriors and regained her energy within minutes while I was kept by a barrier and even before that, we were losing. I let my pack to a slaughter and she was the hero, not their alpha.
“Fine.” I say with a little annoyance. “I won’t mention her ever again.” I say to her. They all look at me as if I just grew two heads.
“What?” I ask and they all shrug and pretend to be engrossed with simple scrambled egg on toast.
Everyone was scared of me now. I was pushing my pack harder during training, I added extra hours. I doubled the number of patrols on our borders. I was a control maniac but if it prevented another attack, then that’s what I’ll do.
My father walks in and everyone seems to relax. I remember a time when they feared him as he ruled with an iron fist. He made his way to my table and sat on the Luna chair.
He looks at me as he rubs his chin.
“So, now that you have scared off Sabrina and my grandson, what do you plan on doing with your life now?” My father asks. He wasn’t happy with me but I don’t care. I don’t want Sabrina anymore and that’s that.
“I will run this pack and make sure we never get attacked like that ever again.” I speak.
“Well, I’m not so sure you can guarantee that now. People around the country were talking about Sabrina’s great strength. She is the most feared wolf and her being here was good for the pack. Now, you’re just a normal Lycan with intimidating muscles.” He says to me.
That’s my problem! My fist hits the table as I get up and leave the dining room to go to my office and get away from my dad. I don’t get far until I smell him behind me.
I open my office door and make my way to my chair knowing very well I was about to get an earful. He closes the door with so much force, I looked up surprised to see it still in place.
“Are you going to answer me? Can you truly protect the pack from Sabrina’s crazy uncle because he pulled a number on all of you and from my experience, he wasn’t trying to get rid of Sabrina for nothing. That jackass will be back and you played right in to his hands!” Father says.
“I will not rule a pack that fears and respects it’s Luna over their alpha. I will also not rule a pack that half blames Sabrina for what happened to us. Sabrina this, Sabrina that. I am tired of hearing how powerful she is! I am powerful. I shifted in to my wolf when I could barely recite the alphabet. I was the top student at the alpha training and my record was still standing until a few months ago. I worked hard to deserve this and what did she do? She was born that way. Didn’t have to push herself beyond what she’s already used to.” I speak.
She was spoilt. Couldn’t take the pain of being replaced. So, what if I took on another mate? All she had to do was fight her. That was the Lycan way. She was supposed to rip her to shreds after finding out about her. She was the fucken Luna. All she had to do was yield that power but she didn’t and that proved to me that she didn’t deserve the title. She expected things to be delivered to her on a golden tray.
“Son, you think if she was given a choice, she’d choose those powers?” My father asks me and I shake my head no.
“I know she would choose to be a normal wolf and that is why she is so undeserving! She’s always complaining about how unfair life is. She needs to take responsibility!” I say to my father.
“And how will she know all of this if you don’t tell her? Also, why are you expecting her to have the same beliefs as you when you were brought up differently?” He asks.
“Don’t make excuses for her.” I say through gritted teeth.
“That might be the way I raised you but that’s certainly not the way she was raised and with reason. You didn’t even give her time to grieve her mother!” Father says.
“Life waits for no one. Now if you’re done lecturing me on being a good mate, a lecture you of all people shouldn’t be giving, please leave me alone. I have work to do.” I say in a cold tone.
I am the man my father raised. If he has a problem with it, he can take it up with himself.
Deacon left me to my work. I spend most of my time in the office if I’m not training or patrolling around the borders. I’m not stupid, I know Reginald will be back. His children are still in my cells and he can’t push his agenda without his offspring.
I had built an even deeper underground dungeon that has blood or eye retina lock. Only I can open or close it. His children are in there and I give them one meal a day so they stay weak. I’ve even turned them in to vegetarians, an inside pack joke.
Nothing drives a wolf madder. Their need for raw meat was probably insane and very soon, they’ll do anything to my bidding for a taste. They were still under Sabrina’s mind control, which means they will kill their father at first contact and I plan on using his kids against him.
A She wolf walks in to my office wearing a very skimpy outfit trying to seduce me but I was not in the mood. I have not been in the mood since Sabrina had our marks removed. Just the thought of her taking another Male and not knowing about it was enough to kill my sex drive.
Was I still in love with her? I don’t know. My wolf loves her but I’ve had him since I was a kid so I know how to control him. I like to think of myself as territorial and Sabrina was mine.
Sabrina.
I decided not to call her Kimberley anymore because that was for when I cared for her. Now I just want to know where she is so I know what she plans to do. Will she stake a claim that I fathered a son? Will she challenge me for the alpha title?
Many outside packs don’t know this but a Luna can challenge her alpha for the title if she feels he is not suited for the title anymore. Half the pack would’ve supported her but she didn’t know that. That’s why I had the pack move houses so that she would be alienated and think that everyone hated her. I worked too hard to have some ungrateful wolf strip me of my title. She had to go and the further away she is from this pack, the better.
“Leave. I don’t want you and don’t ever think you can walk in to my office whenever you want.” I say to the she wolfs.
She stomps out of my office and bangs the door.
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